(A) A junk yard within the meaning of this section shall be considered as any premises or place within the city at, upon, or within which there shall be handled, bought, sold, kept or stored quantities of junk, including but not limited to: scrap iron; worn-out, cast-off or obsolete machinery, furniture, household goods, automobiles, trucks or other motor vehicles or the parts thereof; bones or other parts of the carcasses of dead animals not usable for human consumption; and any other cast-off article or material chiefly usable as junk.
(B) It shall be unlawful from and after the first day of September 1946 for any person, firm or corporation to keep, maintain or operate a junk yard within a distance of 500 feet of any building or premises used for business, residential or religious purposes.
(C) Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate the provisions of division (B) of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished according to law; and each and every day of such violation shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.
(D) It is further declared that the keeping, maintaining or operating of a junk yard in violation of the provisions of this section shall constitute a public nuisance and the same may be abated by injunction or other appropriate legal proceedings.
(Prior Code, § 19.04) Penalty, see § 10.99