For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS. Combustible, volatile flammable or explosive products, standing alone or combined with non-combustible or nonflammable products including without limitation magazines, books, trimmings from lawns, trees or flower gardens, leaves, pasteboard boxes, rags, paper, straw, sawdust, packing material, shavings, boxes and all materials that will ignite through contact with ignition sources or ordinary temperatures.
DAYS. Calendar days, unless otherwise specifically set forth in this subchapter.
EFFECTIVE DATE. The EFFECTIVE DATE of this subchapter shall be July 12, 2002.
FIRE CODE. The 2006 International Fire Code or other similar nationally or internationally recognized code or set of regulations as adopted by the city from time to time.
FIRE PREVENTION CODE OFFICIAL. The Fire Chief, the Fire Chief’s authorized representative or the official defined in the Fire Code as the FIRE PREVENTION CODE OFFICIAL.
IGNITION SOURCES. Open flames, hot ashes or cinders, smoldering coals, or greasy or oily substances susceptible to spontaneous ignition.
JUNK. Includes the following combustible and non-combustible materials:
(1) Scrap and old iron, steel, chain, brass, copper, magnesium, aluminum, tin, lead or other base metals;
(2) Refrigerators and refrigerator liners and all other domestic and commercial appliances;
(3) Scrap lumber, old rope, old bags, boxes, rags, newspaper, wastepaper, scraps of woolens, trimmings, leaves, clips, bagging and rubber and glass;
(4) Empty bottles of different kinds and sizes;
(5) Any wrecked or dilapidated motor vehicle or parts, engine or machinery received, stored or held for more than 90 days; and
(6) All articles and things discarded or no longer used as a manufactured article, composed of or consisting of any one or more of the materials or articles listed in divisions (1) through (5) of this definition.
JUNK DEALER. Any person or entity that primarily engages in the business of buying, selling, bartering or exchanging, or that collects, receives, stores or holds in possession for sale, barter or exchange, any junk.
JUNK YARD. Any premises in excess of one-half acre on which a junk dealer is engaged in the business of buying, selling, bartering, exchanging or collecting, receiving, storing or holding in possession for sale, barter or exchange, any junk; provided, however, that JUNK YARD shall not include a facility that operates as a center solely for recycling aluminum cans, glass bottles, plastic containers or other similar objects.
JUNK YARD LICENSE. A license issued for a junk yard pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter.
LICENSEE. Any person or entity that has been issued a junk yard license pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter.
REVIEWING DEPARTMENTS. The City Manager, the city’s Department of Community Development and the city’s Fire Department.
(1990 Code, § 14-301) (Ord. 02-2055, passed 7-1-2002; Ord. 17-3538, passed 2-6-2017; Ord. 20-3609, passed 4-6-2020)