For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUTOMOBILE BODY. Any motor vehicle from which major parts have been removed so as to render the motor vehicle inoperable and incapable of passing inspection as required by the state; or, a wrecked motor vehicle where the damage to the motor vehicle has rendered the motor vehicle inoperable, incapable of being made operable or incapable of passing inspection as required by the state.
AUTOMOBILE GRAVEYARD. Any establishment which is maintained or used for buying or selling automobile bodies, wrecked, scrapped, ruined or dismantled motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts.
IMPOUND LOT. An area incident to the operation of a business within a commercial district of the city, used for the storage of motor vehicles from which major parts have not been removed, and which are capable of being made fully operable and used for the storage of not more than nine vehicles at any time.
JUNK. Old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber, debris, waste, junked, dismantled or wrecked automobiles, or parts thereof, iron, steel and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous materials.
JUNKYARD. An establishment which is maintained or used for storing, buying or selling junk, or an automobile graveyard, and the term shall include garbage dumps, sanitary landfills and scrap processors.
SCRAP PROCESSOR. Any person engaged in the business of buying scrap iron and metals, including, but not limited to, old automobiles, for the specific purpose of processing into raw material for re-melting purposes, and whose product is ferrous and nonferrous scrap for shipment to steel mills, foundries, smelters and refineries, and having facilities and machinery designed for the processing.
(Ord. 17-016, passed
7-11-2017)