736.01 Definitions.
736.02 Approval by Fire Chief.
736.03 License required; application.
736.04 License fees.
736.05 Fence to be maintained.
736.06 Maintenance.
736.07 Prohibited operations.
736.08 Inspections; duty of Building Inspector.
736.99 Penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
Power to regulate - see Ohio R.C. 715.61
State licensing and required fencing - see Ohio R.C. 4737.05 et seq.
Secondhand dealers - see BUS. REG. Ch. 735
Abandoned refrigerators - see GEN. OFF. 521.01
Littering, deposit of junk - see GEN. OFF. 521.08
As used in this chapter, the following words shall have the following respective meanings:
(a) “Junk” means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, trash, waste, batteries, paper, rubber, iron, steel, and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous materials, but does not include scrap tires as defined in Ohio R.C. 3734.01.
(b) “Junk yard” means an establishment or place of business that is maintained or operated for the purpose of storing, keeping, buying, or selling junk.
(c) “Fence” means a barrier at least eight feet in height, constructed of non- transparent material, and maintained so as to obscure the junk from the ordinary view of persons passing upon municipal roads, streets, walks, alleys, or travel ways in the City of Lorain.
(d) “Salvaged materials” means all types of used building material such as lumber, brick, concrete block, steel beams, girders and columns, trusses, plumbing fixtures, pipe and any other materials used in the construction of buildings or structures, used motor vehicles acquired for the purpose of dismantling parts, used steel drums and similar containers, used fats, oils and greases, and similar or related articles or property.
(e) “Junk or salvaged material dealer” means every person who buys, exchanges, collects, receives, stores or sells any articles hereinabove defined as junk or salvaged material.
(f) “Salvaged material yard” or “salvaged material shop” means any place at which a salvaged material dealer buys, exchanges, collects, receives, stores, accumulates, sells or otherwise handles salvaged material.
(Ord. 74-06. Passed 5-15-06.)
No person shall maintain or operate a junk or salvaged material yard or a junk salvaged material shop without having obtained a license therefore from the Building Inspector of the Division of Buildings. Application for a license to operate and maintain a junk yard or salvaged material yard shall be made to the Building Inspector upon such blanks as shall be prescribed by him, accompanied by the proper fee. In making the aforesaid application, the applicant shall state his name and address, if the application is a firm, partnership, association or corporation, the names and addresses of each member, if the applicant is a corporation, the date and place of incorporation and the names and addresses of its officers and directors, the location at which such business is to be conducted or maintained, the size and number of buildings to be used, the exact size and location of the area to be used for the aforementioned operations, and any other information that may be requested by the Building Inspector. The application shall be signed and sworn to by the applicant. (Ord. 74-06. Passed 5-15-06.)
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