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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.)
With the aforesaid application, the applicant shall pay the following as the annual license fee for the fiscal year ending May 21 of each year. The annual license fee shall be a minimum fee of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) for the first acre or fraction thereof, plus six dollars ($6.00) for each additional acre or fraction thereof in excess of one acre, and shall be required for each place at which the applicant maintains a junk or salvaged material yard or junk or salvaged material shop. The aforesaid license fee shall not be prorated. This license fee shall be applicable to all new licenses and to all existing licenses on the date of renewal.
(Ord. 74-06. Passed 5-15-06.)
No person shall maintain any commercial business, including a junk or salvaged material yard or a junk or salvaged material shop, in the corporate limits of the City, unless such business is carried on entirely inside a building or an open area enclosed by a fence not less than eight feet in height, built of sound nontransparent material uniform in height and so constructed that it is structurally safe and capable of resisting all live loads imposed on it, and obscures the content of the enclosure from the ordinary view of persons passing upon the streets, walks, alleys or travelways in this City, kept in good order and repair, and no advertisement shall be permitted thereon other than the name of the person under whose name the license has been issued and the nature of the business conducted therein. (Ord. 74-06. Passed 5-15-06.)
(a) No junk or salvaged material shall be piled up in such fashion that it shall be dangerous to the public welfare. No combustible junk or salvaged material that can be ignited by an ordinary match shall be placed or stored closer than ten feet to a required fence. No junk or salvaged material shall be placed or stored outside of any required fence. Adequate passageways shall be maintained between piles of stored junk or salvaged material.
(b) All junk or salvaged material yards or shops shall be maintained in a clean, sanitary and neat condition, and shall be kept free of rats, vermin and fire hazards. All buildings or land licensed for junk or salvaged material operation shall be maintained in a good state of repair. Required enclosing fences shall be maintained in a good state of repair at all times and shall not encroach on any public property. Fence and gate material subject to deterioration or corrosion shall be painted periodically as needed.
(Ord. 8669. Passed 3-16-64.)
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