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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.)
It shall be the duty of the Building Inspector to inspect or cause to be inspected at least once every three months all junk and salvaged material yards and all junk and salvaged material shops in the City. Such inspection shall be for the purpose of seeing that such premises are operated in conformity with this chapter and are kept in a safe, sanitary condition.
It shall be the duty of the Building Inspector to enforce the terms and conditions of this chapter.
(Ord. 8669. Passed 3-16-64.)