(A) Definitions. The following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a separate meaning.
FENCE. Any place for the purchase, reception, or keeping of stolen goods.
JUNK. Old iron, chains, brass, copper, tin, lead or other base metals, old rope, old bags, rags, waste paper, paper clippings, scraps of woolens, clips, bagging, rubber and glass, old automobile parts and empty bottles of different kinds and sizes and all articles and things discarded or no longer used as manufactured articles composed of, or consisting of, any 1 or more of the materials or articles herein mentioned.
JUNK DEALER. A person who engages in the business of buying, selling, bartering or exchanging, or who collects, receives, stores or holds in possession for sale, barter or exchange any of the things defined herein as junk, whether dealing at wholesale or at retail or as a junk peddler.
JUNK PEDDLER. A person who uses a junk wagon as defined herein and travels from place to place within the Village for the purpose of purchasing junk or makes a business of purchasing junk from anyone who desires to sell it and carries it away upon purchasing it.
JUNK VEHICLE. Every truck, wagon, automobile, pushcart or other vehicle used by a junk dealer in the collection, disposition or transportation of junk from one place to another.
JUNK YARD. Any yard, place or enclosure where junk is bought, sold, bartered or exchanged, either at wholesale or retail or where junk is collected, received, stored or held in possession for resale, barter or exchange, either at wholesale or retail.
(B) License. No person shall operate as a junk dealer or engage in the business of keeping a junk yard nor use a junk vehicle for the purpose of collecting, transporting or disposing of junk without a license for such purpose. The fee shall be as set forth in § 110.13.
(C) Location. It shall be unlawful for any person to carry on the business of junk shop keeper at any other place than the one designated in the license.
(D) Bond. Every person licensed under this section shall, at or before receiving such license, execute and deliver to the Director of Finance a bond to the Village, with good and sufficient sureties to be approved by the Board of Trustees, in the penal sum of $500, conditioned for the due observance of the provisions of this section, and all ordinances of the Village respecting the keeping, conducting or operating of junk businesses or junk vehicles.
(E) Place of business. Every applicant for a license under this section shall state in his application the location of the place of business of such applicant, and such location shall be designated in any license so granted.
(F) Identification of vehicles. Every licensee under this section shall, before using any vehicle, cause to be painted on the outside thereof, in plain letters and figures of not less than 2 inches in height, the full name, together with the street and number of the place of business of the licensee.
(G) Change of location. In case any person licensed to keep a junk business, or to maintain or operate a junk yard, shall remove the shop or place of business of such licensee from the place designated in any such license, such licensee shall immediately thereupon give notice to the Director of Finance of such change and have the same endorsed by the Director of Finance upon such license and shall cause the location of such place of business to be changed upon any vehicle used or operated by such licensee in the Village. No such change in the location of any junk shop or junk yard within the Village shall be made until the Board of Trustees have granted such licensee permission to maintain and carry on such junk business in such location.
(H) Articles as pledge or pawn. No person licensed or operating under this section shall receive, in the line of his business, any article or thing by way of pledge or pawn, or loan or advance any sum of money on the security of any article or thing.
(I) Record of purchases. Every junk dealer engaged in the business of purchasing at retail any junk shall provide and keep a book, in which shall be fairly written at the time of each purchase a description of the article so purchased, the name and residence of the person from whom such purchase was made, and the day and hour of such purchase, and such book shall at all times be open to the inspection of the Police Department of the Village.
(J) Dealing with minors. No junk dealer shall purchase or receive any goods, article or thing from any minor without the written consent of his or her parents or guardian.
(K) Hours of operation. No person licensed under this section shall purchase, in the way of his business, any goods, article or thing from any person between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 am.
(L) Lost or stolen articles. Every junk dealer who shall receive or be in possession of any goods, articles or things which may have been lost or stolen, or alleged or supposed to have been lost or stolen, shall immediately upon demand to view the same, exhibit the same to any officer of the Police Department.
(M) Duties of Police. The Chief of Police shall have general supervision over junk dealers, junk shops and junk yards in the Village and shall have power to inspect the same and all articles or things kept therein, whenever he shall deem it necessary to do so.
(N) Noise; insanitary premises.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person conducting or maintaining a junk shop or junkyard within the Village to break up old boilers, iron or other junk, by means of hammers, sledges or other mechanical devices in such a manner as to disturb the peace and quietude of the residents in the immediate vicinity of any such junk shop or junk yard or to do any other act that may disturb the peace and quietude of any such residents.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any such person to conduct or maintain any such place of business in such a manner that the premises, or the sidewalks in front thereof, are put, kept or permitted to remain in an insanitary condition.
(O) Operation of a "fence." No person shall keep, maintain or conduct a place licensed under this section for the purchase, reception or keeping of stolen goods as a fence.
(1997 Code, § 32.15) Penalty, see § 111.99