(A) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership or corporation to keep, maintain, conduct or operate a junkyard within the corporate limits of the city without first obtaining a license so to do as herein provided. A separate license shall be secured for each junkyard located on noncontiguous lots, blocks, tracts or parcels of land.
(B) Before any license under the provisions of this chapter is issued, any person desiring to operate a junkyard in the city shall first make a verified application in writing to the City Clerk, stating thereon the full name of the applicant, the legal description of the premises where the junkyard is to be located, the size and approximate location of each entrance thereto and exit therefrom, whether or not the premises where the junkyard is to be located is enclosed on its perimeter with a solid, nontransparent wall or fence of a minimum height of seven feet measured from ground level excepting the entrances and exits and whether or not the public streets and alleys adjacent to the premises where the junkyard is to be located has junk thereon. If the applicant is a firm or partnership, the names and residence addresses of all the partners, and in case of a corporation the names and residence addresses of the president and secretary, shall be stated in the application.
(C) Any and all licenses issued hereunder shall state that such license is issued in the name of the junk dealer solely for the purpose of keeping, maintaining, conducting and operating a junkyard, the expiration date thereof, the legal description of the premises where the junkyard is to be located, that such license shall be used and the privileges thereof exercised only at the described premises, and that such license is nonassignable and nontransferable.
(D) Such license shall further provide that it is issued subject to all the provisions of this chapter; that upon the first conviction for a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, in addition to the fine, such junkyard shall remain closed for a period of 30 days; that upon the second conviction for a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter such license shall become null and void, and the licensee shall forfeit all sums paid for such license, and that the licensee by the acceptance of such license expressly agrees to all the terms and conditions thereof and to the terms and provisions of this chapter and all amendments thereof.
(1974 Code, § 3-6-3) (Ord. 480, passed 4-13-1965)