CHAPTER 115: JUNK AND JUNK DEALERS

Section

Junkyards

   115.01   Definitions

   115.02   License required

   115.03   License application; content

   115.04   License fee; expiration

   115.05   Ineligible persons

   115.06   License content; provision for suspension and revocation

   115.07   Minimum physical requirements

   115.08   Purchase from minors prohibited

   115.09   Right of inspection

   115.10   License revocation

   115.11   Outdoor accumulation; screening required

Cross-reference:

   Zoning, see Title XV, App. A

Statutory reference:

   Authority to license, tax, locate, and regulate junk dealers, see ILCS Chapter 65, Act 5, § 11-42-3

JUNKYARDS

§ 115.01 DEFINITIONS.

   For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

   JUNK. Includes scrap and old iron, steel, chain brass, copper, magnesium, aluminum, tin, lead, or other base metals, scrap lumber, old rope, old bags, rags, wastepaper, paper clippings, scraps of woolens, clips, bagging, rubber, and glass, and empty bottles of different kinds and sizes when the number of each kind or size is less than 1 gross, any wrecked or dilapidated motor vehicle, engine, or machinery received, stored, or held within the city or within 1½ miles of the city, and all articles and things discarded or no longer used as a manufactured article composed of or consisting of any 1 or more of the materials or articles herein mentioned.

   JUNK DEALER. Includes any person who shall engage in the buying, selling, bartering, or exchanging, or who shall collect, receive, store, or hold in possession any of the things in and by this section defined as junk.

   JUNKYARD. Includes the premises on which any person is engaged in the buying, selling, bartering, exchanging, or collecting, receiving, storing, or holding in possession any of the things in and by this section defined as junk.

(1969 Code, § 13-1) (Ord. 1965-8, passed 6-7-1965)

Statutory reference:

   Similar provisions, see ILCS Chapter 415, Act 95, § 2

§ 115.02 LICENSE REQUIRED.

   It shall be unlawful for any person to keep, maintain, conduct, or operate a junkyard within the city or within 1½ miles of the city without first obtaining a license to do so as provided in this subchapter; a separate license shall be secured for each junkyard located on noncontiguous lots, blocks, tracts, or parcels of land.

(1969 Code, § 13-2) (Ord. 1965-8, passed 6-7-1965) Penalty, see § 10.99