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