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
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
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
Before any license required by this subchapter 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, his or her residence address, the trade 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 nonflammable wall or fence of a minimum height of 8 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 have 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.
(1969 Code, § 13-3) (Ord. 1965-8, passed 6-7-1965) Penalty, see § 10.99
The annual license fee for each junkyard shall be $50 payable in advance with the filing of the application for the license, and shall not be subject to pro rata reduction for a portion of the year, either because of application for or because of revocation of a license; provided, however, that only 1 annual license fee shall be payable for licenses which may be issued whenever the applicant desires to keep, maintain, conduct, or operate junkyards on lots, blocks, tracts, or parcels of land which are situated on directly opposite sides of and abut upon each side of a public street or alley. All licenses shall expire on April 30 of each year.
(1969 Code, § 13-4) (Ord. 1965-8, passed 6-7-1965) Penalty, see § 10.99
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