For the purpose of Chapter 739, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings ascribed to them respectively.
(a) "Business premises" or "premises" means the area of a salvage yard as described in a salvage yard operator's license or application for license as provided in Chapter 739.
(b) "Salvage" means scrap iron, steel, brass, copper, tin, lead, or other base metals; used building materials; used plumbing, heating, ventilation, air conditioning and electrical fixtures; old cordage, ropes, rags, fibers, or fabrics; old rubber and used tires; old bottles or other glass; bones, wastepaper and other waste or discarded material which might be prepared to be used again in some form; used auto parts; wrecked, ruined or partially dismantled motor vehicles and motor vehicles, no longer used as such, to be used for scrap metal or stripping of parts. "Salvage" shall include those materials commonly or customarily referred to as "junk". "Salvage" shall not include materials or objects accumulated by a person as by-products, waste, or scraps (excepting therefrom parts of machines and vehicles) from the operation of his own business and which are stored indoors or in an enclosed container; materials or objects held and used by a manufacturer as an integral part of his own manufacturing processes; used articles made of precious metal, used jewelry; or used furniture and household appliances in operating condition stored indoors for resale. "Salvage" shall not include garbage or rubbish.
(c) "Salvage yard" means a yard, lot, or place, covered or uncovered, outdoors or in an enclosed building when the salvage contained in the enclosed building covers more than two hundred square feet of floor space in the enclosed building, containing salvage, upon which occurs one or more acts of buying, keeping, storing, dismantling, selling, recycling, exchanging, or offering for sale any such salvage, in whole units or by parts, for a business or commercial purpose, or for personal use, and including the processing of iron, steel, nonferrous metals, or wastepaper for sale to be used in manufacturing, whether or not the proceeds from such actor acts or such sale are to be used for charity.
(d) "Salvage yard operator" means a person who operates a salvage yard.
(e) The terms "garbage" and "rubbish" shall have the same meaning given to those terms in Chapter 919.
(f) The term "combustible salvage material" means readily ignitable and free burning fibers, such as cotton, sisal, henequen, ixtle, jute, hemp, tow, coca fiber, okum, bailed paper, kapok, hay, straw, spanish moss, excelsior and synthetic fibers; those substances which have a flash point of above 80o Fahrenheit to and including 150o Fahrenheit, as determined by the Tagliabue open cup tester.
(g) The term "hazardous substance" means a substance or mixture of substances which:
(1) Is Toxic;
(2) Is corrosive;
(3) Is an irritant;
(4) Is a strong sensitizor;
(5) Is radioactive and has a capacity to produce personal injury or illness to man through ingestion, inhalation or absorption through any body surface; or Generates pressure through decomposition, heat, or other means, if such substances or mixture of substances may cause substantial personal injury or substantial illness during or as a proximate result of any customary or reasonably foreseeable handling or use, including reasonably foreseeable ingestion by children.
(Ord. 88-318. Passed 5-31-88.)