(A) License required.
(1) No person shall engage or continue to engage in business as a junk dealer or establish or operate a junk/salvage yard in the township unless they first obtain a license pursuant to the terms of this chapter and comply with all provisions in this chapter. The license shall be issued for a term of one year beginning July 1 and ending June 30.
(2) The license fee shall consist of two parts: the initial application fee for new or expanded facilities which is not returnable in case of refusal of license and the annual renewal license fee. The dollar amount of these fees will be set by resolution approved by the Board.
(3) The license shall only be renewed provided that all conditions of this chapter are satisfied.
(B) Application for license. The application for a license or any renewal thereof shall be made and filed, in writing, by the proposed licensee with the township, on a form supplied by the township. The annual application shall include the following information:
(1) The name and address of the applicant;
(2) The address of the premises upon which such business is to be conducted or upon which such junk/salvage yard is to be established or operated, including the county tax map parcel number(s);
(3) The name of the owner or owners of said premises if other than the applicant and all other persons with a financial interest in the business;
(4) A description of the operation plan and copy of the state certification inspection report for the previous year;
(5) For new applications (not renewals), in addition to the information cited in subsections (1) through (4) above, a description of the premises upon which the junk/salvage yard is to be established or operated, showing the following:
(a) A plot plan showing the layout of the junk/salvage yard and the location of key business operations, including storage areas, parking areas, fences, berms, buffer yards, combustible fluid storage, point or points of access from the nearest public road or roads and any other areas pertinent to the business. This plot may be hand-drawn by the owner or operator and need not be professionally prepared.
(b) The number of buildings to be used, the use of each and their sizes.
(c) Dwellings situated upon adjacent premises and properties.
(d) A description of the grade or slope of the premises.
(e) Lot line measurements.
(C) Issuance of license. The township, upon receipt of an application for a license under this chapter shall determine whether or not a license shall be issued or a renewal thereof shall be granted after an examination of the application and upon inspection of the premises. Such license shall be issued upon the condition that the same may be summarily revoked in the event that the licensee is found to have given any false information or in any way misrepresented any material fact upon which the township or its duly authorized agent has relied in granting such license.
(D) License provisions.
(1) No person shall engage in business as a junk dealer or operate or maintain a junk/salvage yard in any place other than the place designated upon his or her license, nor shall any person operate upon any of the roads or highways in the township, whether from a vehicle or upon foot, as a scavenger or an itinerant buyer or itinerant seller of junk. The permitted size of a junk/salvage yard/salvage yard shall be fixed at the time of license issuance.
(2) The location of the junk/salvage yard is considered the address of the business and the service of papers at that business address is sufficient for legal notification.
(E) Transferability of license. No license issued by the Board shall be transferable or assignable by agreement, will, or otherwise unless approved by the Board.
(Ord. 183, passed 8-23-2016) Penalty, see § 112.99