All junkyards within the corporate limits shall be operated and maintained subject to the following regulations.
(A) All junk stored or kept in such yards shall be so kept that it will not catch and hold water in which mosquitoes may breed and so that it will not constitute a place or places in which rats, mice or other vermin may be harbored, reared or propagated.
(B) All such junkyards shall be enclosed within close-fitting plank or metal solid fences touching the ground on the bottom and being not less than six feet in height, such fence to be built so that it will be impossible for stray cats and/or stray dogs to have access to such junkyards.
(C) Such yards shall be so maintained as to be in a sanitary condition and so as not to be a menace to the public health or safety. Maintaining or operating a junkyard in violation of this section is an offense under this code; each day thereof, after notification by the Health Officer, shall comprise a separate offense.
(2011 Code, § 13-201)
Statutory reference:
The provisions of this section were taken substantially from the Bristol ordinance upheld by the Tennessee Court of Appeals as being a reasonable and valid exercise of the police power in the case of Hagaman v. Slaughter, 49 Tenn. App. 338, 354 S.W.2d 818 (1961)