(A) No person shall maintain or operate a second hand store or junk shop or junk yard or motor vehicle dismantling establishment, without first obtaining a license therefor. Application for such license shall be made to the Village Clerk upon blanks to be provided. The applicant shall state his or her name, whether a person, firm or corporation, the place or places at which such business is to be or is conducted or maintained and the applicant’s residence for a period of three years preceding such application. The applications so received by the Village Clerk shall be referred to the Village President and by him or her to the Village Marshal, for purposes of investigation and recommendation by such.
(B) After receipt of such recommendations, the application shall be submitted to the Village Council. The sole power to grant licenses hereunder is vested in said Village Council. Licenses granted by said Village Council shall be issued by the Village Clerk.
(C) Any applicant seeking to establish a second hand store or junk shop or junk yard or motor vehicles dismantling establishment, in a location not previously used for that purpose, or any licensee seeking to move or establish same in a location not previously used for that purpose, must first obtain the consent in writing of 65% of the owners of residential property within 300 yards of any part of the area in which the proposed business is to be conducted. Said area shall include any portion to be used for the storage of any property in connection with such proposed business.
(D) No second hand store, junk shop, junk yard or motor vehicle dismantling yard or any part thereof, shall be hereafter established or located in any residential zone in the village nor shall same be hereafter established or located within 300 feet from any public street or highway in the village, nor shall same be hereafter established or located within 300 feet from any inhabited building or dwelling, nor shall same be hereafter established or located within 300 feet from any adjoining private property line.
(E) No person known to be a thief or an associate of thieves, an habitual drunkard, a receiver of stolen property or incapable of keeping the records and making the reports herein provided for shall be deemed to be a suitable person to receive a license as second hand dealer or junk dealer, and any person to whom a license as may have been granted, may have his or her license revoked by the Village Council on good cause shown and after reasonable notice and opportunity to be heard before such Village Council or committee thereof.
(Ord. 24, passed 7-2-1953)