For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(a) "Fence" means an enclosure at least six feet in height, constructed of nontransparent material and maintained so as to obscure the junk in the enclosure from the ordinary view of persons passing upon the State, County and Township roads in this State.
(b) "Junk" means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, rubber, junked, dismantled or wrecked automobiles or parts thereof, iron, steel and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous materials which are not held for sale for melting purposes by an establishment having facilities for processing those materials.
(c) "Junk yard" means an establishment or place of business, other than an establishment having facilities for processing iron, steel or nonferrous scrap and whose principal product is scrap iron and steel or nonferrous scrap for sale for remelting purposes, which is maintained or operated for the purpose of storing, keeping, buying or selling junk or for the maintenance or operation of an automobile graveyard, except an establishment or place where automobiles, wrecked or otherwise, are held or impounded for a period not to exceed ninety days exclusively for storage, repair or resale without alteration.
(1987 Code 114.01)