Except where otherwise indicated, the following definitions shall apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this chapter:
(a) “Person” means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
(b) “Junk” means old iron, steel, brass, copper, tin, lead or other base metals; old cordage, ropes, rags, fibers or fabrics; old rubber; old bottles or other glass; bones; waste paper and other waste or discarded material which might be prepared to be used again in some form; and any or all of the foregoing; and motor vehicles, no longer used as such, to be used for scrap metal or stripping of parts. However, “junk” does not include materials or objects accumulated by a person as by-products, waste or scraps from the operation of his own business or materials or objects held and used by a manufacturer as an integral part of his own manufacturing processes.
(c) “Junk yard”, “scrap yard” and “scrap processors” means a yard, lot or place, partially covered or uncovered, outdoors or partially enclosed within a building as opposed to totally within a building, containing junk, upon which occurs one or more acts of buying, keeping, dismantling, processing, selling or offering for sale any such junk or scrap, in whole units or by parts, for a business or commercial purpose, whether or not the proceeds from such act or acts are to be used for charity.
(d) “Junk dealer”, “scrap dealer” or “scrap processor” means a person who operates a junk yard or scrap yard as defined above, within the City.
(e) “Itinerant junk dealer” or “scrap dealer” means a natural individual person who buys, sells, collects or delivers junk or scrap of any kind within the City as a business or employment within the City, but who is not an operator of a junk yard within the City, or an employee of such an operator.
(f) “Scrap” means old iron, steel, brass, copper, tin, lead or other base materials; old cordage, ropes, rags, fibers or fabrics; old rubber; waste paper and other waste or discarded materials accumulated by a person for grading and preparation for reuse by steel mills, foundries and paper mills.
(g) “Scrap yard” means a yard, lot or place partially covered or uncovered, outdoors or partially enclosed within a building as opposed to totally within a building, containing scrap as defined above upon which the grading and preparation of scrap for reuse by steel mills, foundries and paper mills takes place.
(h) “Scrap processor” means a person who operates a scrap yard, as defined above, within the City.
(i) “Business premises” or “premises” means the area of a junk yard or scrap yard as described in a junk or scrap dealer’s or processor’s application for a license, as provided for in this chapter.
(Ord. 1981-193. Passed 8-18-81; Ord. 1999-21. Passed 1-19-99.)