No person shall engage in the business of purchasing,
selling, bartering or dealing in junk, old metals or secondhand automobiles,
whether as keeper of a shop or storehouse for the reception of such
junk, etc., or as a gatherer of such junk, etc., in any bag, wagon,
cart or automobile, or as a foundryman or other person receiving such
junk, etc., for the purpose of melting such junk, etc., or of converting
such junk, etc., into castings, unless such person shall be duly licensed
by the Town Council and subject to the conditions and restrictions
of this chapter.
Every applicant for any such license shall set
forth with full particulars, upon a form to be furnished by the Town
Clerk, answers to the following questions:
A. Name and address, both of residence and of business
of the applicant.
B. Business or employment of the applicant during the
five years next preceding application.
No license shall be granted under this chapter
except upon written application which shall be duly advertised and
upon which a public hearing shall be held. Such advertising shall
be in a public newspaper, published in the county, to appear once
a week for two successive weeks prior to such hearing, provided that
no license shall be granted under this chapter in any location where
the owners or occupants of the greater part of the land within 200
feet of such building or place of business shall file with the Town
Council their objection to the granting of such licenses.
The annual fee for such licenses shall be as
follows:
A. For a keeper
of a shop, storehouse, business or junkyard: $25;
C. For a foundryman
or other person receiving such junk, etc., for the purpose of melting
such junk, etc., or of converting such junk, etc., into castings:
$5.
All licenses granted under the provisions of
this chapter shall expire one year from the date of their issuance,
provided that any such licenses so granted may be revoked at any time
by the Town Council for cause, and no rebate shall be made from the
license fee for such license for less than one year.
Every keeper of any junk shop, junkyard or storehouse,
licensed according to the provisions of this chapter, shall display
in a conspicuous place within such shop, yard or storehouse the license
last granted to him/her.
Every shop, storehouse, bag, wagon, cart, junkyard,
automobile or foundry or place of business of any such licensed person
shall be subject to the inspection and examination of the Chief of
Police or any of his authorized agents.
Every such licensed person shall keep in a book
a contemporaneous record in the English language of the business done
by him/her as follows: a description of every article purchased or
sold by him/her, at the time of purchase or sale, the name and residence
of the person from whom such article was purchased or to whom such
article was sold by him/her, and the day or hour of such purchase
or sale. Such book or record shall be subject to examination at any
time by the Chief of Police or any of his authorized agents and also
by members of the Town Council.
Every such licensed person shall keep any property
purchased or received by him/her for a period of 10 days from the
date he/she acquires such property, and during that period, such property
shall not be disfigured or treated in any way by which its identity
may be destroyed or affected, except that any person licensed as a
gatherer may at any time sell any such property to a keeper or a shop
or storehouse or a foundryman or other person licensed as above provided
within such period, provided that any licensed person may sell and
melt such property within such period of 10 days with the permission
in writing of the Chief of Police.
No person licensed as herein provided shall
directly or indirectly either purchase or receive in barter or exchange
any junk or metals or secondhand automobiles from any minor, knowing
or having reason to believe him/her to be a minor, unless such minor
shall be licensed in accordance with this chapter.
No keeper of any junk shop, junkyard or storehouse
shall do or suffer to be done any business therein between the hours
of 8:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m.
No junk, old metal or secondhand automobiles
shall be stored by such licensed person in the open on any lot or
tract of land within the Town, unless the area to be used for such
purpose is enclosed by a tight board fence at least six feet in height
that shall be located or erected not less than 10 feet from the boundary
lines of such lot or tract of land. Openings between boards shall
not exceed 1/2 inch.