No person shall operate, conduct or possess
a junkyard in this Township without taking out and paying for an annual
license, which license shall be granted, in all proper cases, by the
Township Council upon written application therefor and upon the payment
of the annual license fee herein set forth.
[Amended 4-4-1968]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
JUNKYARD
The use of more than 200 square feet of the area of any lot
for the storage, keeping, or abandonment of junk, including scrap
metals or other scrap material, or for the dismantling, demolition,
or abandonment of automobiles or other vehicles or machinery or parts
thereof.
Each annual license shall expire on December
31 of the year it was granted irrespective of the date it was granted.
The annual license fee shall be the sum of $150.
No junkyard shall be licensed which is not in
a clean and orderly condition, reasonably free from fire menace or
hazard and is in such a condition that it does not injure or prejudice
the health or property of adjacent property owners or other inhabitants
of the Township.
No license as herein provided shall be granted
unless the consent of the property owners of lands adjacent and contiguous
to the proposed site is obtained in writing and submitted to the Township
Council with any such application for such a license.
The Township reserves the right to revoke any
license granted hereunder in the event that the holder of the license
does not obey the rules and regulations contained herein and keep
his junkyard at all times in the same condition it would require to
be kept in to enable him to get a license.