[HISTORY: Adopted by the Village Board of the Village of
Kimberly 10-3-1988 as Sec. 7-12-1 of the 1988 Code. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
No person shall keep or maintain in the Village any building
or yard for the keeping or storing in commercial quantities or for
dealing in any old, used or secondhand materials of any kind, including
rags, paper, rubbish, bottles, rubber, iron or other metals or junked
motor vehicles or the parts thereof, without first having obtained
a license as hereinafter provided.
Every application for a junk dealer's license shall be
in writing and shall contain the name and address of the person applying
for such license and proposed location of the business and a detailed
account of the type of materials to be dealt in or stored.
Whenever it shall appear that the proposed location of such
yard or business and the types of materials to be collected and stored
are suitable and proper with regard to the public health, safety and
welfare, and whenever it shall further appear that such business shall
not be or become a fire hazard and shall not be or become a public
nuisance by reason of foul odor, noise or unsightliness, the Village
Board shall authorize and the Village Administrator shall issue a
junk dealer's license. The fee for such license shall be $10
per year or fraction thereof, and such license shall terminate on
June 30 in each year. The Village Board may, in its discretion, require
as a condition of such license that such licensee shall erect a board
fence around the premises.
Any junk dealer's license may be revoked by the Village
Board whenever it shall appear that such business is conducted in
such a manner as to create a public nuisance or upon conviction of
such licensee for violation of any state law or Village ordinance
pertaining to junk dealers.
