[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Manalapan 10-27-1993
by Ord. No. 93-30 as Ch. 127 of the 1993 Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
No person shall engage in the business of keeping a junkyard without
obtaining a license therefor.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Any yard, covered or uncovered, space or place in the Township which
is maintained for the purpose of auto wrecking or buying and selling, exchanging
or storing rags, old and secondhand bottles, old and secondhand iceboxes,
stoves and refrigerators, metals, glassware, tinware, paper, lumber, plumbing
fixtures, dismantled automobiles, or parts thereof, or motor vehicle junk.
The Township Committee shall approve or disapprove the application for
license. The number of licenses to be issued under this chapter shall be limited
to three.
An annual fee of $50 shall be charged for a junkyard license, which
fee shall be returned in full if the application is denied.
A.
Licensed premises shall, at all times, be kept and maintained
by the licensee in a safe and sightly manner, with due regard to the public
health and safety of persons and property in the vicinity where the junkyard
or sales establishment is located.
B.
No licensed premises shall be located nearer than 150
feet to any street or highway, and the business shall be maintained only so
long as the same is enclosed by a fence at least eight feet in height and
so constructed that the business shall not be visible from the exterior and
so long as the fence is kept in good repair and painted white or dark green.
C.
No licensed premises shall be located nearer than 500
feet to any dwelling house, place of residence, church, school, auditorium,
public eating place, chicken farm, dairy farm, place of public gathering or
like place.
D.
No licensed premises shall be located in an area that
is largely residential or in any area where the unreasonable depreciation
of surrounding property would ensue.
