[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Trafford 10-3-1989 as Ch. 126 of the 1989 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Nuisances — See Ch. 136.
Except where otherwise indicated by the context, the following definitions shall apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this chapter:
JUNK
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; plastics, wastepaper and other waste or discarded material which might be prepared to be used again in some form; and motor vehicles, no longer used as such, to be used for scrap metal or stripping of parts.
JUNKYARD
A yard, lot or place, covered or uncovered, outdoors or in an enclosed building, containing junk as defined above, upon which occurs one or more acts of buying, keeping, dismantling, processing, selling or offering for sale any such junk, 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.
PERSON
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
It is hereby made the duty of the officials of the borough and the Mayor thereof to enforce or aid in the enforcement of all provisions of this chapter, and for this purpose, the Mayor or his duly authorized representatives shall have the right and are hereby empowered to enter upon any premises on which any business subject to the provisions of this chapter is about to be located and inspect the same at any reasonable time.
The Code Enforcement Officer of the Borough of Trafford or his duly authorized representatives is hereby designated, together with the Mayor, through his police officers, to inspect any land in the Borough of Trafford for the purpose of determining whether or not the operation of the same is under the specifications of a junkyard and to report the same to the Borough Council of the Borough of Trafford.
When the Code Enforcement Officer, the Mayor of the Borough of Trafford or any officials of the borough as above set forth or their duly authorized representatives determine that the public interest so requires, notice shall be served upon the owner or the person or the corporation operating any junkyard which shall forthwith cease said operations upon 30 days' notice thereof.[1]
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Editor's Note: Former § 126-5, requiring compliance within a certain time period, which immediately followed this section, was deleted 10-20-1998 by Ord. No. 667.
[Amended 5-10-2005 by Ord. No. 702]
Any person or persons, corporation, partnership or other entity whatsoever violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution, and, in default of payment of such costs and prosecution, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 30 days. Each day of operation after failure to comply with said notice shall be a separate offense and subject to the penalty herein set forth.