[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council
of the Borough of Yeadon 12-7-1995 by Ord. No. 1245 as Ch. 820 of the 1995
Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any discarded or salvageable article or material, including,
but not limited to, scrap metal, paper, rags, glass, containers, scrap
wood, motor vehicles, trailers, machinery and equipment, with the
exceptions of farm machinery and mobile homes or house trailers which
are occupied or are properly placed and planned for occupancy.
Any person who buys, sells, salvages, stores or in any way
deals in junk or owns, leases, operates or maintains a junkyard within
the municipality.
Any place where junk is stored or accumulated. Any premises
having two or more unlicensed motor vehicles and/or unlicensed trailers
thereon shall be deemed to be a junkyard, except that the foregoing
shall not apply to duly licensed automobile dealers having operable
vehicles on their premises for resale. Such exception shall not apply
to inoperable vehicles being stored primarily for salvage purposes.
No person shall operate, maintain or carry on
the business of a junk dealer or keep any junk, junkyard or other
store or place for the purchase, sale or transfer of junk.
The provisions of § 182-2 shall not apply to, or interfere with, proper procedures authorized by the courts under statutes of the commonwealth.
Whoever violates any of the provisions of this
chapter shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 or
imprisoned not more than 10 days in the Borough lockup or not more
than 30 days in the county jail or workhouse, or both such fine and
imprisonment. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day
during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
