[Ord. 12/7/1920A, § 1]
Hereafter all persons, firms and corporations engaged, whether
as wholesale or retail junk dealers or as agents or employees of persons,
firms or corporations engaged as aforesaid, shall be required to secure
from the Clerk [Borough Secretary] of the Borough of Phoenixville
a license before engaging in said business in the Borough of Phoenixville
whether at a permanent and fixed place of business or by operating
such business on and through the public streets of said Borough by
team or other vehicle; all wagons or other vehicles of licensed junk
dealers shall display in a conspicuous manner a license card which
shall be issued by the Borough of Phoenixville.
[Ord. 12/7/1920A, § 2; as amended by A.O.]
1.
The license fee to be paid by such junk dealer which shall be in
an amount as established by resolution, from time to time, by the
Borough Council.
2.
The said license shall be issued for the calendar year beginning
January 1st and ending December 31st and any person applying for such
license after the first of October shall be charged for said license
fee for the balance of the calendar year in which the license is issued
at 1/2 the rates or fees hereinabove mentioned.
[Ord. 12/7/1920A, § 3]
All dealers holding a license under this Part shall conduct
their business on and about the public streets of the Borough of Phoenixville
in an orderly and sanitary manner and their junk yards or the places
of business located in the Borough of Phoenixville shall be managed,
controlled and operated in a quiet, orderly, well-kept and sanitary
manner so that the said junk yards or other places of business as
well as the wagons or vehicles used in the operation of said business
shall in no manner be a public nuisance.
[Ord. 12/7/1920A, § 4; as amended by Ord. 922,
9/17/1963, § 1; by Ord. 1228, 8/10/1976, § 1;
by Ord. 1607, 11/14/1989, § 4; and by A.O.]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this Part shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a
fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of said fine
and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 30 days. Each day
that a violation of this Part continues shall constitute a separate
offense.
