[Ord. 83B, 10/28/1974, § 1]
Any discarded material or articles such as is not ordinarily disposed of as rubbish or refuse. A junk or salvage yard shall be construed to mean the storing, accumulating, selling or processing of junked vehicles, whether or not such storing, accumulating, selling or processing is done for profit. Two or more junked or abandoned vehicles shall be construed as coming within the scope and meaning of this Part 1. Moreover, any recycling or impacting or removal, shipment or reuse shall be deemed to come within the scope and meaning of this Part.
Any person, as hereinafter defined, who shall engage in the
business of storing, accumulating, selling or processing of junked
vehicles.
Any natural person, partnership, firm or corporation.
[Ord. 83B, 10/28/1974, § 2]
From the passage of this Part, no junk or salvage yard shall
be established or maintained except in an industrial zone as a special
exception.
[Ord. 83B, 10/28/1974, § 3]
No person in the Township of North Strabane shall engage in
business as a junk or salvage dealer, whether under this Part or as
a preexisting nonconforming use, without first having filed an application
with the Township Office in December of each year. Such application
shall provide information as to the names and addresses of the owner(s)
of the tract of land to be utilized, or the names and addresses of
the lessees, information to the use and extent of the junk or salvage
yard, and shall be accompanied by a permit fee for the ensuing year
in the amount of $200.
Provided that all applicable state and Township laws and ordinances
have been complied with, the Zoning Officer shall issue a permit for
the operation and maintenance of the junk or salvage yard for one
year. Such permit fee shall be renewed annually on or before the first
day of January of each year.
[Ord. 83B, 10/28/1974, § 4]
1.
All junk or salvage yards whether or not established prior to the
date of this Part, shall comply with the following rules and regulations:
A.
No person under this Part shall by virtue of one permit keep more
than one place of business within the Township of North Strabane for
the purpose of establishing and maintaining a junk or salvage yard.
Nor shall any such person engage in the junk or salvage business in
any place other than the place designated upon the permit.
B.
No permit issued under this Part shall be transferred from one person
to another, except when the ownership of the premises shall change.
In such a case a new owner shall apply for a transfer of such permit
to him and shall pay a transfer fee of $50.
C.
Every junk or salvage yard dealer shall provide and constantly keep
a book in which shall be fairly written down in the English language,
at the time of the purchase or sale of any junk, a description of
any article or material purchased, sold or received by him, the date
and hour of such transaction, and the person or persons from whom
such items were purchased, sold, or received concerning said transaction.
Such book shall at all times be subject to inspection by the Township
Zoning Officer and the Police of said Township.
D.
No junked or abandoned vehicle shall be dismantled, altered from
its original form, or destroyed except after a period of 48 hours
from the purchase, receipt or delivery thereof to such junk or salvage
yard.
E.
Each such establishment shall have on duty an employee during normal
working hours when the establishment is in operation.
F.
No junk or salvage yard shall be established or maintained within
an area of 50 feet to any street or road or to any property line.
G.
Each such establishment shall be protected with steel posts and cyclonefence
at least eight feet in height from the ground with structural type
qualities and evergreens of the tree variety shall be planted and
grown a maximum of 10 feet apart on the outside of the fence upon
the property of the owner.
[Ord. 83B, 10/28/1974, § 5; as amended by Ord.
147, 11/26/1985; and by Ord. 240, 10/28/1997]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this Part, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before
a district justice in the manner provided for the enforcement of summary
offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall
be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and,
in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment
not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues
or each Section of this Part which shall be found to have been violated
shall constitute a separate offense.
