[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Lodi 8-13-1934 by Ord. No. 546. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
No person, firm or corporation shall place or permit to be placed,
store or permit to be stored, gather in quantities, accumulate, pile
or permit to be piled, collect in a mass or permit to be collected
in a mass, any old iron, old steel, old condemned cable and cordage,
worn out, discarded and wrecked materials, old chain, iron, copper,
brass, parts of machinery, parts of any and all kinds of motor vehicles
and parts of any and all kinds of motor vehicle wrecks in a junkyard
or junk shop within the limits of the Borough of Lodi for a height
not to exceed seven feet.
B.
To engage in the above-mentioned business, no person, firm or corporation
shall do so without first obtaining a license therefor from the Borough
Council of the Borough of Lodi.
No person or persons or corporation shall place or permit to
be placed, store or permit to be stored, gather in quantities, accumulate,
pile or permit to be piled, collect in a mass or permit to be collected
in a mass, any old iron, old steel, old or condemned cable and cordage,
worn out, discarded and wrecked materials, old chain, iron, copper,
brass, parts of machinery, and parts of automobile wrecks in a junkyard
within the limits of the Borough of Lodi, unless said junkyard or
place of storage shall be entirely enclosed with a wooden or metal
fence seven feet or over in height, so that it shall be impossible
to see into said junkyard from the street or premises adjoining that
of the junkyard.
No person or persons shall permit the parking, demolishing or
repairing of automobile junk or wrecks on any street which fronts
a junkyard.
Every person, firm or corporation desiring a license under this
chapter shall make application in writing to the Mayor and Council,
signed by him or them, stating the name and residence of the applicant
and the kind and character of junk which he or they expect to deal
in, and accurately describing the location of the place where such
business is to be conducted.
The fee to be paid for such license shall be as provided in Chapter 235, Article IV, Fee Schedule. All licenses shall expire at 12:00 midnight on December 31 succeeding the date of the issuance thereof, and when issued after the beginning of the current year, the license fee for the balance of that year shall be the pro rata amount of the annual fee.
Any person, firm or corporation who is now using lands within
the Borough of Lodi as a junkyard upon which said person, firm or
corporation is storing junk who fails to procure a license from the
Mayor and Council as herein required for the establishment of a junkyard
in that location shall be required to remove all materials stored
by person, firm or corporation upon said lands within 30 days after
written notice from the Borough Clerk requiring the removal from such
property.
No person, firm or corporation shall receive in the line of
his or its business any article or thing by way of pledge or pawn,
nor shall he or she, they or it loan or advance any sum of money on
the security of any such article or thing.
Every keeper of a junkyard in the Borough of Lodi shall provide
and keep a book in which shall be fairly written at the time of every
purchase a description of the article or articles so purchased, the
name and residence of the person from whom such purchase was made
and the day of such purchase.
Every such book shall at all times be open to the inspection
of the Mayor and Council or policemen of the Borough of Lodi.
No person, firm or corporation who has received a junk dealer's
license from the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Lodi shall purchase
or sell in any way of business any goods, articles or things whatsoever
between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m.
No person, firm or corporation who has a junkyard license in
the Borough of Lodi shall purchase or sell from or to any person under
the age of 18 years any articles or other things whatsoever.
[Amended 5-17-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-20]
A.
All junk-shop keepers and junk dealers shall be required to provide
a certification from the Tax Collector of the Borough of Lodi indicating
that the payment of real estate taxes for the land upon which they
own or operate their business in the Borough of Lodi is current through
the first quarter of each calendar year that they apply for license
or renewal of license to operate through the Borough of Lodi. No applicant
or licensee shall be entitled to a license or license renewal in the
event that said real estate taxes are not current as aforesaid. In
the event that said license is not obtained or renewed, said license
shall be deemed revoked, lapsed, canceled, null and void. Upon proof
that all said real estate taxes are current as aforesaid, said applicant
or licensee may apply for a license or license renewal.
B.
Fines or punishment. Any junk-shop keeper or junk dealer or any other
person, firm or entity violating the provisions of this chapter shall
be subject to a fine not exceeding $2,000, imprisonment for a period
not exceeding 90 days and/or a period of community service not exceeding
90 days. Each day that a violation exists shall be deemed a separate
violation.[1]
