No person, firm, partnership, or corporation shall engage in
the business of maintaining or operating a junkyard (salvage yard)
within the Village without a permit.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
JUNKYARD (SALVAGE YARD)
An area, building, structure, yard, or place where waste
or scrap materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed,
recycled, disassembled or handled, including but not limited to scrap
iron and other metals, paper, rags, rubber tires, bottles, automobiles
and used building materials.
Every applicant for a permit shall file with the Village Clerk-Treasurer
on or before December 1 of the permit year a written application upon
the form prepared and provided by the Village and signed by the applicant.
Such applicant shall state:
A. The name and address of the applicant, type of business organization
and names and addresses of partners or principal officers.
B. The length of time such applicant, firm, partnership or corporation
has resided in the Village, previous location of business or employment
and whether convicted of a felony or misdemeanor and, if so, what
offense, when and in what court.
C. Whether applicant has previously engaged in the business for which
a permit is sought.
D. A detailed description of the business to be conducted.
E. The premises and legal description where such business is to be located
to include site plan.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership or corporation
to burn any materials in the junkyard (salvage yard, and specifically
rubber tires, from or by any source within the Village of Bellevue.
Except as otherwise provided, in addition to the revocation, suspension or nonrenewal of any permit issued under this chapter, any person found to be in violation of any provision of this chapter shall be subject to a penalty as provided in §
1-4 of the Code of the Village of Bellevue.