[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Tatum as Ch. 14 of the 1984 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
JUNK
Old iron, lead, brass, steel, copper or other metal, or old parts of machinery, wrecked automobiles and parts of wrecked automobiles, rags, bagging, rope, rubber, bones, bottles and other similar materials.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to carry on the business of a junk dealer or shipper or storer of junk, or of a junk collector or peddler within the Town without first having obtained a license to do as hereinafter provided. Any person, firm or corporation desiring such license shall make application therefor to the Town Clerk-Treasurer. Such application shall be in writing and shall set forth the full name of the applicant, his/her residence and the location at which such junk is to be kept or stored, and the licensee shall not store or hold junk at any other place in said Town. Such applicant shall file with the Town Clerk-Treasurer a bond in the sum of $500 with sureties to be approved by the governing body, conditioned that the principal named therein will observe all ordinances and police regulations of the Town. Such application shall be submitted to the governing body, and if the governing body shall approve such applicant and the location, it may order the issuance of the license.
The place where such junk is kept or stored, together with the junk therein, shall at all times be kept in a sanitary condition and open at all times to the inspection of any member of the Health Department or Police Department.
Any license issued hereafter may be suspended or revoked, or both, in the discretion of the governing body, and no license shall be assigned or transferred. If a license is revoked on account of the conviction of the licensee of a violation of this chapter, no part of any required fee shall be returned.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
A. 
Every licensee hereunder shall keep a book in which shall be recorded in English on the day of each purchase or sale an accurate account and description of the junk purchased, received or sold, where and from or to whom received, purchased or sold, the amount or thing paid or received therefor, and the time of the receipt, purchase, or sale, which book, as well as the articles purchased, shall be open at all times to the inspection of any police officer of the Town.
B. 
No such licensee shall purchase or receive any junk from any minor without the written consent of his/her parents or guardian, or from any person who is at the time intoxicated, or from any person known by him/her to be a thief or an associate of thieves, or a receiver of stolen property. No such licensee shall sell or remove from his/her licensed location or from any car or vehicle in which he/she is storing junk any article of junk purchased by him/her until the same shall have been in his/her possession at least five days.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
All dealers in secondhand goods or junk shall at all times keep the goods or junk in a storeroom, warehouse, or other enclosed building so as to protect it from the weather, to prevent the accumulation of water or other trash and substances that will make the same a nuisance and to protect the same from illegal activity. Any junk stored outside will be kept within a fenced area to prevent the items from being seen by others so as to be an unsightly nuisance.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
No secondhand store or place of business in which secondhand goods or junk are kept, sold or offered for sale within the Town shall keep therein or sell, or offer for sale therein, any food stuffs or like provisions to be used for human consumption.