Specific terms. As used in this chapter, additional specific terms
or words shall be defined as follows. Unless otherwise expressly stated,
the following definitions shall, for the purpose of this chapter,
have the meanings herein indicated. Any pertinent word or term not
a part of this listing but vital to the interpretation of this chapter
shall be construed to have its legal definition.
BOARD
The Board of Supervisors of Carroll Township.
GARBAGE
Any offal, vegetable refuse, lunchroom or office waste and
other material, including solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous
material, resulting from operation of residential, municipal, commercial
or institutional establishments and from community activities.
ITINERANT PEDDLER
Any individual, group, organization, partnership, association,
firm or corporation not residing in or having a fixed place of business
within the Township that conducts, whether temporarily, ongoing, regularly,
irregularly or in any other manner, the storing, buying, selling or
dealing in any junk, as defined in this chapter.
JUNK/SALVAGE
Any discarded material or article and shall include, but
not be limited to, scrap metal, abandoned or junked motor vehicles
or vehicle parts, machinery or machinery parts, papers, glass and
related items, containers, or partially dismantled structures or parts
thereof. It shall also include a partially dismantled motor vehicle
not bearing current registration plates and that is not in the process
of ongoing and immediate repair. It shall not include recyclable articles,
refuse and garbage kept in proper containers and properly disposed
of in a timely manner, farm machinery used in connection with a bona
fide farming operation or hazardous or toxic waste material.
JUNK/SALVAGE DEALER
Any person who shall engage in the business of selling, buying,
salvaging or dealing in junk, including the operation of an auto wrecking
or salvage yard or business, or any person who shall keep or store
on any premises for a period of more than 90 consecutive days more
than two motor vehicles or bodies of motor vehicles that are disabled
or from which the wheels or engine have been removed or that are not
in operating condition or that do not have a current motor vehicle
license or that do not have a valid Pennsylvania state inspection
sticker attached or that have been stripped or dismantled.
JUNKYARD/SALVAGE YARD
The use of more than 200 square feet of the area of any lot,
whether inside or outside a building, or the use of any portion of
any lot that joins the street for storage, keeping or abandonment
of junk, including scrap metals, or for the dismantling, demolition
or abandonment of automobiles or other vehicles, machines or machinery.
LICENSE
The permit granted to a person who accumulates, stores or
disposes of junk as herein defined.
MACHINE
Any contrivance that serves to regulate the effect of a given
force or to produce or change motion; any organized system.
MACHINERY
Machines in general, including the component parts thereof.
PERSON
Includes any partnership, association, firm, corporation
and individual.
TOWNSHIP
Carroll Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.