No person shall gather old rags or newspapers or pick up, in the City, junk or secondhand articles usually dealt in by keepers of junk shops or yards without first obtaining from the City Council a license as a junk collector, and no person to whom a junk collector's license has been issued shall store or deposit such articles in any place unless he has obtained a junk dealer's license in accordance with § 14-371. Such license may be granted by the City Council subject to fees as provided in Chapter A110, Fee Schedule, of the City Code and conditions as it may require. The license shall expire on May 1 each year.
[Amended 5-20-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-8; 8-12-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-44]
No person shall deposit, store, keep or permit to be deposited, stored or kept in the open upon public or private property a dismantled, unserviceable, junked or abandoned vehicle, or one legally or physically incapable of being operated, unless he has first obtained a junk dealer's license in accordance with the provisions of this article.
Each junk collector shall wear in a conspicuous place on his outside garment a suitable badge approved by the City Clerk and bearing the number of his license. The City Clerk shall issue the licenses when granted by the City Council and shall number them in order, and he shall keep a separate record of the licenses.
No junk collector shall, directly or indirectly, either purchase or receive by way of barter or exchange any of the articles named in § 14-341 from a minor, knowing or having reason to believe him to be such.