[Ord. 114, 1/21/1991, § 406]
Any discarded material or article such as is not ordinarily
disposed of as rubbish or refuse, and shall include, but not be limited
to, scrap metal and scrapped motor vehicles, and shall not include
any garbage or other organic waste, or any paper, rubbish, rags, or
other flammable article or material.
Any person, as hereinafter defined, who shall engage in the
business of selling, buying, and dealing in junk.
Any natural person, partnership, firm, or corporation.
[Ord. 114, 1/21/1991, § 406; as amended by Ord.
266, 9/17/2007]
No person shall engage or continue to engage in business as
a junk dealer in the Township of Wrightstown without first having
obtained a license from the Township Code Enforcement Officer, for
which license the fee shall be set by resolution of the Board of Supervisors
for each calendar year, such fee to be for the use of the Township.
The Board of Supervisors may modify the fee by resolution. Such license
shall be renewed annually on or before the first day of January of
each year. In any case where a junk dealer commences business in the
Township on or after the first day of July in any year, the license
fee payable by such junk dealer for the remainder of such year shall
be at half the yearly rate. Every junk dealer already in business
upon the effective date of this Part shall be required to pay a fee
in an amount as established from time to time by resolution of the
Board of Supervisors as and for his license fee for the balance of
the calendar year, 1990.
[Ord. 114, 1/21/1991, § 406]
No person shall engage in business as a junk dealer in the Township
of Wrightstown in any area of the Township except as provided by the
Newtown Area Joint Municipal Joining Ordinance or any other zoning
ordinance then in force in the Township. Any person engaging in business
as a junk dealer in the said zone shall comply with all rules and
regulations governing the said zone.
[Ord. 114, 1/21/1991, § 406]
The license provided for by the § 13-202 shall be issued by the Township Code Enforcement Officer after application shall have been made therefor by the person desiring to be licensed. Such license shall state the name of the person to whom such license is issued and the premises from which such business is to be conducted. Such license shall be posted conspicuously upon the premises licensed thereunder. The name of the licensed junk dealer and the number of the license under which he operates shall be placed in a conspicuous place on the outside of every vehicle used for business purpose by such dealer.
[Ord. 114, 1/21/1991, § 406]
No person licensed under this Part shall, by virtue of one license,
keep more than one place of business within the Township of Wrightstown
for the purpose of buying, selling, and dealing in junk. Nor shall
any such person engage in business as a junk dealer in any place other
than the place designated upon his license. Nor shall any such person,
or any other person, operate upon any of the streets of the Township,
whether from a vehicle or upon foot, as a scavenger or an itinerant
buyer or seller of junk.
[Ord. 114, 1/21/1991, § 406; as amended by Ord.
266, 9/17/2007]
No license issued under this Part shall be transferable from
one person to another person except when the ownership of the licensed
premises shall change. In any such case the new owner shall apply
to the Township Code Enforcement Officer for a transfer of such license
to him and shall pay a transfer fee in an amount as established from
time to time by resolution of the Board of Supervisors.
[Ord. 114, 1/21/1991, § 406]
Every junk dealer shall provide and shall constantly keep a
book, in which shall be fairly written down in the English language
at the time of the purchase of any junk, a description of every article
or material purchased or received by him, the date and hour of such
purchase or receipt, and the person from whom such article or material
was purchased or received. Such book and the premises upon which junk
is stored shall be inspected twice yearly at intervals not less than
five months apart by the senior officer of police or any other official
of the Township of Wrightstown authorized by the Supervisors, and
such book and junk received or handled by any junk dealer shall at
all times be subject to the inspection of the senior officer of police
and any other official of the Township of Wrightstown who is properly
authorized.
[Ord. 114, 1/21/1991, § 406]
Every junk dealer, licensed under this Part, shall keep and
retain upon the licensed premises, for a period of 48 hours after
the purchase or receipt thereof, all junk received or purchased by
him, and he shall not disturb or reduce the same or alter the original
forms, shape, or condition until such period of 48 hours shall have
elapsed.
[Ord. 114, 1/21/1991, § 406]
Every junk dealer who maintains a premises for the storage of
junk, other than in a building, any part of which is located within
100 feet of the rights-of-way of any street or highway and within
the Township of Wrightstown shall erect and maintain in good repair
an opaque fence of substantial construction at least 12 feet in height
and surrounding the entire area, or if the entire area is not within
the Township of Wrightstown, then only so much of it as is within
said Township, in which such junk is stored. No junk shall be piled
higher than the fence.
[Ord. 114, 1/21/1991, § 406]
1.
Such premises shall at all times be maintained so as not to constitute
a nuisance or a menace to the health of the community or of residents
nearby or a place for the breeding of rodents and vermin. If the premises
are maintained in such a manner as to harbor rodents and vermin, the
Township may hire an exterminator to remove the said rodents or vermin
and may assess the cost of removal against the owner of the premises.
2.
No garbage or other organic waste, and no paper, rubbish, rags or
other flammable articles, or materials shall be stored in such premises.
3.
No upholstery, rubbish, rags or other flammable materials, or waste
shall be set afire nor be permitted to burn on the premises.
4.
Whenever any motor vehicle shall be received in such premises as
junk, all gasoline and oil shall be drained and removed therefrom,
and no such gasoline or oil which has been drained shall be permitted
to remain upon the premises except in containers not to exceed three-hundred-gallon
capacity approved by the Fire Marshal.
5.
The manner of storage and arrangement of junk, and the drainage facilities
of the premises shall be such as to prevent the accumulation of stagnant
water upon the premises, and to facilitate access for firefighting
purposes.
6.
The storage of vehicular tires shall be considered incidental to
the primary business. Tires shall not be stored in piles exceeding
50 feet by 50 feet in area and higher that 12 feet. When the storage
of more than one pile of tires is required, no pile should be closer
than 200 feet from any other pile of tires or combustible material.
All streams and water drainage areas shall be protected from tire
storage areas by berms capable of retaining one gallon of liquid per
tire stored.
7.
Such premises shall not be open for business nor shall any work be
done therein in connection with the storage, processing and transportation
or removal of junk at any time on the first day of the week, commonly
called Sunday, or on any other day of the week before 7:00 a.m., or
after 6:00 p.m.
[Ord. 114, 1/21/1991, § 406; as amended by Ord.
266, 9/17/2007]
Any person, firm, or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this Part, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before
a magisterial district judge in the manner provided for the enforcement
of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure,
shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $35 nor more than
$1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs,
to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation
of this Part continues or each section of this Part which shall be
found to have been violated shall constitute a separate offense.
