[CC 1985 § 24-26]
Except where otherwise indicated by the context, the following
definitions shall apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this
Article:
BUSINESS PREMISES or PREMISES
The area of a junkyard as described in a junk dealer's
license or application for license, as provided for in this Article.
ITINERANT JUNK DEALER
An individual (natural person) who buys, sells, collects
or delivers junk within the City as a business or employment within
the City, but who is not an operator of a junkyard within the City
or an employee of such an operator.
JUNK
Old iron, steel, brass, copper, tin, lead or other base metals;
old cordage, ropes, rags, fibers or fabrics; old rubber; old bottles
or other glass; bones; wastepaper and other waste or discarded material
which might be prepared to be used again in some form; and any or
all of the foregoing; and motor vehicles, no longer used as such,
to be used for scrap metal or stripping of parts; but "junk" shall
not include materials or objects accumulated by a person as by-products,
waste or scraps from the operation of his/her own business or materials
or objects held and used by a manufacturer as an integral part of
his/her own manufacturing processes.
JUNK DEALER
A person who operates a junkyard within the City.
JUNKYARD
A yard, lot or place, covered or uncovered, outdoors or in
an enclosed building, containing junk as defined above, upon which
occurs one (1) or more acts of buying, keeping, dismantling, processing,
selling or offering for sale any such junk, in whole units or by parts,
for a business or commercial purpose, whether or not the proceeds
from such act or acts are to be used for charity.
[CC 1985 § 24-28]
A junk dealer commits the offense of unlawful transactions with
a minor if he/she or any employee with criminal negligence buys or
receives any personal property other than agricultural products from
an unemancipated minor, unless the minor's custodial parent or
guardian has consented in writing to the transaction.
[CC 1985 § 24-36]
It shall be unlawful for any person to act as a junk dealer
or itinerant junk dealer in the City whether personally, by agents
or employees, singly or along with some other business or enterprise,
without first having obtained a license therefor from the City Clerk
in accordance with the provisions of this Division.
[CC 1985 § 24-39]
The annual fee to be paid for any license or renewal license
issued under this Division shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) in the
case of junk dealers, and fifty dollars ($50.00) in the case of itinerant
junk dealers, together with a surety bond in the sum of five hundred
dollars ($500.00).
[CC 1985 § 24-40]
No license issued under this Division shall be transferred or
assigned or used by any person other than the one to whom it was issued.