[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township
of Springfield 11-6-1972 by Ord.
No. 6-1972. Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall be known as the "Junk Dealer and Junkyard
Ordinance."
Unless otherwise expressly stated, the following words and phrases
shall be construed throughout this chapter to have the meanings herein
indicated:
The Board of Supervisors of Springfield Township, Mercer
County, Pennsylvania.
Any discarded metal products or materials, scrapped appliances,
scrap iron, scrap metal, scrapped, abandoned or junked motor vehicles,
and any scrapped, abandoned or junked machinery.
Any person, as hereinafter defined, who shall have one or
more junked motor vehicles and who shall engage in the business of
storing, selling, buying, salvaging, processing, fabricating, renovating,
trading and dealing in junk and junked motor vehicles, and who maintains
and operates a junkyard within the Township of Springfield.
Any place where any junk, as hereinbefore defined, is stored,
disposed of, sold, traded, accumulated, processed, renovated, recycled,
dismantled or reassembled.
The permit granted to a person who accumulates, stores, sells,
trades, processes, fabricates, disposes of, or deals in junk as hereinbefore
defined.
Includes any individual, partnership, association, firm and
corporation.
Springfield Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
From and after the effective date of this chapter, it shall
be unlawful for any person, persons, firm or corporation to engage
or continue to engage in business as a junk dealer or to establish
or maintain or continue to operate or maintain a junkyard within the
limits of Springfield Township, except as provided in this chapter.
All persons, firms or corporations presently engaged or intending
to engage in business as a junk dealer, or operating or maintaining
or intending to establish or maintain a junkyard within the limits
of the Township of Springfield, shall obtain a permit from the Secretary
of the Springfield Township Board of Supervisors, which permit shall
be granted for a period of one year, except all permits shall expire
on December 31 of the year in which they are granted. No permit issued
by the Springfield Township Board of Supervisors shall be transferable
by the licensee to any other person, unless such transfer is authorized
by the Board of Supervisors, subject, however, to full compliance
with this chapter.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The license fee shall be submitted to the Township Secretary
with the application for a permit. If the permit is not issued, the
license fee shall be returned to the applicant. The license fee for
the initial year shall be prorated on a monthly basis if not effective
on January 1 of such year. The license fee shall be calculated in
accordance with the following schedule as determined by the land to
be used by the licensee, excluding all setback areas:
A.Â
For an area of 43,560 square feet (one acre) or less, the annual
license fee shall be established by resolution of the Board of Supervisors
from time to time.
B.Â
For an area of more than 43,560 square feet (one acre), the annual
license fee shall be established by resolution of the Board of Supervisors
from time to time.
The Board of Supervisors of the Township of Springfield shall
have the right to revoke or suspend a permit, and to refuse to renew
or transfer a permit for noncompliance with the provisions of this
chapter. Upon receipt of the application for a permit to establish
a junkyard and business as a junk dealer, the application shall be
reviewed by Board of Supervisors of Springfield Township, and the
premises examined by them or their agents. The Supervisors or their
agents may suggest revisions to the applicant. An application for
a permit shall be accompanied by a plan and such other descriptive
material sufficient to clearly define the licensed area. The plan
shall indicate the adjacent boundaries of the premises on which the
business is to be located, the area that will be used for the junkyard,
and any structures or buildings thereon.
From and after the effective date of this chapter, no junkyard
shall be maintained closer to any street or public road than 50 feet,
or closer than 10 feet to any adjacent properties.
Every junk dealer licensed under this chapter shall constantly
maintain the licensed premises in accordance with this chapter, and
in a manner prescribed by this section and any subsequent regulations
by the Board of Supervisors.
A.Â
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 or vermin.
B.Â
The Board of Supervisors or their agents shall have the right to
inspect junkyards at reasonable times to insure compliance with this
chapter.
C.Â
Whenever any motor vehicle shall be received in such premises as
junk, all gasoline shall be drained and removed therefrom.
D.Â
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.
E.Â
All junk kept, stored, or arranged on the licensed premises shall
at all times be kept, stored and arranged within the junkyard as described
in the application for license.
F.Â
There shall be established and maintained in all junkyards parallel
aisles or roadways of not less than 15 feet in width and not more
than 200 feet apart. All aisles or roadways must be kept clean at
all times.
A.Â
Any person, persons, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions
of this chapter or failing to comply therewith or with any of the
requirements thereof shall, upon conviction before any Magisterial
District Judge, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $50 nor
more than $300, together with costs of prosecution and, in default
of payment thereof, shall be committed to the Mercer County Jail for
a term not more than 30 days.
B.Â
Each day during which any violation of this chapter continues shall
constitute a separate offense within the meaning hereof.
