As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
JUNK
Any worn-out, cast-off or discarded article or material which
is ready for destruction or has been collected or stored for salvage
or conversion to some use. Any article or material which, unaltered
or unchanged and without further reconditioning, can be used for its
original purpose as readily as when new shall not be considered "junk."
PERSON
A person, proprietorship, partnership, franchise, corporation
or any combination of the aforesaid. The use of the term "person"
in this chapter, whether singular or plural, is intended to include
the number as the text of this chapter appropriately requires.
SALVAGE YARD
Any open-air plot of ground, yard of parcel of land consisting
of part of one (1) lot or one (1) or more lots as set forth on the
Tax Map of the Borough of Somerville, where waste, discarded or salvaged
materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, cleaned, packed,
disassembled or handled, including auto wrecking yards, house wrecking
yards, used lumberyards and places or yards for used or salvaged house
wrecking and structural steel materials and equipment, as distinguished
from such uses when conducted entirely within a completely enclosed
building, and as distinguished from pawnshops and establishments for
the sale, purchase or storage of used cars in operable condition,
salvaged machinery, used furniture and household equipment and the
processing of used, discarded or salvaged materials as part of manufacturing
operations.
[Added 5-16-88 by Ord. No. 1043]
Before any license shall be granted, the applicant shall file
with the Clerk a bond in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000)
with a duly licensed surety company as surety thereon. The bond shall
be approved as to form and execution by the Borough Attorney, conditioned
for the due observances of all ordinances of the borough as may be
enforced representing salvage yards and the keepers of salvage yards
at any time during the continuance of such license.