[Ord. No. 10.10, 5-16-2001]
There shall be no junkyards, neither business or personal, allowed within the City limits of Summersville.
[Ord. No. 10.10, 5-16-2001]
As used in this Article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
Any old iron, steel, brass, copper, tin, lead or other base metal; 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 a 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 own business, or materials or objects held and used by a manufacturer as an integral part of his own manufacturing processes.
A yard, lot, or place, covered or uncovered, outdoors or in an enclosed building, containing junk as defined above, upon which occurs one 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 proceeds from such act or acts are to be for charity.