A. 
In this division, § 134.405(1), Wis. Stats., as it may be amended, is hereby adopted and incorporated as if fully set forth herein. In addition, the following definitions shall be applicable:
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 section.
ITINERANT JUNK DEALER
Any 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
Any ferrous scrap, nonferrous scrap, metal article, proprietary article, plastic bulk merchandise containers, synthetic or organic material, cloth, rags, clothing, paper, rubbish, bottles, rubber, furniture, inoperable motor vehicle parts, or other discarded articles.
JUNK DEALER
Any person or business who stores, buys, or sells any junk and maintains a yard or building as a principal place of business, excluding persons whose business is principally the sale of used vehicles, or persons dealing in secondhand articles of personal property for resale that are subject to the provisions set forth in Division 8.
JUNKYARD
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 the proceeds from such act or acts are to be used for charity.
A. 
License required. No person shall keep, conduct or maintain any building, structure, yard, or place for keeping, storing, or piling in commercial quantities, whether temporarily, irregularly or continually, any old cloth, rags, paper, rubbish, bottles, rubber, iron, brass, copper, or other metal, motor vehicles or parts thereof, or other articles which from their worn condition render it practically useless for the purpose for which it was made and which is commonly classed as junk, whether with a fixed place of business or as an itinerant buyer, without obtaining a license for that purpose as provided herein. Provided, however, that no person shall be required to be licensed under this section if it is engaged in the business of storing, piling or shipping processed metal, and provided further that this storing, piling, or shipping of processed metal is not conducted in an area that is contiguous to or adjacent to an operation which is subject to licensing hereunder.
B. 
License fee. Every person who conducts business as a junk dealer shall pay an annual license fee as set forth on the Onalaska Fee Schedule.
C. 
Application. An application for a junk dealer license shall be made in writing on a form provided by the office of the City Clerk and shall be signed by the owner of the commercial business, or by its authorized agent a minimum of 15 days in advance of the subsequent Administrative Committee meeting.
D. 
Inspection. The office of the City Clerk shall notify the Chief of Police, Fire Chief, Health Officer, and Inspection Department of each new application for license, and these officials shall inspect or cause to be inspected each application and the premises, together with such other investigation as shall be necessary to determine whether the applicant and the premises sought to be licensed comply with the regulations, ordinances and laws applicable thereto, and whether the applicant is a proper recipient of a license. The Chief of Police, Fire Department, County Health Officer and Inspection Department shall furnish to the Common Council any information derived from such investigation, accompanied by a recommendation as to whether a license should be granted, modified or denied. An inspection may be performed at the City or County Health Officer's discretion at the time of renewal of such license.
E. 
Issuance. Upon the filing of an application, the Common Council may, upon its approval of such application, after the investigation has been made, order the issuance of a junk dealer's license. All licenses shall be issued for a one-year period and expire June 30 of each year, unless revoked or suspended.
F. 
Posting of license. Every holder of junk dealer's license shall at all times keep said license posted while in force in a conspicuous place on the premises described in the application for such license. It shall be unlawful for any person to post such license or to permit it to be posted upon the premises other than those mentioned in the application, or knowingly deface or destroy any such license.
G. 
Second application. No applicant to whom a license has been refused shall make further application until a period of at least six months shall have elapsed since the last previous rejection, unless they can show that the reason for such rejection no longer exists.
A. 
Any premises and all structures thereon used for the purposes of a junk dealership shall be so situated and constructed that the business of junk dealer may be carried on in a sanitary manner, shall contain no fire hazards, and shall be arranged so that thorough inspection may be made at any time by the proper health, fire, building or police authorities. All premises shall follow the standards listed in Section 13.02.64C, Scrap or salvage storage yard, as set forth in the Unified Development Code.
B. 
Limitation on location. No premises shall be used for carrying on the business of junk dealing unless it is properly zoned Heavy Industrial (I-2).
C. 
Relocating business. No licensee shall move their place of business from the place designated in the license until a written permit to do so has been secured from the City and the same shall have been endorsed upon the license. All signs required shall be altered to show the new address.
D. 
Health regulations. The County Health Officer shall formulate reasonable rules and regulations relating to the conduct of the business of junk dealing, which shall protect the health of the community. No junk dealer shall violate any such rule or regulation.
E. 
Burning operations. Burning of wrecked or destroyed automobiles or any parts thereof, or junk, or any waste material shall be done in approved incinerator enclosures approved for burning purposes by the Fire Chief or their duly appointed representative. The Fire Chief may, in appropriate cases, permit burning without incinerators in specific open places designated by them.
F. 
General business requirements. No junk dealer shall conduct their business at or from any place other than the premises designated in the license, nor shall said business be carried on after such license has been revoked or has expired.
1. 
No junk dealer shall make any purchase from any person or receive any articles between 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
2. 
No junk dealer shall purchase or acquire from any person under the age of 18 years any junk, other than old rags or paper, without the written consent of a parent or guardian.
3. 
No junk dealer shall purchase or acquire any item from an intoxicated person.
4. 
The contents of the premises of any junk dealer shall be arranged in an orderly manner with all similar things located together so as to facilitate inspection by the proper authorities. The premises of every junk dealer shall be subject to inspection by the proper municipal authorities at any time.
5. 
In the case of motor vehicles, the junk dealer shall keep a record of the purchase, which shall include the trade name, the motor and serial numbers, the style of body, model, color, and the license number, if any.
6. 
Any junk dealer or itinerant junk dealer who shall have or receive any goods, articles, or things lost or stolen, or alleged or supposed to have been lost or stolen, shall exhibit the same on demand to any law enforcement officer.