It shall be unlawful for any person to buy, acquire, or receive for storage from the general public and accumulate or store on property within the limits of the town for the purpose of resale or dismantling and resale any scrap iron, scrap tin, scrap brass, scrap copper, scrap lead, scrap zinc and all other scrap metals and their alloys, bones, rags, cloth, rubber, rope, tinfoil, bottles, old cotton, mechanical garden tools, utensils, dismantled or used plumbing fixtures, appliances or parts, dismantled gas fixtures, fittings, pipes, dismantled or used water heaters or parts, used hoses, harnesses or glass, or any character of unserviceable or used parts and accessories, unless such person shall have first obtained a license from the town council, after a public hearing for which written notice thereof shall have been published for at least two (2) weeks prior to such hearing by being posted at the usual places where notices of elections for the town have been heretofore posted, which license shall contain such proper regulations and safeguards to be observed by the licensee, including the payment of a proper licensing fee, as the town council upon such hearing shall deem necessary to protect the public health and general welfare of the inhabitants of the town.
(1999 Code, sec. 4.101)