Any place used or maintained by any person, partnership or corporation as a junkyard or dumping ground, or for the wrecking or disassembling of automobiles, trucks, tractors or machinery of any kind, or for the storing or leaving of worn-out, wrecked or abandoned automobiles, trucks, tractors or machinery of any kind, or of any of the parts thereof, or for the maintenance or operation of a place for the accumulation of rubbish of any description, is hereby declared to be a public and common nuisance, being obnoxious and offensive to the inhabitants of the city, because of its interference with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property by the inhabitants, and is prohibited within the city limits, unless the same is conducted in the manner hereinafter stated, following the payment of the license fee hereinafter prescribed.
(2002 Code, sec. 113.20)