It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to
locate, operate and/or conduct a junkyard within the city limits without
first having applied for and obtained a license to do so from the
city secretary.
(1984 Code, sec. 9.60)
Any person, firm or corporation desiring to establish, locate,
operate and/or conduct a junkyard within the city limits shall make
written application for a permit or license to do so to the city secretary,
which application shall state the name and address of the applicant,
and the location of the place where it is desired to locate, operate,
establish and/or conduct such junkyard. Such written application shall
be accompanied by an application fee as set forth in the fee schedule
in appendix A of this code.
(1984 Code, sec. 9.61; Ordinance
adopting 2023 Code)
It shall be unlawful for the city secretary to issue a permit
for the location of a junkyard at any place within the city, without
a majority vote of the city council.
(1984 Code, sec. 9.62; Ordinance
adopting 2023 Code)
“Junkyard” as used in this article is defined as
any place where old metal, ropes, iron, scrap iron, rags, bags, paper,
rubber, bones, secondhand automobile parts, dismantled automobiles,
and/or discarded articles of such materials are bought, sold or kept.
(1984 Code, sec. 9.63)
Every person, firm or corporation locating, establishing, operating
and/or conducting a junkyard, as hereinbefore defined, within the
city limits, shall be required to pay an annual license fee as set
forth in the fee schedule in appendix A of this code, and it shall
be unlawful to locate, establish, operate and/or conduct a junkyard
within the city limits without first obtaining such permit and/or
paying such license fee.
(1984 Code, sec. 9.64)
In any case where a junkyard, as herein defined, is operated
in a yard or open space outside of any building, it shall be the duty
of the operator and/or proprietor to erect and maintain a substantial
fireproof fence placed perpendicularly entirely around the premises
out of new materials, the same to be a good and safe structure and
not less than seven (7) feet in height. He shall at all times keep
the same in good state of repair so as to obstruct the view from the
inside thereof to the traffic and persons on the adjoining street
or alley.
(1984 Code, sec. 9.65)
(a)
Each and every junkyard already established and operated in the city limits shall have 30 days within which to comply with the provisions of section 5.07.006.
(b)
Each
and every junkyard hereafter located and operated and each and every
junkyard already located and being operated with the city limits shall
be required to comply with the other provisions of this article.
(1984 Code, sec. 9.66)
