[Ord. No. 347-98, 11-2-1998; Ord. No. 2040-26, 6-2-2026]
For the purpose of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
JUNKYARD
An establishment or place of business which is maintained, operated or used for storing, keeping, buying or selling old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper trash, rubber debris, waste or junked, dismantled or wrecked automobiles, or parts thereof, iron, steel, and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material or for the maintenance or operation of an automobile graveyard.
PRIMARY HIGHWAYS
The portion of connected main highways as officially designated, or as may hereafter be so officially designated, by the Director of the State Department of Transportation and approved by the United States Department of Transportation pursuant to Title 23, United States Code, "Highways."
[Ord. No. 347-98, 11-2-1998]
No person shall establish, operate or maintain a junkyard, any portion of which is within 1,000 feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of any road or street other than a primary highway, without first erecting a screening barrier so as to make the junkyard not visible from the highway or roadway. A business license issued by the City shall be obtained for any junkyard in the City limits or its police jurisdiction.
[Ord. No. 347-98, 11-2-1998]
Any junkyard lawfully in existence on the effective date of this article, which is located within 1,000 feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way and visible from the main traveled right-of-way of any highway, or roadway other than a primary highway, shall be screened. The screening shall be in areas outside the right-of-way so as to make the junkyard not visible from the main traveled highway or roadway.
[Ord. No. 347-98, 11-2-1998; Ord. No. 2040-26, 6-2-2026]
The location, planting, construction and maintenance, including the materials used, in screening junkyards shall be the same as those adopted by the Director of the State Department of Transportation pursuant to § 23-1-247 of the Code of Alabama, 1975, as last amended.
[Ord. No. 347-98, 11-2-1998; Ord. No. 2040-26, 6-2-2026]
The establishment, operation or maintenance of any junkyard contrary to the provisions of this article shall be a public nuisance. Any person, partnership or corporation that establishes, maintains or operates any junkyard contrary to the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a penalty as provided in § 1-8 of this Code for each day of operation in violation of the terms of this article, said penalty to be applicable only after receipt by said person, partnership or corporation of written notification that said person, partnership or corporation is violating any provision of this article and their failure to comply with the requirements contained in this article within 30 days from the date of the receipt of said notice will result in the imposition of a penalty, and in addition thereto, the City may apply to the Circuit Court of the county in which said junkyard may be for an injunction to abate such nuisance. The minimum fine shall be $100. In the event a junkyard fails to properly screen or maintain a screening barrier for a junkyard, the City may decline to issue a business license or to renew a previously issued business license.