[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Board of the Township of Egelston as Ch. 10, Art. V, of the 2006 Code of Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
T chapter applies to all businesses which engage in the repair, painting, maintenance, alteration, building or rebuilding of motor vehicles, trailers, boats, mobile homes, house trailers, camper trailers, tent campers, motorcycles, or motor-propelled vehicles of any type.
Any person, persons, partnership, corporation or other entity operating or maintaining an affected business at any location in the Township shall obtain an annual license for the operation or maintenance of said business within the Township from the Township board. No such business or premises shall be operated or maintained without first having obtained the said license.
The fees for licenses under this chapter shall be determined by the Township Board by resolution. The mechanics of the administration of this chapter, including dates and methods of applications and renewals, the holding of hearings and enforcement actions shall be determined by resolution of the Township board.
Each licensee under this chapter shall maintain the licensed business in accordance with the following conditions and standards:
A. 
All licensees must maintain their business premises in an orderly, safe and neat appearing manner, and obey all the ordinances of the Township, county or statutes of the state or United States of America.
B. 
All licensed businesses shall comply with Chapter 450, Zoning, as well as all other ordinances, and shall maintain a building on the premises for the carrying on of the business and for the storage of all implements, tools, spare parts, used parts and other personal property incidental to the business. Said building shall not be a trailer building or mobile home. It shall contain sanitary facilities acceptable to the County Health Department and the Township Building Inspector.
C. 
Lighting on the premises shall not be erected or used so as to constitute an obstruction or distraction of vision, result in glare on neighboring properties, or constitute a traffic hazard.
D. 
No such business shall store any junk, rubbish, garbage or trash on the premises, and shall comply in all respects with the Township ordinances affecting the storage of junk, rubbish, garbage or trash. Licensure under this chapter shall not constitute permission to operate or maintain a junkyard or salvage yard.
E. 
Every such business shall comply with all laws, rules and regulations whether local, state or federal, concerning the storage, handling, transportation and disposal of toxic or hazardous substances.
F. 
No such business shall store any of the above-named vehicles, boats or other equipment except incidental to their repair, and in any case for no longer than 21 days. Equipment, vehicles, boats and other implements being repaired, painted, maintained, altered, built or rebuilt may not be kept on the premises outside a fully enclosed building after 21 days. All equipment or vehicles, boats and other implements being repaired, painted, maintained, altered, built, or rebuilt or otherwise dealt with in the business shall be stored behind a screen or fence which obstructs the said equipment or vehicles, boats or other implements from view from any place on the property line of the premises upon which the business is being conducted.
G. 
No implements, tools, spare parts, used parts or other personal property shall be stored outside a building.
H. 
Where applicable, licensees shall make all regularly required filings with agencies of the state and shall comply with all requirements of the law relating to the operation of their businesses, sales, practices, registration requirements and licensing requirements.
A. 
Application. Applicants for licenses under this chapter shall demonstrate compliance with the conditions set forth above to the reasonable satisfaction of the Township Building Inspector and the Township Board before a license will be issued or renewed.
B. 
Revocation. The Township Board may revoke any license issued under this chapter and refuse to issue a license hereunder if it reasonably appears to the Township Board after appropriate investigation and hearing that the operation of the said business premises is in violation of this chapter or any ordinance of the Township, or any state, county or federal law.
C. 
Inspections. Licensees consent to inspection of all parts of the premises by Township personnel at all reasonable times.
A. 
The following are violations of this chapter:
(1) 
Operation of a business without a license when one is required.
(2) 
The violation of any rule, regulation or condition contained in this chapter or hereinafter contained by amendment.
(3) 
The failure to pay a license fee.
(4) 
The failure to allow or agree to the inspection of the premises by any authorized official of the Township at reasonable times.
(5) 
The failure to comply with enforcement orders and directives of the Township.
B. 
Each day a violation continues shall constitute a new violation.