For the purpose of promoting the safety, health, welfare, convenience
and enjoyment of public travel, to protect the public investment in City highways
and streets and to preserve and enhance the scenic beauty of lands bordering
City highways and streets, it is hereby declared to be in the public interest
to regulate and restrict the establishment, operation and maintenance of junkyards
as hereinafter set out.
For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall
have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
JUNK
Old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash,
rubber debris, waste or junked, dismantled or wrecked automobiles, parts thereof,
iron, steel and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous materials.
JUNKYARD
An establishment or place of business which is maintained, operated
or used for storing, keeping, buying or selling junk or for the maintenance
or operation of an automobile graveyard, and the term shall include garbage
dumps and sanitary landfills.
Any junkyard which comes into existence after August 20, 1970, and which
cannot be made to conform to the requirements set out herein is declared to
be a public and private nuisance and may be forthwith removed, obliterated
or abated by direction of the City Council or its representative. The Council
may collect the costs of such removal, obliteration or abatement from the
person owning or operating the junkyard.
Any person violating or failing to comply with any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be subject to punishment as provided in §
1-13.