No person or persons, firm or corporation shall
engage in the business of keeping a junkyard or salvage yard, that
is, no person or persons, firm or corporation shall keep and maintain
a yard, space or place, covered or uncovered, in the Town of West
New York for the purpose of buying, taking in trade, selling, exchanging
or storing rags, old metals, old bottles, old glassware, old tinware,
old iceboxes, old refrigerators, old paper, old lumber, old building
supplies, old furniture, old plumbing fixtures, old unlicensed automobiles,
dismantled old automobiles or parts thereof, motor vehicle junk or
any other old material commonly called junk or salvage, without being
licensed so to do by the governing body of this municipality; provided,
however, that this shall not prohibit the storage of old material
to be used by the person or persons, firm or corporation storing the
same for manufacturing purposes upon the same subject premises.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
JUNK OR SALVAGE DEALERS
Any person, firm association, partnership or corporation
who buys, takes in, sells, exchanges or otherwise acquires junk or
salvage for commercial purposes within the Town of West New York or
who collects or stores junk or salvage therein, and shall include
any automobile wrecking business, the sale or storage of used auto
parts and the sale or storage of used lumber, used plumbing fixtures
or appliances or other used or secondhand articles.
JUNKYARDS or SALVAGE YARDS
Any land within the Town of West New York upon which junk
or salvage is placed, collected, stored, traded in or exchanged or
kept for commercial purposes.
SEPARATE AND DISTINCT LOCATION TO BE LICENSED
Any open-air plot of ground, yard or parcel of land consisting
of part of one lot, or one or more lots, as set forth in the Tax Map
of the Town of West New York, and which parts of the lot or lots are
adjacent and contiguous to each other and, if described by metes and
bounds, would have one continuous and uninterrupted boundary line.
Every licensee shall be required to keep a written book or record in bound form at the licensed premises. Said book or record shall contain a legible daily record of the description of all articles purchased, the name and address of the person from whom each was purchased and the price paid. Said book or record shall be open to inspection at any reasonable time requested by any of the persons or officials named in or referred to in §
227-4 hereof.
All licenses issued pursuant to the provisions
of this chapter shall expire at 12:00 midnight on December 31. An
application for renewal shall be filed with the Town Clerk on or before
November 1 of the year of expiration.
No license shall be granted for or transferred
to any land site or premises where such business is forbidden by any
legal ordinance.
No transfer of license from one person or entity
to another person or entity shall be made except upon written application
signed by the person or entity desiring to secure the transfer and
bearing the written consent of the then licensee. Such application
shall be accompanied by a transfer fee of $250. The proposed transferee
shall be capable of qualifying as an original licensee and shall file
an application as provided for in this chapter.
Any person, firm, association, partnership or corporation, or agent, servant or employee thereof, who shall violate any provision of this chapter, shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to the penalties provided for in Chapter
1, General Provisions, Article
I.
In connection with the violation of this chapter,
each day such violation shall be continued shall be deemed and taken
to be a separate and distinct offense and violation thereof.
There shall be no more than four junkyard or
salvage yard licenses issued in and for the Town of West New York.