[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Eatontown
7-23-1969 as Ch. 42 of the 1969 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
All discarded material such as bottles, iron and other metals, rags,
paper, rubber and old tires, and any other material of similar nature that
is generally accepted and known as junk.
Persons dealing in junk and having such junk for any purpose whatsoever
on any premises in the Borough of Eatontown.
Any business and any place of storage or deposit of one or more unregistered
motor vehicles which are unfit for reconditioning for use for highway transportation
or used parts of motor vehicles or material which has been a part of a motor
vehicle, the sum of which parts or material shall be equal in bulk to one
or more vehicles.
No person shall operate as a junk dealer, junk shopkeeper, junkyard
or motor-vehicle junkyard in the Borough of Eatontown without first having
obtained a license for that purpose as herein specified, and such licenses
shall conform to all rules and regulations as set forth herein.
The license fee fixed for each license shall be the sum of $100 per
annum.
All licenses issued hereunder under this chapter shall expire on December
31 following the date when so licensed, without regard to the time of said
year when issued, and the fees as herein fixed shall be the license fee for
said time, whether it be for all or part of such license year.
Any person desiring a license as a junk dealer, junk shopkeeper or junkyard
or a motor-vehicle junkyard shall first present a petition to the Mayor and
Council of the Borough of Eatontown, which petition shall set forth the name
of the person or persons and the corporation or corporations to be licensed,
the location of the property where the said business is to be conducted and
shall state a complete description of the property by metes and bounds, and
a sketch showing the same in relation to the properties within the radius
of 200 feet of the said place to be licensed, together with the addresses
of all the said owners. Said application shall state the nature of the said
business, whether it is a motor-vehicle junkyard, or what type of junk is
to be placed upon the said premises, giving a complete and all-inclusive description
of the same, and if a motor-vehicle junkyard shall state the maximum number
of parts that will be kept at any one time on said premises and, in case of
junk, the maximum number of tons of junk that will be stored upon said premises
at any one time and shall set forth in detail the enclosure which shall surround
the same property, the height of fence or other manner of enclosure, and shall
state the maximum number of persons to be employed in said business and shall
state the methods the licensee will use to prevent the accumulation or attraction
of rats or other rodents on the premises where the licensee shall operate,
and shall state working hours and, in case of junk or other than motor-vehicle
junkyards, shall state the hours when the junk on said premises will be handled,
and in case of motor-vehicle junkyards shall state the working hours when
the demolition of cars located on said property will take place.
Each person procuring a license for premises under this chapter shall
be obliged to surround the said property with an enclosure or a fence or other
proper enclosure and shall institute such methods as will prevent the accumulation
or attraction of rats or other rodents on the said premises, and no junk shall
be handled or cars demolished at such hours as will disturb the people living
in the surrounding neighborhood, and such premises shall be such proper accommodations
to guarantee that there will be no bad health conditions or nuisances in or
around the said premises.
When the said application shall have been received, an inspection of
the said premises shall be made by the Inspector of the Board of Health of
the Borough of Eatontown, whether the same complies with all the regulations
herein set forth or that may hereafter be imposed in regard to the operation
of the said business. The Mayor and Council will fix a hearing upon the said
application and a notice of the said hearing shall be mailed to all persons
mentioned and set forth in the said application for said licensee as residing
within the said 200 feet.
After the said hearing has been held and the Mayor and Council find
that all requirements set forth herein have been complied with and issuing
of the said license shall not be detrimental to the public health and are
satisfied that the said licensed premises shall be conducted according to
the requirements herein, they shall then and thereon order the Clerk to issue
said license.
No license shall be valid if used by any other person or corporation
than for whom such license was granted.
Each and every person or corporation or corporations violating any of
the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, forfeit and
pay a fine of not more than $100 or by imprisonment in the county jail for
not more than 90 days, and the officer before whom any such person or corporation
may be brought may impose such punishment by fine or imprisonment in the county
jail as he may see fit, not exceeding the maximum herein fixed.
