For the purpose of this chapter, certain words and terms are defined
as follows:
INSPECTOR
The Building Inspector of the city.
JUNK
Any personal property which is owned, possessed, collected, accumulated,
dismantled or assorted, including but not limited to used or salvaged base
metal or metals, their compounds or combination, used or salvaged rope, bags,
paper, rags, glass, rubber, lumber, millwork, brick and similar property,
except animal matter; and motor vehicles, machinery or equipment for the purpose
of wrecking or salvaging parts therefrom.
JUNKYARD
Any place at which personal property is or may be salvaged for reuse,
resale or reduction or similar disposition, and is owned, possessed, collected,
accumulated, dismantled or assorted, including but not limited to used or
salvaged base metal or metals, their compounds or combinations, used or salvaged
rope, bags, paper, rags, glass, rubber, lumber, millwork, brick and similar
property except animal matter; and includes used motor vehicles, machinery
or equipment which are used, owned or possessed for the purpose of wrecking
or salvaging parts therefrom.
PERSON
A corporation, firm, partnership, association, organization or any
other group acting as a unit, as well as a natural person.
The regulations and other matters provided herein are deemed to be in
addition to and supplemental to the requirements of the Zoning Ordinance.
It shall be the duty of the Building Inspector to administer this chapter.
The Building Inspector shall keep a registration list of all existing
and future junkyards in the city. He shall periodically inspect such junkyards
for compliance with these regulations and shall inspect each junkyard upon
each annual application for a license.
In granting a building permit for the location and use of premises or
land for a junkyard, the Building Inspector shall require the following:
A. The area to be occupied by the junkyard shall be located
at least 300 feet from any residence.
B. Every junkyard operation shall be conducted either wholly
within a substantially constructed building or within an area which shall
be surrounded completely on all sides by a continuous solid fence of uniform
height, except for entrances and exits, approved as to location by the City
Planning Commission, uniformly constructed of brick, block, metal, concrete
or wood and kept in repair. Such fence shall be at least eight feet in height
and shall be constructed at street corner intersections so as to permit adequate
vision clearance on the street. The fence, when constructed of wood, shall
be completely and uniformly painted or treated, and when constructed of other
materials shall be appropriately and uniformly maintained. Existing enclosures
constructed of other materials heretofore approved by the Zoning Hearing Board
and completely enclosing the junkyard may be continued, provided that they
are in repair, but no new enclosure or part of a new enclosure shall be erected
except in strict compliance with these regulations, including the obtaining
of a building permit therefor.
C. No junk shall be loaded, unloaded or placed outside the
enclosure fence, temporarily or permanently, either on the property or in
the public right-of-way.
D. Every junkyard shall be conducted so as not to create
a nuisance by reason or noise or disagreeable odors or fumes or so as to attract
rats or vermin. The loading or unloading of junk and the use of breakup hammers
shall be carried on during the normal daylight business period only.
E. The operator, owner or employee of every junkyard may
burn junk only after first obtaining a permit in writing therefor from the
Bureau of Fire of the city and only within an incinerator approved by such
Bureau, subject to the power of the Chief of the Fire Bureau to issue a special
permit.
F. All junkyards shall be maintained in a clean, sanitary
and neat condition. The accumulation of anything not defined as junk, including
but not limited to foodstuff, animal matter and similar materials, shall not
be permitted.
G. The owner of any junkyard in the city shall keep or shall
require the operator thereof to keep an up-to-date list of all acquisitions
of junk, including the names and addresses of all persons from whom acquired,
together with a description of such junk which will permit reidentification
thereof. Such list shall date back at least one year at all times and shall
be kept available to police officers of the city and all other authorized
police officers during all hours of business. This provision shall be in addition
to any statutory requirement.
Persons owning, leasing or having control of automobile graveyards existing
on March 1, 1938, shall not be required to make application for a building
permit for the operation thereof, but shall be required to register such junkyard
with the Building Inspector and shall otherwise comply with the provisions
of this chapter, but no such existing automobile graveyard shall be enlarged
except upon strict compliance with the provisions of this chapter, and no
new automobile graveyards shall be established.
In addition to any sanction or remedy provided for in this chapter,
any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction
thereof, be fined not more than $25 for the first offense, not more than $100
for the second offense and not more than $300 for any subsequent offense,
and costs of prosecution for each offense, and in default of payment thereof
shall be imprisoned for not more than 90 days. Continuing violation as to
any provision after notice from the Inspector shall be a separate violation
for each day.