No person, firm or corporation shall engage
in any of the following activities without having obtained a license
from the City Council:
A. Keep a shop or storehouse for the reception or sale
of junk, old metals or any secondhand articles (wholesale junk license).
B. Gather junk, old metals or secondhand articles (retail
junk license) in any bag, wagon or cart, except that keeping of shops
for the purchase, sale or barter of books, pamphlets or periodicals
shall not require a license.
C. Sell, purchase, barter and deal in junk, old metals and those secondhand articles listed in §
251-14 (secondhand shop license).
[Amended 10-12-2023 by Ch. No. 3282]
D. Establish, operate or maintain an automobile junkyard
(automobile junkyard license).
[Amended 4-22-2004 by Ch. No. 2727; 11-21-2007 by Ch. No. 2882]
A. Secondhand shop licenses and automobile junkyard licenses
shall be for a term of one year commencing on the first day of the
month of May of each year and shall specify the Assessor's lot and
plat upon which such business is to be conducted.
B. Wholesale junk licenses and retail junk licenses shall
be for a term of one year commencing on first day of the month of
May of each year.
Every person licensed under the provisions of
this chapter shall keep any property purchased or received by him
or her and required to be entered upon his or her record book for
a period of 10 days. During such period, such property shall be kept
separate and distinct and shall not be disfigured or treated in any
way by which its identity may be destroyed or affected, provided that
any retail junk license may at any time sell any such property to
any person licensed as above provided; provided further, that any
person licensed as above provided may sell or melt such property within
such period of 10 days, upon permission in writing from the Chief
of Police, or from such person as he or she shall designate to act
for him.
No person licensed pursuant to this chapter
shall, directly or indirectly, either purchase or receive in barter
or exchange any junk, old metals or secondhand articles from any minor,
unless such minor shall be licensed in accordance with this chapter.
No person licensed as provided in this chapter
shall directly or indirectly either purchase or receive in barter
or exchange or sell any bar or pig iron.
[Amended 5-24-2018 by Ch. No. 3160]
Any person, firm or corporation carrying on
business without a license or violating any of the provisions of this
chapter shall, for any one offense, be fined not exceeding $500.
[Added 2-6-1997 by Ch. No. 2442]
A. Secondhand shop licenses as defined in §
251-1C shall be classified as follows:
(1) Class A: retail establishments engaged in the sale
of used vehicles.
(2) Class B: retail establishments engaged in the sale
of used auto parts.
B. All licenses for secondhand shops may contain one
or more classes as defined above, based on what the applicant will
be selling. There will be no additional charge for licenses with more
than one class designation.
[Added 2-6-1997 by Ch. No. 2442]
Any retail establishment wishing to change or add a class or classes to their secondhand shop license, as defined in §
251-1C, must apply for a change of classification following all the requirements as for a new license. The change of license fee shall be $10.