No person shall operate a junkyard without a license issued by the Town
Council.
A person desiring the license required by the provisions of this chapter
shall submit a plat of a civil engineer or land surveyor licensed in the state
or other description with reasonable definiteness showing the boundary lines
of the tract of land to be used as the junkyard.
Before the Town Council shall determine whether to issue the license
required by this chapter, the license application and a notice of public hearing
shall be advertised at the expense of the applicant in a newspaper in general
circulation in the Town of Charlestown once a week for three (3) successive
weeks before the time set for the hearing on the license issuance.
A person desiring the license required by the provisions of this chapter
shall pay a fee to be set by ordinance by the Town Council.
The license required by the provisions of this chapter shall expire
by limitation on April 30 annually.
The Town Council may, after a hearing affording due process, revoke
a license issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter for a violation
by the licensee of any of the provisions of this chapter.
A person holding a license issued pursuant to the provisions of this
chapter shall keep a complete record in ink in a suitable record book showing
the record of all purchases of junk and from whom it was purchased and the
date thereof. Such records shall be open at all times to the inspection of
the Chief of Police, the Health Officer or any member of the Town Council.
A person holding a license issued pursuant to the provisions of this
chapter shall not allow the place for the reception of junk, articles to be
stacked or piled in the licensed premises to a height of more than nine (9)
feet.
A person holding a license issued pursuant to this chapter shall not
allow any highly flammable material or organic matter or any substance or
substances attractive to vermin to be kept or stored on the licensed premises.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this chapter shall, upon
conviction thereof, be punished, for each violation, by a fine of not more
than five hundred dollars ($500.) or by imprisonment for not more than thirty
(30) days. The continuation of a violation of any provision of this chapter
shall constitute, for each day the violation is continued, a separate and
distinct violation hereunder.