[Amended 5-19-2008 by Ord. No. 25.42.08]
The City Clerk of the City of Albany is hereby authorized to issue licenses
to citizens desiring to carry on the business of buying, selling and dealing
in junk, rags, old rope, old iron, brass, copper, tin, lead, scrap metals
or other old metals, old bottles, old glass, old bones, old tinware, old clothing
unfit for wearing, old shoes or any secondhand articles except secondhand
books and furniture upon payment annually, to the City of Albany, of the sum
of $150 as a license fee for each and every license so issued.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
SCRAP METAL PROCESSING FACILITY
An establishment engaged primarily in the purchase, processing and
shipment of ferrous and/or nonferrous scrap, the end product of which is the
production of raw material for remelting purposes for steel mills, foundries,
smelters, refiners, and similar users.
SCRAP METAL PROCESSOR
Any person, association, partnership or corporation operating and
maintaining a scrap metal processing facility.
No person licensed as aforesaid shall receive, in the line of his business,
any article or thing by way of pledge or pawn, nor shall he loan or advance
any sum of money on the security of any such article or thing, nor shall any
such person receive or purchase any goods, article or thing whatever from
any person under the age of 18 years or from any person or persons whomsoever
between the setting of the sun and the hour of 7:00 a.m.
No person or persons licensed to carry on business under the provisions
of this chapter shall (during the continuance of such license) use, exercise
or carry on the business or trade of a collateral loan broker, nor shall any
collateral loan broker receive a license under the provisions of this chapter.
No person licensed pursuant to this chapter shall carry on any such
business at any other house or place than the one designated in such license
or continue to carry on such business after such license may have been revoked.
Every person licensed under the provisions of this chapter shall have
and keep a sign on the outside and in front of his shop or other place used
for carrying on such business, on which shall be plainly set forth in conspicuous
letters and figures his name, his licensed business and the number of his
said license; and, in case any person so licensed, as aforesaid, shall remove
his shop or place of business from the place designated in said license, he
or she shall immediately thereupon give notice to the City Clerk and have
the same endorsed upon such license, and the number of his shop or place of
business shall thereupon be changed upon the sides of the cart or wagon used
by such licensed person and made to correspond with such change of shop or
place of business.
Every person licensed under the provisions of this chapter shall, when engaged in the business described in §
239-1 hereof or in soliciting, purchasing or receiving any of the articles mentioned herein, wear on the breast of his coat in a conspicuous place a metallic badge, which shall contain in legible, large-sized letters and figures the words "licensed junk dealer" and the number of his license.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances of the City of Albany relating
to junk dealers or inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter are hereby
repealed.
[Amended 5-19-2008
by Ord. No. 25.42.08]
Every person who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by
a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment in the Albany County Penitentiary
for a term not exceeding six months, or both such fine and imprisonment, and
in addition thereto shall be liable to a penalty of $50 for each and every
day any such provision shall be violated.