For the purpose of this chapter, the terms used
herein are defined as follows:
COMMISSIONER
The Commissioner of Neighborhood and Business Development
of the City of Rochester or his or her designated representative.
[Amended 6-16-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-179]
DESIGNATED OFFENSES
Convictions of any of the following New York State Penal
Law sections:
A.
Title J: Offenses Involving Theft:
(2)
Article 156, Offenses Involving Computers;
(3)
Article 158, Welfare Fraud;
(5)
Article 166, Other Offenses Relating to Theft;
and
B.
Title M: Offenses Against Public Health and
Morals
(1)
Article 220, Controlled Substances Offenses;
(2)
Article 221, Offenses Involving Marihuana (except
the violation under § 221.05).
INSTITUTIONAL CLIENT
Any person, corporation, partnership, or limited liability
corporation who is duly organized and conducting business under the
laws of any of the United States or who operates under a New York
State license and whose business enterprise regularly produces junk.
JUNK DEALER
Any person, who does not operate from a fixed location, who
buys or collects old rope, old iron, copper, tin and lead, wood trim,
rubber, rags, bottles, paper, bagging, sacks, parts of machinery,
parts of stoves, scrap metals of all kinds, such other worn out or
discarded articles and materials and odds and ends as can be turned
into a use; but shall not be deemed to include any furniture, house
furnishings, goods, clothing, machinery or tools which can be used
again for the purpose for which they were originally intended.
JUNKYARD
Any lot where waste, including nonputrescible rubbish, trash,
garbage, refuse, scrap or discards, both man-made and natural, is
temporarily or permanently present for the purposes of bailing, collection,
sorting, recovery, recycling, exchange, storage, reduction, transfer,
incineration or disposal, including auto wreckage yards, house-wrecking
yards and scrap processing yards.
JUNKYARD OPERATOR
Any person, firm or corporation who operates a junkyard,
including auto wreckers and scrap processors.
SCRAP PROCESSOR
Any person, association, partnership or corporation operating
from a fixed location where machinery and equipment are used for processing
old rope, old iron, copper, tin and lead, wood trim, rubber, rags,
bottles, paper, bagging, sacks, parts of machinery, parts of stoves,
scrap metals of all kinds, such other worn out or discarded articles
and materials and odds and ends as can be turned into a use; but shall
not be deemed to include any furniture, house furnishings, goods,
clothing, machinery or tools which can be used again for the purpose
for which they were originally intended.
No person shall carry on the business of junkyard
operator, junk dealer, or scrap processor in the City of Rochester
without having first obtained a junkyard operator, junk dealer, and/or
scrap processor license from the Chief of Police.
The Police Chief shall, consistent with the
express standards, purposes and intent of this chapter, promulgate,
adopt and issue such interpretations, procedural rules, regulations
and forms as are in the Police Chief's opinion necessary to effective
administration and enforcement of the provisions of this chapter.
These interpretations, rules, regulations and forms shall be available
to the public at the License Clerk's Office, City Hall, Room 100A.
Such rules, regulations and forms shall be effective upon filing with
the City Clerk as a communication to the City Council.
[Amended 3-27-2012 by Ord. No. 2012-120]
The annual license fee shall be $300, except
that in 2013 the renewal fee shall be $425. The payment of the fee
shall be due upon application for the license. The fee for replacement
of a junkyard operator, junk dealer, or scrap processor license which
has been lost or destroyed shall be $10.
[Amended 3-27-2012 by Ord. No. 2012-120]
Licenses shall expire on May 31 after their
date of issuance.
[Added 3-27-2012 by Ord. No. 2012-120]
A. From and after the date called for by the phase-in schedule in Subsection
E, every junkyard operator, junk dealer, or scrap processor, except those exempted by operation of Subsection
F, shall, by close of business each day, upload to the Chief of Police electronic records of all reportable transactions occurring the same business day. Each transaction record shall contain all information required by §
66-8 and shall be uploaded via Internet connection to an electronic reporting service provided by the Rochester Police Department according to the following procedures:
(1) Junkyard operators, junk dealers or scrap processors using point-of-sale
software shall review compatibility of their software with the electronic
reporting service provided by the Police Department, and dealers with
compliant point-of-sale software shall electronically upload all required
information from their point-of-sale software to the specified electronic
reporting service via Internet connection using the upload process
of the reporting service; or
(2) Junkyard operators, junk dealers, or scrap processors using noncompliant
point-of-sale software, or not using point-of-sale software, shall
manually enter all reportable transactions into the electronic reporting
service via Internet connection.
B. The Chief of Police shall establish by rule the format and requirements of the transmission of data and may restrict the scope of the items that are to be electronically reported. A transaction reported by electronic transmission under Subsection
A shall not be reported on paper forms unless the Chief of Police so requests.
C. In the event a junkyard operator, junk dealer or scrap processor
is unable to successfully upload transaction records via the electronic
reporting service, the junkyard operator, junk dealer or scrap processor
shall, within 24 hours, notify the Police Department of the reason
for the submission failure and shall provide the Police Department
with an estimated time of compliance. For every day the junkyard operator,
junk dealer or scrap processor is unable to upload electronic transactions
records via the electronic reporting service, the junkyard operator,
junk dealer or scrap processor shall provide the Chief of Police a
daily electronic data table or spreadsheet of all transactions that
would otherwise have been submitted via the electronic reporting service.
This data shall be either hand delivered or e-mailed to the Police
Department no later than one business day after the transaction date.
D. If the upload problem is determined by the Police Department to be
the fault of the junkyard operator, junk dealer or scrap processor,
the junkyard operator, the junk dealer or scrap processor shall be
charged a daily reporting failure fee of $10 until the error is corrected.
This fee is to offset the Rochester Police Department's costs in converting
the data from paper format into electronic format. If the problem
is determined by the Police Department to be due to factors not associated
with the junkyard operator, junk dealer or scrap processor, the junkyard
operator, junk dealer or scrap processor shall not be charged the
reporting failure fee. Upon correction of the problem, the junkyard
operator, junk dealer or scrap processor shall electronically upload
the required information.
E. Junkyard operators, junk dealers or scrap processors shall report their transactions electronically to the Chief of Police as required by Subsections
A and
B from and after the following dates:
(1) For each business for which a junkyard operator, junk dealer or scrap processor license is first obtained on or after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this section, effective upon commencing business or one month after the effective date of the initial rules adopted pursuant to Subsection
B, whichever is later;
(2) For each business for which a junkyard operator, junk dealer or scrap processor license was first obtained before the effective date of the ordinance codified in this section, no later than one month after the effective date of the initial rules adopted pursuant to Subsection
B;
(3) The Chief of Police may, for good cause shown, grant a junkyard operator,
junk dealer or scrap processor an extension of the otherwise applicable
deadline to a date not later than six months after the effective date
of this Ordinance No. 2012-120. An extension may only be granted upon
written application by the junkyard operator, junk dealer or scrap
processor; upon a showing that the junkyard operator, junk dealer
or scrap processor is making satisfactory progress toward acquiring
computer programs and equipment to make the necessary transmission;
and upon agreement by the junkyard operator, junk dealer or scrap
processor to pay to the City a daily reporting fee of $10 to offset
the Rochester Police Department's costs in converting the data from
paper format into electronic form.
F. If, after establishing the format and requirements for the transmission
of computerized reports of transactions, the Chief of Police alters
the required format, junkyard operators, junk dealers or scrap processors
shall be given at least 30 days to comply with the new format requirements.
Should any section, paragraph, sentence, clause
or phrase in this chapter be declared unconstitutional or invalid
for any reason, the remainder of the chapter shall not be affected
thereby and shall remain in full force and effect, and to this end,
the provisions of this chapter are declared to be severable.