[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Angola
as Ch. 65, Art. VII, of the 1974 Code. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Abandoned vehicles — See Ch. 224.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the
following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
A passenger automobile, truck, tractor-truck, trailer, bus, motorcycle
or other vehicle, however propelled, as well as tractors, bulldozers, and
similar machinery and equipment.
Any person who has been duly licensed by the State of New York as
a used car dealer and who is selling, exchanging or otherwise disposing of
used or secondhand motor vehicles in the Village, where said used or secondhand
motor vehicles have not been acquired by said person in a trade-in transaction
arising from and out of the sale or disposition at retail of new motor vehicles
in the Village or acquired under dealers' franchises with manufacturers, shall
be deemed to be engaged in the business of dealing in secondhand motor vehicles.
A.
No person shall engage in the business of dealing in
secondhand motor vehicles in the Village, as defined herein, without first
obtaining a license as hereinafter provided, which license shall be known
and described as a "used car dealer's license."
B.
No license for the establishment of a used car lot or
for a used car dealer's license shall be issued unless the applicant shall
have complied with the provisions of the Village of Angola Municipal Code.
[Added by L.L. No. 5-1978]
Any person desiring to engage in the business of dealing in secondhand
motor vehicles shall make application to the Village Clerk, in writing, for
such license. Said application shall set forth in full the name or names and
residences of such applicant or applicants, if an individual or firm, or if
a corporation the full name of the corporation and the location and address
of such corporation and the names of the principal officers of said corporation,
and in all cases the location where it is desired to locate or maintain and
operate a used car lot. After the filing of said application, the same shall
be referred to the Town of Evans Police Department for investigation; and
upon the investigation, a report shall be filed with the Village Clerk. The
Mayor shall issue a license to the applicant or applicants, provided that
the report of the Town of Evans Police Department is found to be satisfactory,
and provided further that the license fee hereinabove provided for is paid.
Any person engaged in the business of dealing in secondhand motor vehicles,
or his manager for him, shall keep a record of all motor vehicles offered
for sale, exchange or disposal to the public, which record shall show the
make of said motor vehicle, the year of its manufacture, its serial number
and the engine number, which record shall always be kept available for the
Town of Evans Police Department or any police officer within the Village and
open to their inspection at any time. It shall be the further duty of every
such person dealing in secondhand motor vehicles to immediately report to
the Town of Evans Police Department the presence in his place of business
of any motor vehicle on which the serial or engine number has been defaced
or altered.
A.
The surface of a used car lot shall be covered with concrete,
asphalt, macadam, or similar paving; and such used car lot shall be kept clean
and free from dust and refuse at all times.
B.
Each car lot shall have erected thereon a suitable building in conformity with Chapter 245, Zoning, and other applicable provisions of this Code, which, as a minimum, shall provide heating and toilet facilities.
C.
No sign or part thereof shall contain or consist of banners,
posters, pennants, ribbons, streamers, spinners, or similar moving, fluttering
or revolving devices. The said devices, as well as strings of lights, shall
not be used for the purposes of advertising or attracting attention when not
part of a sign. In no event shall an illuminated sign or lighting device be
so placed or directed so as to permit the beams and illumination therefrom
to be directed or beamed upon a public street, highway, sidewalk or adjacent
premises so as to cause glare or reflection that may constitute a traffic
hazard or nuisance.
D.
Screening. In any district, all areas designated or used
as used car lots shall be screened with either a wall, a solid fence or an
open fence with evergreens to a height of at least five feet above grade level
on all sides where the adjacent land is in a residential district or use.
Such screening shall not be required within 15 feet of the intersection of
a driveway with the right-of-way line of a public street.
E.
Automobile parts. All automobile parts and dismantled
vehicles are to be stored within a building, and no major repair work is to
be performed outside a building.
