§ 13-112. Junk dealers or scrap metal processors.

(a)

In construing this section, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1)

Junk means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber, debris, waste, junked, dismantled, or wrecked automobiles or parts thereof, iron, steel, and other old scrap ferrous or nonferrous material.

(2)

Junkyard means an establishment or place of business which is maintained, operated, or used for storing, keeping, buying or selling junk, or for the maintenance or operation of an automobile graveyard, and the term shall include garbage dumps and sanitary fills.

(3)

Junk dealer means any person who is not a traveling junk dealer within the purview of section 13-113, and is engaged in the business of maintaining and operating a junkyard.

(4)

Scrap metal processing plant means an establishment or place of business maintaining and operating machinery and equipment used to process scrap iron, steel and other metals to specifications prescribed by, and for sale to, mills and foundries.

(5)

Scrap metal processor means a person maintaining and operating a scrap metal processing plant.

(6)

Metals means copper, brass, and bronze pipe, piping and tubing and wire which is or can be used for transmission or distribution in a utility or communications system.

(7)

Transmission or distribution means that part of a utility or communications system which extends from the point of origin of such utility or communications system to the service entrance of the consumer or user.

(b)

Every person engaged in business as a scrap metal processor shall pay a business tax of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00).

(c)

Every person engaged in business as a junk dealer shall pay a business tax of one hundred dollars ($100.00).

(Ord. No. 1995-10, § 1, 7-18-95; Ord. No. 2007-1, § 2, 1-16-07)