[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Mansfield
6-6-1949. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
A place, location, yard, covered or uncovered, or place, in the Township
of Mansfield, kept, maintained or used for the purpose of buying and selling,
exchanging or storing rags, old metals, old bottles, old glassware, old plumbing
fixtures, old lumber, unregistered motor vehicles unfit for reconditioning,
dismantled old motor vehicles or parts thereof, used motor vehicle parts,
motor vehicle junk or any other old material commonly called "junk."
No person or persons, firm or corporation shall operate or maintain
or establish a junkyard or engage in the business of keeping a junkyard within
the Township of Mansfield without having first applied for and obtained license
so to do from the Township Committee of the Township of Mansfield, in the
County of Burlington.
No license shall be granted except upon written application therefor
made upon forms to be obtained from the Township Clerk and unless said junkyard
shall comply with all of the provisions of this chapter and any other applicable
ordinance of this municipality or laws or regulations of the State of New
Jersey or any department thereof.
Each license so granted shall authorize the operation of the junkyard
therein described until December 31 of the year in which it is issued, and
may, at any time upon 10 days' notice and after hearing thereon, be suspended
or revoked by the Township Committee for failure to comply with any of the
provisions of this chapter.
The annual fee for each license shall be $500, and no part thereof shall
be prorated.
Each such applicant shall furnish with his application a bond with corporate
surety conditioned for faithful observation of all the provisions of this
chapter, in the sum of $5,000.
No license shall be granted for any junkyard that is not operated within
a building of concrete block or similar fireproof construction and roofed
over and provided with substantial doors and secure locks.
No license shall be granted for any junkyard located within 500 feet
of any dwelling or other building.
Proper precaution shall be taken to prevent rats, mice or other vermin
or insects from being harbored or bred in said junkyard.
No business shall be conducted at a junkyard before 8:00 a.m. or after
6:00 p.m., and such junkyards shall be closed entirely on Sunday. During the
time or times when said junkyards shall be closed, all doors and other openings
affording access thereto shall be securely locked.
Any junk or other waste matter burned in connection with any junkyard
shall be burned in closed receptacles with chimneys of an adequate height
so that smoke or noxious fumes or odors emanating therefrom may be dissipated
without annoyance to the residents in the neighborhood. Each such chimney
shall be provided with screens or other devices to prevent the escape of embers,
sparks or ashes therefrom.
No junk shall be permitted to accumulate or be placed, stored or deposited
in the open, but shall be only stored, accumulated or placed within the building
constituting the junkyard as heretofore provided.
Every persons, firm or corporation licensed under this chapter shall
at all times maintain the licensed premises in a safe and sightly manner with
due regard to the public safety or health of persons or property in the vicinity
in which the junkyard is located.
No junkyard shall occupy an area greater than 3,000 square feet.
Any and all licenses issued under this chapter shall be subject to such
reasonable rules and regulations as may be made from time to time by the Township
Committee to further effectuate the provisions hereof for the proper operation
and regulation of the places of business named in such license.
[Amended 5-5-1988 by Ord.
No. 1988-11]
Any person, firm or corporation who violates any of the provisions of
this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not exceeding
$1,000 or to imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding 90 days
or to a period of community service not exceeding 90 days, or to such combination
of punishments as the Municipal Judge may, in his or her discretion, deem
appropriate and just; and each violation of any of the provisions of this
chapter and each day the same is violated shall be deemed to be a separate
and distinct offense.
If any section, clause or provision of this chapter shall be adjudged
invalid, such adjudication shall apply only to the section, clause or provision
so adjudged to be invalid, and the rest of this chapter shall remain valid
and effective.
The provisions of this chapter shall be construed as in addition to
and not in place of any other requirements of any other ordinances, statutes
or regulations of this municipality or of the State of New Jersey or any department
or agency thereof.
This chapter shall take effect immediately after final publication and
passage according to law.
