For the purposes of this Article, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
JUNK
Old iron, steel, brass, copper, tin, lead or other base metals;
old cordage, ropes, rags, fibers or fabrics; old rubber; old bottles
or other glass; bones; wastepaper and other waste or discarded material
which might be prepared to be used again in some form; any or all
of the foregoing; and motor vehicles no longer used as such to be
used for scrap metal or stripping of parts.
JUNK DEALER
A person who operates a junkyard, as defined herein, within
the city.
JUNKYARD
A yard, lot or place, covered or uncovered, outdoors, containing
junk as defined hereinbefore.
PERSON
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
All persons operating or maintaining a junkyard must enclose
such portion thereof as faces any public street or highway by a solid
masonry or frame wall or fence. Said wall or said fence must be closed
and must be of a height of 10 feet above the sidewalk grade at the
property line. If the fence is built of wood, the same must be painted
and thereafter maintained by the owner or operator of the junkyard.
Any gate in said fence or wall cannot be over 25 feet in maximum width,
and said gate must also be of a solid construction to the height of
10 feet as aforesaid and must be kept closed, except when trucks or
other traffic are entering or leaving the junkyard.
No junk shall be piled higher than 10 feet in height and shall
be arranged so that the same cannot be seen from ground level across
the street from where said junk is piled or stored.
The wall or fence and gates provided for in this Article must
be built according to the Building Code of the City of Atlantic City, and permits for the construction thereof must be obtained
from the Superintendent of Buildings of the City of Atlantic City.
All persons operating or maintaining a junkyard must have a
wall or fence erected as required by this article within 200 calendar
days after the effective date of this article.
[Amended 2-1-1989 by Ord. No. 2-1989; 11-25-2008 by Ord. No. 104]
Any person violating any of the terms and provisions of this
article shall, upon conviction in the Municipal Court of the City
of Atlantic City, be punished for each offense by a fine not to exceed
$2,000 or by imprisonment for any term not exceeding 90 days in the
county jail or in any place provided by the municipality for the detention
of prisoners, or both.