[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Charleroi 6-11-1969 by Ord. No. 719; readopted 10-8-1991 by Ord. No. 873 as Ch. 65 of the 1991 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
A motor vehicle that is inoperable, left unattended, without
a current registration or inspection certificate on private property
for a period of 30 days or longer or on public property, including
Borough streets, ways, alleys and avenues for a period of 48 hours
or longer.
Any discarded material or article, including, but not limited
to, scrap metal, any or all scrap, unused or unlicensed motor vehicles,
trailers or equipment.
Any person who shall be licensed to engage in the business
of collecting, storing or reselling of junk, refuse or abandoned motor
vehicles.
Any area or structure used primarily for the collecting,
storage and sale of junk, refuse or abandoned motor vehicles.[1]
Any garbage, organic waste, paper, rubbish, rags, refuse
or other flammable or nonflammable articles or materials, which have
been discarded from their regular use.
No person except a licensed junk dealer shall keep, store, place
or suffer to remain openly, upon his private premises or upon any
private property or public property any abandoned motor vehicle or
junk which shall be unhoused or ungaraged for a period of time in
excess of six months.
No person, firm or corporation shall keep, store, place, collect
or suffer to remain upon his premises, either private or public, any
refuse at any time in the Borough.
Any person may engage in the business as a junk dealer upon
application to the Borough Secretary and the payment of an initial
license fee of $500, such fee to be for the use of the Borough. Such
license may be renewed annually on or before the first day of January
of each year, upon payment of the sum of $100 for each and every calendar
year thereafter, in which event said junk dealer shall be excluded
from the penal provisions of this chapter.
No person licensed as a junk dealer under the provisions of
this chapter shall keep more than one place of business within the
Borough, nor shall any such person operate upon the streets or roads
of said Borough.
Every junk dealer licensed in the Borough shall constantly maintain
his premises in the manner prescribed as follows:
A.
Fencing. The operator of said salvage yard shall completely enclose
the salvage yard in accordance with state law with a fence or shrubbery
to the height of 6 1/2 feet or more.
B.
Nuisances. Salvage yards shall at all times be maintained so as not
to constitute a nuisance or a menace to the health of the community
or of the residents nearby.
C.
Storage of garbage prohibited. No garbage or other organic waste
and no paper, rubbish, rags or other flammable articles or materials
shall be stored in salvage yards.
D.
Storage of automobiles; draining of gas and oil. Whenever any motor
vehicle shall be received by a salvage yard as junk, all gasoline
and oil shall be drained and removed therefrom.
E.
Hours of salvage yard operation. Salvage yards shall not be open
for business nor shall any work be done therein in connection with
the storage, processing, transportation or removal of junk at any
time on Sunday, nor before 7:00 a.m. or after 6:00 p.m. upon any other
day of the week.
