[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee
of the Township of Lumberton 10-21-1991 as Ord. No. 1991-14. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any location, yard, covered or uncovered, or place in the
township kept, maintained or used for the purpose of buying and selling,
exchanging or storing rags, old metals, old bottles, old vehicles
unfit for reconditioning, dismantled old motor vehicles or parts thereof,
used motor vehicles or parts thereof, used motor vehicle parts, motor
vehicle junk, old glassware, old plumbing fixtures, old lumber, unregistered
motor vehicles unfit for reconditioning or any other material commonly
called "junk."
No person shall operate or maintain or establish
a junkyard or engage in the business of keeping a junkyard within
the township.
A.
Any person who shall have continuously operated or
maintained a junkyard or who has continuously engaged in the business
of keeping junk prior to the enactment of this chapter and who continues
said activity without interruption following enactment of this chapter
shall be excepted from the provisions of this chapter, provided, however,
that in the event anyone so excepted shall cease to continuously operate
or maintain a junkyard or engage in the business of keeping junk shall
not thereafter be permitted to reestablish or again operate or maintain
said junkyard or to again engage in the business of keeping a junkyard
within the township.
B.
The exception provided for herein shall apply without
the necessity of obtaining a license as heretofore required so long
as the operator of said junkyard has register with the Township Clerk/Administrator
and identified the location of the junkyard activity; provided, however,
that no business shall be conducted at any junkyard before 7:00 a.m.
or after 9:00 p.m. During the time the junkyard is closed, all doors
and other openings affording access thereto shall be securely locked.
All burning of junk or other waste matter that
may be stored at or otherwise accumulated in connection with any junkyard
is prohibited.
A.
With regard to those junkyards expressly permitted
as exceptions, proper precautions shall be taken to prevent rats,
mice or other vermin or insects from being harbored or bred in said
junkyard.
B.
All junk, particularly old cars, shall be so placed
and arranged that fire lanes at least 20 feet wide are always open
affording ingress and egress to all areas of the junkyard for fire-fighting
equipment.
[Added 8-3-1992 by Ord.
No. 1992-6; amended 12-5-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-19]
Any person, firm, corporation, association or legal party whatsoever who shall violate, or authorize or procure a violation, or cause to be violated, any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable as provided under § 1-11 governing general penalty provisions. If the state requires, limits or expands potential minimum or maximum penalties in contradiction to this chapter, state law shall apply.
