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City of Salem, NJ
Salem County
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[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Salem: Art. I, as Ch. XVI, Sec. 16:04, of the 1975 Municipal Code; Art. II, as Ch. XVI, Sec. 16:05, of the 1975 Municipal Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted as Ch. XVI, Sec. 16:04, of the 1975 Municipal Code]
No person or persons, firm or corporation, shall engage in the business of keeping a junkyard, that is, no person or persons, firm or corporation shall keep and maintain a yard covered or uncovered, space or place, in the City of Salem for the purpose of auto wrecking or buying and selling, exchanging or storing cages, cullet, junk stoves and junk refrigerators, junk metals, junk paper or junk of any kind or parts thereof or motor vehicle junk without being licensed to do so by the Council of the City of Salem. A fee of $100 per annum shall be charged for such license, which shall be returned in full if the application is denied or refused by the Council. Inspection reports shall be submitted, prior to issuance of the license, by Chief of Police, Fire Inspector or Fire Chief and Health Officer.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I.
A. 
Such premises shall at all times be kept and maintained by the licensee in a safe and sightly manner, with due regard to the public health and safety of persons and property in the vicinity where the junkyard or sales establishment is located.
B. 
Such premises shall be maintained only so long as the same is fenced on all streets, lanes or alleys by a fence at least six feet in height and not over 10 feet in height and so constructed that the business shall not be visible from the exterior. Said fence shall be painted white or dark green.
C. 
No articles shall be stored in such junkyard in such fashion as they are visible from any street, lane or alley.
A. 
Any applications for permits hereunder shall be made to the City Clerk, in writing, and such applications shall state the location of the premises where said proposed business is to be located and the name or names of the owner or owners and the address of said premises, together with the name and address of the operator of the proposed business. The Clerk shall, at the next meeting of the Council, present the application for approval or disapproval.
B. 
No permit shall be issued for a period of more than one year, and the year shall begin on January 1 of each year.
No junkyard license shall be issued in the City of Salem other than renewal for a junkyard properly licensed and operating at the time of application.
[Amended 10-16-1995 as Ord. No. 95-15; 7-20-2020 by Ord. No. 20-06]
Any person violating this article shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $2,000; or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding 90 days or by a period of community service not exceeding 90 days. Any person who is convicted of violating this article within one year of the date of a previous violation of the same article and who was fined for the previous violation, shall be sentenced by a court to an additional fine as a repeat offender. The additional fine imposed by a court upon a person for a repeated offense shall not be less than the minimum or exceed the maximum fine fixed for a violation of the article, but shall be calculated separately from the fine imposed for the violation of the article.
[Adopted as Ch. XVI, Sec. 16:05, of the 1975 Municipal Code]
A. 
No person or persons shall engage in or carry on the business of purchasing or soliciting the purchasing of or sale of junk, scrap metal, paper or rags, etc., in the City of Salem unless a license as herein provided shall first be obtained.
B. 
The license fee shall be $100 per year, and said license shall not be transferable.
[Amended 10-16-1995 as Ord. No. 95-15]
Application for a license shall be made to the Treasurer of the City of Salem, specifying the name of the party, business address, date of issuance and fee paid. The license shall be issued in duplicate, one copy to be retained by the Treasurer and one given to the licensee.
There shall be no proration of license fee, but such license shall be good from the time issued until December 31 of the year in which it was issued.
[Amended 10-16-1995 as Ord. No. 95-15; 7-20-2020 by Ord. No. 20-06]
Any person violating this article shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $2,000; or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding 90 days or by a period of community service not exceeding 90 days. Any person who is convicted of violating this article within one year of the date of a previous violation of the same article and who was fined for the previous violation, shall be sentenced by a court to an additional fine as a repeat offender. The additional fine imposed by a court upon a person for a repeated offense shall not be less than the minimum or exceed the maximum fine fixed for a violation of the article, but shall be calculated separately from the fine imposed for the violation of the article.