[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Interlaken 4-6-1945 as Art. V, § 27, of the 1974 Code;
amended in its entirety at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I). Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
No person, persons, firm or corporation shall establish, maintain
or conduct junkyards and/or open-air places of junk or discarded automobiles
or the parts thereof within the Village of Interlaken, New York.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Old iron, steel, brass, copper, tin, lead or other base metals;
old cordage, ropes, rags, fibers or fabrics; old rubber; old bottles
or glass; bones; wastepaper and other waste or discarded material
which might be prepared to be used again in the same or alternate
form; salvage materials, including old wood products; old machinery,
equipment and parts, whether dismantled or not; and motor vehicles,
including trailers and mobile homes no longer used as such, whether
for the purpose of resale of used parts or components therefrom, for
the purpose of reclaiming for use some or all of the materials therein,
whether metal, glass, fabric or otherwise, for the purpose of disposing
of the same or for any other purpose, but junk shall not include materials
or objects held and used by a manufacturing process.
Includes, but is not limited to, an automobile or vehicle
salvage yard; an automobile or vehicle reduction yard; a motor vehicle
junkyard; an automobile or vehicle wrecking establishment; an automobile
or vehicle graveyard; a scrap metal processing yard or facility; a
vehicle dismantling yard or facility; a mechanical disassembly yard
or facility; or any premises, establishment, place of business or
lot, lands or structure, covered or uncovered if outdoors, whether
in connection with another legitimate business or not, which is used
for the collecting, storing, keeping, buying, selling, exchanging,
dismantling, handling, compacting, baling, shredding, processing or
salvaging of junk or salvage. Storage of three or more inoperative
motor vehicles other than in a fully enclosed building shall constitute
a junkyard.
Any person, persons, firm or corporation violating any section
of this chapter shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $250
or by imprisonment for not more than 15 days, or both such fine and
imprisonment. The continuation of an offense against the provisions
of this section shall constitute, for each day the offense is continued,
a separate and distinct violation hereunder.
