(a) Junk dealer is any person, partnership, firm, association or corporation, or any agent officer, member or employee thereof, engaged in the business of keeping a yard or place of business where there is bought and sold or kept for sale. old, used or secondhand materials, ropes, rags, bones, paper, rubber, worn out or discarded materials, glass, bottles, vehicles, vehicle parts, airplane components and accessories, machinery and machinery parts.
(b) Junk yard is any place, lot or tract of ground in the city where any of the articles named in part (a) of this section are kept and includes any place, lot or tract on which there is kept any number of one or more discarded automotive machinery or vehicles of any kind or any parts thereof.
(Code 1963, 8-300s; Code 2017)
It shall be unlawful for any junk dealer to maintain, operate or conduct a junk yard within the corporate limits of the City of Satanta without first procuring a license the ref or as hereinafter provided.
(Code 1963, 8-300s; Code 2017)
(a) Any junk dealer desiring a license to maintain, operate or conduct a junk yard within the City of Satanta shall make application therefor to the Governing Body in writing, which application shall contain the following information:
(1) The name of the applicant and his address if for a partnership or association, the name of each partner or associate and the address of each and if for a corporation, the name thereof, the names of the officers thereof and their address, the state in which said corporation is incorporated, the place of its principal place of business and if a foreign corporation, the date of its qualification to do business in the State of Kansas.
(2) The particular location for which each license is desired.
(3) The name of the owner or owners of the premises on which the junk yard is to be located.
(4) A plat of the premises to be occupied and notations as to location of buildings and to the fence, give kind, size and height as hereinafter provided.
(b) An application will be required for each location for a junk yard desired and each application must be accompanied by the license fee hereinafter prescribed. A license shall be granted when the Governing Body shall be satisfied that the business of the proposed junk yard will be carried on in a manner not to become a nuisance under the laws of Kansas, or the same shall not be hazardous to the health and general welfare of the inhabitants of the city and the applicant junk dealer is capable of carrying out in full the rules and regulations as provided herein for the maintenance, operation or conducting of a junk yard: Provided, That no license shall be granted to any applicant or junk dealer who is violation of Section 8-306 of this article or any ordinance of the city relating to the prevention of nuisances safety of the inhabitants of the city of the use of the streets and sidewalks thereof.
(Code 1963, 8-300s; Code 2017)
The license required by Section 8-302 of this article shall be issued upon payment of a fee of Five Dollars ($5) to the City of Satanta. The license shall be renewed annually. The full amount of the license fee shall be required to be paid regardless of the time of the year in which the application is made and the licensee shall only be authorized to operate under the license for the remainder of the calendar year in which the License is issued.
(Code 1963, 8-300s; Code 2017)
The premises of each junk yard shall be enclosed by a chain link wire fence or a fence of comparable quality and design; said fence to be a minimum of six (6) feet in height. All entrances onto the premises to be equipped with gates Provided, That stone, bricks, haydite blocks, Portland cement, concrete, corrugated iron and iron pipe may be used as a substitute building material The type and design of any fence shall first be approved by the Governing Body.
(Code 1963, 8-300s; Code 2017)
It shall be unlawful for any junk dealer maintaining, operating or conducting a junk yard to perm.it the following:
(a) The storing and/ or piling of any of the articles mentioned in Section 5-101(a) of this article off and adjacent to the premises of the junk yard and/ or outside the fence surrounding the junk yard.
(b) The burning of rubber, oil and grease of worn out or discarded vehicles, vehicle parts, airplane components and accessories, machinery and machinery parts, and the burning of vehicle upholstery whether attached to or detached from said vehicle on the premises it any time. Any other types of burning shall be done only in an approved type incinerator as certified by the Fire Marshal of the city.
(Code 1963, 8-300s; Code 2017)
It shall be the duty of owners or operators of premises used as a junk yard to keep and maintain the same in a clean sanitary and in as neat a condition as such business shall reasonably allow. Effective means: for the elimination of rodents and vermin commonly infesting junk yards shall be administered by all licensees.
(Code 1963, 8-300s; Code 2017)
Any license issued under the provisions of this article may be revoked by the Governing Body at any time for cause. Prior to the revocation of such license, a hearing will be afforded to the licensee by the Governing Body, notice of at least ten (10) days in advance being given before said hearing.
(Code 1963, 8-300s; Code 2017)