Wheatland Municipal Code Ch. 5.24 Junk Dealers

No person shall operate as a junk dealer in the city without first obtaining a license. Such license shall be applied for through the collector.

(Ord. 300 § 309(E)(I), 1985)

As used in this chapter:

"Junk"

means any and all secondhand and used machinery and scrap iron, including automobiles, tools, implements or parts or portions thereof, and any and all secondhand and used furniture or other personal property, other than livestock, or parts or portions thereof.

"Junk dealer"

includes any person engaged in the business of buying, selling and dealing in junk, any person purchasing, gathering, collecting, soliciting or traveling about from place to place procuring junk, and any person operating, carrying on, conducting or maintaining a junkyard or place where junk is gathered together and stored or kept for shipment, sale or transfer.

"Junk yard"

includes any yard, plot, space, enclosure, building or any other place where junk is collected, stored, gathered together and kept.

(Ord. 300 § 309(E)(II), 1985)

This chapter shall not apply to any of the following, except as otherwise provided:

A. Secondhand furniture merchants;

B. Pawnbrokers;

C. Secondhand car dealers or merchants in connection with automobile and motor vehicle sales agencies but not carried on and conducted with a junkyard;

D. Persons engaged in the business of selling new automobile tires or batteries or other equipment taking in part payment used articles of the same kind and thereafter selling or disposing of the same;

E. Secondhand oil well supply and equipment dealers not conducting or carrying on their business in connection with a junkyard;

F. Secondhand clothing merchants and ragpickers.

(Ord. 300 § 309(E)(III), 1985)

The junkyard material shall be surrounded by a ten-foot-high opaque fence.

(Ord. 300 § 309(E)(IV), 1985)