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(6) Purchase of valuable metal means acquiring a valuable metal product or products by a valuable
<br /> metal dealer in a single transaction of less than one hundred dollars ($100.00), but does not
<br /> include purchases between scrap metal processing facilities which are defined in IC 8-12-1-3(d).
<br /> (7) Recycling operators means any person who keeps or maintains a yard, covered or uncovered,
<br /> space or place, within the City for the purpose of, and engaging in the business of, buying or
<br /> selling, exchanging or storing of old or used materials, junk, scrap metals, or scrap materials.
<br /> (8) Scrap metal dealer means any person who keeps and maintains a yard, covered or uncovered,
<br /> space or place, within the City for the purpose of, and engaging in the business of, buying or
<br /> selling, exchanging or storing of old or used metals, tinware, brass, copper, iron, lumber, old
<br /> automobiles, or any other such type of material commonly called and referred to as "scrap
<br /> metals."
<br /> (9) Scrap metals include insulated and uninsulated metallic cables.
<br /> (10) Scrap or junk materials means any used metal, both ferrous and nonferrous, lumber, old
<br /> automobiles, bottles, old glassware, old tinware, paper, rags, iron, lumber or any other such
<br /> materials commonly called and referred to as "scrap or junk materials"; with aluminum beverage
<br /> cans or tin cans being excluded.
<br /> (11) Scrap or junkyard means any yard, area, space or place, either covered or uncovered, enclosed
<br /> or unenclosed, maintained and actually used for the purpose of the accumulation or the buying
<br /> or selling, storing or exchanging of any such scrap metals,junk or scrap materials.
<br /> (12) Transfer station means a place or location where scrap metals, junk, trash or garbage or scrap
<br /> materials are deposited and then transferred in larger quantities by a different carrier, which are
<br /> governed by extensive state and federal regulations and further regulated by the Indiana
<br /> Department of Environmental Management(IDEM), the Solid Waste Management Board and the
<br /> Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and exempt from the provisions of this Section.
<br /> (13) Valuable metal means any product made of metal that readily may be resold. The term:
<br /> • (1) includes metal bossies and small component motor vehicle parts;and
<br /> • (2) does not include the following:
<br /> • (A) A beverage can.
<br /> • (B) Used jewelry regulated under IC 24-4-13.
<br /> • (C) Precious metal regulated under IC 24-4-19.
<br /> (14) Valuable metal dealer means any individual, firm, corporation, limited liability company, or
<br /> partnership engaged in the business of purchasing and reselling valuable metal either at a
<br /> permanently established place of business or in connection with a business of an itinerant nature,
<br /> including junk shops, junk yards, junk stores, auto wreckers, scrap metal dealers or processors,
<br /> salvage yards, collectors of or dealers in junk, and junk carts or trucks. The term includes a core
<br /> buyer. The term does not include a person who purchases a vehicle and obtains title to the
<br /> vehicle.
<br /> (b) Rule-making authority of Board of Public Works. The Board of Public Works may have the authority to
<br /> adopt rules and regulations related to the monitoring and enforcement of this Section, pursuant to the
<br /> following procedure:
<br /> (1) The Board shall give at least two (2) weeks'written notice of the meeting date, time and location
<br /> at which any rules or regulations may be considered for adoption. Said notice shall be sent to the
<br /> City Clerk, Common Council Members, Fire Prevention Bureau, and the Neighborhood Code
<br /> Enforcement Office; and such notice must be conspicuously posted on the City's website.
<br /> (2) The Board shall enclose a verbatim copy of all proposed rules and regulations with each notice
<br /> sent pursuant to this subsection; and must conspicuously post such proposed rules and
<br /> regulations verbatim on the City's website.
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