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Scrap Metal Dealers, Junk Dealers, Valuable Metal Dealers, and Recycling Operations Ordinance
<br />Substitute Bill No. 12-06
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<br />~ ~ Scrap metal dealer means any person who keeps and maintains a yard, covered or
<br />uncovered, space or place, within the City for the purpose of, and engaging in the business of,
<br />buying or selling, exchanging or storing of old or used metals, tinware, brass, copper, iron, lumber,
<br />old 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 />f4) ~ Scrap or junk materials means any used metal, both ferrous and nonferrous,
<br />lumber, old automobiles, bottles, old glassware, old tinware, paper, rags, iron, lumber or any other
<br />such materials commonly called and referred to as "scrap or junk materials"; with aluminum
<br />beverage cans or tin cans being excluded.
<br />(~} ~ Scrap or junkyard means any yard, area, space or place, either covered or
<br />uncovered, enclosed or unenclosed, maintained and actually used for the purpose of the
<br />accumulation or the buying or selling, storing or exchanging of any such scrap metals, junk or scrap
<br />materials.
<br />{~} ~ Transfer station means a place or location where scrap metals, junk, trash or
<br />garbage or scrap materials are deposited and then transferred in larger quantities by a different
<br />carrier, which are governed by extensive state and federal regulations and further regulated by the
<br />Indiana Department of Environmental Mana ement IDEMI, the Solid Waste Management Board
<br />and the Environmental Protection Ag_enc~(EPA) and exempt from the provisions of this Article.
<br />(13 Valuable metal means any product made of copper, copper alloy, brass, aluminum,
<br />aluminum ally, ferrous metals or nonferrous metals.
<br />(14 Valuable metal dealer means any individual, firm, corporation, limited liability
<br />company, or partnership engaged in the business of purchasing and reselling valuable metal either at
<br />a 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.
<br />(b) Rule-making authority of Board of Public Works. The Board of Public Works may have the
<br />authority to adopt rules and regulations related to the monitoring_and enforcement of this Section,
<br />pursuant to the following procedure:
<br />(1) The Board shall give at least two (2) weeks' written notice of the meeting date, time and
<br />location at which any rules or regulations may be considered for adoption. adapted. Said notice
<br />shall be sent to the City Clerk, Common Council Members, Fire Prevention Bureau, and the
<br />Neighborhood Code Enforcement Office.; and such notice must be conspicuousl}~ posted on the
<br />City's website.
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