Concerning Dealers in Scrap or Junk Materials, and Providing for the Licensing and Regulation

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ARTICLE II LICENSING Section 1. LICENSE REQUIRRF mTS. No personp firm or corporation shall engage in the scrap material business or hold forth as a dealer in scrap materials or keep or maintain a scrap yard within the corporate limits of the City of South Bend without first procuring from said Board an annual license fc the conduct of such business and the maintenance and operation of such a scrap yard. Section 2. LICENSE FEES. The fee for such annual license shall be Twenty -five Dollars ($25) payable to said Board at the time of the issuance of such license. Such annual license shall be effective from January 1 to 31 of the year for which the same is issued. Section 3. LICENSE APPLICATION. (a) Application by an existing and licensed scrap dealer for an original license hereunder for the location previously used and occupied by applicant for such purpose shall be made to said Board not later than sixty days after the effective date of this Ordinance in writing upon forms preser and furnished by the Board. Such a license shall be issued forthwith by the Board to any existing scrap dealer. (b) Application for renewal license subsequent to the original obtained hereunder shall be made within thirty days from the date of of the preceding annual license. Such a license shall be issued forthwith by the Board to any existing scrap dealers. (c) Application for a license hereunder by any person, firm or cor- poration for a scrap yard at a location not previously licensed hereunder, shal be accompanied by a petition consenting to the maintenance and operation of a scrap' at the location specified in the application for such license which petition shall be signed personally by a least two - thirds (2/3) of the property owners within four hundred (400) feet of the property lines of such proposed scrap yard. Such application shall also be accompanied by a drawing or diagram showing the property lines of said proposed scrap yard. (2)