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AN ORDINANCE
Amending Chapter 39 - Sections 39-1
to 39•-7 inclusive, of the Code of the
City of Evanston 1957, as amended,
Regulating and Licensing Junk Dealers,
Junk Peddlers, Junk Wagons and Second
Hand Dealers.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY.OF EVANSTON,
COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS:
SECTION 1: That Chapter 39 - Sections 39-1
to 39-7 inc., of the Code of the
City of Evanston, 19579 "Second Hand and Junk Dealers" as amended,.
be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows:
Section 39-1 - Licenses; It shall be unlawful for any
• person, firm or corporation to operate a junk yard, junk
store, or conduct the business of a junk dealer, or junk
peddler, or operate junk wagons as defined herein, and it
shall be unlawful for all second-hand dealers or antique
dealers as defined herein to engage in business within
the city without first having obtained a license for that
purpose, as provided in this chapter.
Section 39-2 - Definitions°
(1) The word "junk" is herein defined to mean and
include old iron, brass, copper, tin, lead or other
similar basic materials, and rope, bags, rags, waste
paper, paper clippings; scraps of woolens and other
textiles, rubber, glass and empty bottles and all
articles discarded or no longer_ used and consisting
of any one or more of the materials herein mentioned.
(2) Junk Dealer, shall mean and include every person, firm
or corporation having an established place of business
in the city, defined herein as a junk yard or junk
store, and engaged in the business of buying, selling,
bartering or exchanging any of the things defined
herein as junk, whether dealing at wholesale or at
retail.
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(3) Junk Peddler, shall mean every person who uses a
junk wagon as defined herein and travels from place
to place within the city for the purpose of purchasing
junk or makes a business of purchasing junk from
anyone who desires to sell it and carries it away
upon purchasing it.
(4) Junk Yard, shall mean any yard, place or enclosure
where junk is bought, sold or exchanged.
(5) Junk Store, shall mean any store, shop, warehouse
or building where junk is bought, sold, bartered or
exchanged.
(6) Junk Wagon, shall mean every truck, wagon, motor
vehicle, pushcart or other vehicle used by a junk
dealer or peddler in the collection, disposition or
transportation of junk from one place to another,
within the city.
(7) Second Hand Dealer or Antique Dealer, shall mean any
person who carries on the business of dealing in the
• purchase, barter, exchange or sale of second hand
furniture, je✓✓elry, clothing and miscellaneous articles
of personal property not defined herein as junk,
whether advertised or offered for sale, barter or
exchange as second hand or as antiques.
Section 39-3° The City Manager may grant a license to such
persons as shall produce to him satisfactory evidence of good
character to exercise or carry on the business of dealing
in the purchase and sale of second hand articles or to main-
tain and operate a junk business, a junk store or a junk
yard, or to operate as a junk peddler or to operate a junk
wagon within the city, and upon the payment to the City
Collector the license fees provided for under Section 39-4,
and the posting of bond as provided under Section 39-5.
A junk peddler or junk wagon license shall not authorize
a junk peddler or one licensed to operate a junk wagon to
operate as a junk dealer; provided, that a junk dealer may
employ such number of junk peddlers as he may obtain junk
vehicle licenses for, but in such case it shall be necessary
for the junk peddler to have a license as such junk peddler
in addition to the license for the vehicle.
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Section 39-4 - License Fees; (a) The annual license fee
to operate the business of a junk dealer, junk store, or
junk yard, shall be $200.
(b) The annual license fee for junk peddlers or to operate
a junk wagon, shall be $25.
(c) The annual license fee for a second hand dealer or
antique dealer, shall be $50.
Section 39-5 - Bond: Every person, firm or corporation
licensed under this chapter shall at the time of receiving
such license, give a bond to the city with sufficient sureties
to be approved by the City Clerk and approved as to form by
the Corporation Counsel, in the penal sum of $500 conditioned
for the due observance of all such ordinances of the city as
may be in force or adopted at any time during the continuance
of such license.
Section 39-6 - Dealing with Minors! It shall be unlawful for
any person, firm or corporation having a license from the
city under the provisions of this chapter to purchase or
• receive from minors without the written consent of their
parents or guardians, any articles of property whatsoever.
Section 39-7 - Plumbinq and Electrical Fixtures- No individual,
firm or corporation being licensed as a junk dealer or
operating a junk yard, junk store, junk wagon or a junk
peddler, or a second hand dealer, shall purchase from any
person except from duly certified plumbers, electricians,
licensed peddlers or the owners of buildings from which the
material is taken, any lead or metal pipe, faucets, boilers
or other plumbing material or electric wiring or fixtures.
repealed.
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SECTION 20 All ordinances or parts of ordinances
in conflict herewith are hereby
SECTION 3: This ordinance shall be in full
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force and effect from and after its
passage, approval. and publication, according to law.
INTRODUCED
December
4
, 1961
ADOPTED
December
11
, 1961
APPROVED December 11
/s/ Paul F. Gorby
Mayor Pro Tem
ATTEST-,
/s/ Maurice F. Brown
City Clerk
Approved as to form; /s/ Rex A. Bullinger
Corporation Counsel
ME
, 1961