§ 5-21-1. Local licensing — Fees — Penalty — Record of transaction. (a) The city or town council of any city or town is authorized to provide by ordinance for the issuing and revocation at pleasure of licenses to all persons selling, purchasing, bartering, and dealing in junk, old metals, and any other second-hand articles, […]
§ 5-21-2. Hearing and objections by neighboring landowners. (a) The local licensing authority of a city or town, before granting a license under this chapter to keep a shop or storehouse for the reception of any junk, old metals, or other second-hand articles or to establish, operate, or maintain an automobile junkyard, in any location […]
§ 5-21-3. “Automobile junkyard” defined. As used in this chapter, “automobile junkyard” means a place where one or more unserviceable, discarded, worn-out, or junked automobiles, or bodies, engines, tires, parts, or accessories of junked automobiles are gathered together. History of Section.P.L. 1965, ch. 138, § 1.
§ 5-21-4. Conditions to licensing of automobile junkyard. No license shall be granted for an automobile junkyard under § 5-21-1 unless: (1) It is to be operated and maintained entirely within a building; (2) It is to be operated and maintained exclusively for the purpose of salvaging the value as scrap of the material collected, […]
§ 5-21-5. Misdemeanor to operate automobile junkyard in violation of § 5-21-4 — Enforcement. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter except § 5-21-6, it is a misdemeanor to operate or maintain an automobile junkyard unless: (1) It is to be operated and maintained entirely within a building; (2) It is to be operated […]
§ 5-21-6. Existing licensed automobile junkyards. The provisions of §§ 5-21-4(1), (2), (3)(ii), and (3)(iii) and 5-21-5(a)(1), (a)(2), (a)(3)(ii), and (a)(3)(iii) do not apply to any automobile junkyard in existence and having a valid license issued pursuant to § 5-21-1 on May 6, 1966. History of Section.P.L. 1965, ch. 138, § 1; P.L. 1966, ch. […]
§ 5-21-7. Severability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this chapter or their application to any person or circumstance is, for any reason, adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, that judgment does not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of this chapter or its application to other persons or […]
§ 5-21-8. Warranty to accompany sales of electrical appliances. Any dealer licensed under this chapter to sell second-hand electrical appliances is required to provide the purchaser of the electrical appliance with a three-day warranty of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose as defined by title 6A. The dealer is not allowed to exclude that […]
