Table of Contents Sec. 21-9. Definitions. As used in this chapter, "junk dealer" means any person
who engages in business as a dealer and trader in junk, old metals, scrap, rags, waste
paper or other secondhand articles and "junk yard" means any place in or on which old
metal, glass, paper, cordage or other waste or discarded or secondhand material, which
has not been a part, or is not intended to be a part, of any motor vehicle, is stored or
deposited. Sec. 21-10. Town ordinances. Registration with Department of Motor Vehicles. Any town may make reasonable ordinances with reference to the licensing of junk
dealers engaged in business therein, including the imposition of a license fee in an
amount to be fixed by the selectmen at a sum not less than two dollars nor more than
ten dollars a year, for each team or vehicle used in connection with such business, for
the privilege of carrying on such business. Each such junk dealer shall register with the
Department of Motor Vehicles, stating his name, residence and post-office address, and
the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall issue to him a certificate of such registration,
which certificate shall be exhibited by such dealer to the selectmen or other authority
to whom he makes application in any town for a license to carry on business therein.
Except as otherwise provided by special act, and except where there exists a duly constituted local zoning or planning commission, any town, city or borough may, by ordinance,
regulate the establishment, location or conduct of any junk yard within its territorial
limits. Sec. 21-11. License. Record. Weekly report. Any person desiring to engage in
business as a dealer and trader in secondhand bicycles, junk, metals or other secondhand
articles in any town, city or borough shall make application to the selectmen of such
town, the mayor or chief of police of such city or the warden of such borough, as the
case may be, for a license to transact such business within the limits of such town, city
or borough, and the selectmen of such town, the mayor or chief of police of such city
or the warden of such borough shall issue such licenses to such suitable persons as apply
therefor and may revoke any such license for cause; but the selectmen shall not grant
any such license for the carrying on of such business within the limits of any city or
borough, and the persons so licensed shall pay, for the benefit of any such town, city
or borough, to the authority granting the license, not less than two nor more than ten
dollars therefor, to be determined by the authority granting the license, and for renewal
of such license ten dollars per year. Each license granted under the provisions of this
section shall designate the place where such business is to be carried on, and shall
continue for one year unless sooner revoked. Each such dealer shall keep a book in which
shall be written in English a description of such articles and the name and residence and
a general description of the person from whom, and the time and hour when, such
property was received; and such book, and all articles of property mentioned therein,
and the place where such business is carried on, may be examined at any time by the
selectmen of the town or any person designated by them, and, in any city or borough,
by the chief of police of such city or borough or any person by him designated. Each
such dealer shall make, weekly, sworn statements of all his transactions under such
license, describing the goods received and setting forth the name and residence and a
description of the person from whom such goods were received, to the chief of police
in the case of cities or boroughs and, in other cases, to the town clerk of the town in
which such junk dealer resides, and shall keep all goods at least five days after the filing
of such statement. Sec. 21-12. Display of license. Each such dealer doing business in this state shall
display, on each vehicle used by him in such business, the name of the person conducting
such business, the number of the license under which such business is being conducted
and the name of the municipality where such license was granted, which names and
number shall be painted upon the outside of the body of such vehicle in letters not less
than four inches in height and two inches in width. Sec. 21-13. Penalty. Any person who engages in the business of a junk dealer
without complying with the provisions of this chapter relating to said business shall be
fined not more than fifty dollars or imprisoned not more than three months or both.
Sec. 21-9. Definitions.
Sec. 21-10. Town ordinances. Registration with Department of Motor Vehicles.
Sec. 21-11. License. Record. Weekly report.
Sec. 21-12. Display of license.
Sec. 21-13. Penalty.
Sec. 21-14. Exemptions.
(1949 Rev., S. 4647; 1953, S. 2330d.)
Cited. 171 C. 565, 572.
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(1949 Rev., S. 4648; 1953, S. 2331d; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 89; P.A. 73-14, S. 1, 2.)
History: P.A. 73-14 substituted motor vehicle department for state police department where appearing; (Revisor's
note: In 1997 references throughout the general statutes to "Motor Vehicle(s) Commissioner" and "Motor Vehicle(s)
Department" were replaced editorially by the Revisors with "Commissioner of Motor Vehicles" or "Department of Motor
Vehicles", as the case may be, for consistency with customary statutory usage).
Cited. 155 C. 284.
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(1949 Rev., S. 4649; 1972, P.A. 223, S. 29.)
History: 1972 act provided for fee of ten dollars per year for renewal of license.
See Sec. 13a-123e re restrictions of location of junkyard business.
Purpose of registration; employee of dealer not within statute. 80 C. 327. Constitutionality upheld and statute interpreted.
Official determines suitability of person but has no further discretion. 140 C. 637. Writ of mandamus to compel selectmen
to issue license would not lie where selectmen had not considered question of plaintiff's suitability for license since issuance
of such license is discretionary with selectmen. If there is a duty enforceable on board by way of mandamus, it is the duty
to act, either affirmatively or negatively, on application properly presented to it under this section. 155 C. 283.
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(1949 Rev., S. 4650.)
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(1949 Rev., S. 4651.)
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