Following a final review by city legal counsel, after having been tabled last month, Holton City Commissioners this week define terms, and approve regulation, related to scrap metal dealers in the city limits.
City Manager Bret Bauer says the ordinance adopted models that recently put in place by the State of Kansas, pertaining to licenses and registration(Play Audio :25 seconds)
Approval for the ordinance was granted unanimously.
It oversees the business legally defined as “buying and dealing in regulated scrap metal.”
It includes the collection and resell of any item that falls under the definition of “scrap metal,” including removal of such an item from a neighbor's property and reselling it elsewhere.
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