§ 5-21-2 - Hearing and objections by neighboring landowners.
SECTION 5-21-2
§ 5-21-2 Hearing and objections byneighboring landowners. – (a) The local licensing authority of a city or town, before granting a licenseunder 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 maintainan automobile junkyard, in any location not lawfully occupied for that purposeat the time of the application for that license, shall hold a public hearingnotice of which shall be posted at least seven (7) days but not more thanfourteen (14) days prior to the hearing in not less than two (2) public placesin that city or town and in a newspaper of general circulation in that city ortown where the shop, storehouse, or junkyard is to be established, operated, ormaintained. Before the local licensing authority posts or publishes a notice ofa hearing, the local licensing authority shall collect from the applicant forthe license a fee of ten dollars ($10.00), plus the cost of posting andpublishing the notice.
(b) No license shall be granted under this chapter to thekeeper of any shop or storehouse for the reception of any junk, old metals, orother second-hand articles or to a person establishing, operating, ormaintaining an automobile junkyard, in any location not lawfully occupied forthat purpose at the time of the application for the license, where the ownersor occupants of the greater part of the land within two hundred (200) feet ofthat building or place file with the board, city or town council, respectively,having jurisdiction to grant licenses, their objection to the granting of thelicense. This subsection does not apply to any applicant who is the keeper of ashop or storehouse, or automobile junkyard, which is being acquired undereminent domain proceedings, who is applying for licensing within § 5-21-1within the same city or town in which he or she was formerly licensed.