§ 31-2. License required.

No person, association, partnership or corporation shall engage in or conduct business as a dealer in or collector of junk, old rope, glass, rubber, paper, rags, bagging, metal or substitutes therefor or other waste materials or in the business commonly known as the "junk business" or in the collection, purchase, storage, sale or disposal of junk, metals or secondhand materials in the Town of North Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, without first having obtained a license therefor as hereinafter provided. This ordinance shall not apply to the collection of papers, metals or other secondhand materials by members of nonprofit organizations for purposes of the National Defense and during the period of the present war.