§ 80-1. Purpose.

A clean, wholesome, attractive environment is declared to be of importance to the health and safety of the inhabitants and to the safeguarding of their material rights against unwarrantable invasion, and, in addition, such an environment is deemed essential to the maintenance and continued development of the economy of the Village and the general welfare of its citizens. It is further declared that the unrestrained accumulation of junk is a hazard to the health, safety and welfare of citizens of the Village, necessitating the regulation, restraint and elimination thereof. At the same time, it is recognized that the maintenance of junkyards, as defined herein, is a useful and necessary business and ought to be permitted, when not in conflict with the express purposes hereof.