Dane County, WI Business Licensing & Operations: Secondhand Dealers (2026)

Sec. 500(3)(b)8, cross-references it as the 'Licensing of salvage yards or junkyards' authority exercised by the zoning administrator. Subsection (a) sets locational limits: no salvage operation may sit within 100 feet of the boundary of any residential district, and no salvage operation with outdoor operations may sit within the zone of contribution to a municipal well as mapped in the current Dane County Water Quality Plan. Subsection (b) is the licensing piece, where applicable, the operator must hold a motor vehicle salvage dealer's license issued under Wis.

205, a state license the county requires as a condition of operating rather than issuing its own separate secondhand-dealer permit. Subsection (c) backs that up with enforcement: every salvage operation is subject to an annual inspection by the Zoning Administrator to confirm compliance with the ordinance, giving the county a recurring checkpoint rather than a one-time approval. The county's zoning definitions equate 'Junkyard' directly with 'Salvage Operation,' so a junk dealer's yard and a licensed auto salvage lot are treated as the same regulated use under this section, wherever it operates on land under county (not municipal) zoning jurisdiction.