For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ABANDONED PROPERTY. Property to which the owner has relinquished all right, title, claim and possession, with intention of not reclaiming it or resuming its ownership, possession or enjoyment.
AUCTIONEER. Any person who shall operate an auction house or who, as a principal or agent, shall offer any article for sale by public outcry, and where the items offered at auction are sold immediately to the highest bidder.
AUCTION HOUSE. Any establishment in which the business of auctioning articles is carried on for sale by public outcry, and where the items offered for auction are sold immediately to the highest bidder.
DEALER. Any person engaged in the business of purchasing or selling secondhand or cast-off material of any kind, such as any vehicle parts or accessories, machinery, iron, copper, brass, lead, zinc, tin, steel, aluminum, metal pipe and other metals, metal alloys, metallic cables, wire, ropes, cordage, bottles, bagging, rags, rubber, paper and other like materials which are purchased from persons other than the original manufacturer or authorized distributor selling same for money, credit or exchange. For the purposes of this article, the terms SCRAP DEALER and JUNK DEALER shall have the same meaning as dealer. These provisions shall not apply to any person engaged solely in recycling metal cans, paper, cardboard and glass.
PAWN TRANSACTION. Either the act between the pawnbroker and a person pledging tangible personal property or extending credits on the security of pledged goods, or the act of purchasing tangible personal property with an expressed or implied agreement or understanding that it may be redeemed or repurchased by the seller for a fixed or variable price within a fixed or variable period of time.
PAWNBROKER. Any person engaged in business activity of pawn brokering, or the business of loaning money for himself or herself or for any other person, receiving as security for the repayment thereof, pawn transactions or pledges of personal property, or the business of purchasing personal property and reselling or agreeing to resell the article to vendors, their personal representatives or their assignees, at prices agreed upon at or before the time of such purchase, whether the business be principal or sole business so carried on, managed or conducted, or merely incidental to, in connection with or a branch or department of some other business or businesses.
PAWNSHOP. Any room, store or place in which the business is engaged in, carried on or conducted.
SECONDHAND DEALER. Any person engaged in conducting, managing or carrying on the business of buying, selling, trading or exchanging, or otherwise dealing in secondhand goods, wares, merchandise or articles, or old coins and money, jewelry, precious metals, semi-precious stones and similar items, whether the business be the principal or sole business so carried on, managed or conducted or be merely incidental to, in connection with, or managed, or conducted or be merely incidental to, in connection with, or a branch or a department of some other business. The term ANTIQUE DEALER shall have the same meaning as "secondhand dealer". The term SECONDHAND DEALER shall not be construed to include trade-ins, dealers, or auctioneer in articles of property, the transfer of title to which is required by the laws of the state to be evidenced by written instrument and recorded in the office of the department of the state or county government.
(Am. Ord. 1296, passed 5-1-2007)