(A) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, corporation or association to engage in or carry on the business of a junk dealer or junk collector or to operate a junk yard within the corporate limits of the city; provided that, nothing herein shall be construed to apply to any person now operating as a junk dealer, junk collector or junk yard operator, but shall be construed to apply to the assignee of any person.
(B) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
JUNK COLLECTOR. Any person going from place to place, or house to house collecting or buying iron, copper, brass and zinc scraps, rags, bottles or old paper and selling the same to a junk dealer.
JUNK DEALER. Any person engaged in the business of buying, selling, receiving, collecting or dealing in metal scraps, scrap iron, metals of any kind and in any form, bottles, rags and used tires; the dismantling or taking apart of automobiles, other than for repair, or the wrecking of automobiles; the storage of automobiles unfit for operation; the storage of automobile bodies and parts thereof; the storage of automobiles or parts thereof kept for salvage; the storage of scraps from automobiles; or the storage of iron, metals or junk.
JUNK YARD. Any place where or from which any person shall conduct, engage in or carry on the business of a junk dealer.
(Prior Code, § 10-424) Penalty, see § 10.99