For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
JUNK. Old iron, chain, brass, copper, tin, lead or other base metals, old rope, old bags, wastepaper, paper clippings, wool scraps, rubber, rags, glass, empty bottles of different kinds and sizes when the number of each kind or size is less than one gross and all articles and things discarded or no longer used as a manufactured article.
JUNK DEALER. A person who engaged in the business of buying, selling, bartering or exchanging junk, or who collects, receives, stores or holds in possession for sale, barter or exchange, any junk whether dealing at wholesale or at retail or as a junk peddler.
JUNK PEDDLER. A person who deals in junk, but does not occupy any premises especially for such business.
RETAIL JUNK DEALER. A junk dealer whose usual and customary purchases consist of quantities of less than the amounts customarily purchased by wholesale junk dealers or in purchases from junk peddlers.
WHOLESALE JUNK DEALER. A junk dealer who deals in large quantities of junk. “Dealing in large quantities” means that the customary and usual separate transactions, both of purchases and sales, consist of the purchase or sale of carload lots, or lots of ten tone or more of metals, or lots of ten bales or more of rags, and correspondingly large lots of any other junk dealt in. Purchasers of old or waste metals in large quantities shall be regarded as WHOLESALE JUNK DEALERS unless they actually operate within the city a plant for the smelting or refining of such metals.
(1960 Code, § 7-9-1) (Ord. 5385, passed 3-8-1995)