For the purposes of this chapter the following definitions shall apply:
“Auction house” means any establishment in which is carried on the business of auctioning articles for sale by public outcry and where such items offered for auction are sold immediately to the highest bidder.
“Junk collector” means a person not having a fixed place of business in the city who goes from house to house and from place to place, gathering, collecting, buying, selling or otherwise dealing in any old rags, sacks, bottles, cans, papers, metals or other articles commonly known as junk.
“Pawnbroker” means a person engaged in conducting, managing or carrying on the business of pawnbroking or the business of loaning money for himself or for any other person, receiving as security of the repayment thereof pawns, or pledges of personal property, or the business of purchasing personal property and reselling or agreeing to resell such article to vendors, their personal representatives or their assignees, at prices agreed upon at or before the time of such purchase, whether such business be the 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” means any room, store or place in which such business is engaged in, carried on or conducted.
“Secondhand dealer” means a person engaged in, conducting, managing or carrying on the business of buying, selling, or otherwise dealing in secondhand goods, wares or merchandise or articles, whether such business be the principal or sole business so carried on, managed or conducted, or be merely incidental to, in connection with a branch or department of some other business or businesses.
(Prior code § 10-4-1)