The following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them for the purpose of the regulations in this chapter:
ANTIQUE DEALER. Any dealer primarily engaged in the buying and selling of collectible objects, including but not limited to pieces of furniture or works of art that have high value because of the item’s considerable age.
BULLION. Any bar, ingot, or coin comprised of one or more precious metals, including but not limited to gold, silver, platinum, and palladium, and which can be exchanged on the basis of the commodity market price for its metal composition.
DEALER. Any pawnbroker, secondhand dealer, itinerant dealer or scrap metal buyer, and any principal, employee, agent, or servant thereof, engaged in or conducting business for purchase, sale, barter, exchange, or pawn of gold, silver, platinum, including coins, scrap metal and precious or semiprecious gems or stones.
ENGAGED IN OR CONDUCTING BUSINESS. The purchase, sale, barter, pawn, or exchange of any item in defined in this chapter, including the advertising therefor, by any business entity or individual subject to state sales tax.
ITINERANT DEALER. Any dealer as defined herein who engages or has engaged in any temporary or transient business conducted in a shop, room, hotel room, motel room or other premises used for any duration less than 30 consecutive days or used on a temporary basis.
PAWNBROKER. Any person who shall in any manner lend or advance money or other things for profit on the pledge or possession of personal property, or other valuable things, other than securities or written evidences of indebtedness, or who deals in the purchasing of personal property or other valuable things on condition of selling the same back to the seller at a stipulated price.
SCRAP METAL BUYER. Any person engaged in the business of buying scrap metals or recyclable or reusable materials.
SECONDHAND DEALER. Any person engaged in the business of buying or selling secondhand goods, excluding consignment of secondhand goods or the sale of secondhand goods donated without compensation. This definition shall include the use of any automated or camera-enabled kiosk used to purchase secondhand goods from a seller without the buyer’s physical presence.
SECONDHAND GOODS. Tangible personal property previously owned by another person, whether used or not, which property, in its present state, possesses utility for the purpose for which it was originally intended.
TANGIBLE PERSONAL PROPERTY. Items including:
(1) Items made in whole or in part of gold, silver, platinum, copper or other precious metals;
(2) Items containing or consisting of precious or semiprecious gemstones or other polished stones used for decoration or jewelry;
(3) Articles with serial numbers, model numbers, or other identifying marks, including, but not limited to appliances, tools, radios, stereo equipment, radar detectors, televisions, cellular phones, video recorders, camcorders, video equipment, computers, computer equipment and accessories, digital music recorders and players, and cameras, but not including clothes washers, clothes dryers, refrigerators, and auto parts;
(4) Musical instruments;
(5) Rifles, shotguns, handguns, and other firearms;
(6) Movie cassette tapes and discs, music cassette tapes and discs, record albums, computer software and diskettes, and video game cartridges; and
(7) Any other item of value, except:
(a) One or more coins collected or exchanged for their numismatic value, where the scarcity, historical significance, quality, and other unique factors determine the market value of a coin rather than the commodity price of the metals that comprise it; and
(b) Books and textbooks.
TRANSACTION. Any purchase, sale, barter, pawn, or exchange of any item.
(Ord. 2617, passed 7-23-2019)