Whenever in this chapter the following words or phrases are used, they mean:
(A) "Secondhand dealer."
(1) "Secondhand dealer" means and includes any person, copartnership, firm or corporation whose principal business is primarily that of engaging in buying, selling, trading, taking in pawn, accepting for sale on consignment, accepting for auctioning or auctioning secondhand tangible personal property.
(2) "Secondhand dealer" also includes any person who engages in the business of buying or selling secondhand tangible personal property in excess of 20% of the gross sales and purchases or goods or merchandise sold or purchased in the regular course of business. Pawnbrokers who receive in pledge or purchase tangible personal property as defined in this chapter shall comply with the requirements of this chapter in addition to any other requirements of this code.
(B) "Tangible personal property."
(1) "Tangible personal property" means and includes, but is not limited to, all secondhand tangible personal property which bears a serial number or personalized initials or inscription or which, at the time it is acquired by the secondhand dealer, bears evidence of having had a serial number or personalized initials or inscription.
(2) "Tangible personal property" also includes, but is not limited to, the following:
(a) All tangible personal property, new or used, received in pledge as security for a loan by a pawnbroker or a secondhand dealer acting as a pawnbroker;
(b) All tangible personal property that bears a serial number or personalized initials or inscription which is purchased by a secondhand dealer or a pawnbroker or which, at the time of such purchase, bears evidence of having had a serial number or personalized initials or inscription;
(c) All personal property commonly sold by secondhand dealers which statistically is found through crime reports to the California Attorney General to constitute a significant class of stolen goods.
(3) "Tangible personal property" as used in this chapter does not mean and include any new goods or merchandise purchased from a bona fide manufacturer or distributor or wholesaler of such new goods or merchandise by a secondhand dealer. For the purposes of this chapter, however, a secondhand dealer shall retain for one year from the date of purchase and shall make available for inspection by any law enforcement officer any receipt, invoice, bill of sale or other evidence of purchase of such new goods or merchandise.
(`78 Code, § 5.42.010.) (Ord. 1597 § 1 (part), 1981.)