(a) (1) “Junk” as used in this section means old or scrap gold, copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, rubber, automobile parts, iron, steel and other old or scrap ferrous or non-ferrous metals.
(2) “Junk dealers” includes all persons engaged in the business of buying or selling junk as hereinabove defined.
(3) “Junk dealer’s agents” includes all persons who buy or sell junk as hereinbefore defined for or on behalf of a junk dealer, as hereinabove defined, but the term “junk dealer’s agent” shall not be construed to include any person regularly employed upon a salary by a regularly licensed junk dealer engaged in such business within the City.
(4) "Itinerant junk collector" includes only such persons who gather junk from place to place with the aid of a cart or vehicle, and drawn or propelled who have no fixed place of business.
(5) "Nonresident junk dealer" or "nonresident junk dealer's agent" includes all persons who act as junk dealers or junk dealer's agents who are nonresidents of the City, and all firms so engaged whose members are nonresidents and all corporations which have not been admitted to hold property and transact business in the City.
(b) No person within the City shall engage in the business of junk dealer, junk dealer's agent or itinerant junk collector without a license therefor, which license shall be issued as provided in this section; provided, however, that no resident license shall be issued to any junk dealer, junk dealer's agent or itinerant junk collector who has not been a resident of the City for a period of at least one year prior to the application for such license.
(c) No corporation or firm shall engage in the business of junk dealer or junk dealer's agent in the City, unless the officers or agents of such corporation or firm who engage in the business of junk dealer or junk dealer's agent, on behalf of such corporation or firm shall be eligible to be duly licensed as resident junk dealers or junk dealer's agents in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(d) The annual license fee to act as a resident junk dealer shall be twenty-five dollars ($25.00); to act as junk dealer's agent, ten dollars ($10.00); to act as a nonresident junk dealer or his agent who buys or solicits for the purchase of junk within the City one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00); to act as an itinerant junk collector, two dollars ($2.00). No nonresident licensee shall be permitted to maintain a fixed place of business within the City; provided, however, that any nonresident junk dealer may purchase junk from any resident junk dealer without complying with the provisions of this section, but if such nonresident junk dealer comes into the City in any motor vehicle or horse drawn vehicle, the nonresident junk dealer shall not be permitted to transport from the City in such vehicle or horse drawn wagon, junk purchased from junk dealers, unless there is a compliance with this section.
(e) Every resident junk dealer shall certify to the City Collector issuing the license, the name or names of the agent for whom he desires a license certificate and shall give to each agent so engaged by him a certificate of authority, which certificate the agent shall at all times keep with his license and no such junk dealer's agent's license shall be valid and effective without such certificate of authority. The City Collector who issued the license shall give to each license certificate a numerically designated permit, and such permit so given shall be plainly stenciled or printed as "Dealer’s permit no..." "Agent’s permit no...," "Itinerant Collector’s permit no..." "Nonresident permit no...," as the case may be, upon both sides of all trucks or other vehicles used in the collecting and transporting of junk. The City Collector shall not issue a junk dealer's agent's license until the applicant therefor shall first have presented a certificate from a duly licensed junk dealer showing such authorization, and no license shall be issued to a junk dealer's agent or itinerant junk collector unless he shall file with the Collector an affidavit setting out that such applicant has not been convicted of a felony; that he has not been convicted of a misdemeanor in connection with the junk business within a five year period prior to the time of his application and that in the event the application is for a resident dealer's license that he has resided in the City for a period of one year next preceding the date of his application, which certificate and affidavit shall be filed by the City Collector issuing the license in his office.
(f) The license fee herein provided shall not be divisible. No license shall be transferable.
(g) No one who has been convicted of a felony shall be licensed as a junk dealer, junk dealer's agent or itinerant junk collector, and no one convicted of a misdemeanor in connection with the junk business within a five year period prior to the passage of this section shall be licensed as a junk dealer, junk dealer's agent or itinerant junk collector.
(h) No person, engaged in the junk business, shall engage a person as a junk dealer's agent who is ineligible to receive a resident junk dealer's or junk dealer's agent's license.
(i) Any license issued upon a false affidavit or any improper license issued hereunder shall be ipso facto void.
(Ord. 103. Passed 6-25-42.)