As used in this chapter, the following words shall have the following respective meanings:
(a) "Person" means a firm, corporation or individual.
(b) "Junk" means any personal property which is or may be salvaged for re-use, resale, reduction or similar disposition, or which is possessed, transported, pawned, collected, accumulated, dismantled or assorted for any of the aforesaid purposes.
Used household furniture, used wearing apparel, used lumber, used brick, used tile, used plumbing fixtures, used electrical fixtures, used articles made of precious metal, used jewelry, used tools and other used articles of personal property, which are bought and sold as secondhand property and which are not handled as what is ordinarily called junk or salvaged material, shall not be included in the term junk as used herein.
Without limiting the aforesaid definition of junk, the term shall include used or salvaged iron, brass, lead, copper and other base metals and their compounds or combinations, used or salvaged rope, bags, paper, rags, glass, rubber and similar articles, or property, and used motor vehicles which are used, owned or possessed for the purpose of wrecking or salvaging parts therefrom.
(c) "Junk dealer" means every person who buys, exchanges, collects, receives or sells any articles herein defined as junk.
(d) "Junk yard" or "junk shop" means any place at which a junk dealer buys, exchanges, collects, receives, stores, accumulates, sells or otherwise handles junk.
(e) "Junk collector" means every junk dealer who does not maintain or conduct a junk yard or junk shop, but who in his own behalf buys, sells, exchanges or handles junk and uses, in connection with such business, a motor vehicle, a horse-drawn vehicle or a pushcart.
(Ord. 6, 1959.)