(a) Any person engaging in the business of junk dealer shall pay an annual Town license tax of twenty-five dollars; and any person engaged in business as a junk dealer's agent shall pay an annual Town license tax of ten dollars; provided, that any person who is a nonresident of the State who engages in the business of junk dealer or junk dealer's agent shall pay an annual Town license tax of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00). Any person engaged in the business of itinerant junk collector shall pay an annual Town license tax of two dollars.
(b) The term “junk” as used in this section shall mean old scrap gold, copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, rubber, automobile parts, iron, steel, and other old scrap ferrous or nonferrous metals. The term “junk dealer” shall include any person engaged in the business of buying or selling junk as hereinabove defined. The term “junk dealer's agent” shall include any person who buys or sells junk 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 Town of Eleanor. The term “itinerant junk collector” shall include only such persons who gather junk from place to place with the aid of a cart or hand drawn or propelled vehicle, who have no fixed place of business.
(Ord. 97-1. Passed 5-15-97.)