(A) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ITINERANT JUNK COLLECTOR. Any person who gathers junk from place to place with the aid of a cart or vehicle hand drawn or propelled, who has no fixed place of business.
JUNK. Old or scrap gold, copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, rubber, automobile parts, iron, steel and other old scrap ferrous or nonferrous metals.
JUNK DEALER. Any person engaged in the business of buying or selling junk.
JUNK DEALER’S AGENT. Any person who buys or sells junk for or on behalf of a junk dealer, but the term 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.
NONRESIDENT JUNK DEALER or NONRESIDENT JUNK DEALER’S AGENT. Any person who acts as a junk dealer or junk dealer’s agent who is a nonresident of the city, and any firm so engaged whose members are nonresidents of the city, and any corporation which has not been admitted to hold property and transact business in the city.
(B) The annual license fee to act as a resident junk dealer shall be an amount set forth by Council from time to time; to act as a junk dealer’s agent, an amount set forth by Council from time to time; to act as a nonresident junk dealer or his or her agent who buys or solicits for the purchase of junk within the city, an amount set forth by Council from time to time; and to act as an itinerant junk collector, an amount set forth by Council from time to time.
(1991 Code, § 6-14.07)