(A) Any person or corporation who desires to engage in buying, selling, trading or otherwise acquiring or purchasing used goods, items and merchandise for business purposes in the town shall first procure a license to do so from Town Clerk-Treasurer's Office. Those persons, partnerships, associations or corporations who are valuable metal dealers as defined by § 112.01 are not second hand dealers for the purpose of this chapter.
(B) No license shall be required if the person or corporation is solely engaged in the business of buying, selling, trading or otherwise acquiring or purchasing one or more of the following: clothes, cars, books, watercraft, or farm equipment. No license is required for a garage sale, an estate sale, any sale that is held by a transient vendor and lasts no more than 24 hours, or any sale held by either a charitable or political organization. No license is required if the person or corporation only occasionally engages in the purchasing of used goods so long as this occasional business does not total more than 15% of the business's purchases in any one year. No license shall be required if the person or corporation is solely engaged in the business of operating a thrift store, consignment store, or antique store or mall.
(C) The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to transactions of interstate commerce.
(Ord. 2013-13, passed 12-23-2013)