As used in this chapter:
(a) "Business" includes any activities engaged in by any person for the object of gain, benefit or advantage, either direct or indirect.
(b) "Casual sale" means any transfer of a salvage motor vehicle by a person, other than a motor vehicle salvage dealer, to an ultimate purchaser for use as a consumer.
(c) "Engaging in business" means commencing, conducting or continuing in business, or liquidating a business, when the liquidator thereof holds himself or herself out to be conducting such business. Making a casual sale or otherwise making transfers in the ordinary course of business, when the transfers are made in connection with the disposition of all or substantially all of the transferor's assets, is not engaging in business.
(d) "Motor vehicle salvage dealer" means any person who engages in business primarily for the purpose of selling salvage motor vehicle parts and, secondarily, for the purpose of selling, at retail, salvage motor vehicles or manufacturing or selling a product of gradable metal scrap.
(e) "Retail sale" or "sale at retail" means the act or attempted act of selling, bartering, exchanging or otherwise disposing of salvage motor vehicles or salvage motor vehicle parts to an ultimate purchaser for use as a consumer.
(f) "Salvage motor vehicle" means any motor vehicle which is in a wrecked, dismantled or worn out condition or unfit for operation as a motor vehicle.
(g) "Salvage motor vehicle auction" means any person who, on his or her own behalf, or as an agent for a third party, engages in business for the purpose of auctioning salvage motor vehicles to motor vehicle salvage dealers.
(h) "Salvage motor vehicle pool" means any person who, as an agent for a third party, engages in business for the purpose of storing, displaying and offering for sale salvage motor vehicles to motor vehicle salvage dealers.
(i) "Ultimate purchaser" means, with respect to any salvage motor vehicle or salvage motor vehicle part, a purchaser who in good faith purchases such salvage motor vehicle or part for purposes other than resale and is not licensed as a motor vehicle dealer under Ohio R.C. Chapter 4517.
(Ord. 97-26. Passed 1-21-97.)