For the purpose of this chapter:
(a) “Junk dealer” means anyone engaging in the purchase or sale or processing of non-ferrous metals, scrap iron, scrap metal, canvas, rope, metal pipe and junk material of any kind. Such junk dealer's place of business shall be deemed a junk shop.
(b) “Scrap metal processing facility” means any establishment having facilities for sorting, storage or processing iron, steel, or nonferrous scrap, and the principal product of which is scrap iron and steel or nonferrous scrap for sale for remelting purposes.
(c) “Scrap metal processor” means any person, firm, or corporation who processes iron, steel, or nonferrous scrap, and whose principal product is scrap iron and steel or nonferrous scrap for sale for remelting purposes.
(d) “Secondhand article” means the personal property of another which has previously been used or worn by another or owned by a person not a dealer in such articles.
(e) “Secondhand dealer” means any person engaging in the purchase, sale or exchange of secondhand articles of whatever nature, or engaging in the purchase, sale or exchange of any secondhand manufactured article composed wholly or in part of gold, silver, platinum or other metals, or in the purchase, sale or exchange of old gold, silver or platinum or metals for the purpose of melting or refining, or engaged in melting precious metals for the purpose of selling.
Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to apply to persons engaged exclusively in the purchase and sale at wholesale or in large quantities of any scrap iron, scrap metal, canvas, rope, metal pipe and junk material of any kind, or who prepare the same for smelters and the consuming trade, nor persons dealing in the purchase or sale of secondhand pianos, books, magazines, rugs, tapestries, burlaps, paintings, drawings, etchings and engravings, nor to persons dealing exclusively in heavy industrial equipment, furniture or secondhand automobiles.
(Ord. 136-1981. Passed 6-1-81; Ord. 8-2007. Passed 1-16-07.)