For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
METAL RECYCLING ENTITY. Any person who from a fixed location engages in the business of utilizing machinery or equipment for the processing of or manufacturing of iron, steel, or nonferrous metallic scrap and whose principal product is scrap iron, scrap steel or nonferrous metallic scrap for re-melting purposes.
PAWN DEALER. Any person lending money on the deposit or pledge of personal property or who deals in the purchase of personal property on the condition of selling the property back again at a stipulated price.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, corporation, limited liability company, or partnership.
PERSONAL PROPERTY. This term shall include metal, iron and steel and shall also include jewelry, precious metals, office equipment, household goods, electronic equipment, tool and coins, as each of those items is defined in the definition below of SECONDHAND DEALER.
PRECIOUS METAL. Used jewelry and other used articles of personal property that: (a) are made of gold, silver, or platinum; and (b) were previously purchased at retail, acquired by gift, or obtained in some other fashion by a consumer. The term does not include mint issued coins, ingots or industrial residue or byproducts that contain gold, silver, or platinum purchased from manufacturing firms.
PRECIOUS METAL DEALER. A person who engages in the business of purchasing precious metal for the purpose of reselling the precious metal in any form.
SECONDHAND DEALER.
(1) Any person who engages in the purchase or exchange of secondhand personal property for profit, except as set forth in § 116.01.
(2) SECONDHAND PERSONAL PROPERTY includes, but is not limited to the following:
(a) COINS. Small pieces of metal, usually flat and circular, authorized for use as money by the United States Department of Treasury or any another governmental agency or department,
(b) ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT. Televisions, video cameras and receivers, still picture cameras, motion picture cameras and projectors, radios (receiving and sending), digital video disc players, camcorders, tape recorders, cassettes, video tape recorders, stereo equipment, compact disc players, compact discs, video gaming systems, video games, digital video disc players, digital video discs (DVDs), blue-ray disc players, blue-ray discs, VHS players, VHS tapes, portable music devices such as MP3 players, Ipods, Ipads and any other electronic equipment.
(c) HOUSEHOLD GOODS. Washers, dryers, furnaces, air conditioners, microwave ovens, kitchen appliances, china, crystal, silverware, flatware, pianos, organs, guitars, and other musical instruments.
(d) OFFICE EQUIPMENT. Typewriters, calculators, cash registers, copying machines, facsimile machines, telephones, cellular phones, computer hardware, software, computers, computer accessories including tape and disc drives, printers and storage media.
(e) TOOLS. Any device used to facilitate manual or mechanical work, including but not limited to cutting, gardening, hand, machine and power tools.
SECONDHAND ENTITY or SECONDHAND ENTITIES. Any pawnshop, secondhand dealer, metal recycling entity, secondhand metal dealer or valuable metal dealer, except as set forth in § 116.01.
SECONDHAND METAL DEALER. Any person who operates or maintains a scrap metal yard or other place in which used or previously purchased metal items or scrap metal is collected or kept for shipment, sale or transfer.
VALUABLE METAL DEALER. Any person engaged in the business of purchasing and reselling valuable metal either at a permanently established place of business or in connection with a business of an itinerant nature, including junk shops, junk yards, junk stores, auto wreckers, scrap metal dealers or processors, salvage yards, collectors of or dealers in junk, and junk cars or trucks. The term includes a core buyer. The term does not include a person who purchases a vehicle and obtains title to the vehicle.
(Ord. 071612, passed 10-15-12; Am. Ord. 121613, passed 12-16-13)