For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUCTION HOUSE. Any establishment in which is carried on the business of auctioning articles for sale by public outcry and where the items offered for auction are sold immediately to the highest bidder.
JUNK COLLECTOR. A person not having a fixed place of business in the town who goes from house to house and from place to place, gathering, collecting, buying, selling or otherwise dealing in any old rags, sacks, bottles, cans, papers, metals or other articles commonly known as junk, pawns or pledges of personal property, or the business of purchasing personal property and reselling or agreeing to resell the article to vendors, their personal representatives or their assignees, at prices agreed upon at or before the time of the purchase, whether the business be the principal or sole business so carried on, managed or conducted, or merely incidental to, in connection with or a branch or department of some other business or businesses.
PAWNBROKER. A person engaged in conducting, managing or carrying on the business of pawn broking or the business of loaning money for himself or herself or for any other person, receiving as security of the repayment thereof.
PAWNSHOP. Any room, store or place in which the business is engaged in, carried on or conducted.
SECOND-HAND DEALER. A person engaged in, conducting, managing or carrying on the business of buying, selling or otherwise dealing in second-hand goods, wares or merchandise or articles, whether the business be the principal or sole business so carried on, managed or conducted, or be merely incidental to, in connection with a branch or department of some other business or businesses.
(Prior Code, Ch. 9, Art. VII, § 9-601) (Ord. 351-04, passed 9-7-2004)