The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning.
BUSINESS MACHINES. Typewriters, adding machines, check-writing devices, cash registers, calculators, addressing machines, letter sorting or folding devices, and recording, copying and accounting equipment.
CRAFTED PRECIOUS METALS. Jewelry, silverware, art objects or any other thing or object made, in whole or in part, from gold, silver, platinum, palladium, iridium, rhodium, osmium, ruthenium or their alloys, excluding coins, commemorative medallions or bullion or bars of such metals.
LICENSEE. A person in whose name a license has been issued, or a person listed as an applicant on the application for a license.
POWER TOOLS. Tools powered by electrical current or by liquid or gaseous fuels, including, but not limited to, welding equipment and pneumatic equipment.
SECONDHAND DEALER.
(1) Any person who, in the usual and ordinary course of business, engages in the purchase, sale, barter or trade of used or secondhand goods, wares or merchandise.
(2) SECONDHAND DEALER shall include:
a. Any business conducted by an established dealer in a permanent location within the city; or
b. Any temporary or transient business where the dealer conducts business within the city for a period of more than 30 consecutive days.
USED OR SECONDHAND GOODS, WARES OR MERCHANDISE.
(1) Any item of personal property which is not purchased or sold by a dealer as new or which is acquired by a dealer after having been used or purchased by another.
(2) USED OR SECONDHAND GOODS, WARES OR MERCHANDISE shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
a. Wearing apparel or clothing of any kind;
b. Crafted precious metals, jewelry, precious gems and watches;
c. Furniture, home and kitchen appliances, luggage, musical instruments, clocks and photography equipment;
d. Weapons and firearms;
e. Automobile parts and accessories;
f. Business machines;
g. Tools, power tools and toolboxes;
h. Electronic equipment such as televisions, radios and stereo equipment and accessories; and
i. Tobacco products.
(3) This term shall not be construed to include goods, wares or merchandise which are purchased or sold as new by the original manufacturer, wholesale distributor or retail businesses.
(1964 Code, § 22-1) (Ord. 9175, § 3, passed 8-21-1984)
Cross-reference:
Definitions and rules of construction generally, see § 1-2