This article shall not apply to:
(a) Charitable, philanthropic, religious, fraternal, civic, patriotic, social or school-sponsored organizations or associations or to any non-profit corporations or associations;
(b) Any person dealing solely in the purchase, sale or trade of used or secondhand motor vehicles;
(c) The occasional sale to the public of used or secondhand goods and wares that have been used primarily for personal, family or household purposes by the owner, if the seller, at the time of sale, is not engaged in the business for profit of selling goods of that or of a similar nature, which shall include garage sales conducted at a private residence and neighborhood garage sales;
(d) Public and private auctions;
(e) Sales made by any public officer in his or her official capacity as a trustee in bankruptcy, executor, administrator, receiver or public official acting under judicial process or authority, or sales on the execution of, or by virtue of, any process issued by a court;
(f) Sales and purchases made by the United States, the state or the city or any political subdivision, department or agency thereof;
(g) Used or secondhand articles which are deposited with or otherwise actually delivered into the possession of a pawn broker in the course of his or her business in connection with a pawn transaction under the provisions of the Texas Pawnshop Act, Tex. Revised Civil Statutes Article 5069-51.02;
(h) Any person dealing in secondhand or used merchandise whose dealing is limited to the acquiring of such merchandise through an exchange for new merchandise, and to the selling of such by sale only incidental to any part of the main business of dealing in new goods or merchandise;
(j) Recyclers and recycling facilities as defined in Chapter 20, Article XI, § 20-384 of the city code.
(1964 Code, § 22-14) (Ord. 9175, § 3, passed 8-21-1984)