As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:
AGENT: | Any associate, partner, employee, director, officer, owner, manager or person with a financial interest in such pawnbroker business or secondhand dealer or recycler business, other than as a lessor, mortgagee or vendee. |
GOVERNMENT ISSUED IDENTIFICATION: | An identification card issued by a governmental entity, including, without limitation, the following: |
1. An identification card issued by a federal agency, such as a passport, passport card, or a military, federal employee, or dependent identification card. | |
2. A driver’s license or identification card issued by a state or territory of the United States or by a federally recognized Indian tribe. | |
3. An identification card issued by a foreign government that is the equivalent of one of the types of identification cards listed in paragraphs (1) or (2) above (e.g., a driver’s license issued by a province of Canada). | |
PAWNBROKER: | Any person, partnership, association, corporation or agent thereof which, in the course of its business, loans money and receives a security of personal property as a pledge or holds such personal property under a conditional sales contract or an agreement to resell such personal property to the borrower or his assignee at a price agreed upon, at or before the time of such transaction; except this term shall not apply to banks, trust companies or bond brokers who are otherwise regulated by law and authorized to deal in commercial paper, sales of stock, bonds or other certificates of value. |
RECYCLER: | Commercial Recycler is a company that collects and sorts trash and treats it in order to produce useful materials that can be used again. |
SECONDHAND DEALER: | Any person, partnership, association, corporation or agent thereof, engaging in, conducting, managing or carrying on the business of buying, selling or otherwise dealing in used or secondhand personal property, rebuilt or reconditioned goods, wares or merchandise; providing, that this term shall not apply to a person conducting a casual or isolated sale of one’s own personal property; provided further, that this term shall not apply to a retail dealer of used or secondhand merchandise, whose stock of merchandise consists at least ninety percent (90%) of objects of art, curios or household furniture or furnishings offered for sale on the basis, express or implied, that the value of the property, in whole or substantial part, is derived from its age and historical association; provided further, that this term shall not apply to shops dealing exclusively in coins, currency and/or precious metals, auto wreckers, used car dealers or dealers of new articles who allow their patrons an exchange value on used or secondhand articles of personal property. |
SHERIFF: | The Sheriff of Kootenai County and all of his authorized representatives. (Ord. 592, 4-9-2019; amd. Ord. 634, 6-14-2022) |