For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
"PAWNBROKER." Any person, partnership, association, limited liability company or corporation 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, other than chooses in action, securities or printed evidence of indebtedness.
“PRECIOUS METALS AND STONES DEALER." Any person engaged in the business of purchasing and reselling valuable items containing precious metals or stones, including, but not limited to, silver, gold and platinum or containing gems including, but not limited to, diamonds, rubies or emeralds either at a permanently established place of business or in connection with a business of an itinerant nature, including junk shops, junk stores, antique dealers, secondhand stores or flea markets.
"SECONDHAND DEALER." Any person who purchases secondhand property of any description for the purpose of dealing in the same and reselling same.
"VALUABLE METALS." Copper, lead, titanium, stainless steel, copper alloy or brass, formed as a bar, cable, rod, tubing, wire, wire scrap, clamp, connector, bushing, bearing or other appurtenances utilized or that can be utilized by persons, firms, corporations or municipal corporations engaged in either the generation, transmission or distribution of electric energy in telephone, telegraph or other communications, or by railroads, or any copper, copper alloy, brass or aluminum materials utilized for the purpose of plumbing, storm doors, windows, siding or gutters of building structures or automotive parts.
"VALUABLE METALS DEALER." Any individual, firm, corporation, limited liability company or partnership 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 carts or trucks.
('75 Code, § 14-132) (Am. Ord. 6584, passed 8-10-09)