For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
JUNK. Old iron, chain, brass, copper, tin, lead or other base metals, old rope, old bags, rags, wastepaper, paper clippings, scraps of woolens, clips,
bagging, rubber and glass, and empty bottles of different kinds and sizes when the number of each kind or size is less than 1 gross, and all articles and things discarded or no longer used as a manufactured article composed of or consisting of any 1 or more of the materials or articles herein mentioned.
JUNK DEALER. Every person that shall engage in the business of buying, selling, bartering, or exchanging, or that shall collect, receive, store, or hold in possession for sale, barter, or exchange, any of the things by this section defined as junk, whether dealing at wholesale or at retail, or as a junk peddler.
(1963 Code, § 5-8-1)