Words and phrases shall be taken in their plain, or ordinary and usual sense, except where used in a technical sense or where context or the intent of the County Board of Health indicates or requires a different meaning.
CUSTOMER or PAWNER. Any person or entity who, within Madison County, Illinois, deposits, pledges, sells, trades, barters or exchanges personal property, secondhand goods, wares, merchandise or other valuable things to a pawnbroker or secondhand dealer.
PAWNBROKER. Any person or entity who, within Madison County, Illinois, loans money on deposit or pledge of personal property, secondhand goods, wares, merchandise or other valuable things, or who deals in the purchasing of personal property, secondhand goods, wares, merchandise or other valuable things on the condition of selling the same back at a stipulated price, whether he or she does the same for him or herself, or as an agent of some person or firm or corporation, who by any means, method or device loans money for personal property when same is deposited for security or is deposited for any other purpose.
SECONDHAND DEALER. Any person or entity, who, within Madison County, Illinois, as a business, engages in the purchase, sale, trade, barter, or exchange of secondhand goods, wares or merchandise; or any person who keeps any store, shop, room or place where secondhand goods, wares or merchandise of any kind or description, are bought,
sold, traded, bartered, recycled or exchanged is defined as a secondhand dealer within the meaning of this chapter; provided, however, that this chapter shall not apply to bona fide trade or turn-ins of secondhand goods, wares or merchandise or other good where no cash is transferred or paid by the merchant, or to auction houses or to the transaction of any property that it titled and of record with a state or the federal government, or entities/individuals engaged in the purchasing of scrap metals.
(Ord. 2019-03, passed 3-11-2019)