The term "pawnbroker" includes any person or members of a corporation or firm who loans money on deposits or pledge on personal property or other valuable thing, other than securities or printed evidences of indebtedness, or who deals in the purchasing of personal property or other valuable things on condition of selling the same back at a stipulated price. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 14-16.)
Editor’s note-1998 L.M.C., ch. 13, §1, amending 1997 L.M.C., ch. 27, §1, reads as follows:
"(a) Notwithstanding any provision of Chapter 8, Chapter 59, or any other County law to the contrary, the Director of the Department of Permitting Services must not issue or allow the transfer of a certificate of use and occupancy between July 22, 1997, and September 30, 1998, for any nonresidential use of property by a pawnbroker.
(b) Notwithstanding any provision of Chapter 8, Chapter 59, or any other County law to the contrary, any certificate of use and occupancy issued between July 22, 1997, and September 30, 1998, for the nonresidential use of property by a pawnbroker is void.
(c) Subsections (a) and (b) do not prohibit the Director from issuing a use and occupancy certificate for the nonresidential use of property ("new location") by a pawnbroker that holds a valid use and occupancy certificate for the use of another property ("current location") in the County if:
(1) both the current location and the new location are owned by the same property owner;
(2) the new location adjoins the current location directly or through one or more properties owned by the same property owner;
(3) the total floor space (square footage) of the new location is not more than 100 percent larger than the total floor space of the current location; and
(4) the pawnbroker surrenders the use and occupancy certificate for the current location when the Director issues a certificate for the new location.
(d) In this Act, pawnbroker means a pawnbroker as defined in Section 30-7 of the County Code or Section 12-101(e) of the Maryland Secondhand Precious Metal Object Dealers and Pawnbrokers Act." 1998 L.M.C., ch. 5, § 1 and 1997 L.M.C., ch. 40, §1, previously amended 1997 L.M.C., ch. 27, §1.