When used in this Chapter:
Automated Purchasing Machine means a self-service device that:
(1) is designed to dispense payment in exchange for personal property; and
(2) is also known as a reverse vending machine.
Dealer means a person conducting the business of buying, receiving, or marketing secondhand personal property in the County, including:
(1) an auctioneer; and
(2) a person who buys, receives, markets, or assists in the sale of secondhand personal property through the Internet or another electronic method.
Director means the Chief of Police.
Firearm means a device as defined in MD Code, Public Safety, §5-101(h), as amended.
Person includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership association, 2 or more persons having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial entity.
Personal property includes radios and other audio equipment; televisions and other video equipment; photographic, optical and computer equipment; typewriters, calculators and other electronic or electrical home or office appliances, machines or equipment; firearms; bicycles; jewelry; furs, leather goods; watches; paintings; fine or historic china, crystal, glass or porcelain; objets d'art; power tools; carpets and rugs; musical instruments; and any item serialized, marked for identification purposes, or engraved.
Police means the County Police Department or another police department having jurisdiction.
Secondhand personal property means previously owned personal property offered for sale or as collateral by any person, other than the manufacturer, wholesale distributor, or original retail seller, acting in the ordinary course of business. Secondhand personal property does not include:
(1) personal property purchased at a public sale;
(2) items of personal property that do not include a firearm that are offered for sale only on residential property and are:
(A) owned by a resident of the property; or
(B) part of the estate of a deceased immediate past resident of that property; or
(3) items of personal property that have a resale value below a dollar threshold specified for that type of personal property in a regulation adopted under method (3).
Public sale means a sale open to the public and held in a location open and accessible to the public, with sufficient public notice of the time and place of the sale to give the public a reasonable opportunity to participate. (1981 L.M.C., ch. 27, § 1; 1983 L.M.C., ch. 28, § 1; 2009 L.M.C., ch. 6, § 1; 2014 L.M.C., ch. 13, § 1; 2014 L.M.C., ch. 30, § 1; 2019 L.M.C., ch. 3, § 1.)