For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CLAIM. Any obligation for the payment of money or its equivalent arising in the usual course of business or occupation.
COLLECTION AGENCY. Includes all persons, firms, corporations and voluntary associations engaging, directly or indirectly, and as a primary or secondary object, business or pursuit, in soliciting claims for collection, and in the collection of claims owing, or due, or asserted to be owing or due to another, and any person, firm, corporation or voluntary association engaged in collecting accounts for another, whether the employment is for one or more persons, firms, corporations or voluntary associations, or in the selling or furnishing of any collection system or collection letter forms or collection letters, or any house agency, firm, person, corporation or voluntary association using a fictitious name in collecting its own accounts receivable with the intention of conveying to the debtor that a third-party has been employed to collect such accounts. Any person, firm or corporation soliciting or attempting to solicit claims for collection or collecting or attempting to collect claims due or owing, or asserted to be due or owing to another, by letter or by agent, or by any means whatsoever, from persons within the city, though not maintaining a fixed place of business in the city, shall be deemed to be engaged in conducting, managing or carrying on the business of a collection agency in the city and shall pay a license tax of $10 per year to the city and shall file a bond with the city as provided above.
(Prior Code, § 11.02.02)