(a) “Junk” means old or scrap gold, copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, rubber, automobile parts, iron, steel, and other old scrap ferrous or nonferrous metals.
(b) "Junk dealers" includes all persons engaged in the business of buying or selling junk, as described above.
(c) "Junk dealer's agent" includes all persons who buy or sell junk for or on behalf of a junk dealer, but the term "junk dealer's agent" shall not be construed to include any person regularly employed upon a salary by a regularly licensed junk dealer engaged in such business within the Municipality.
(d) "Itinerant junk collector" includes only such persons who gather junk from place to place with the aid of a cart or vehicle hand drawn or propelled, who have no fixed place of business.
(e) "Nonresident junk dealer" or "nonresident junk dealer's agent" includes all persons who act as junk dealers or junk dealer's agents who are nonresidents of the Municipality, and who buy or solicit for the purchase of junk within the Municipality.
(f) The annual license fee to act as a resident junk dealer shall be twenty-five dollars ($25.00); to act as a junk dealer's agent, ten dollars ($10.00); to act as an itinerant junk collector, two dollars ($2.00); to act as a nonresident junk dealer or nonresident junk dealer's agent, one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00).
(g) Any nonresident junk dealer or his agent may not purchase junk from a resident junk dealer without complying with the provisions of this section.
(1978 Code Sec. 8-35)