(a) In addition to those words and phrases defined in Section 4.04.010 of this code, the following words and phrases, whenever used in this chapter, shall be construed as defined in this section:
(1) "Chief of police" means the chief of police or his or her designee.
(2) "City" means the city of Palo Alto.
(3) "Firearms dealer" means a person engaged in the business of selling, transferring, or leasing, or advertising for, sale, transfer, or lease, or offering or exposing for sale, transfer, or lease, any firearm.
(4) "Department" means the California Department of Justice.
(5) "Engaged in the business" means the conduct of a business by the selling, transferring, or leasing of any firearm; or the preparation for such conduct of business as evidenced by the securing of applicable federal or state licenses; or the holding of one's self out as engaged in the business of selling, transferring, or leasing of any firearm; or the selling, transferring, or leasing of any firearms in quantity, in series or in individual transactions, or in any other manner indicative of trade.
(6) "Person" means natural person, association, partnership, firm, or corporation.
(7) "Firearm" means any revolver, rifle, shotgun or any other device designed to be used as a weapon, from which a projectile is expelled through a barrel by the force of an explosion or any other form of combustion. A "firearm" includes any device defined as a firearm by the California Penal Code as said definition now reads or may hereafter be amended to read.
(Ord. 4351 § 2 (part), 1996)