For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
PAWNBROKER. A person who loans money on deposit or pledge of personal property, or other valuable thing, or who deals in the purchasing of personal property or other valuable thing on condition of selling the same back again at a stipulated price, or who loans money secured by chattel mortgage on personal property, taking possession of the property or any part thereof so mortgaged.
SECOND-HAND GOODS DEALER. A person engaging in the business of buying second-hand goods of any kind, including but not limited to coins, gold, silver, jewelry, metals, wrecked or dismantled motor vehicles or motor vehicles intended to be wrecked or dismantled, but excepting goods and merchandise taken as part or full payment for new goods and merchandise.
(Prior Code, § 18-77)