For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(a) “Junk dealer” means any person, including owners, agents, and employees, engaged in the business of buying, selling, or dealing in old junk, metal, scrap iron, copper plumbing, automobile parts, bottles, siphons, papers, books, rags, or other similar articles and having a store, stand, place of business or junk yard.
(b) “Pawnbroker” means any person, including owners, agents, and employees, engaged in the business of lending money on deposit or pledges of personal property, other than securities, printed evidence of indebtedness, titles, deeds, or bills of sale, at a total charge, rate of interest, or discount or other remuneration in excess of 8% per annum, and includes a person engaged in the business of purchasing personal property from another person with an agreement that the personal property will be made available to that other person for repurchase within an agreed-to time period and for an amount greater than the price originally paid to that other person for the purchase of the personal property.
(c) “Secondhand dealer” means any person, including owners, agents, and employees, engaged in the business of purchasing or selling goods of any kind or description, having once been used or transferred from the manufacturer to the dealer and then received into the possession of third parties, including but not limited to iron or other metal, furniture, electronics, electronic games, articles of household utensils, articles of personal use, or jewelry of any kind or description including precious stones, or old gold or silver, plumbing fixtures, secondhand building material or other goods of the class considered personal, whether related to any of the goods specifically described herein or not, but “secondhand dealer” excludes secondhand clothing stores or any person dealing exclusively in secondhand clothing.
(Ord. 345-08. Passed 1-5-09.)