(a) Definitions.
(1) “Junk” as used in this section, means old or scrap gold, copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, rubber, automobile parts, iron, steel and other cold scrap ferrous or nonferrous metals.
(2) “Junk dealers” includes all persons engaged in the business of buying or selling junk as defined in subsection (a)(1) above.
(3) “Junk dealer’s agents” includes all person who buy or sell junk as defined in subsection (a)(1) above for or on behalf of a junk dealer, as defined in subsection (a)(2) above, but the term “junk dealer’s agent” shall not be constructed to include any persons regularly employed upon a salary by a regularly licensed junk dealer engaged in such business within the state.
(4) “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.
(5) “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 state and all firms so engaged whose members are nonresidents of the state and all corporations which have not been admitted to hold property and transact business in the state.
(b) Fees. The annual license fee to act as a resident junk dealer shall be $20; to act as a resident junk dealer’s agent, $20; to act as a nonresident junk dealer or his or her agent who buys or solicits for the purchase of junk within the state, $20; to act as an itinerant junk collector, $20.