"Any article of food or any article which may be used for food by human beings or by animals, or any chemical or other substance which may be added to food or to foodstuffs, alcoholic beverages, or any drug or compounded drugs, medicines, toilet articles, cosmetics, lotions, liniments or similar articles, or any commodity, powder, liquid or solid compound or mixture used or to be used in and about any home, household, hotel, apartment house, or dwelling for cleaning, disinfecting or deodorizing purposes, including insecticides and similar articles, or tobacco or tobacco products, when the packages, cans, cartons or other containers in which the individual containers of said articles are packed for shipment or sale are damaged, torn, broken, swollen, wet, burned or rusted, or where the individual containers of said articles are damaged, torn, broken, swollen, wet, burned or rusted, or where the labels on the individual containers of any such articles are defaced so that the name of the manufacturer or packer originally appearing on said label cannot be ascertained, such damage or distress of merchandise being caused by reason of shipment of same by rail, plane, motor transport or ship, or by smoke, fire or water."
A "dealer" in salvaged goods and merchandise is hereby defined to be a person who, either exclusively or in connection with any other business, buys, sells, distributes or deals in salvaged goods and merchandise, and/or who labels or relabels, bulks from smaller packages, packages from bulk, or in any manner reconditions salvaged goods or merchandise; provided, however, that persons merely selling salvaged goods or merchandise to salvage "dealers" as well as those who purchase from salvage "dealers" salvaged goods or merchandise which has been inspected and is in compliance with all rules and regulations pertaining to labeling, re-labeling, bulking and reconditioning, and sell same directly to the retail trade, shall not be considered "dealers" in salvaged goods and merchandise.
A "licensed dealer" is a "dealer" who holds a current and valid dealer's permit from the Directors of Public Health.