Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, as used in this chapter:
(a) "Business premises" or "premises" means the area of a junkyard as described in a junk dealer's license or license application as provided for in this chapter.
(b) "Itinerant junk dealer" means a person who buys, sells, collects or delivers junk in the City as a business or employment in the City, but who is not an operator of a junkyard in the City or an employee of such an operator.
(c) "Junk" means old iron, steel, brass, copper, tin, lead or other base metals; old cordage, rags, ropes, fibers or fabrics; old rubber; old bottles or other glass; bones; wastepaper and other waste or discarded material which might be prepared to be used again in some form; and any or all of the foregoing; and motor vehicles no longer used as such but to be used for scrap metal or stripping of parts. "Junk" shall not include materials or objects accumulated by a person as byproducts, waste or scraps from the operation of his or her own business, or materials or objects held and used by a manufacturer as an integral part of his or her own manufacturing processes.
(d) "Junk dealer" means a person who operates a junkyard in the City.
(e) "Junkyard" means a yard, lot or place, covered or uncovered, outdoors or in an enclosed building, containing junk, upon which occurs one or more acts of buying, keeping, dismantling, processing, selling or offering for sale any such junk, in whole units or by parts, for a business or commercial purpose, whether or not the proceeds from such act are used for charity.
(f) "Person" means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
(1974 Code § 7.321)