(a) For the purpose of this section, the following words and terms shall be defined as follows:
(1) “Junk” means old or scrap gold, copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, rubber, automobile parts, iron, steel and other old scrap ferrous or nonferrous metals.
(2) "Junk dealers" means all persons engaged in the business of buying or selling junk as hereinabove defined.
(3) "Junk dealer's agents" means all persons who buy or sell junk as hereinbefore defined for or on behalf of a junk dealers, as hereinabove defined, but the term "junk dealer's agent" shall not be construed to include any person regularly employed upon a salary by a regularly licensed junk dealer engaged in such business within the City.
(4) "Itinerant junk collector" means 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.
(b) No person within the City shall engage in the business of junk dealer, junk dealer's agent or itinerant junk collector without a City license therefor.
(c) No corporation or firm shall engage in the business of junk dealer or junk dealer's agent in the City unless the officers or agents of such corporation or firm who engage in the business of junk dealer or junk dealer's agent, in behalf of such corporation or firm shall be eligible to be duly licensed as junk dealers or junk dealer's agents in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(d) The annual license fee to act as a junk dealer shall be twenty-five dollars ($25.00); to act as a junk dealer's agent, ten dollars ($10.00); and to act as an itinerant junk collector, two dollars ($2.00).
(e) Each person receiving a license under this section shall exhibit the same in some conspicuous place on or about the vehicle proposed to be operated at all times while such vehicle is in use.
(f) No license hereunder shall be transferable. (1972 Code §11-2-9)