For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
JUNK. Scrap and old iron, steel, chain, brass, copper, magnesium, aluminum, tin, lead or other base medal, scrap lumber, old rope, old bags, rags, waste paper, paper clippings, scraps of woolens, clips, bagging, rubber and glass, empty bottles of different kinds or sizes when the number of each kind or size is less than one gross, any wrecked or dilapidated motor vehicle, engine or machinery received, stored or held for more than 90 days, all articles and things discarded or no longer used as a manufactured article composed of or consisting of any one or more the materials or articles herein mentioned.
JUNK DEALER. Every person, firm, partnership or corporation that shall engage in the business of buying, selling, bartering or exchanging, or shall collect, receive or store or hold in possession for sale, barter or exchange, any of the things defined in this section as “junk”.
JUNK YARD. The premises upon which a junk dealer is engaged in the business of buying, selling, bartering, exchanging, collecting, receiving, storing or holding in possession for sale, barter or exchange any of the things in and by this section defined as “junk”.
(Prior Code, § 16-402)