For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
JUNK. Clothing, household items, scrap iron, tin, brass, copper, lead, zinc and all metallic substances, secondhand watches, knives, guns, cameras, jewelry, fishing equipment and similar items, handled, purchased, received or offered for sale by dealers in junk, and shall mean and include secondhand plumbing and electric fixtures, wires, globes, brass pipe, lead pipe and pipe of other metals, melted metals of any kind, parts of machinery or machines that may be identified as such, any fixture pertaining to a residence, business house or other house of any kind, automobile accessories, including horns, hubcaps, prestolite tanks, tires and all detached and detachable parts of any automobile, motorcycle, bicycle or motor vehicle of any kind or any vehicle of any kind, hydrants, faucets, lawn hose, lawn sprinklers, gas fixtures, fittings and appliances, garden tools, mechanical tools of every description, harness, rags, rubber, rope, bottles and utensils of every description. The enumeration of the articles in this definition shall not be held to exclude other articles that may be reasonably included under the general definition of JUNK when given its usual trade meaning.
JUNK DEALER. Any person primarily engaged in collecting, handling, buying or selling any of the articles defined as “junk” or otherwise engaged in the business of buying or selling secondhand articles or as a trading post.
(1998 Code, § 94-31) (Ord. 11-11, passed 4-20-2011)