For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COLLECTOR. A person engaged in the business of collecting, receiving or purchasing second hand property or junk.
JUNK. Any personal property which is or may be salvaged for re-use, re-sale, reduction or similar disposition, or which is possessed, transported, owned, collected, accumulated, dismantled or assorted for any of the aforesaid purposes. Without limiting the aforesaid definition of JUNK, the term shall include used or salvaged iron, brass, lead, copper and other base metal or metals and their compounds or combinations; used or salvaged ropes, bags, paper, rags, glass, rubber and similar articles or property, and used motor vehicles which are used, owned or possessed for the purpose of wrecking or salvaging parts therefrom.
JUNK DEALER. Every person who engages in the business of buying, exchanging, collecting, receiving, storing or selling any article or articles hereinabove defined as “junk.”
JUNK YARD or JUNK SHOP. Any place at which a junk dealer buys, exchanges, collects, receives, stores, accumulates, sells or otherwise handles junk.
MOTOR VEHICLE DISMANTLING ESTABLISHMENT OR YARD. Any place at which motor vehicles are dismantled for purposes of taking the parts thereof for re-use or re-sale or destroying or salvaging same, and/or any place where motor vehicles are stored or accumulated for the purposes of dismantling same.
PERSON. Firm, corporation or individual PERSON.
SECOND HAND DEALER. Any person who engages in the business of buying, exchanging, collecting, receiving, storing or selling any property defined in this section as “second hand property.”
SECOND HAND PROPERTY. Any used household furniture, used wearing apparel, used lumber, used brick, used tile, used plumbing fixtures, used electrical fixtures, used articles made of precious metal or metals, used jewelry, used tools, used motor vehicles or parts thereof and any other used articles or personal property bought and sold by and from other than the original purchaser and user.
SECOND HAND STORE. Any place at which a second hand dealer buys, exchanges, collects, receives, stores or sells second hand property.
(Ord. 24, passed 7-2-1953)