Any person, corporation, member or members of a co-partnership or firm whose business in whole or in part is that of purchasing, selling, exchanging or receiving second hand articles of any kind, is hereby declared to be a second hand dealer or junk dealer. This definition shall not apply to retail merchants who repossess their own merchandise sold on a title-retaining contract or chattle mortgage basis.
(Ord. 24, passed 7-2-1953)