The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
(a) "Ancillary" means an auxiliary or subordinate operation that aids another business considered as principle and shall in no instance amount for greater than fifty percent of the business' gross revenues.
(b) "Category" means a general class to which a good belongs including, by way of example but not limited to: jewelry, clocks, guns, art work, sports equipment, garments, musical instruments, appliances, audio and visual equipment, computer equipment, books, furniture, sports memorabilia, videos, cd's, electronic games, tools, coins, etc.
(c) "Gross revenues" means the total amount of compensation (money or value of other considerations received) from selling goods or from performing services in the operation of the pawnbroker's principal business.
(d) "Pawnbroker" means any person, corporation, or member or members of a copartnership or firm, who loans money on deposit or pledge of personal property, or other valuable thing, other than securities or printed evidence of indebtedness, or who deals in the purchasing of personal property or other valuable thing on condition of selling the same back again at a stipulated price.
(Ord. 2008-02. Passed 6-3-08.)