For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER. A city, the city mayor, pursuant to M.C.L.A. § 446.203(a)(i).
PAWNBROKER. A person, corporation, member or members of a partnership, company or firm who lends 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.
SCRAP PROCESSOR. Any person or entity whose business is, in whole or in part, the dismantling, wrecking and disposing of junk and/or refuse materials, including automobiles, or otherwise reclaiming metals for reuse.
SCRAP YARD. A place where junk, waste, discarded or salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, packed, disassembled or handled, including wrecked motor vehicles, used building materials, structural steel materials and equipment and other manufactured goods that are deteriorated or obsolete so as to make unusable in their existing condition.
SECONDHAND DEALER. Any person, corporation, member or members of a partnership, company or firm, that engages in the business of purchasing, storing, selling, exchanging and receiving secondhand goods of any kind, including the receiving and selling of goods on consignment, but does not include scrap processor, automotive recycler or junkyard that deals principally in industrial scrap, nor to retail merchants who repossess their own merchandise sold on title-retaining contract or who accepts merchandise as part payment on new sale, nor shall it apply to licensed automobile dealers, nor to persons who conduct rummage sales; provided that, such sales are not conducted by the same person or at the same location for a period in excess of three days or more than twice per calendar year, not to sellers of new articles, wares or merchandise from manufacturers, wholesale distributors or jobbers for retail sale to customers, nor persons, firms or corporations whose principle business is that of dealing in new goods, articles and merchandise.
SECONDHAND GOODS. Any goods, wares, merchandise or other personal property acquired or purchased after having been acquired at retail and used by another, except as excluded herein. Such term includes, but is not limited to, appliances, radios, stereos and speakers, televisions, video equipment, electronic/computer equipment and devices, computer gaming equipment, tools, auto parts, firearms, coins, sports memorabilia, jewelry, precious metals, musical instruments, sporting equipment, bicycles, lawn equipment, snow blowers and other household equipment, lead pipes, tools, lighting fixtures, plumbing fixtures, watches, precious stones, musical instruments and electrical appliances.
(Prior Code, § 40-76) (Ord. 1394, passed 2-10-2014; Ord. 1477, passed 6-17-2019)