[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Las
Vegas as Ch. 5, Art. 6 of the 1972 City Code. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any person engaged in the business of purchasing or selling
secondhand or castoff material of any kind, which is commonly known
as and is hereinafter designated and referred to as "junk," such as
old iron, copper, brass, lead, zinc, tin, steel, and other metals,
metallic cables, wires, ropes, cordage, bottles, bagging, rags, rubber,
paper and other like materials, shall be and hereby are defined, and
held to be a junk dealer.
Every person actively engaged in the business of acquiring
vehicles, required to be registered hereunder, for the purpose of
dismantling such vehicles as scrap material or for the resale of reclaimable
parts and who, for such purposes, maintains within this state an established
place of business.
Every dealer or keeper of a junkyard who shall receive or be
in possession of any goods, articles or things which may have been
lost or stolen, or alleged or supposed to have been lost or stolen,
shall forthwith, on demand, exhibit the same to any member of the
Police Department.
No keeper of a junkyard shall receive any article or thing by
way of pledge or pawn; nor shall he loan or advance any sum of money
on the security of any article or thing.
No junk dealer shall store or hold junk at any location in the
City other than that specified in his license.
Wreckers of vehicles shall provide proof of state registration
prior to the issuance of a City license.
