As used in this chapter, the following words shall have meanings indicated:
ANTIQUE DEALER or SECONDHAND DEALER Any person who either wholly or in part engages in or operates the trade or business of buying and/or selling used goods or secondhand goods such as antiques, precious stones, metals, jewelry, any tools, any electrical devices, fixtures, appliances, household goods, firearms and bric-a-brac. The foregoing enumeration of articles, goods and properties shall not be deemed to be exclusive or all-inclusive.
BOROUGH The Borough of Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
BUSINESS All kinds of vocations, occupations, professions, enterprises, establishments, and all other kinds of activities and matters, together with all devices, machines, vehicles and appurtenances used therein, which are conducted for profit, or benefit, directly or indirectly, on any premises in the Borough.
COUNCIL The Borough Council of the Borough of Columbia.
LICENSE OFFICER The Borough Manager, his designee(s) or such other enforcement officers as may be appointed by the Borough Manager or Borough Council.
LICENSE or LICENSEE Includes respectively the words "permit" or "permittee" where the holder for any use or period of time of any similar privilege, wherever relevant to any provision of this chapter or other law or ordinance.
PAWNBROKER Includes any person who:
(1) Engages in the business of lending money on the deposit or pledge of personal property other than choses in action, securities or written evidence of indebtedness;
(2) Purchases personal property with an expressed or implied agreement or understanding to sell it back at a subsequent time at a stipulated price; or
(3) Lends money upon goods wears or merchandise pledged, stored or deposited as collateral security.
PERSON Individual natural persons, partnerships, joint ventures, societies, associations, clubs, trustees, trusts, limited-liability companies or corporations; or any officers, agents, employees, factors or any kind of personal representatives of any of the above, in any capacity, acting either for himself, or for any other person, under either personal appointment or pursuant to law.
PLEDGE An article or articles deposited with a pawnbroker as security for a loan in the course of his business as a pawnbroker.
PLEDGOR The person who obtains a loan from a pawnbroker and delivers a pledge into the possession of a pawnbroker, unless such person discloses that he is or was acting for another, in which case a "pledgor" means the disclosed principal.
POLICE The sworn police personnel of the Borough of Columbia.
PREMISES All lands, structures, places, and also the equipment and appurtenances connected or used therewith in any business, and also any personal property which is either affixed to, or as otherwise used in connection with any such business conducted on such premises.
SECONDHAND ARTICLES OR GOODS Are any articles or goods that are purchased, salvaged or received from any person, association, copartnership, corporation, trust or limited-liability company. The items dealt with by an antique dealer or a secondhand dealer shall not be deemed to include:
(1) Judicial sales or sales or purchases by or from executors or administrators in conjunction with the settlement of an estate;
(2) Sales of unredeemed pledges by or on behalf of licensed pawnbrokers in the manner prescribed by law;
(3) Occasional or auction sales of household goods sold from private homes;
(5) The buying or selling of printed or recorded material; or
(6) The taking in trade by a business of an item of a like kind to items which such businesses sell as the principal or substantial part of their business.