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.