Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
ACCEPTABLE DEFINITION
A current valid New Jersey driver's license or identification
card, a current valid photo driver's license issued by another
U.S. state, a valid United States passport, or other verifiable United
States Government issued identification, which shall be recorded on
the receipt retained by the dealer and subsequently forwarded to the
local police department on request.
CHIEF OF POLICE
The Chief of the Union City Police Department or his/her
designee.
CITY CLERK
The statutory officer whose duties are defined in N.J.S.A.
40A:9-135 and may refer to the duly appointed Clerk of the City (1972
Code Sec. 7-20.2).
DEALER
Any person, partnership, limited liability corporation, corporation,
or other entity who either wholly or in part, engages in or operates
any of the following trades or businesses: the buying for purposes
of resale of precious metals, jewelry, or other secondhand good as
defined herein; itinerant business as defined herein. For the purposes
of this section, transient buyers, as defined herein, are subject
to the same licensing and reporting requirements as any other dealers.
ITINERANT BUSINESS
A dealer who conducts business intermittently within the
municipality or at varying locations.
PAWNBROKER
Any person, partnership, association or corporation lending
money on deposit or pledge of personal property, other than choses
in action, securities, or printed evidence of indebtedness; purchasing
personal property on condition of selling it back at a stipulated
price; or doing business as a furniture storage warehousemen and lending
money on goods, wares or merchandise pledged or deposited as collateral
security.
PRECIOUS METALS
Gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and their alloys as defined
in N.J.S.A. 51:5-1 et seq. and N.J.S.A. 51:6-1 et seq.
PUBLIC
Individuals and retail sellers, not to include wholesale
transactions or transactions between other merchants.
REPORTABLE TRANSACTION
Every transaction conducted between a dealer and a member
of the public in which precious metals, jewelry, or any other secondhand
goods as defined herein are purchased or pawned.
SECONDHAND GOODS
Used goods such as antiques, gold, silver, platinum, or other
precious metals, jewelry, coins, gemstones, gift cards, any tools,
cellular telephones, smart phones, GPS devices, computers, mobile
computers, computer hardware and software, television (except cathode
ray tube type), radios, record or stereo sets, electronic devices,
musical instruments, sporting goods, automotive equipment, collectibles,
video game systems, game cartridges, DVDs, CDs, and other electronically
recorded material, firearms, cameras and camera equipment, video equipment,
and other valuable articles. For the purposes of this section, secondhand
goods shall not include goods transacted in the following manner:
1) judicial sales or sales by executors or administrators; 2) occasional
or auction sales of household goods sold from private homes; 3) auctions
of real estate; 4) the occasional sale, purchase, or exchange of coins
or stamps by a person at his permanent residence or in any municipally
owned building who is engaged in the hobby of collecting coins or
stamps and who does not solicit the sale, purchase or exchange of
such coins or stamps to or from the general public by billboard, sign,
handbill, newspaper, magazine, radio, television, or other form of
printed or electronic advertising.
SELLER
A member of the public who sells or pawns goods such as precious
metal, jewelry, or other secondhand goods to a dealer.
TRANSIENT BUYER
A dealer, as defined herein, who has not been in a registered
retail business continuously for at least six months at any address
in the municipality where the dealer is required to register or intends
to close out or discontinue all retail business within six months.