The following words, terms and phrases when used in this article,
shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Junk dealer
means any person engaged in collecting, handling, buying
and selling of scrap iron, scrap lead, or scrap zinc and all other
scrap metals and their alloys, secondhand mechanical and garden tools
and utensils, used or secondhand plumbing fixtures, appliances, fittings,
pipes and supplies, used or secondhand electrical fixtures, fittings,
appliances and supplies, used or secondhand gas fixtures, fittings,
appliances and supplies, used or secondhand water heaters, fixtures,
fittings, pipes and supplies, used or secondhand doors, window sash
or glass, mantels or parts thereof, used or secondhand automobiles
purchased for the purpose of being dismantled, and all automobile
parts and accessories and used or secondhand tires and tubes.
Pawnbroker
means a person engaged in the business of lending money on
the security of pledged goods; or purchasing goods on condition that
the goods may be redeemed or repurchased by the seller for a fixed
price within a fixed period.
Secondhand dealer
means and is used in its ordinary and usual trade acceptance
meaning and shall also mean and include any person engaged in collecting,
handling, buying, trading, selling or engaging in the sale or trafficking
of any of the following: Used or secondhand wearing apparel consisting
of hats, shoes, overcoats, raincoats, and any and all kinds of clothing;
used or secondhand watches, jewelry, diamonds, luggage, musical instruments,
shotguns, rifles, revolvers, and all other kinds of firearms; and
any and all kinds of used goods, wares and merchandise which are handled
by pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers in the usual course of trade.
Secondhand metal dealer
means an auto wrecker, a scrap metal processor, or any other
person or organization purchasing, gathering, collecting, soliciting,
or traveling about from place to place procuring regulated material,
or any person operating, carrying on, conducting, or maintaining a
scrap metal yard or other place where scrap metal or cast-off regulated
material of any kind is gathered together or kept for shipment, sale
or transfer.
[Code 1984, ch. 4, § 7(A)]
It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in any business
of a secondhand dealer, junk dealer or pawnbroker between the hours
of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
[Code 1984, ch. 4, § 7(B)]