(Legislative History: Ordinance No. 81-072, 10/19/81)
The following words and phrases, whenever used in this Chapter, shall be construed as defined in this section:
"Junk"
means any and all secondhand and used machinery and scrap metal, including tools, implements or parts or portions thereof, and any and all secondhand and used furniture or other personal property, other than livestock, or parts or portions thereof.
"Junk Dealer"
includes any person engaged in the business of buying, selling and dealing in junk, any person purchasing, gathering, collecting, soliciting or traveling about from place to place procuring junk, and any person operating, carrying on, conducting or maintaining a junk yard or place where junk is gathered together and stored or kept for shipment, sale or transfer.
"Junk Yard"
includes any yard, plot, space, enclosure, building or any other place where junk is collected, stored, gathered together and kept.
"Secondhand Dealer"
means and includes any person, whose principal business is primarily that of engaging in buying, selling, exchanging, trading, accepting for sale or consignment, accepting for auctioning or auctioning secondhand personal property of whatever kind or description. "Secondhand Dealer" shall not include any person operating an automobile wrecking establishment or secondhand automobile business.
"Pawnbroker"
means and includes any person, other than banks, trust companies, or bond brokers, who may otherwise be regulated by laws authorized to deal in commercial paper, shares of stock, bonds or other certificates of value, who is engaged in the business of receiving goods in pledge as security for a loan.
"Person"
includes any individual or organization, any trustee, receiver, assignee, agent or other representative.
"Organization"
includes any partnership, corporation, joint venture, association, or other entity, however organized.