§ 5-13.01. Definitions.

For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise apparent from the context, certain words and phrases used in this chapter are defined as follows:

(a)

"Junk collector" shall mean any person not having a fixed place of business in the City who goes from house to house or place to place collecting, buying, selling, or otherwise dealing in junk, such as old rags, bottles, cans, papers, metal, machinery which has been discarded or scrapped, or other similar things.

(b)

"Junk dealer" shall mean any person having a fixed place of business in the City who engages in the business of buying, selling, or dealing in, either at wholesale or retail, junk, such as old rags, sacks, bottles, cans, paper, metal, machinery which has been discarded or scrapped, or other similar things.

(c)

"Pawnbroker" shall mean any person who conducts or manages the business of loaning money upon personal property, pawns, or pledges or who conducts or manages the business of purchasing articles of personal property or reselling, or agreeing to resell, such articles to the vendor, or his assignee, at prices agreed upon at or before the time of purchase.

(d)

"Secondhand dealer" shall mean any person who, in the course of business, buys, sells, or deals in secondhand goods, wares, or merchandise other than motor vehicles or junk. A person who accepts secondhand goods, wares, or merchandise in part payment coincidentally with the sale by him of new goods, wares, or merchandise in the regular course of his business shall not, with respect to such goods, wares, and merchandise so acquired, be deemed to be a secondhand dealer.

(§§ 2321-1, 2322-1, 2323-1, and 2324-1, S.V.M.C.)