§ 11-1. Definitions.

For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

"Junk" is defined as any old iron, wire, copper, tin, lead, rags, paper, bags, lumber, empty bottles, bones, parts of bicycles, tricycles, baby carriages, automobiles, and other vehicles, dismantled, in whole or in part, kept, stored, located, situated or piled in public view, and all other similar personal property ordinarily defined and classified as "junk," kept, stored, located, situated, or piled in public view and not screened from public view by a fence as provided in section 11-2 hereof.

"Junk collector" shall mean any person not having a fixed place of business in the county who goes from house to house, or place to place, in the unincorporated area of the county, gathering up, receiving, collecting, buying, or selling junk, as hereinafter defined.

"Junk dealer" shall mean any person with a fixed place of business, in the unincorporated area of the county, who carries on, conducts, maintains or engages in the business of buying, selling, or otherwise dealing in junk as hereinafter defined.

"Pawnbroker" shall mean a person engaged in conducting, managing or carrying on the business of pawnbroking, or the business of lending money for himself or any other person or firm upon personal property, or pledges; or the business of purchasing articles of personal property and reselling the same, or agreeing to resell the same, to the vendors or their assignees at prices agreed upon at or before the time of such purchase in the unincorporated area of the county.

"Pawnshop" is defined to be any room, store, building or other place, in which any such business is engaged in, carried on or conducted, in the unincorporated area of the county.

"Peddler" is defined as a person with no regular place of business, who sells, or offers to sell, wares or merchandise not produced or grown by such person, while traveling from place to place, or from a temporary stand.

"Secondhand dealer" is defined to be a person with a fixed place of business in the unincorporated area of the county, who conducts, manages or carries on the business of buying, selling, or otherwise dealing in miscellaneous secondhand goods, wares or merchandise which have been previously used or sold to a consumer, including antiques.

(Code 1952, § 71; Ord. No. 677, § 1; Ord. No. 733, § 1)