§ 6-291. Definitions.

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 means all old iron, glass, paper, rubber or other discarded material that may be used again in some form.

Junk dealer means any person engaged in or conducting the business of buying, selling or dealing in junk.

Pawnbroker means any person who, as a business, loans money on the deposit of any personal property on the condition of selling such property back to the depositor at a stipulated price and within a stipulated period of time.

Secondhand dealer means any person who, as a business, engages in the purchase, sale, trade, consignment or exchange of any secondhand merchandise other than junk; provided this article shall not apply to the bona fide trade-in of a secondhand appliance on the purchase of a newly manufactured appliance as long as no cash is paid to the person trading the appliance by the merchant or dealer with whom such trade-in is made.

(Code 1981, § 5.06.010)