A. “Auto recycler” means and is any Person engaged in the purchasing of motor vehicles or used motor vehicle parts or used motor vehicle motors, as the term “motor vehicle” is defined in the California Vehicle Code, for the purpose of reconditioning and salvaging, or dismantling or disassembling, parts, materials, tires and accessories; for the purpose of reconditioning any other motor vehicle, or selling or otherwise dealing in the materials or parts of motor vehicles; or for the resale of such items. Any Person who has dismantled three or more motor vehicles for the above purposes during any one calendar year shall be classified as an auto recycler.

B. “Junk collector” means and is defined as a Person not having a fixed place of business in the City who goes from house to house, or from place to place, gathering, collecting, buying, selling or otherwise dealing in any old rags, sacks, bottles, cans, papers, metal (including gold or mercury), or other articles commonly known as junk.

C. “Junk dealer” means and is defined as a Person, not an auto wrecker, having a fixed place of business in the City and engaged in conducting, managing or carrying on the business of buying, selling, or otherwise dealing in old rags, sacks, bottles, cans, papers, metal (including gold or mercury), or other worn or discarded articles, either at wholesale or retail.

D. “Pawnbroker” means and is defined as a Person engaged in, conducting, managing or carrying on the business of pawnbroking, or the business of loaning money, for himself or for any other Person, upon Personal property, or the business of purchasing articles of Personal property, and reselling or agreeing to resell such articles to the vendors, or their assigns, at prices agreed upon at or before the time of such purchase.

E. “Pawnshop” means and is defined to be any room, store or place in which any such business is engaged in, carried on, or conducted.

F. “Secondhand dealer” means and is defined as any Person buying, selling or otherwise dealing in secondhand goods, wares and merchandise, other than a used car dealer, a dealer in secondhand books or magazines, or secondhand clothing. (Ord. 3299 § 1 (Att. A), 2014; Ord. 2037 § 1, 1983; Ord. 1931 § 1, 1981; Ord. 1769 § 1, 1977; Ord. 1008 § 2; prior code § 17.1).