§ 19-1. Definitions.

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

Dealer in junk and junkshop. Any person buying, selling, receiving for storage or as a pledge for the payment of money loaned or in any way acquiring or dealing in junk as defined in this section, but shall not include licensed pawnbrokers, the operator of a junk wagon as herein defined nor any person, purchasing junk from a licensed junk dealer exclusively.

Junk. Scrap iron, scrap tin, scrap brass, scrap copper, scrap lead, scrap zinc and all other scrap metals and their alloys; and bones, rags, cloth, rubber, rope, tinfoil, bottles, old cotton, mechanical garden tools, utensils; dismantled or used plumbing fixtures, appliances or parts, dismantled gas fixtures, fittings, pipes, appliances or parts; dismantled or used water heaters, fixtures, fittings, pipes or parts; used lawn hose or harness; doors, window sash or glass, metals or parts thereof; or any character of unserviceable buildings or building materials, and houses to be wrecked. The term "junk" shall include unserviceable or second-hand automobiles purchased from the general public for the purpose of being dismantled, together with the purchase of unserviceable or used parts and accessories not including tires and tubes.

Junk wagon. Every wagon operating in the city for the purpose of purchasing, collecting or gathering up or selling junk throughout the city or any portion thereof.

(Ord. No. 219, § 1)