§ 9-8-11. Definitions.

As used in this article, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following terms shall have the meanings herein ascribed to them:

(1)

Antique dealer. Any dealer as defined herein who engages in the business or occupation of purchasing any work of art, piece of furniture or decorative object made 100 years prior to the date of purchase.

(2)

Canvasser. Any person who shall canvass for the purpose of buying any junk or any other like commodity for any junk dealer, or for sale to such junk dealer or to another.

(3)

Chief of police. Chief of police shall refer to the director of public safety or his designee.

(4)

Dealer. Any person, firm, partnership, corporation and any principal or employer on whose behalf a purchase is made, employee, agent or servant thereof who makes any such purchase on behalf of his employer or principal, who or which is engaged in or conducting business for the purchase or pawn of junk, antiques or secondhand articles. Dealers are excluded from this definition insofar as they make purchases of articles subject to this article directly from other dealers, manufacturers or wholesalers for wholesale or retail inventories. Also excluded from this definition are dealers receiving merchandise for consignment sale and jobbers buying complete household inventories through established telephone and newspaper advertisements. Further, there shall be excluded from this definition all agents, clerks and employees of a junk dealer; provided, however, every junk dealer shall be liable to all the penalties provided for violations of any of the provisions of this article, whether such violations shall be committed by himself or by his agents, clerks or employees.

(5)

Director. The director of public safety or his designee.

(6)

Engaged in or conducting business. The purchase or pawn of any items aforesaid, including such business conducted by an established dealer in a permanent location and including any temporary, transient or itinerant business.

(7)

Established dealer. Any dealer as defined herein who engaged in or conducts business at a fixed location in Alexandria, Virginia, for profit for 30 consecutive days or more.

(8)

Itinerant dealer. Any dealer as defined herein who engages in any temporary or transient business conducted in a shop, room, hotel room, motel room or other premises for any duration less than 30 consecutive days.

(9)

Junk dealer. Any dealer as defined herein who engages in the purchase or pawn of junk, rags, rag cullings, bones, bottles, scrap, metals, metal drosses, steel, iron, old lead pipe, old bathroom fixtures, old rubber, old rubber articles or other like commodities, except paper, furniture, clothes and shoes.

(10)

Pawnbroker. Any person who shall in any manner lend or advance money or other things for profit on the pledge or possession of personal property, or other valuable things, other than securities or written evidences of indebtedness, or who deals in the purchasing of personal property or other valuable things on condition of selling the same back to the seller at a stipulated price.

(11)

Secondhand articles. Any item of personal property or object of value, previously owned or used, which is not purchased or sold as new. Secondhand articles do not include property purchased by one licensed, established merchant from another within or without the city in the normal course of business. (Code 1963, Sec. 19-01, as amended by Ord. No. 2518, 10/29/80, Sec. 4; Ord. No. 2587, 6/13/81, Sec. 6; Ord. No. 3006, 1/12/85, Sec. 1)