8.82.240 Limitations on business. 8.82.250 Posting regulations. 8.82.260 Misdemeanor declared. Any person engaged in the business of buying, selling, exchanging or dealing in old junk, metals, bottles, syphons, old rope, old iron, brass, copper, tin or lead, secondhand plumbing materials, secondhand gas and electric fixtures, old rubber tires or other used or old articles commonly designated as junk, and having a store, stand, junkyard, or place of business, is a junk merchant, and such stand, junkyard, store or place of business is a junk shop. B. Junk peddler means any person engaged in the business of buying, selling, exchanging, or dealing in old junk, metals, bottles, syphons, old rope, old iron, brass, copper, tin or lead, secondhand plumbing materials, secondhand gas and electric fixtures, old rubber tires or other used or old articles commonly designated as junk and having no stand, store or place of business.
Ordinance regulating junk and secondhand dealers is a valid exercise of the city's police power.
One dealing chiefly in new bottles, but handling large quantities of old bottles, is a junk merchant as defined by ordinance. 8.82.150 License Required. No person shall engage in the business of junk peddler or junk merchant without first obtaining a license from the License Collector and complying with the provisions of this part. 8.82.160 License Junk peddler. Every junk peddler shall pay a license fee of ten dollars per year for each wagon or truck used in such business and five dollars per year for each pushcart used in such business.