§ 122-151. 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:

Chief means the police chief or any member of the department of police designated by the chief.

Department means the department of police.

Ferrous metals means any metals containing significant quantities of iron or steel.

Fixed location means any site occupied by a secondary metals recycler as owner of the site or as lessee of the site under a lease or other rental agreement providing for occupation of the site by the secondary metals recycler for a total duration of not less than 364 days.

License review board means the city license review board.

Money means a medium of exchange authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign government as part of its currency.

Nonferrous metals means metals not containing significant quantities of iron or steel, including, without limitation, copper, brass, aluminum, bronze, lead, zinc, nickel and alloys thereof, excluding precious metals subject to regulation under article IV of this chapter.

Personal identification card means a driver's license or identification card issued by the department of police or a similar card issued by another state, a military identification card, a passport or an appropriate work authorization issued by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Purchase transaction means a transaction in which a secondary metals recycler gives consideration having a value in excess of $5.00 in exchange for regulated metals property.

Regulated metals property means any item composed primarily of any nonferrous metals, but does not include aluminum beverage containers, used beverage containers or similar beverage containers.

Secondary metals recycler means any person who is engaged, from a fixed location or otherwise, in the business of paying compensation for ferrous or nonferrous metals that have served their original economic purpose, whether or not such person is engaged in the business of performing the manufacturing process by which ferrous metals or nonferrous metals are converted into raw material products consisting of prepared grades and having an existing or potential economic value.

(Code 1977, § 14-6341)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.