§ 10-181. 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:

Business premises or premises means the area of a salvage yard as described in a salvage dealer's license or application for license, as provided for in this article.

Itinerant salvage dealer means an individual who buys, sells, collects or delivers salvage within the city as a business or employment within the city, but who is not an operator of a salvage yard within the city or an employee of such an operator.

Salvage means old iron, steel, brass, copper, tin, lead or other base metals; old cordage, ropes, rags, fibers or fabrics; old rubber; old bottles or other glass; bones; wastepaper and other waste or discarded material that might be prepared to be used again in some form; and motor vehicles, no longer used as such, to be used for scrap metal or stripping of parts; but "salvage" shall not include materials or objects accumulated by a person as byproducts, waste or scraps from the operation of his own business or materials or objects held and used by a manufacturer as an integral part of his own manufacturing processes.

Salvage dealer means a person who operates a salvage yard within the city.

Salvage yard means a yard, lot or place, covered or uncovered, outdoors or in an enclosed building, containing salvage, upon which occurs one (1) or more acts of buying keeping, dismantling, processing, selling, or offering for sale any such salvage, in whole units or by parts, for a business or commercial purpose, whether or not the proceeds from such act or acts are to be used for charity.

(Code 1976, § 7-3031)

Cross reference

Definitions and rules of construction generally, § 1-2.