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"Antique dealer" means any person engaged, in whole or in part, in the business of selling antiques.

"Antiques" means and includes works of art, pieces of furniture or decorative objects made at an earlier period.

"Flea market" means and includes, but is not limited to, arrangements whereby a person or persons sell, lease, rent, offer or donate to one or more persons a place or area where such persons may offer or display secondhand or junk items. "Flea market" includes, but is not limited to, swap meets.

"Gift card and/or store credit" means a gift certificate in the form of a card, or a stored value card or other physical medium, containing store value primarily intended to be exchanged for consumer goods and services.

"Gift certificate" means an instrument evidencing a promise by the seller or issuer of the record that consumer goods or services will be provided to the bearer of the record to the value or credit shown in the record and includes gift cards.

"Pawnbroker" means every person engaged, in whole or in part, in the business of loaning money on the security of pledges, deposits, or conditional sales of personal property, or who makes a public display at or near his place of business of any sign or symbol generally used by pawnbrokers, or of any sign indicating that he has money to loan on personal property on deposit or pledge.

"Precious metal" means gold, silver and platinum.

"Secondhand dealer" means every person engaged, in whole or in part, in the business of buying, selling, trading, or otherwise transferring for value secondhand property whether or not the person or entity maintains a permanent or fixed place of business. Secondhand dealer also includes persons or entities conducting business more than three times per year at flea markets or swap meets. For purposes of this Chapter, secondhand dealer shall not include heirs, trustees, or personal representatives disposing of the contents of an estate.

"Secondhand property" means property which is not new that, for purposes of this Chapter, includes: (1) any item of tangible personal property offered for sale which possesses obvious outward signs of wear and tear consistent with having been used or consumed in some proportion; or (2) tangible personal property showing signs of recent make and vintage or nonuse where the secondhand dealer cannot produce a copy of the seller's business license and reseller permits associated with property offered for resale; or (3) gift cards/certificates/store credits where the secondhand dealer cannot produce a copy of the seller's business license and reseller permits associated with the gift card/certificate offered for resale. For the purposes of this Chapter, "secondhand property" also includes valuable stamps and coins (stamps and coins with a value greater than their face value), precious metals, precious stones and jewelry, but shall not include bullion in the form of fabricated hallmarked bars.

(Ord. 2020-81s § 1, 2020; Ord. 2013-79s § 3 (part), 2013; Ord. 83-189 § 2 (part), 1984; Prior Code § 50.02.010)