(1) “Gem and precious metal dealer” means any person who owns, manages or operates a business, including transient merchants, for the purpose of buying, receiving, selling, or in any way exchanging precious metals or gems including, but not limited to, gold, silver, zirconium, platinum, diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, and turquoise, but such items do not include the raw materials or items which have not been previously sold at wholesale or retail.

(2) “Licensee” means a gem or precious metal dealer or secondhand dealer which has a license pursuant to this chapter.

(3) “Person” means an individual, corporation, partnership, or other legal entity or entity-in-fact.

(4) “Acceptable identification” means either a current driver’s license, a state issued identification card issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles, or two current United States, state or local government issued identification cards, one of which has a photograph of the seller. The second identification card is not required if the photo identification is accompanied by a scanned fingerprint.

(5) “Police department” means the city of North Bend police department.

(6) “Public safety officer” means a police officer or any designee of the city of North Bend police chief.

(7) “Secondhand dealer” means any place in which items of used personal property, other than motor vehicles, are purchased, bartered, pawned, or consigned and placed on sale or resale as part of a regular course of business, but excluding yard sales held less than three times in a one-year period and for no more than a 72-hour period, moving sales, and other similar one-time sales occurring at a residence.

(8) “Used” means items which have been previously placed into service or sold at retail.

(9) “Engage in business” shall include any principal owning, managing, or operating a business which receives, buys, sells, or in any way exchanges tangible personal property subject to this chapter, but it does not include purchases of new items from licensed manufacturers or wholesalers, with established places of business, and sales of secondhand items by those engaging primarily in the business of selling new merchandise, or dealers in secondhand motor vehicles, or sales on the premises where the goods have been used by the owner (such as garage sales), or rummage sales of donated goods, nor shall it apply to judicial sales or other sales by public officials in the exercise of their official duties.

(10) “Trade show” means an event open to the public, held in a venue other than a dealer’s business location, at which vendors of a specific type of merchandise may exhibit, buy, sell, or trade items that may include regulated property. Events commonly known as flea markets or swap meets, in which goods of many types are exhibited, sold or traded, are not considered trade shows for the purpose of this chapter.

(11) “Purchase” means the buying, exchanging, transferring, collecting, consigning, or otherwise acquiring of regulated property from another person not a used merchandise dealer, for resale, exchange or transfer by the purchaser. This includes taking possession of regulated property with an expressed or implied agreement or understanding to return regulated property at a subsequent time at a stipulated price or for the payment of a storage or handling fee.

(12) “Regulated property” means:

(13) “New” means any property not obviously put into service. (Ord. 1981, 2012)