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For the purpose of this chapter, the following mean:

Acceptable Identification – Either:

A. A current driver’s license that includes the date of birth, photograph, and physical description of the person offering the identification; or

B. Two forms of current identification, at least one of which is issued by a governmental agency or subdivision and includes the date of birth, photograph and physical description of the person offering the identification.

Acquire – To take or transfer any interest in personal property in a voluntary transaction, including but not limited to sales, trade-ins, and loans.

Application Date – The date the City receives the required application fee from an applicant for a secondhand dealer permit.

Business – A shop, store, enterprise, profession, activity, establishment or undertaking of any nature conducted directly or indirectly for private profit or benefit and as a substantial means of a person’s livelihood. The term is not meant to include the activity of any federal, state or local government or governmental subdivision or agency, or of any organization exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Occasional Secondhand Dealer – A person who owns, helps manage or operates a secondhand business that acquires fewer than 100 items of regulated property in a calendar year.

Owner – A person who has a right of possession to an item of property superior to that of the seller.

Pawnbroker – Any business required by ORS 726.040 to hold an Oregon pawnbroker’s license.

Person. See BC 1.01.020 (“Person”).

Personal Property – Any article, substance or thing of value, including, but not limited to, money, tangible and intangible personal property, chose in action, and evidence of debt or of contract.

Police Department – The Beaverton police department.

Regular Secondhand Dealer – A person who acquires regulated property while carrying on a business and who does not qualify as an occasional secondhand dealer under this chapter.

Regulated Property – Property of a type that is determined by the police chief to frequently be the subject of theft and is included in a list published by the police chief as part of the police department’s administrative rules for this chapter.

Secondhand Business – A business that acquires regulated property.

Secondhand Dealer – Both regular secondhand dealers and occasional secondhand dealers.

Secondhand Dealer Permit – The permit issued to a secondhand dealer pursuant to this chapter.

Seller – Any person who:

A. Offers items of regulated property in exchange for money or other property, or as collateral for a loan; or

B. Donates or abandons items of regulated property.

Transaction – The acquisition of regulated property.

Transaction Report Form – The form required by BC 7.10.045(A).

Used – Previously owned, consumed or put into service by a person other than the manufacturer or the manufacturer’s dealer or agency. [BC 7.10.015, added by Ordinance No. 3774, 6/24/91; amended by Ordinances No. 3925, 6/5/95, Ordinance No. 4749, 1/8/19, Ordinance No. 4794, 12/1/20]