§ 36-50. 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:

Junk means old iron, chain, brass, copper, tin, lead or other base metals, old rope, old bags, rags, wastepaper, paper clippings, scraps of woolens, clips, bagging, rubber, wood, plastic and glass, empty bottles of different kinds and sizes when the number of each kind or size is less than one gross, and all articles and things discarded or no longer used as a manufactured article composed of or consisting of any one or more of the materials or articles mentioned in this definition.

Junk dealer means every person, firm or corporation that shall engage at a junk store in the business of buying, selling, bartering or exchanging, or that shall collect, receive, store or hold in possession for sale, barter or exchange any of the things defined in this section as junk, whether dealing at wholesale or at retail, or as a junk peddler.

Junk peddler means every person who uses a junk wagon and travels from place to place within the village for the purpose of purchasing, collecting, obtaining, procuring or receiving junk, or makes a business of purchasing or collecting, obtaining, procuring or receiving junk from anyone who desires to sell it or give it away, and carries it away upon purchasing, collecting, obtaining, procuring or receiving it.

Junk wagon means every truck, wagon, automobile, pushcart or other vehicle used by a junk dealer or junk peddler in the collection, disposition or transportation of junk from one place to another.

(Code 1978, § 8-2-8(A); Code 1997, § 62-86)

State law reference

Junk defined, 415 ILCS 95/2(2).