This article shall not apply to any of the following:

(a) Secondhand furniture merchants.

Terms Used In California Business and Professions Code 21603

  • junk: means any and all secondhand and used machinery and all ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals and alloys, including any and all secondhand and used furniture, pallets, or other personal property, other than livestock, or parts or portions thereof. See California Business and Professions Code 21600
  • junk yard: includes any yard, plot, space, inclosure, building or any other place where junk is collected, stored, gathered together and kept. See California Business and Professions Code 21602

(b) Pawnbrokers.

(c) Secondhand car dealers or merchants in connection with automobile and motor vehicle sales agencies but not carried on and conducted in conjunction with a junk yard.

(d) Persons engaged in the business of selling new automobile tires or batteries or other equipment taking in part payment used articles of the same kind and thereafter selling or disposing of the same.

(e) Secondhand oil well supply and equipment dealers not conducting or carrying on their business in connection with a junk yard.

(f) Secondhand clothing merchants and ragpickers.

(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 1078.)