It shall be unlawful for any person to buy, or offer to buy, barter or exchange, or collect any junk, newspapers, rags, paper or bagging, old metal, empty bottles, cans, slush, lead, or discarded or abandoned material while traveling from place to place in, along, or upon the streets or alleys of this City without first having obtained a license therefor as hereinafter provided. The practice of buying, offering to buy, bartering, exchanging, or collecting junk and so forth as stated herein shall be defined as "junking."
(A) 
Applications for such licenses shall be made in conformance with the provisions of the article relating to application for licenses.[1] Such persons shall be licensed as "junk dealers."
[1]
Editor's Note: See Art. 1 of this chapter.
(B) 
The fee to be paid for such license shall be $75 per year, charitable institutions excepted. Additionally, a solicitor's license fee of $20 shall also be remitted.
Every junk dealer, or person collecting junk, who shall receive or be in possession of any goods, article, or thing of value which may have been lost or stolen shall, upon demand, produce such article or things to any member of the Police Department for examination.
Every vehicle used by a junk dealer in the conduct of his business shall bear thereon in legible characters the name and address of the owner thereof.
Junking referred to in § 11.290 shall be permitted only by licensed junk dealers on the evenings before the regular scheduled pickup by a licensed scavenger doing business in the City, between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m., and on the day of the pickup, between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.