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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 12-1 Definitions.">
  <section prefix="§" num="12-1" heading="Definitions.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">In this subtitle, the following words have the meanings indicated.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Antique dealer.">“Antique dealer” means any person engaged in the business of buying for resale, trade, or transfer personal property that has special value because of its age, including but not limited to paintings, clothing, furniture, glass, ceramics, rugs, silverware, carvings, sculpture, and other moveable personal property, excluding motor vehicles, records, tapes, compact discs, and books.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Consignment goods dealer.">
      <para num="(1)">“Consignment goods dealer” means any person receiving consignment goods for the purpose of selling them.</para>
      <para num="(2)">“Consignment goods” includes all categories of moveable personal property enumerated in subsections (b) and (f) of this section.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Dealer.">“Dealer” means any:<para num="(1)">second-hand personal property dealer;</para>
      <para num="(2)">antique dealer; or</para>
      <para num="(3)">consignment goods dealer.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(e)" />
    <para num="(f)" heading="Second-hand personal property dealer.">“Second-hand personal property dealer” means any person engaged in the business of buying for resale, trade, or transfer used or previously owned property or merchandise, including, but not limited to, clothes, furniture, household items, and other moveable personal property, excluding motor vehicles, records, tapes, compact discs, and books.</para>
    <para num="(g)" heading="Transfer.">“Transfer” means to purchase, sell, trade, consign, or otherwise exchange personal property or merchandise for consideration.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 19, §48A</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 90-641</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 97-206</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 22-125</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
