California CodesBusiness and Professions Code - BPCDivision 8 — Special Business RegulationsChapter 9 — Secondhand GoodsArticle 3 — JunkSection 21603
This article shall not apply to any of the following:
(a) Secondhand furniture merchants.
(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.
Notes
Exempts from the article secondhand furniture merchants, pawnbrokers, secondhand car dealers or merchants connected with vehicle sales agencies when not operated with a junk yard, sellers of new tires, batteries, or equipment taking used like-kind articles as part payment, secondhand oil-well supply and equipment dealers not operating with a junk yard, and secondhand clothing merchants and ragpickers.
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