N.Y. General Business Law 60-A – Licenses
§ 60-a. Licenses. It shall be unlawful for any person, association, partnership or corporation to engage in the business of buying or selling old metal, which business is herein designated junk business, and which person, association, partnership or corporation is herein designated junk dealer, unless such junk dealer shall have complied with the provisions of this article and obtained a license so to do from the mayor of the city, if the principal place of business of such junk dealer is in a city, or the mayor of the village if such place of business is in an incorporated village, otherwise from the supervisor of the town in which such place of business is located; for which license shall be paid such mayor or supervisor for the use of such city, village or town, the sum of five dollars, which license shall expire on June thirtieth of each year. The provisions of this article shall not apply to any person, association, partnership or corporation duly licensed and engaged in the business of scrap processing as provided in article six-C hereof.
Terms Used In N.Y. General Business Law 60-A
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Junk dealer: means any individual, firm, corporation, limited liability company, or partnership engaged in the business of purchasing and reselling valuable metal either at a permanently established place of business or in connection with a business of an itinerant nature, including junk shops, junk yards, junk stores, auto wreckers, salvage yards, collectors of or dealers in junk and junk cars or trucks, but shall not include any individual, firm, corporation, limited liability company, or partnership duly licensed as a scrap processor as provided in article six-c of this chapter. See N.Y. General Business Law 60
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.