Section 43-22-2 - Registration with judge of probate court

No person, firm, or corporation or employee of any person, firm, or corporation shall engage in the business of purchasing junk in any county of this state without first registering his name with the judge of the probate court of the county in which he intends to engage in such business, the name to be entered upon a book in the judge's office, to be known as the junk dealers' book, and paying to the judge the registration fee as provided in Code Section 43-22-3.