§ 12-6. Pawnbrokers, secondhand dealers, auction houses and junk dealers.

(a)

Definitions.

(1)

Junk. Any scrap, old scrap automobiles, iron, brass, copper, tin, lead, rags, mutilated bags and sacks, rope, empty bottles, paper or bagging, rubber tires, batteries, tubes, boots and shoes, bones and hides, hose and electrical wiring or other articles of any kind that are useless for their original purpose.

(3)

Junk dealer. Any person who shall purchase or make a business of purchasing, whether as principal or agent, junk, as defined in this section.

(b)

Requirements.

(1)

All pawnbrokers, dealers in secondhand articles, auction houses and junk dealers shall furnish to the chief of police a full and complete list each day of every article taken in pawn, or bought by such dealers, giving a full description of such article, with the mark, number, brand, monogram, or letters, numbers, or other distinguishing features of any kind, on such articles so pawned or bought by such dealers in their places of business or outside their places of business. This list shall include fingerprinting of the right index finger of each person who pawns any article on the date for which the daily report is made.

(2)

All pawnbrokers, dealers in secondhand articles, auction houses and junk dealers shall keep accounts, showing from whom all such articles were received and the hour and day of receipt, and they shall have their goods arranged in stock so as to enable the goods to be inspected by the police department. When it becomes necessary to visit any such dealer, the chief of police will give a written order to the proper officer to perform such duty and such dealer shall permit such officer to examine any article in such dealer's stock.

(Ord. No. 280, § 1, 3-2-04)