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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC ORD 1962-1021 Pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers (6.54)ORDINANCE NO. 1021 AN ORDINANCE RAENDI INGSECONDAILYDREPORTS ESSFROM PAWNBROKERS The City Council of the City of National City, California does ordain as follows: Sec. 1 Definitions. (a) A pawnbroker is any person conducting, managing, or carrying on a business of receiving goods in pledge for loans for which interest is exacted, or of purchasing goods and agree- ing, at or before such purchase, to resell the same to the vendor at a stipulated price. (b) A second-hand dealer is any person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of buying, selling or otherwise dealing in used or second-hand goods. The phrase shall not be construed to apply to the receipt or sale of second-hand goods received as part payment on new goods. Sec. 2 Reports to Police. Every pawnbroker or second-hand dealer shall daily before the hour of 10:130 o'clock in the morning make out and deliver to the office of the Police Department, on blank forms to be obtain- ed from the office of the Police Department for that purpose, a full, true and complete report of all goods, or things received on deposit, pledged or purchased during the preceding business day, and the true name and address, as nearly as the same are known or can be ascertained, of the person by whom such article was left on deposit, pledged, or sold, together with a descrip- tion of such person. Such report shall show the number of the pawn ticket, amount loaned, amount purchased, and an accurate description of each article left on deposit, pledged or purchased. A copy of this section, to be furnished by the City Clerk, shall be kept conspicuously posted in the place of business of every such pawnbroker or second-hand dealer. Sec. 3 Record of Goods Received. Every pawnbroker or second-hand dealer shall keep a com- plete record of all goods, or things pledged to or purchased or received by him, or solid or otherwise disposed of, which record shall contain all the matters required to be shown in the report referred to and described in Section 2 above. Every such record and all goods, and things pledged to or purchased or received by any such pawnbroker or second-hand dealer shall be open at all times during business hours to the inspection of any police officer of the City. Sec. 4 Filing in Police Department. The Chief of Police shall cause to be filed in the office of the Police Department all reports received pursuant to the terms of this Ordinance and the same shall be open to inspection only by members of the Police Department of the City. Sec. 5 Failure to Report. No person conducting or managing the business of pawn- broker or second-hand dealer, or any agent or employee of any such person shall fail, refuse or neglect to file any report in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance, or fail, refuse, or neglect to keep any record as required by this Ordinance, or fail, refuse or neglect to exhibit to any police officer of the City immediately upon demand any such record or any goods or things pledged to or purchased or received by such person. Sec. 6 Five -Day Waiting Period. No pawnbroker or second-hand dealer shall sell or other- wise dispose of any article within five days after such article has been received or purchased by him. Sec. 7 Violations. Any violation of this Ordinance shalt constitute a mis- demeanor, punishable by imprisonment for a term not to exceed six months, a fine not to exceed $500.00 or by both such fine and imprisonment. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of National City, California, this 16th day of January, 1962, by the following vote, to wit: AYES: Allen, Hollingsworth, Morgan, Reid, Hart NOES: None ABSENT: None „41(41. 4X*07 ATT'E CITY CLERK MAYOR