As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
DEALER IN SECONDHAND ARTICLES
Includes any person dealing in the purchase or sale of any
secondhand radios, televisions, household appliances, either electric
or mechanical, automobile accessories or parts, including tires, office
furniture, business machines and secondhand articles of whatsoever
nature, or dealing in the purchase or sale of any secondhand manufactured
article composed wholly or in part of gold, silver, platinum or other
metal, or in the purchase or sale of old gold, silver or platinum,
or dealing in the purchase of articles or things comprised of gold,
silver or platinum for the purpose of melting or refining, or engaged
in melting precious metals for the purpose of selling, or in the purchase
or sale of pawnbrokers' tickets or other evidence of pledged
articles or, not being a pawnbroker, who deals in the redemption or
sale of pledged articles. Nothing contained in this chapter shall
be construed to apply to household furniture and furnishings, pianos,
books, magazines, tapestries, burlaps, paintings, drawings, etchings,
engravings or automobiles; nor to exchanges, returns or credits of
merchandise when the article or articles exchanged, returned or credited
are accepted in full or part payment for new merchandise; nor to the
first purchase or sale in the Village of any imported secondhand articles.
PERSON
Includes one or more persons of either sex, natural persons,
corporations, partnerships, associations, joint-stock companies and
all other entities of any kind capable of being used.
In case any suspicious or known dishonest person shall offer
for sale to any dealer in secondhand articles, his employee, agent
or servant any article of value and he has reason to believe from
any circumstance that the same has been stolen or acquired by dishonest
means, it shall be his duty to report the same at once to the police.
If the Police Department shall notify a licensed dealer that
any goods, articles or things have been lost or stolen, and if such
goods, articles or things, or any such or part of such, answering
to the description of the notice shall then be or shall thereafter
come into the possession of any person covered under the terms of
this chapter, he shall, upon receiving notice thereof, immediately
thereafter report to the Town Police Department and give information
in writing that certain goods, articles or things listed by the police
are in his possession and shall not hereafter dispose of the same
except upon written authority so to do from the Commissioner of Police.
Every dealer in secondhand articles who shall have or receive any
goods, articles or things lost or stolen, or alleged or supposed to
have been lost or stolen, shall exhibit the same on demand to any
police officer or any person duly authorized by the Police Commissioner
in writing for such purpose who shall exhibit such written authority
to the dealer.
Any person who, himself or by his Clerk, agent or employee,
shall establish, engage in or carry on the business of dealer in secondhand
articles without a license, or shall violate any of the provisions
of this chapter, shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine
of not less than $50 nor more than $200 or imprisonment for not more
than six months, or to both such fine and imprisonment. Each day on
which such violation continues shall constitute a separate offense.