[R.O. 2011 § 625.060; R.O. 2009
§ 116.15; CC 1981 § 16-207; Ord.
No. 79-104, 12-19-1979]
A. For the purpose of this Article, the following
definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires
a different meaning.
PAWNBROKER
Any person engaged in the business of lending money on the
security of pledged goods or engaged in the business of purchasing
tangible personal property on condition that it may be redeemed or
repurchased by the seller for a fixed price within a fixed period
of time.
[R.O. 2011 § 625.070; R.O. 2009
§ 116.16; CC 1981 §§ 16-208 – 16-209; Ord. No. 79-104, 12-18-1979]
A. Every pawnbroker shall keep a register
of all loans and purchases of all articles effected or made by him/her,
which register shall show the date of loans or purchases and the names
of all persons who have left any description of property on deposit
as a collateral security or as a delivery on sale thereof. Opposite
such name and date shall be written in plain hand the person's age
and motor vehicle operator's or chauffeur's license number or Social
Security number or other identification of public record designated
in a list of such items established by the License Collector. A full
description of all such property purchased or received on deposit
as collateral security, the manufacturer's identifying insignia or
serial number, if applicable, the time when the loan falls due, the
amount of purchase money or the amount loaned and the interest charged
and the picture number. In addition to this, he/she shall give the
party negotiating or selling a plain written or printed ticket for
the loan and a plain written or printed receipt of the articles purchased,
having on each a copy of the entries required by this Article to be
kept in his/her register. For the ticket or receipt, he/she shall
not be entitled to make any charge. A third copy of such register
shall be forwarded on a weekly basis to the City Police Department
to become part of their record.
B. No pawnbroker shall accept any article
or property as collateral security or purchase any article or property
unless he/she makes a photograph of the person from whom such article
or property is being received, along with the receipt or pawn ticket
given to such person; nor shall any pawnbroker refuse to deliver such
photograph to any Law Enforcement Officer upon request in connection
with a specific item of stolen property within one (1) year following
the date such photograph is taken. Every pawnbroker shall display
a notice to his/her customers in a prominent place to the effect that
he/she is required, by City this Section or any other applicable ordinance
of the City, to photograph every person pawning or selling an item
to him/her.
[R.O. 2011 § 625.080; R.O. 2009
§ 116.17; CC 1981 § 16-210; Ord.
No. 79-104, 12-18-1979]
It shall be the duty of every pawnbroker
to report to the Police any article pledged with him/her or which
is sought to be pledged with him/her, if he/she shall have reason
to believe that the article was stolen or lost and found by the person
attempting to pledge it, in the case of a lost article.
[R.O. 2011 § 625.090; R.O. 2009
§ 116.18; CC 1981 § 16-211; Ord.
No. 79-104, 12-18-1979]
No pawnbroker shall receive as a
pledge or purchase any black jack or sawed-off shotgun and no pawnbroker
shall display in his/her window or shop any such weapons for sale.
[R.O. 2011 § 625.100; R.O. 2009
§ 116.19; CC 1981 § 16-212; Ord.
No. 79-104, 12-18-1979]
No pawnbroker shall have any business
dealings as a pawnbroker with any unemancipated minor under the age
of eighteen (18) years, except with the written consent of the parent
or guardian of the minor to each particular transaction. No pawnbroker's
license shall be issued to any person who is not eighteen (18) years
of age or over. No person under eighteen (18) years of age shall be
an agent for any pawnbroker.
[R.O. 2011 § 625.110; R.O. 2009
§ 116.20; CC 1981 § 16-213; Ord.
No. 79-104, 12-18-1979]
No person or corporation shall conduct
or operate a business of pawnbroker in violation of any of the provisions
of this Article.
[R.O. 2011 § 625.120; R.O. 2009
§ 116.21; CC 1981 § 16-224; Ord.
No. 79-104, 12-18-1979]
No person or corporation shall conduct
or operate the business of pawnbroker without having first obtained
a license therefor as provided in this Article.
[R.O. 2011 § 625.130; R.O. 2009
§ 116.22; CC 1981 § 16-225; Ord.
No. 79-104, 12-18-1979]
Application for a pawnbroker's license
shall be made to the City and shall state thereon the name of the
applicant; the place of business; and the number of employees intended
to be engaged. The Chief of Police or any other officer of the City
designated by the City Council shall investigate each applicant for
such license and shall report back to the City Council whether or
not such applicant is a person of good character. No license shall
be issued to a person who has been convicted of the offense of receiving
stolen property or of burglary or robbery.
[R.O. 2011 § 625.130; R.O. 2009
§ 116.23; CC 1981 § 16-226; Ord.
No. 79-104, 12-18-1979]
The applicant for a pawnbroker's
license shall have agreed not to accept as collateral security or
to purchase any camera, radio, television set, lawn mower, typewriter,
adding machine, calculating machine, copying machine, duplicating
machine, tape recorder, tape player, cash register, still or moving
picture projector or offset projector, dictating machine, record player,
electric buffer, electric polisher or electric floor waxer or any
appliances or devices which would normally have a manufacturer's serial
number or other identifying insignia unless such item shall have plainly
visible thereon the manufacturer's serial number or other identifying
insignia.
[R.O. 2011 § 625.150; R.O. 2009
§ 116.24; CC 1981 § 16-227; Ord.
No. 79-104, 12-18-1979; Ord. No. 22-168, 12-20-2022]
The annual fee for a pawnbroker's license shall be the amount stated in Section
150.030; provided that no license shall be issued for less than six (6) months and no license shall be issued until the fee is paid.
[R.O. 2011 § 625.160; R.O. 2009
§ 116.25; CC 1981 § 16-228; Ord.
No. 79-104, 12-18-1979]
A. No pawnbroker shall be allowed to have
more than one (1) place for transacting the business of a pawnbroker
without having first obtained a license for such place of business.
B. No person shall act as agent for a pawnbroker
at any other place than the place of business stated in the application
for a license.
[R.O. 2011 § 625.170; R.O. 2009
§ 116.26; CC 1981 § 16-229; Ord.
No. 79-104, 12-18-1979]
In the event a licensee under this
Article shall change any of the address stated in the application
during the term for which the license is issued, such licensee shall
notify the License Collector of such change not later than one (1)
day after such change.
[R.O. 2011 § 625.180; R.O. 2009
§ 116.27; CC 1981 § 16-230; Ord.
No. 79-104, 12-18-1979]
Any license issued under this Article
may be revoked by the Mayor and Council for any violation of any provision
of this Article.
[R.O. 2011 § 625.190; R.O. 2009
§ 116.28; Ord. No. 97-31, 1-22-1997]
No license for operating the business
of pawnbroker shall be issued when the issuance thereof would increase
the number of such licenses outstanding and in force at that time
to more than one (1) for each fifteen thousand (15,000) inhabitants
residing within the City according to the last decennial census of
the United States. The renewal of an unexpired existing license shall
have priority over the issuance of a new license.