[R.O. 2008 §620.010; Ord. No. 430 §1, 6-14-1993]
The following words when used in this Chapter shall have the
meanings set out herein:
The Chief of Police of Ironton, Missouri, or his or her designee.
The City Collector of the City of Ironton, Missouri, or his
or her designee.
The book value of the current assets of a person or pawnbroker
less its applicable liabilities as stated in this definition. "Current
assets" include the investment made in cash, bank deposits, merchandise
inventory, and loans due from customers, excluding the pawn service
charge. "Current assets" do not include the investments made in fixed
assets of real estate, furniture, fixtures, or equipment; investments
made in stock, bonds, or other securities; or investments made in
prepaid expenses or other general intangibles. Applicable liabilities
include trade or other accounts payable; accrued sales, income, or
other taxes; accrued expenses; and notes or other payables that are
unsecured or secured in whole or part by current assets. Applicable
liabilities do not include liabilities secured by assets other than
current assets. "Net assets" must be represented by a capital investment
unencumbered by any liens or other encumbrances to be subject to the
claims of general creditors.
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.
The location at which or premises in which a pawnbroker regularly
conducts business.
An individual, partnership, corporation, joint venture, trust,
association or any other legal entity, however organized.
A person who has not been convicted of any State, Federal
or Municipal offense involving drugs or narcotics, robbery, burglary,
theft, stealing, receiving stolen property, embezzlement, extortion,
forgery, gambling, bribery, perjury, any weapons offense, or crime
of violence within the last five (5) years.
Tangible personal property other than choses in action, securities,
or printed evidences of indebtedness, which property is deposited
with or otherwise actually delivered into the possession of a pawnbroker
in the course of his/her business in connection with a pawn transaction.
Every loan of money made in this State, the payment of which
is secured by a security interest in tangible personal property which
is physically delivered into the hands of the lender at the time of
the making of the loan and which is to be retained by the lender while
the loan is a subsisting obligation.
[R.O. 2008 §620.020; Ord. No. 430 §2, 6-14-1993]
A.
No person shall carry on or engage in business as a pawnshop or pawnbroker
in the City of Ironton without having first obtained a license therefor
from the City Collector as approved by the Board of Aldermen.
B.
Every pawnbroker must obtain a license for each place where such
pawnbroking business is transacted, and no one shall act as agent,
employee, or solicitor for any pawnbroker while such pawnbroker is
engaged in such business at a place other than that specified in the
license.
C.
Before any license under this Chapter is issued, the applicant must obtain a certificate from the Chief of Police stating the applicant has complied with all of the requirements of Section 625.030 of this Chapter.
D.
Each applicant or licensee shall pay an annual pawnshop or pawnbroker's
fee of five hundred dollars ($500.00) in addition to the annual merchant's
license fee.
[R.O. 2008 §620.030; Ord. No. 430 §3, 6-14-1993]
A.
Every applicant for a pawnbroker's license shall complete and
submit to the Chief of Police an application on a form to be provided
by the Chief of Police. The application shall indicate compliance
with the following requirements:
1.
The owner, operator and employees of the pawnshop shall be persons
of good moral character as defined herein.
2.
The applicant shall enter into a bond to the use of the City
of Ironton, the State and any person or persons who may have a cause
of action against the obligor of such bond under Chapter 367, RSMo.,
or this Chapter with two (2) or more good and sufficient sureties,
who are residents of the State of Missouri and licensed to do business
in this State, to be approved by the Mayor and the City Collector
in the penal sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), conditioned
that the applicant will faithfully observe all laws, ordinances, regulations
and requirements of the City of Ironton and the State of Missouri
in relation to pawnbrokers or their business, and will pay all costs,
fines and penalties incurred on account of his or her failure or neglect
in that behalf, and will pay all damages resulting to the City of
Ironton, the State of Missouri or to any person by reason of his or
her wrongfully purchasing, taking or receiving in pledge or on deposit
any stolen property, or the property of any minor. Such bond shall
be filed with the City Collector and may be sued upon by any person
damaged, as aforesaid, in the name of the City of Ironton, to the
use of such person. In no event shall the City of Ironton or State
of Missouri be liable for any costs in such suit.
3.
The application shall provide the form of the pledgee's ticket to be used by the pawnshop, which form must be approved by the Chief of Police. Every pawnbroker shall give, to the person negotiating or leaving property with him or her, a plainly written or printed ticket having upon it a full and perfect copy of all the entries required by Section 625.050 to be kept in the register, for which copy no charge shall be made.
4.
All property purchased absolutely by any pawnbroker shall be
kept by him or her, at his/her place of business, for thirty (30)
days after such purchase.
5.
No pawnshop shall be open for business or receive, as pawned,
pledged or purchased on any condition whatsoever, any article of personal
property or other valuable thing, between the hours of 10:00 P.M.
on any day and 7:00 A.M. on the following day. No such place of business,
or any place or room, a portion of which is used for the conduct of
pawnbroking business, shall be open for business on Sundays nor on
New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day nor Christmas.
6.
Every pawnbroker shall keep at his or her place of business
a clean and legible register in which he or she shall enter in writing,
a description of all property taken, purchased or received, including
any number that may be in or upon any article, together with the time
and a complete description of the person leaving or selling the property,
giving his or her name, age, nationality, sex, color of eyes and hair,
height, weight, scars, tattoos, or other identifying physical characteristics,
driver's license number, military identification number, identification
certificate number or other official number capable of identifying
the person, and place of residence, including street and number, and
a signed document from the seller providing that the seller has the
right to sell the property. The amount lent shall also be entered
in the register together with the interest charged and the time when
the loan falls due. Such entries shall be made within one (1) hour
after the receipt or purchase of the property. Every entry shall be
made in ink and shall not, in any manner, be erased, obliterated or
defaced. This provision shall not apply to any piece of property previously
taken or received from the same person within the same calendar year.
7.
The register provided for herein shall at all times be kept
open to the inspection of the Sheriff of the County of Iron, State
of Missouri, or his or her deputy, any officer of the Police Force
of the City, the City Attorney, the Prosecuting Attorney of the County
of Iron, State of Missouri, and anyone authorized in writing for that
purpose by the Chief of Police. Every pawnbroker shall also, upon
request, show and exhibit to any such person or officer for inspection
any article purchased, taken or received by him or her.
8.
No pawnbroker shall purchase, take or receive in pledge or deposit
any article or property of or from a person under eighteen (18) years
of age or owned by any person under eighteen (18) years of age, or
any stolen property or property which, from any cause, he or she may
have reason to believe or suspect cannot be lawfully or rightfully
sold, pawned or pledged by the person offering it.
9.
Every pawnbroker shall have net assets of at least fifty thousand
dollars ($50,000.00) readily available for use in conducting business
as a pawnshop for each licensed pawnshop location. If the City is
unable to verify that the applicant meets the net assets requirement
for a licensed pawnshop, the City may require a finding, including
the presentation of a current balance sheet, by an independent certified
public accountant that the accountant has reviewed the books and records
of the applicant and that the applicant meets the net assets requirements
of this Section.
10.
An application for a new pawnshop license, the transfer of an
existing pawnshop license or the approval of a change in the ownership
of a licensed pawnshop shall be under oath and shall state the full
name and place of residence of the applicant, the place where the
business is to be conducted, and other relevant information required
by the City. If the applicant is a partnership, the application shall
state the full name and address of each member. If the applicant is
a corporation, the application shall state the full name and address
of each officer, shareholder and director.
11.
Every pawnbroker shall keep, consistent with accepted accounting
practices, adequate books and records relating to the licensee's
pawn transactions, which books and records shall be preserved for
a period of at least two (2) years from the date of the last transaction
recorded therein.
12.
Every pawnbroker shall comply in all respects with Chapter 367,
RSMo.
13.
The application shall be accompanied by an investigation fee
of five hundred dollars ($500.00) if the applicant is unlicensed at
the time of applying for the pawnshop license or two hundred fifty
dollars ($250.00) if the application involves a second or additional
license to an applicant previously licensed for a separate location
or involves substantially identical principals and owners of a licensed
pawnshop at a separate location. There shall be no investigation fee
for renewal of a previous license so long as the principals or owners
and the location of the pawnshop remain the same.
[R.O. 2008 §620.040; Ord. No. 430 §4, 6-14-1993]
The maximum rate of interest which may be charged for making
and carrying any secured personal credit loan shall not exceed two
percent (2%) per month on the amount of such loan. The pawnbroker,
pawnshop or lender may also charge a reasonable fee for the storage
and security of such pledged property.
[R.O. 2008 §620.050; Ord. No. 430 §5, 6-14-1993]
A.
At the time of making any secured personal credit loan, the pawnshop,
pawnbroker, or lender shall execute and deliver to the borrower a
receipt for and describing the tangible personal property subjected
to the security interest to secure the payment of the loan. The receipt
shall contain the following:
1.
The name and address of the pawnshop;
2.
The name and address of the pledgor, the pledgor's description,
and the driver's license number, military identification number,
identification certificate number, or other official number capable
of identifying the pledgor;
3.
The date of the transaction;
4.
An identification and description of the pledged goods, including
serial numbers if reasonably available;
5.
The amount of cash advanced or credit extended to the pledgor;
6.
The amount of the pawn service charge;
7.
The total amount which must be paid to redeem the pledged goods
on the maturity date;
8.
The maturity date of the pawn transaction; and
9.
A statement to the effect that the pledgor is not obligated
to redeem the pledged goods, and that the pledged goods may be forfeited
to the pawnbroker sixty (60) days after the specified maturity date.
B.
If the pawn ticket is lost, destroyed, or stolen, the pledgor may
so notify the pawnshop or pawnbroker in writing, and receipt of such
notice shall invalidate such pawn ticket, if the pledged goods have
not previously been redeemed. Before delivering the pledged goods
or issuing a new pawn ticket, the pawnbroker shall require the pledgor
to make a written affidavit of the loss, destruction or theft of the
ticket. The pawnbroker shall record on the written statement the identifying
information required, the date the statement is given, and the number
of the pawn ticket lost, destroyed, or stolen. The affidavit shall
be signed by a notary public.
[R.O. 2008 §620.060; Ord. No. 430 §6, 6-14-1993]
If any pawnbroker, or his or her agents, servants or employees
shall violate any of the provisions of this Chapter or any of the
provisions of Chapter 367, RSMo., and is finally convicted in any
court of record of the City of Ironton or State of Missouri, or fails
to remain a person of good moral character, the license issued under
this Chapter shall be revoked by the Ironton Board of Aldermen, upon
notice and recommendation by the Chief of Police.
[R.O. 2008 §620.070; Ord. No. 430 §7, 6-14-1993]
It shall be unlawful for any pawnbroker or his or her agents or employees to violate any of the requirements of Sections 625.020, 625.030, 625.040 or 625.050 of this Chapter. Any person, whether a pawnbroker or his or her agents or employees, convicted of violating any of the requirements or provisions of Sections 625.020, 625.030, 625.040 or 625.050 of this Chapter, shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punishable by a fine not in excess of five hundred dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the City Jail for a period not in excess of ninety (90) days, or by a combination of both such fine and imprisonment.
[R.O. 2008 §620.080; Ord. No. 430 §8, 6-14-1993]
No person who has received a valid pawnbroker's license
from the City of Ironton or the State of Missouri, and was lawfully
operating a pawnshop on or prior to August 28, 1990, and has continued
to operate said pawnshop through June 14, 1993, shall be required
to obtain a new license in accordance with this Chapter as long as
such person does not violate the requirements and conditions of the
previously issued license or the terms of this Chapter, or the terms
of Chapter 367, RSMo.
[R.O. 2008 §620.090; Ord. No. 430 §9, 6-14-1993]
The provisions contained within this Chapter shall be applicable and binding upon all pawnbrokers operating within the City of Ironton, Missouri, no matter whether said individuals were operating prior to or subsequent to August 28, 1990, with the exception of the license requirements set forth in Section 625.080 of this Chapter.
