For the purposes of this Chapter, the word "pawnbroker" shall be deemed to mean 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.
[CC 1991 §625.040; Ord. No. 565 §1, 11-10-1980]
No pawnbroker shall accept any article or property as collateral
security or purchase any article or property unless he/she shall make
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
to photograph every person pawning or selling an item to him/her,
by City ordinance.
[CC 1991 §625.050; Ord. No. 565 §1, 11-10-1980]
No pawnbroker shall accept as collateral security or 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, record player, dictating machine, electric
buffer, electric polisher or electric floor waxer, unless said item
shall have plainly visible thereon the manufacturer's serial number
or other identifying insignia.
[CC 1991 §625.060; Ord. No. 565 §1, 11-10-1980]
In addition to paying any fine for violation, any person who
shall violate any provision of this Chapter may have his/her license
revoked by the Board of Aldermen after the licensee has been notified
in writing at his/her place of business of the violations complained
of and shall have been afforded a reasonable opportunity to have a
hearing thereon before the Board of Aldermen.
[CC 1991 §625.070; Ord. No. 566a §1, 2-9-1981]
No license for operating the business of pawnbroker shall be
granted or issued when the granting thereof will increase the number
of such licenses outstanding and in force at that time to more than
one (1) for each seven thousand five hundred (7,500) inhabitants or
fraction thereof residing within the City as shown by the last decennial
census of the United States.