[1982 Code, Ch. VIII, § 16]
(A)
The Licensing Board may license suitable persons to be dealers in
and keepers of shops for the purchase, sale, or barter of junk, old
metals, or second-hand articles in the City. They may also license
suitable persons as junk collectors, to collect, by purchase or otherwise,
junk, old metals, and second-hand articles from place to place in
the City, and they may provide that collectors shall display badges
upon their persons, or upon their vehicles, or upon both, when engaged
in collecting, transporting, or dealing in junk, old metals, or second-hand
articles, and may prescribe the design thereof.
(B)
They may also provide that shops and all articles of merchandise
therein, and any place, vehicle or receptacle used for the collection
or keeping of the articles aforesaid, may be examined at all times
by the Licensing Board or by any person by them authorized so to do.
The aforesaid licenses may be revoked at pleasure, and shall be subject
to the provisions of law.
[1982 Code, Ch. VIII, § 17]
(A)
Every keeper of a shop for the purchase, sale or barter of junk,
old metals or second-hand articles, within the limits of the City,
shall keep a book in which shall be written, at the time of every
purchase of any articles, a description thereof, the name, age and
residence of the person from whom and the day and hour when the purchase
was made. The book shall at all times be open to the inspection of
the Licensing Board and of any person by them authorized to make the
inspection.
(B)
Every keeper of a shop shall put in a suitable and conspicuous place
in his or her shop a sign having his or her name and occupation legibly
inscribed thereon in large letters. The shop and all articles of merchandise
therein may at all times be examined by the Licensing Board or by
an person by them authorized to make the examination. No keeper of
a shop and no junk collector shall, directly or indirectly, either
purchase or receive by way of barter or exchange any of the articles
aforesaid of a minor or apprentice, knowing or having reason to believe
him or her to be such. No articles purchased or received by a shop
keeper shall be sold until at least one week from the date of purchase
or receipt has elapsed.
