[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of
the City of Oneida 12-21-1982 as Ch. 4-17.5 of the 1982 Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Peddling and soliciting — See Ch. 116.
[Amended 4-7-1992 by Ord. No. 92-02]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any person engaged in the business of purchasing for the
purpose of resale at secondhand any of the following articles: bicycles;
bicycle parts, equipment and accessories; jewelry; unset jewels; precious
stones; gold; silver; coins; tools; power tools; chain saws; small
household appliances; televisions; AM-FM, CB and other radios; mobile
telephones; sound recorders/players of whatever technology employed,
and apparatus associated with and recordings made or used by same,
including but not limited to magnetic tape recorders/players, tapes,
stereos, records, cassettes, compact players/discs, laser players/discs,
digital sound devices and recordings; sterling silverware; clocks;
watches; musical instruments, parts, accessories and equipment; motion-picture
or still cameras, employing film, video or other technology, and related
parts, accessories and equipment; developers, enlargers and other
photographic equipment; video and other electronic recorders, players
and related parts, accessories and equipment; typewriters and other
word processing devices; calculators; copying machines; computers,
monitors, printers, program discs and related parts, accessories and
equipment.
[Amended 9-1-1987 by Ord. No. 87-8]
A.
Before any person shall engage in the business as
a secondhand dealer in the city, said person shall obtain a license
to do so from the City Clerk's office. Said license shall be valid,
unless otherwise revoked, for the calendar year in which the same
is issued, and every said license shall expire at midnight on December
31 of said year.
B.
Application for a license shall be made in writing
on a form supplied by the city. Such form may require the name of
the applicant, his place of residence and business, his date of birth,
type of goods, wares and merchandise to be purchased and sold and
such other information and evidence of good character of the applicant
as the city may reasonably require.
C.
The license fee under this chapter shall be established
by resolution of the Common Council. Such fee may thereafter be amended
from time to time by like resolution.
[Amended 11-20-2012 by Ord. No. 12-05]
D.
Where a secondhand dealer is engaged in business at
more than one location, an amendment to the original license shall
be made.
E.
A secondhand dealer's license shall not include, nor
permit the engaging in, the business of being a pawnbroker.
A.
Every secondhand dealer shall keep permanent records,
made at the time of purchase, of any of the listed articles, including
description thereof and the name, address, age and, if not known to
the dealer, a general description of the person from whom and the
day and hour when such purchase was made. Said records shall be available
for inspection by any member of the Police Department. Said records
shall be entered in a substantially bound book from which pages cannot
be removed, of a suitable size. The entries therein shall be legibly
written in ink and in the English language and shall show the amount
paid for each article and the identifying number attached to each
article in accordance with the provision next following. No entry
in said book shall be altered, erased, obliterated or defaced.
B.
Every secondhand dealer shall, at the time of making
any purchase, attach a properly numbered tag to or otherwise legibly
number each article bought.
C.
Every secondhand dealer shall make out every weekday before 10:00 a.m., on forms provided by the city, a legible and correct copy of the records required to be kept by Subsection A containing particulars of all purchases of such articles made the preceding business day and shall upon request make available a copy of such record to any member of the Police Department.
D.
Every secondhand dealer shall allow his place of business
and articles as listed herein of secondhand merchandise therein to
be examined by any member of the Police Department during normal business
hours.
Every secondhand dealer shall display, in a
conspicuous place within his place of business, a copy of this chapter
furnished by the Police Department.
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall be punished as provided in § 1-14 of this Code. In addition to the penalties imposed, the license of such person shall be canceled and revoked and forfeited.
