As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the
following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
MOTOR VEHICLE
A passenger automobile, truck, tractor-truck, trailer, bus, motorcycle
or other vehicle, however propelled, as well as tractors, bulldozers, and
similar machinery and equipment.
USED CAR DEALER
Any person who has been duly licensed by the State of New York as
a used car dealer and who is selling, exchanging or otherwise disposing of
used or secondhand motor vehicles in the Village, where said used or secondhand
motor vehicles have not been acquired by said person in a trade-in transaction
arising from and out of the sale or disposition at retail of new motor vehicles
in the Village or acquired under dealers' franchises with manufacturers, shall
be deemed to be engaged in the business of dealing in secondhand motor vehicles.
Any person desiring to engage in the business of dealing in secondhand
motor vehicles shall make application to the Village Clerk, in writing, for
such license. Said application shall set forth in full the name or names and
residences of such applicant or applicants, if an individual or firm, or if
a corporation the full name of the corporation and the location and address
of such corporation and the names of the principal officers of said corporation,
and in all cases the location where it is desired to locate or maintain and
operate a used car lot. After the filing of said application, the same shall
be referred to the Town of Evans Police Department for investigation; and
upon the investigation, a report shall be filed with the Village Clerk. The
Mayor shall issue a license to the applicant or applicants, provided that
the report of the Town of Evans Police Department is found to be satisfactory,
and provided further that the license fee hereinabove provided for is paid.
Any person engaged in the business of dealing in secondhand motor vehicles,
or his manager for him, shall keep a record of all motor vehicles offered
for sale, exchange or disposal to the public, which record shall show the
make of said motor vehicle, the year of its manufacture, its serial number
and the engine number, which record shall always be kept available for the
Town of Evans Police Department or any police officer within the Village and
open to their inspection at any time. It shall be the further duty of every
such person dealing in secondhand motor vehicles to immediately report to
the Town of Evans Police Department the presence in his place of business
of any motor vehicle on which the serial or engine number has been defaced
or altered.
Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall be subject
to a fine or penalty not to exceed $250 or imprisonment for not to exceed
15 days, or both.