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1. Every pawnbroker shall accurately and legibly enter in ink, in the English language, the following information at the time of purchase or receipt of any property: (1) the date and hour of the transaction; (2) the amount paid, advanced, or loaned for the article; (3) a detailed and accurate description of the article; (4) when applicable, the model number and/or serial number; and (5) the name, house number and street of the person from whom the property is purchased or received, his/her date of birth, driver's license number, State of Iowa identification number or Social Security number, sex, age, height, race and type of photo identification presented, (6) the amount lent and the number of any pawn ticket issued therefor.
2. When the pawn log sheets are complete, or upon demand from the Chief of Police, or his or her designee, the licensee shall surrender the original sheets to the Chief of Police, or his or her designee, who shall provide a copy of the sheets to the licensee; the originals to remain the property of the City. The licensee shall also maintain a record of the name and residential address of a person redeeming an article of property, the date of such transaction, and a description of the article redeemed. In the event property is disposed of, other than by redemption, the licensee shall record a description of the property, how disposed, and the name and address to whom the article was transferred. Such redemption or sales records shall be maintained by the licensee for one year from the date of the transaction, and shall be, at all times, open to examination and recordation by the Chief of Police, or his or her designee.
3. Every pawnbroker shall install, maintain and operate a security camera system that captures the video images of persons transacting business on the premises. The video capture shall hold images for at least 15 days.
The licensee, his or her agents or employees, shall also legibly record the date and hour the property was purchased or received on the property, or such information shall be securely affixed to the property. Such information must conform to the information recorded under this chapter.
1. No licensee, his or her agents or employees, purchasing or receiving any article of property shall: (1) receive any property without first viewing a form of identification containing the photograph of the person identified; (2) melt, alter, destroy, sell, redeem, remove from the licensed premises or otherwise dispose of such article, within fifteen days after the receipt and report of any property is made as required by this chapter, except upon written permission from the Chief of Police, or his or her designee; (3) purchase or receive any property from any person under the age of eighteen years, without his or her parents or guardian being present at the time of the transaction, and without receiving a consent, a copy of which must be submitted along with the records required by this chapter; (4) purchase or receive any property or surrender any property from six p.m. to eight a.m., Monday through Saturday, and six p.m. Saturday to eight a.m. Monday; (5) conceal, secrete, or destroy, for the purpose of concealing, any article purchased or received for the purpose of preventing identification; (6) deface, alter, or remove any serial number or identifying marks from an article in his or her possession; (7) take possession of debased or altered property, as described in (6) above. However, those licensed pawnbrokers in possession of such property at the time of passage of this chapter shall have sixty days to dispose of such property.
2. Each pawnbroker shall retain in his or her possession the property pawned for at least one hundred twenty days from the date of the pawn.
3. Each pawnor has a right to redeem his or her property within the period of possession required in subsection 2 of this section. Property not so redeemed may be sold by the pawnbroker.
1. It shall be unlawful for any pawnbroker to employ any clerk or person under the age of eighteen years to receive any pawn or make any loan.
2. Each pawnbroker shall employ and have on premises during hours of operation at least two employees at the age of eighteen years or older.
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