The chief of police of the city and any persons acting by his orders or by the order of any elected official of the city may examine the books of any pawnbroker or his clerk, if they deem it necessary, when in search of stolen property. Any person who has in his possession a pawnbroker's ticket issued by a pawnbroker in the city shall when accompanied by a policeman of the city, be permitted to examine the property purporting to be pawned by that ticket. No property shall be removed from the possession of any pawnbroker without the process of law required by the existing law of the state or the ordinances of the city regulating pawnbrokers.
(Ord. passed 5-13-58)