(a) Each secondhand goods dealer, or person who shall purchase any kind of secondhand good for $25.00 or more, or who shall receive on consignment or for trade, lease or auction any secondhand good that has a reasonable value of $25.00 or more, shall keep consecutively numbered receipts and record thereon consecutively, permanently and legibly at the time of purchase or deposit each such article purchased or received.
(1) The dealer shall record in that receipt book and on the appropriate receipt the date of the transaction and an accurate description of the person selling or delivering the article, including the person's name, race, sex, age, and residence address, and the dealer shall further require presentation and recordation of the number of either the seller's military identification, driver's license, or approved state identification card.
(2) The secondhand goods dealer shall also record on the same receipt an accurate description of the item purchased or received. That description shall be with such specificity as would enable one to identify the particular item with reasonable certainty. The description shall specifically include, when available, any brand name, serial number, model, color, descriptive marking, or other readily discernible identifying characteristic of the item.
(3) In addition to the foregoing records requirements, before any secondhand goods dealer shall purchase or receive articles of any description under this section, the dealer shall secure from the person selling or delivering the article a sworn statement indicating that the person has legal, marketable title of such article.
(b) When disposing of a large item pursuant to section 32-232(b), the secondhand goods dealer shall record the sale on consecutively numbered receipts, indicating the description of the item, the sale price of the item, an accurate description of the person purchasing or receiving that item, including the person's name, race, sex, age, residence address, and a number from either that person's military identification, driver's license, or approved state identification card.
(c) The secondhand goods dealer may keep separate receipt books for acquisition of items and disposition of items so long as each contains consecutively numbered receipts. Each secondhand goods dealer shall retain copies of the consecutively numbered receipt books herein required, which copies shall be available for surrender to the city police department upon request. Such copies for surrender to the police department shall be arranged in consecutive receipt number order.
(Prior Code, § 5-244; Ord. of 5-10-2011)