(a) No secondhand dealer shall purchase any article of secondhand property whatsoever from any minor without the written consent of a parent or legal guardian. Such consent must be signed in the presence of the licensee, who must include the consent in the daily record required under Section 4-264-050.
(b) No secondhand dealer shall purchase any article of secondhand property from any person who appears intoxicated or under the influence of any drug.
(c) (1) No secondhand dealer shall purchase any article of secondhand property from any person known to be a thief or to have been convicted of theft, burglary, robbery or armed robbery, and when any person is found to be the owner of stolen property which has been bought, such property shall be returned to the owner thereof without the payment of the amount paid by the secondhand dealer for the stolen property.
(2) No secondhand dealer shall purchase any property which any law enforcement officer or any individual acting in behalf of a law enforcement agency explicitly represents to the dealer as being stolen or represents to the dealer such circumstances as would reasonably induce the dealer to believe that the property was stolen.
(d) No secondhand dealer shall purchase, take or receive from any person any catalytic converter that is not attached to a motor vehicle, or any portion of a dismantled catalytic converter that is reasonably identifiable as such. In addition to any other penalty provided by law, any person who violates this subsection (d) shall be fined not less than $1,000.00 nor more than $2,000.00 for each offense.
(e) (1) No secondhand dealer shall purchase, take or receive from any person any cell phone whose make, model and serial number is entered into a stolen cell phone database. Before purchasing, taking or receiving from any person any cell phone, the secondhand dealer shall check the stolen cell phone database to verify that the cell phone is not a stolen or lost cell phone, and shall record, in an inventory log the date and time of such verification, the make, model and serial number of the cell phone, and a unique inventory number for each such cell phone. The licensee shall attach a sticker to the cell phone with the corresponding unique inventory number contained in the inventory log. The log and the sticker attached to the cell phone shall be made available at all reasonable times, as defined in Section 4-4-290 of this Code, to inspection by authorized personnel of the department or any member of the City's Department of Police.
(2) A secondhand dealer shall issue to any person who purchases a secondhand cell phone from the licensee a receipt, in a form provided by the Commissioner, acknowledging that the cell phone is not identified, at the time of sale, in a stolen cell phone database as a stolen or lost cell phone. Such receipt shall include the date and time of such sale, and the make, model and serial number of the cell phone.
(3) A secondhand dealer shall report, within a reasonable time, to the Chicago Department of Police any secondhand cell phone that is brought to the licensee for sale, and whose make, model and serial number is identified in a stolen cell phone database. Upon request, such dealer shall surrender such cell phone to any member of the City's Department of Police, if the dealer is in possession of the cell phone.
(Added Coun. J. 12-9-92, p. 25465; Amend Coun. J. 2-26-97, p. 40141; Amend Coun. J. 5-6-15, p. 108540, § 3; Amend Coun. J. 9-6-17, p. 54980, § 2)