(a) No licensee, or agent, or employee shall conceal or misrepresent the identity by removing, concealing, defacing, adding to, substituting, or altering, the serial number or manufacturer's number on any motor vehicle, motor, appliance, mechanical device, watch, clock, camera, precision instrument, outboard motor, radio, shotgun, or any other article or thing where the manufacturer has placed numbers for the purpose of identification; by altering or replacing any part of such article, or thing, baring the serial or manufacturer's number with a new or replaced part upon which the proper serial number, or manufacturer's number has not been stamped or placed.
(b) No person licensed under this article, or employee of such licensed person, shall deal in, or possess, any item as described herein above from which the serial numbers have been removed, concealed, defaced, added, substituted, altered, or replaced.
(c) In all prosecutions under this section, possession by any dealer, licensor, person, or entity of an item from which the serial numbers, or manufacturer's number, or identification number has been removed, concealed, defaced, added, substituted, altered, or replaced shall be prima facie evidence of violation of the provisions of this section.
(Ord. 396. Passed 4-9-12.)