(A) Every pawnbroker shall fill in the proper type of card for each article pledged to or otherwise received by him or her, and he or she shall deliver to the Chief of Police, every day before the hour of 12:00 noon, all of such cards describing articles, pledged, pawned or received during the preceding day.
(B) The cards may be mailed to the office of the Chief of Police, or his or her designee, in lieu of personal delivery, if the envelope in which the same are mailed bears the post date of the day on which such property was received.
(`83 Code, § 5-618)