Every secondhand dealer shall fill in the proper type of card for each article bought or transferred to him or her and he or she shall deliver to the Chief of Police, or his or her designee, every day, before the hour of 12:00 noon, all such cards describing the secondhand goods, articles or things bought, received or transferred to such secondhand dealer during the preceding day. 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 in which such property was received.
(`83 Code, § 5-810)