777.05 REPORTING TO LEADSONLINE OR SIMILAR ENTITY.
(a) The City of Cuyahoga Falls Police Department shall enter into a contract for services and maintain its contract for services with LeadsOnline or a similar entity in order to enhance its investigative services to protect both secondhand businesses and members of the general public. In the event of a change to its electronic reporting system, the city shall notify all licensed secondhand businesses in the city of the change within a reasonable time prior to such change.
(b) Every secondhand business shall own, operate or maintain reliable access to a functioning computer system with internet access for the purposes described herein. Every secondhand business shall subscribe to LeadsOnline or the city's current electronic reporting system and maintain said subscription throughout the term of the secondhand business' license.
(c) Every secondhand business shall furnish a report of every secondhand article, as described in Section 777.01, taken in pawn, purchased, or otherwise accepted by such secondhand business as soon as reasonably possible after the transaction is consummated, but no later than the following calendar day, by uploading such report to the LeadsOnline program or the electronic system then in use by the city via a secure internet connection. For every report, the secondhand business shall input information to every data field supported by the LeadsOnline system or the system then currently in use by the Cuyahoga Falls Police Department. No entry into the system shall be erased or tampered with by the secondhand business or any person.
(d) No item shall be received or accepted unless the person from whom the article is acquired exhibits a driver's license or state-issued identification card and the identifying numbers are recorded on the electronic report submitted to LeadsOnline or the electronic system then in use by the city.
(e) If any article that is left on deposit, pledged or purchased has engraved thereon a number, word or initials or contains settings of any kind, the description of the article in the electronic report shall contain the number, word or initials engraved and shall describe the setting of the item and the number of each kind.
(f) Every secondhand business shall furnish a photograph of every article of jewelry, precious metal or stone, regardless of value taken in pawn, purchased or accepted by such secondhand business, as soon as reasonably possible after the transaction is consummated, but no later than the following calendar day, by uploading the photograph to the LeadsOnline or other program via a secure internet connection.
(g) In the event the electronic reporting system malfunctions or is otherwise not operational, the secondhand business shall, at all times during such malfunction or non-operation, keep written records of any transactions that would have otherwise been entered in the electronic reporting system and shall submit such records to the Cuyahoga Falls Police Department within twenty-four (24) hours of such transaction during the nonoperational period. The written records shall contain all information required on the electronic reporting system.
(Ord. 27-2018. Passed 4-9-18.)