The purpose of this chapter is to discourage an increasingly prolific and socially deplorable business activity of dealing in stolen property by requiring, among other regulations, the purchaser of certain regulated property to maintain a record identifying the authorized vendor or to record and maintain a reliable form of identification of the seller, if the seller is other than a manufacturer or authorized vendor. Further, the chapter should provide the police department with more adequate tools for investigations concerning stolen property. Items of property to be included in the regulations are limited to those items most frequently stolen and for which there is a ready market. (Ord. Nos. 15064; 20241; 21310)