(A) No person shall keep, maintain, or conduct a place for the purchase, reception, or keeping of stolen goods as a fence.
(B) Every junk dealer or junk peddler who shall receive or be in possession of any goods, articles, things, or junk which may have been lost or stolen or are alleged or supposed to have been lost or stolen shall forthwith exhibit the same to any member of the police force on demand.
(C) The places of business, junk wagons and all junk of every junk dealer, and the junk wagon of every junk peddler shall, at all reasonable times, be open to the inspection of any member of the police force.
(D) Whenever there shall be filed with the Chief of Police, by the owner or his or her agent, a sworn written and signed statement that the owner or the agent has reason to believe that certain stolen goods or things specifically described in a sworn statement are in the possession of any wholesale junk dealer, any member of the police force shall have the right to inspect the premises of the junk dealer at any reasonable hour and view all junk which has been purchased, received, collected, or stored in the premises occupied by the business.
(Prior Code, § 120.009) Penalty, see § 117.999