Any sworn law enforcement officer may examine during regular business hours the books of any person doing business as set forth in this subchapter, or his or her clerk, if he or she deems it necessary when in search of stolen property. Any person who has in his or her possession a receipt from selling regulated property to a person carrying on a business as described in this subchapter shall, when accompanied by a sworn law enforcement officer, be permitted to examine regulated property purporting to be sold by that receipt. No property shall be removed from the possession of any person doing business as set forth in § 112.16 of this chapter, without due process of law as required by the existing laws of the commonwealth or the laws and ordinances of the city.
(Ord. 03-2011, passed 2-22-2011)