(a) Any secondhand dealer doing business in the city, or any employee or agent of such dealer, who purchases or trades for used or secondhand goods, wares or merchandise in the city for the purpose of resale to the public shall, at the time of purchase, record in a legible manner in duplicate on a sequentially numbered report form, approximately five inches by eight inches in dimension, the following information:
(1) An accurate and complete description of the article purchased;
(2) Date and time of purchase;
(3) The amount of money paid or other consideration exchanged for the property purchased;
(4) The name, age, sex, race and place of residence of the person selling the article;
(5) The license number of the automobile in which the article was delivered to the secondhand dealer, and the state that issued the license, as reported by the seller;
(6) The number of the seller’s drivers license, military identification card, state-issued identification card, or federally issued identification card, except a social security card; and
(7) The signatures of the seller and the secondhand dealer.
(b) Neither the secondhand dealer nor any employee or agent of such dealer shall purchase or trade for any used or secondhand property unless the seller of such property provides one of the forms of identification required in subsection (a)(6) above.
(c) Any secondhand dealer who trades for or purchases used or secondhand goods, wares or merchandise from another licensed secondhand dealer shall be required to record upon the report form only the city license of the secondhand dealer from whom the used or secondhand articles were received, in lieu of the information required by subsection (a) above.
(d) The report forms described above shall be furnished by the city to secondhand dealers free of charge. Any secondhand dealer may, at his or her own expense, print and use his or her own report forms, provided such forms conform in dimension and in the information required to the forms furnished by the city.
(e) One copy of the completed report shall be mailed to the police department within 48 hours from the time of purchase or trade. The second copy shall be retained by the secondhand dealer for a period of two years. The reports required above shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by the chief of police or any police officer of the city.
(f) Neither the secondhand dealer nor any employee or agent of such dealer shall knowingly record false information of a material fact on a report required by this section.
(1964 Code, § 22-8) (Ord. 9175, § 3, passed 8-21-1984)