(A) License requirement. No person, firm or corporation shall engage in the business of a pawnbroker or operate a pawnshop without having first obtained a license therefor or in violation of the provisions in this section.
(‘82 Code, § 5.34.010)
(B) Application; contents and fee.
(1) Applications shall be made to the City Clerk and shall state thereon the name of the applicant, the place of business and the number of employees intended to be engaged. No such license shall be issued to any person who has been convicted of receiving stolen goods, of burglary or of robbery.
(2) The fee for such license shall be as set forth in the license fee schedule on file and available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk.
(‘82 Code, § 5.34.020)
(C) Recordkeeping requirement. Every pawnbroker doing business in the city shall keep a record of every article pledged with him or her or sold to him or her, and such record shall be open to inspection at all times during business hours by any police officer.
(‘82 Code, § 5.34.030)
(D) Sale or purchase of weapons prohibited. No pawnbroker shall receive or purchase any pistol, revolver, black jack or sawed-off shot gun, nor shall he or she display any such weapons for sale.
(‘82 Code, § 5.34.040)
(E) Age limit for issuance. No pawnbroker's license shall be issued to any person who is less than 21 years of age, nor shall any person under such age be employed in any pawnshop, nor shall any pawnbroker have any business dealings with any person under 21 years of age.
(‘82 Code, § 5.34.050)
(F) Pawnbroker duty to report suspected stolen articles. It shall be the duty of every pawnbroker to report to the police any article pledged with him or her, or which it is sought to pledge with him or her, if he or she shall have reason to believe such article was lost or stolen.
(‘82 Code, § 5.34.060)
(Ord. passed - -80) Penalty, see § 10.99