(A) The city shall furnish forms for the taking of fingerprints and furnishing additional information as required by regulations of the City Police Department. Every person licensed to conduct, maintain, or engage in a business of pawnbrokers, secondhand dealer, or junk dealer, shall maintain in a form provided by the Chief of Police, or his or her designee, records in the manner and form as provided herein, which shall be subject to inspection by the City Police Department upon request.
(B) Every licensee, owner and employee, shall keep a record of all persons and/or entities with whom business has transacted and all property coming into their possession. Reports must be electronically transmitted to the Chief of Police or his or her designee. Within 48 hours a report must be transmitted by means of electronic transmission through a modem, or similar device in a format that the data is capable of direct electronic entry into the Hamtramck Police Department’s computerized system, as approved by the Chief of Police, or his or her designee for identifying property coming into the possession of a licensor, including but not limited to all pawn property, all transactions in which used goods have been received the preceding day by pawn, trade, purchase, or consignment and items received by junk dealers. A transaction report by electronic transmission under this division (B) shall not be reported on paper forms, unless the Chief of Police, or his or her designee so requires. All secondhand dealers, junk dealers, and pawnbrokers must have the equipment installed in their place of business no later than November 1, 2012. Information must be reported electronically beginning November 1, 2012.
(C) A fee as adopted and subject to change periodically by the City Council shall be assessed per transaction. The vendor will assess the property registration fee for each transaction, the licensee reports either through batch file upload, or directly using the vendor’s business interface, or on the vendor’s automated reported service that involves transactions subject to the provision of this chapter.
(D) TRANSACTION is defined as a single buy, or may involve one or more items and does not include contract extensions, or claims. The per transaction registration fee is not a per item fee, included in the transaction. It is within the sole discretion of the secondhand dealer whether to recover the fee from their customers for registering a transaction.
(E) The licensee will be invoiced on a monthly basis. The city’s vendor automated reporting service isolates and generates a list of the billable transactions will be used for deriving invoiced amounts. The above fees are assessed for the use of the standard vendor’s automated recording service. Any custom programming completed for the secondhand dealer will be negotiated on a contract basis and may result in additional licensing arrangements between the vendor and the licensor. Sales tax will be added to the above amounts where applicable. Failure to timely pay as invoiced is a violation of this chapter.
(Ord. 81, passed 2-28-1929; Am. Ord. 2013-009, passed 1-22-2013) Penalty, see § 114.999