(A) Record of acquisition of articles. Every secondhand dealer shall keep a record of acquisitions of secondhand goods approved as to type and form by the Chief of Police, with certification of such approval endorsed therein over the signature of a member of the Police Department designated for that purpose by the Chief of Police. The record shall be in a form that contains consecutively prenumbered pages and is in triplicate. The record shall be clearly and legibly written in ink in the English language at the time of each loan, purchase or other method of acquisition and shall contain an accurate and true description of each article, the amount of money or other consideration loaned thereon or paid or given therefor, the date and time of the acquisition of such article by the secondhand dealer, the true name of the person dealt with, as nearly as known, such person's signature, place of residence, race, sex, age, height, build, color of hair, color of eyes, complexion, home telephone number, business telephone number, and reasonable proof of identification by an exhibition of any two of the following: driver's license, voter's registration card, birth certificate, draft registration card, police identification card, passport or other similar reliable means of identification, as well as a photograph or thumb print of the person. The record shall contain the type of identification exhibited, the issuing agency and the number thereon. Unacceptable identification incudes but is not limited to credit cards, social security cards and handwritten identification cards. No entry made in such record shall be erased, obliterated or defaced.
(B) Copy of record. Every dealer shall pre-pare and deliver a copy of the record required by di-vision (A) to the person selling or pledging any item.
('72 Code, § 19-135) (Ord. O-81-17, passed 3-4-81; Am. Ord. O-81-33, passed 5-20-81; Am. Ord. O-81-96, passed 12-61-81) Penalty, see § 10.99