Persons dealing in junk will refrain from purchasing any article or thing suspected of being stolen or known by
such dealer to be stolen. Every junk dealer who shall receive or be in possession of any goods, articles, things or junk which may have been stolen shall forthwith on demand exhibit the same to any member of the department of police or to any member of the board of trustees, and if any such articles or things are suspected by the dealer of having been stolen, and such suspicion originated after such article or thing was in the possession of the dealer, he or she will notify the department of police immediately.
(Code 1972, § 3-11-5)
4 720 ILCS 5/15-6, 5/16-1.