(a) A purchaser may not melt, change, take apart, destroy, barter, trade, transfer or sell, any secondhand personal property items or obliterate identification marks, or dispose of any secondhand personal property purchased or otherwise obtained by a purchaser until seven calendar days have elapsed from the date of purchase of the secondhand personal property item, subject of the following exceptions: if the purchaser wishes to do any of the acts set forth in this subsection prior to the expiration of the seven calendar day holding period, the purchaser may do so twenty- four hours or more after notifying the City Police Department of the item to be sold. When secondhand personal property is sold in this manner, the names and addresses of the buyers’ must also be made part of the records retained by the purchaser.
(b) All secondhand personal property obtained by a purchaser shall be stored at the business location in Keyser, West Virginia, where it was purchased, until seven calendar days have elapsed from the date of purchase of the item of secondhand personal property, subject to the exception of earlier permissible sale as set forth in subsection (a) hereof.