5.32.030 License-Application- Bond-Issuance.

   Any person desiring a junk dealer's license as required by Section 5.32.020 shall make application therefor to the city manager. Such application shall be in writing and shall set forth the full name of the applicant, his residence and the location at which such junk is to be kept or stored and the licensee shall not store or hold junk at any other place in the city. Such applicant shall file with the city clerk a bond in the penal sum of five hundred dollars with sureties to be approved by the city commission, conditioned that the principal named therein will observe this code and police regulations of the city. Such application shall be submitted to the city commission and, if the city commission shall approve such application and location, it may order the issuance of the license. (Prior code § 18-1-3)

5.32.040 License-Fee.

   The fee for a junk dealer's license required by Section 5.32.020 shall be twenty-five dollars per annum, payable in advance. (Prior code § 18-1-5)

5.32.050 License-Suspension, revocation, transfer.

   Any license issued as required by Section 5.32.020 may be suspended or revoked or both in the discretion of the city commission and no license shall be assigned or transferred. If revoked on account of the conviction of the licensee of a violation of this chapter, no part of the fee shall be returned. (Prior code § 18-1-4)

5.32.060 Certain transactions prohibited-Records required.

   A.   No licensee under Section 5.32.020 shall purchase or receive any junk from any minor without the written consent of his parents or guardian or from any person who is at the time intoxicated or from an habitual drunkard or from any person known by him to be a thief or an associate of thieves or a receiver of stolen property.

   B.   Every licensee under Section 5.32.020 shall keep a book in which shall be recorded in English on the day of each purchase or sale, an accurate account and description in the English language of the junk purchased, received or sold, where and from or to whom received, purchased or sold, the amount or thing paid or received therefor and the time of the receipt, purchase or sale, which book, as well as the articles purchased, shall be open at all times to the inspection of any police officer of the city. (Prior code § 18-1-9)

5.32.070 Mandatory holding period before removal or resale.

   No licensee under Section 5.32.020 shall sell or remove from his location as indicated on his license or from any car or vehicle in which he is storing junk, any article of junk purchased by him until the same shall have been in his possession at least five days. (Prior code § 18-1-10)

5.32.080 Maintenance of sanitary conditions-Inspection.

   The place where junk is kept or stored, together with the junk therein, shall at all times be kept in a sanitary condition and open at all times to the inspection of any member of the health department or police department. (Prior code § 18-1-6)

5.32.090 Sale of food prohibited.

   No secondhand store or place of business in which secondhand goods or junk are kept, sold or offered for sale within the city shall keep therein or sell or offer for sale therein, any foodstuffs or other like provisions to be used for human consumption. (Prior code § 18-1-8)