It shall be unlawful for any person in the city to engage in the business of pawnbroking without having first obtained a permit, and given a bond in the sum of $5,000 as required in Neb. RS 69-202 as now existing or hereafter amended, provided, if the pawnbroker also is engaged in a business other than that of a pawnbroker as defined in this article, which other business is of a type that would constitute the person, firm, or corporation so engaged a dealer in secondhand goods, the pawnbroker, at his or her election, may in lieu of giving both a bond as a pawnbroker as provided above and a separate bond as a dealer in secondhand goods as provided in § 11-1-66 of this subchapter, give a single bond in the aggregate amount of $6,000, conditioned, to the extent of $5,000 as provided in Neb. RS 69-202, as now existing or hereafter amended, and also conditioned, to the extent of $1,000, as provided in § 11-1-66 of this subchapter. The fee for a pawnbroker’s permit, which shall be payable also on renewal of the permit, shall be as provided in Chapter 6, Article 6 of this code. If a permit holder moves the location of the business, a new permit may be issued authorizing the permit holder to engage in the business of pawnbrokering at the new address. Such a permit shall be referred to as a new address permit and shall expire on the same date that the original permit would have expired. The fee for a new address permit shall be as provided in Chapter 6, Article 6 of this code.
(Ord. 3462, passed - -1995)