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The following words, terms, and phrases, when used in this chapter shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning.
(a) "Chief Executive Officer" means for a city, the city mayor, pursuant to MCL 446.203(a)(i).
(b) "Pawnbroker" means a person, corporation, member or members of a partnership, company or firm who lends money on deposit, or pledge of personal property, or other valuable thing, other than securities or printed evidence of indebtedness, or who deals in the purchasing of personal property or other valuable thing on condition of selling the same back again at a stipulated price.
(c) "Scrap processor" means any person or entity whose business is, in whole or in part, the dismantling, wrecking and disposing of junk and/or refuse materials, including automobiles, or otherwise reclaiming metals for reuse.
(d) "Scrap yard" means a place where junk, waste, discarded, or salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, packed, disassembled or handled, including wrecked motor vehicles, used building materials, structural steel materials and equipment and other manufactured goods that are deteriorated or obsolete so as to make unusable in their existing condition.
(e) "Secondhand dealer" means any person, corporation, member or members of a partnership, company or firm, that engages in the business of purchasing, storing, selling, exchanging and receiving second hand goods of any kind, including the receiving and selling of goods on consignment, but does not include scrap processor, automotive recycler, or junkyard that deals principally in industrial scrap, nor to retail merchants who repossess their own merchandise sold on title-retaining contract or who accepts merchandise as part payment on new sale, nor shall it apply to licensed automobile dealers, nor to persons who conduct rummage sales provided that such sales are not conducted by the same person or at the same location for a period in excess of three days or more than twice per calendar year, nor to sellers of new articles, wares, or merchandise from manufacturers, wholesale distributors or jobbers for retail sale to customers, nor persons, firms, or corporations whose principle business is that of dealing in new goods, articles and merchandise.
(f) "Secondhand goods" means any goods, wares, merchandise or other personal property acquired or purchased after having been acquired at retail and used by another except as excluded herein. Such term includes, but limited to, appliances, radios, stereos, and speakers, televisions, video equipment, electronic/computer equipment and devices, computer gaming equipment, tools, auto parts, firearms, coins, sports memorabilia, jewelry, precious metals, musical instruments, sporting equipment, bicycles, lawn equipment, snow blowers, and other household equipment, lead pipes, tools, lighting fixtures, plumbing fixtures, watches, precious stones, musical instruments, and electrical appliances.
(g) "Used vehicle sales" shall remain regulated subject to Section 1278.03 of the City of Southgate Codified Ordinances.
(Ord. 954. Passed 8-15-12.)
The City is designated and authorized to issue, suspend, and revoke licenses for persons, corporations, partnerships, companies or firms to carry on the business of a pawnbroker and secondhand dealers pursuant to both 1917 PA 273, as amended, MCL 446.201 et seq., ("the Pawnbrokers Act") and 1917 PA 350, as amended, MCL 445.401 et seq., ("the Secondhand Dealers Act"), respectively.
(Ord. 954. Passed 8-15-12.)
No person, corporation, partnership, company or firm, or other entity located in the City shall carry on the business of a pawnbroker or secondhand dealer in the City without being licensed pursuant to the Pawnbrokers Act and Secondhand Dealers Act and this section and as approved under this chapter. A secondhand dealer and pawnbrokers license is not transferable.
(a) The City may not issue a license for a pawnbroker and secondhand dealer and scrap dealer when the City's issuance of such a license exceeds 15, 15, 7, respectively.
(b) The City may not issue a license for a pawnbroker and secondhand dealer and scrap dealer when the City's issuance of such a license exceeds 15, 15, and 7, respectively and a license fee pursuant to MCL 446.202(5) which provides the government unit may fix the amount to be paid as the annual license fee at any amount not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) or more than five hundred dollars ($500.00).
(c) Prior to issuance of license both pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers shall file a bond in the penal sum of one thousand dollars ($l,000) conditioned that such applicant will in all respects faithfully comply with and observe all the of the Pawnbrokers and Secondhand Dealer Acts of 1917.
(d) All applicants, prior to the issuance of the license shall affirm that such applicant will in all respects faithfully comply with and observe all the applicable Federal, State, and local laws and regulations, including Act 350 of the Public Acts of 1917, and faithfully perform the duties and obligations of the business, including compliance with the provisions of the City of Southgate Charter, Code of Ordinances, and this chapter.
(e) A moratorium of issuance shall be in effect subsequent to issuance for pawnbrokers, secondhand dealers, and scrap dealers, respectively.
(Ord. 954. Passed 8-15-12.)
(a) All persons obtaining a license issued under this section shall place two copies of the license, one of which placed in the establishments' window or door for public view, and the other placed conspicuously inside the store for full view by patron.
(b) In addition to the conspicuous display of two licenses of any license issued, as required above, a licensee under this chapter shall post conspicuously in the designated places of business a sign reading his or her name and occupation legibly inscribed thereon in letters at a minimum of one and one-half inches to a maximum of two inches in height.
(Ord. 954. Passed 8-15-12.)
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