Every pawnbroker and every employee of the pawnbroker shall admit to the pawnbroker’s place of business during regular business hours, any duly authorized law enforcement officer. The pawnbroker or employee shall permit the law enforcement officer to:
(a) Examine all records required by this article and any article listed in a record which is believed by the officer to be missing or stolen and
(b) Search for and take into possession any article known to him to be missing, or known or believed by him to have been stolen.
However, the law enforcement officer shall not take possession of any article without providing to the pawnbroker a receipt.
(Ord. 2004-04. Passed 3-15-04.)