No person shall do business as a pawnbroker in the town without first having obtained a license therefor. Before a license is granted to carry on such business, every such person shall, in addition to the license tax annually imposed by the provisions of article II of this chapter or other ordinances of the town, be required to enter into the current required bond to the town conditioned for the due observance of all the provisions of this article of other ordinances of the town as are in force or may be passed respecting pawnbrokers at any time during the continuation of such license.
(Code 1977, § 21-1)