(A) Each junk dealer, dealer in secondhand material or person who shall purchase any kind of junk or secondhand material shall keep an accurate daily record of each article purchased, and the time when purchased, and also an accurate description of the person selling the article, giving his or her name, color, sex, age and residence. All such entries shall be made at the time of the purchase.
(B) Every junk dealer is hereby required to keep and maintain a record, used exclusively for this purpose, in which at the time of the transaction and coincident therewith shall be explicitly, plainly and intelligently written in ink and in the English language, without alterations or erasure, the name, residence and street number of the person or the agent, messenger or drayman of the person, and the race of the person from whom the junk was purchased or obtained, and the nature of the junk and, if the junk is a finished product or several parts of a finished product, then each of the parts shall be separately listed and described, including the serial number if any and any other descriptive marks or symbol. There shall also be recorded the day of the week, month and year when the purchase was made, and whether or not the person from which the junk was obtained was male or female. Such record shall further contain the source and place from which the junk came or was obtained.
(C) When any junk dealer shall receive junk from any common carrier from a point without the limits of the city, the record required to be kept by junk dealers shall be sufficient if it shows the name of the common carrier, the nature of the material received, the license number and a complete description of the common carrier, the driver’s license number and a complete description of the driver of the carrier and gives the name and address of the person from whom the junk was received.
(1998 Code, § 94-33) Penalty, see § 10.99