GENERAL PROVISIONS

§ 111.01 RESIDENTIAL SOLICITING PROHIBITED.

   (A)   It is hereby declared to be the policy of the city that the occupants of the residences in the city shall make the determination of whether solicitors shall be, or shall not be, invited to their respective residences.

   (B)   Notice of the refusal of invitation to solicitors, to any residence, shall be given on a weatherproof card, approximately three inches by four inches in size, exhibited upon or near the main entrance door to the residence, indicating the determination by the occupant, containing the applicable words, as follows:

"NO SOLICITORS INVITED"

   (C)   The card so exhibited shall constitute sufficient notice to any solicitor of the determination by the occupant of the residence of the information contained thereon.

SECONDHAND DEALERS

§ 111.20 PAWNBROKER.

   As used herein, PAWNBROKER shall mean any person, persons, firm or corporation engaged in keeping, conducting, managing or carrying on the business of loaning money for himself or herself or another and taking or receiving by way of pawn, pledge or exchange any goods, wares or merchandise, or any kind of personal property, as security for the repayment of any money loaned thereon.

(Ord. 206, passed 5-4-1939)

§ 111.21 SECONDHAND DEALER.

   As used herein, SECONDHAND DEALER shall mean any person, persons, firm or corporation who conducts the business of buying, selling, exchanging or otherwise dealing in secondhand goods, wares, merchandise or other articles of personal property, or articles and things usually found in a secondhand store and who holds himself or herself out to be and advertises himself or herself to be a dealer in secondhand goods.

(Ord. 206, passed 5-4-1939)

§ 111.22 LICENSES.

   No person, persons, firm or corporation shall hereafter engage in the business of a pawnbroker or a secondhand dealer in the City of Union, Oregon, without first obtaining a permit or license, therefore, from the Common Council of the City of Union, which the permit or license shall not be assignable and may be revoked at any time by the Common Council for cause, after hearing.

(Ord. 206, passed 5-4-1939) Penalty, see § 111.99

§ 111.23 RECORD OF TRANSACTIONS.

   (A)   Every pawnbroker and secondhand dealer operating within the City of Union shall keep a daily record of all articles received, pawned or pledged with him or her, or purchased by him or her; which record shall set out the date and the hour of the day when the article was received on deposit, pledged or purchased, the number of the identification ticket, the amount loaned thereon or the amount of the purchase price, a complete description sufficient for identification of each article left on deposit, pledged or purchased, the name and address of the person pawning, pledging, selling or delivering the article, goods or merchandise and the name of the person receiving or accepting the goods or merchandise so pawned, pledged or purchased.

   (B)   The record shall be kept in a record book for that purpose, and the entries therein shall be legibly written in ink or typewriter, in the English language; and no entry therein shall be altered, changed, erased or defaced; and the record, as well as the articles of merchandise or goods so pawned, pledged, purchased or received shall at all reasonable times be open for inspection by any police officer of the City of Union, the state police or any member of the sheriff's office of the County of Union, Oregon.

(Ord. 206, passed 5-4-1939)