No personal property received by or pledged to any pawnbroker, and no personal property received by or purchased by any secondhand dealer, shall be sold or disposed of or removed from the place of business of the pawnbroker or secondhand dealer for the space of five days from and after the date the same was pawned or received in pledge, or purchased or received by the pawnbroker or secondhand dealer; provided, that at any time any police officer mentioned herein shall serve written notice upon any pawnbroker or secondhand dealer not to sell or remove any article so received by or pledged with him or her or purchased by him or her, or permit the same to be redeemed, the property shall not be sold, or permitted to be redeemed, or removed from the premises until the time as may be determined by the police officer, not exceeding ten days from the date of the service of the notice.
(Ord. 206, passed 5-4-1939) Penalty, see § 111.99