A. License. No person shall operate the business of a pawnbroker within the Village without a license for such business and payment of the fee required. Application for a pawnbroker's license shall state the name of the applicant, the place of business and the number of employees.
B. Qualifications. The Village Manager shall investigate each applicant. No pawnbroker's license shall be issued to any person who is not twenty-one (21) years of age or over, nor shall such a license be issued to a person who has been convicted of the offense of receiving stolen goods, or of burglary or robbery, nor to any person not of good moral character.
C. Age of Employees. No pawnbroker conducting business within the Village shall employ a person less than twenty-one (21) years of age to assist him or her in his or her business.
D. Records. Every pawnbroker doing business in the Village shall keep a record of every article pledged with him or her or sold to him or her, setting forth an accurate description of the article purchased, the price paid, the exact time of such purchase, and the name and residence of the person from whom such purchase was made. This record shall be open to the inspection of any police officer at any time during business hours.
E. Weapons. No pawnbroker shall receive as a pledge or purchase any revolver, pistol, machine gun, blackjack or sawed-off shot gun, and no pawnbroker shall display in his or her window or shop any such weapons for sale.
F. Dealing With Minors. No pawnbroker shall have any business dealings as a pawnbroker with any person less than twenty-one (21) years of age, except with the written consent of the parent or guardian of the minor to each particular transaction.
G. Stolen or Lost Goods. It shall be the duty of every pawnbroker to report to the police any article pledged with him or her or sought to be pledged with him or her, if he or she shall have reason to believe that the article was stolen or that the article was lost, and found by the person attempting to pledge it.
H. Secondhand Dealer's License. No pawnbroker shall conduct the business of a secondhand dealer without having obtained a secondhand dealer's license in addition to his or her pawnbroker's license.
(Prior code § 32.08)