Number
100208
Version
Substitute 3
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. WITKOWSKI BOHL AND Puente
Title
A substitute ordinance requiring secondhand dealers to report transactions on a police-approved Internet website, standardizing identification requirements and lengthening holding periods for certain items.
Sections
92-1-6 rc
92-2-6 rc
92-2-7 rp
92-2-8 rp
92-2-9 rn
92-2-10 rn
92-2-11 rn
92-3-2-e cr
92-3-8 rc
92-6 rc
92-10-6 rc
92-11 cr
92-12 cr
92-13 cr
Analysis
This ordinance amends the city’s secondhand dealer regulations to require licensed pawnbrokers, secondhand dealers and precious metal and gem dealers to post or upload transaction description records for all items pawned, pledged, exchanged, consigned or purchased, including item descriptions and pictures, and pictures and identification of borrowers or sellers, directly to a police-approved Internet website at the close of each business day to enable the police to more quickly and easily identify and recover stolen items, solve burglaries and property thefts, and help reduce theft-of-property crimes in the city. Junk collectors and dealers are required to post or upload transaction description records for only “regulated property”, e.g. aluminum (except cans) and copper items, stained glass, water meters, cemetery plaques, house of worship fixtures, catalytic converters, bicycles and manhole covers.
This ordinance also standardizes provisions for identification of borrowers and sellers, standardizes record requirements for pawnbrokers, secondhand dealers, precious metal and gem dealers and junk collectors and dealers purchasing regulated property, and lengthens holding periods for purchases made by precious metal and gem dealers and for regulated property purchased by junk collectors and dealers.
Body
The Mayor and Common Council of the...
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