Livingston Municipal Code Ch. 7 Secondhand Dealers

For the purpose of this chapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

FURNITURE AND HOUSEHOLD GOODS. As used in this chapter, means and includes beds, bedding, tables, desks, chairs, stoves, floor coverings, crockery, glassware, kitchen and cooking utensils.

(Ord. 284, passed 6-13-1985)

The provisions contained in this chapter shall not be deemed to apply to the purchase or sale by junk dealers of rags, bottles, barrels or cans, or castoff clothing or shoes.

(Ord. 284, passed 6-13-1985)

It is unlawful for any person to engage in, conduct, manage or carry on the business of pawnbroker, secondhand dealer or junk dealer without first applying for and receiving a permit therefor in writing from the City Council.

(Ord. 284, passed 6-13-1985)

Any person desiring to obtain a permit, as required by § 3-7-3, to conduct or carry on any business mentioned therein, shall file an application in writing therefor with the City Clerk specifying by street number, the place where such business is proposed to be conducted or carried on, which application shall contain the name and address of the applicant.

(Ord. 284, passed 6-13-1985)

In the event that any person holding a permit to conduct or carry on any business mentioned in §3-7-3 of this chapter shall violate or cause or permit to be violated, any of the provisions of this chapter, or shall conduct or carry on such business in an unlawful manner, the permit so granted shall be revoked by the City Council after notice given to the permittee to appear before the Council at a time and place to be fixed by it, to show cause why such permit should not be revoked.

(Ord. 284, passed 6-13-1985)

Every person dealing in secondhand goods, wares, merchandise or articles of any description, other than furniture and household goods, either as pawnbroker, junk dealer or otherwise, shall keep a record of all such articles sold or purchased, which articles and record shall at all times during business hours be opened to the inspection of the Chief of Police or any other police officer in the city. Such record shall show the hour of the day when each article was received on deposit, pledged or purchased, and the true name and address, as nearly as the same is known to or can be ascertained by such person, of the person by whom such article was left on deposit, pledged or sold, together with a description of such person, which description shall show the style of dress, height, age, sex, complexion, color of mustache or beard, or both, where the same are worn, and if neither is worn, such fact shall be noted. Such report shall also show the number of the pawn ticket, amount loaned, amount purchased and a complete description of each article left on deposit, pledged or purchased. If any article so left on deposit, pledged or purchased has engraved thereon any number, word, initial or contains any settings of any kind, the description of such article in such report shall refer to the same. Blanks for such reports shall be obtained from the Chief of Police and shall be so printed and subdivided as to contain spaces with proper captions for the furnishing of the information required in this section.

(Ord. 284, passed 6-13-1985)