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ORDINANCE NO. 897
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
AZUSA AMENDING THE AZUSA MUNICIPAL CODE BY THE
ADDITION OF CERTAIN REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO JUNK
DEALERS, SALVAGE COLLECTORS, PAWNBROKERS AND
SECONDHAND DEALERS.
The City Council of the City of Azusa does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. The Azusa Municipal Code is hereby amended by the
addition thereto of the following:
"PART 6. JUNK DEALERS, SALVAGE COLLECTORS,
PAWNBROKERS, SECONDHAND DEALERS.
SECTION 6380. JUNK DEALER DEFINED.
'Junk Dealer' means any person having a fixed place of
business and conducting, managing or maintaining any place where
second hand and used machinery or scrap metals, which may include
copper, automobiles, tools, implements, or parts or portions
thereof, are gathered together, stored, purchased or kept for
shipment, sale or transfer.
SECTION 6381. SALVAGE COLLECTOR DEFINED.
'Salvage Collector' means a person not having a fixed place
of business who goes from house to house or place to place
gathering, collecting, buying, selling, or otherwise dealing in
secondhand and used machinery, scrap metals, copper, which may
include automobiles, tools, implements, or parts or portions
thereof, or other articles commonly known as salvage.
SECTION 6382. PAWNBROKER DEFINED.
'Pawnbroker' means any person engaged in any one or more of
the following businesses:
a. Pawnbroking;
b. Lending money for himself or any other person on personal
property, pawns, or pledges in the possession of the
lender;
c. Purchasing articles of personal property and reselling
or agreeing to resell such articles to the vendors
or assignees at prices agreed upon at or before the
time of such purchase.
SECTION 6383. SECONDHAND DEALER DEFINED.
'Secondhand Dealer' means any person, copartnership, firm
or corporation whose principal business is that of engaging in
buying, selling, trading, accepting for sale on consignment,
accepting for auctioning, or auctioning secondhand personal
property.
SECTION 6384. REPORTS REQUIRED.
Junk Dealers, Salvage Collectors, Pawnbrokers, and Secondhand
Dealers under this Part shall report to the Chief of Police of the
City at the Police Department, every day before 12:00 o'clocknoon,
on a blank form, all personal property that is required to be
reported by this Part.
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The specific information to be set out on the purchase form
is as follows:
1. Dealer's name, business address, and telephone number.
2. Date of purchase.
3. Seller's name, description, residence address, vehicle
license number, driver's license or county business license number.
4. Material category descriptions.
5. Weight of material, amount paid, and time of payment.
Junk Dealers shall make a complete report of information
set out on the purchase form and wherever possible include the
driver's license number of the seller or sellers, and the motor
vehicle license number of the automobile driven by said seller
or sellers.
Junk Dealers shall include a general description where the
scrap or junk is comprised of such things as castings, wire, tubing,
copper, pipe or such items which may be commonly described.
Junk Dealers shall report on purchase forms all nonferrous
materials and shall report the following ferrous materials: fence
material, pipe, chain, machinery parts, new foundry castings,
cable and automobiles. Any automobile stripped of its radiator,
battery, motor, seats and wheels, and any transactions totaling
$5.00 or less need not be reported.
Pawnbrokers and Secondhand Dealers shall make their reports
in compliance with the provisions of the Business and Professions
Code Section 21500 et seq. of the State of California.
Salvage Collectors shall maintain purchase records showing
all matters required in reports of Junk Dealers.
The records required by this Section shall be retained for .
a period of three years and shall be available for inspection upon
demand of any law enforcement officer.
Said reports shall be written in the English language in a
clear and legible manner.
SECTION 6385. INSPECTION.
Every junk dealer, pawnbroker and secondhand dealer shall
hold and keep exposed any property acquired by them in the course
of their business for inspection on their business premises during
business hours.
SECTION 6386. PROPERTY.
Junk dealers shall hold all personal property received as
received except automobile bodies until the expiration of three
days after the submission of the report required by this Part. "
SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of
this ordinance and shall publish the same as required by law.
Passed and approved this 3rd day of Jul.v , 1967.
Mayor
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS.
CITY OF AZUSA
I, JAMES MILLER, City Clerk of the City of Azusa, do hereby
certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 897 was regularly introduced
and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the City
Council on the 19th day of June , 1967. That, thereafter,
said ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the
City Council on the 3rd day of July , 1967, by the following
vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen: Rubio, Cooney, McLees, Memmesheimer
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT:Councilmen: Solem
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I do further certify that Jcaused said ordinance to be
published prior to the expiration o ifteen days from the passage
thereof in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic, a newspaper of general
circulation, printed, published and circulated in the City of Azusa,
on the 13th day of July , 1967, and that the same was
published in accordance with law.
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Published Azusa Herald and Pomotropic, July 13, 1967
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