§ 5.46.220. Pawnbroker's receipt books.  


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  • Every person managing, maintaining or conducting the business of a pawnbroker in the city shall keep or cause to be kept, at the store or place of business, receipt books as hereinafter described. Such books shall be kept in addition to the record of transactions required by Section 5.46.050, and shall consist of duplicate sheets of white paper not less than four by seven inches in size and bearing consecutive numbers. One of each of said duplicate pages shall be so perforated as to enable its removal. One of the aforesaid books shall be kept for the recording of, and the receipting for, sales, and there shall be printed at the top of the perforated sheet, in colored type, not less than three-eighths of an inch in height, the following words: "This is a sale and not a pledge." One of the aforesaid books shall be kept for the recording of, and the receipting for, pledges, and there shall be printed at the top of the perforated sheet, in colored type, not less than three-eighths of an inch in height, the following words: "This is a pledge and not a sale."

(Prior code § 5-9.27)