File #: ORD-79:1932    Version: 1 Name: Amend Code of Ordinances regarding pawnbrokers
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 11/5/1979 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 11/5/1979
Title: AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 13-37 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF JONESBORO, ARKANSAS, THE SAME DEALING WITH THE REGULATION OF PAWNBROKERS
Indexes: Code of Ordinances amendment
Code sections: Chapter 42 - Licenses, Permits & Misc. Business Regulations
Related files: MIN-79:799
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AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 13-37 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF JONESBORO, ARKANSAS, THE SAME DEALING WITH THE REGULATION OF PAWNBROKERS
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BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, that Section 13-37 be amended as follows:

Section 1: In addition to the license fee which is now or may hereafter be collected every year from persons engaged in the pawnbrokers business, such person shall be subject to the following additional regulations in the conduct of their business as a pawnbroker:

(a) It shall be the duty of each pawnbroker, his or its agents, servants and employees, to keep in a plain and intelligent manner, a written record in a permanent record book of each transaction in which a pawnbroker lends, advances, or pays money or anything of value, on which personal property is pledged, sold, bartered or exchanged. The following information shall be ordained by the pawnbroker, his or its agents, servants and/or employees, and placed in the permanent record book -

1. The name of the person conducting the transaction and that person’s address;
2. The driver’s license number, social security number and thumbprint of the person conducting the transaction;
3. A description of the items pledged, sold, bartered or exchanged; In lieu of either a driver’s license number or social security number, a credit card, -in- current effect, may be substituted for either the driver’s license or social security number.

Section 2: In addition to the information being placed by the pawnbroker, his or its agents, servants and/or employees in the permanent record book, the pawnbroker, his or its agents, servants and/or employees shall place the above information upon a form to be provided by the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, and it shall be the duty of every pawnbroker, his or its agents, servants, and/or employees to place the information required in Section 1 (a) (1,2,3) above in the form provided by the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas...

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