§ 162-13. Restrictions on licenses.

A. 

Restrictions on licenses held by secondhand dealer. No dealer in secondhand articles, while licensed as such, shall be licensed as a pawnbroker or as a junk dealer.

B. 

Location of secondhand dealer's business. No person shall engage in or conduct a business as a dealer in secondhand articles in the Town except in a business or industrial zone.

C. 

Address on license nontransferable. No dealer licensed hereunder shall carry on his business at any place other than the place designated in his license.

D. 

Hours of operation. No dealer in secondhand articles shall purchase or sell any secondhand articles, goods or things whatsoever between the hours of 8:00 p.m. in the evening and 7:00 a.m. following.

E. 

Dealing with minors. No licensee hereunder shall collect or purchase any metal or secondhand materials or articles of any kind from any person who is actually or apparently under the age of 21 years.

F. 

Holding articles prior to disposal.

(1) 

Generally, no articles or things except household furniture, curtains, carpets, stoves, kitchen utensils, office furniture, automobiles, motor and other vehicles, machinery, belting, building materials and barrels or other articles or things which have already been kept by a secondhand dealer or pawnbroker for a period of time, in accordance with the provisions of law or this chapter, or which have been received from persons known to be jewelers, dealers, banking institutions, executors or administrators shall be sold or disposed of by any dealer in secondhand articles until the expiration of 15 days after such purchase or redemption.

(2) 

Articles purchased for melting or refining. All secondhand articles or things purchased for the purpose of melting or refining by persons principally engaged in such business from persons not jewelers or dealers shall not be sold, refined, melted or disposed of until the expiration of 48 hours after said purchase.

G. 

Receipt of goods as security by melters or refiners. No dealer engaged principally in the business of melting or refining shall receive any article by way of pledge or pawn, nor employ any subterfuge for receiving goods as security for the advancement of money.

H. 

Signs of secondhand dealers. No sign or other device of subterfuge shall be displayed, used or employed by any dealer in secondhand articles in or about the premises where such business is conducted which in anywise resembles the emblem or sign commonly used by pawnbrokers or which is intended to give the appearance that the business conducted on such premises is or is connected with the business of a pawnbroker and calculated to so mislead; nor shall there be any sign displayed which is calculated to deceive.

I. 

Business not to be conducted in open air. No business required to be licensed under this chapter may be conducted in the open air, outside or on any premises on which a structure has been erected having no walls or enclosures. All such business must be conducted within a permanent structure, store or building. Satisfactory proof of compliance with this section shall be made by the applicant to the Building Inspector prior to the issuance of a license hereunder.

J. 

Sidewalk displays prohibited. No licensee hereunder shall permit any of his goods, wares or merchandise to be displayed on the sidewalk in front of the place where he conducts his business.