HomeMy WebLinkAbout00553ORDINANCL N0. 5r. 3
Regulating Junk Stores Junk Dealers and Junk Peddlers; and providing fcr
licensing Junk DeAl.ers and Junk Peddlers and fixing penalties for the violation
of the Ordinance.
BL IT ORDAINP0 BY Tiiu CITY ' )UA1CIi, CF Thy; CITY OF PU,!,3L0.
Section 1.
That from and after the passage of this Ordinance it shall be unlawful for any
comnany., corporation or person to engage in or carry on the business of Junk Dealer
or Junk Dealers, commonly known as Junk Shops or Stores or the business of Junk
Peddler without having first obtained a license therefor,
Section 2.
Any col*pany, corporation or person desirous of engaging in the business of
Junk Dealer of Junk Peddler, shall make application for a license therefor to the
City Council stating in said application the name of the company, corporation or
person desiring to engage in said business, and the proposed place of busi^oss,
accompanied by the cert-Ificate n_ t'ha G_Lty Clerk that the fee hereinafter provided
for has been paid.
Section 3.
The City Council may if it is satisfied that the applicant is a suitable
person to carry on the business of Junk Dealer order a license to issue to such
applicant upon the payment therefore to the City Clerk of the sum of three hundred
01300.00) dollars per annum in advance.
Section 4-
It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in or carry on the business of
Junk Peddler, or purchase or receive any Junk sacks, bottles or any like articles
in wagons or other vehicles or otherwise either for himself or any licensed Junk
Dealer, without first having obtained a Junk Paddlers license therefor.
Secticn 5.
It shall be unlawful for any Junk Dealer or Junk Peddler to purchase or receive
junk or any like articles frrm a minor, except with the written consent of the parent
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or guardian of such minorp and such written consent s'.:all be presented by such pur-
chaser or receiver in a book kept for that purpose by the dealer or peddler and the
date of purchase or receipt., the price and description of the goods purchased or
received shall be filed and preserved in said bool and the same shall be subject to
inspection by all peace officers.
Section 6.
The City 01 °rk shall be satisfied that the applicant is a fit per=son to carry
on the business of Junk Beail3er as the agent or emplojree of a licensed Junk Dealer
and is twenty -one years of age or upwards may issue a license to such applicant
upon the payment of twenty (20) dollars per annum in advance ..,and no person shall
be licensed as a Junk Peddler except as the agent or emplojree of a regular licensed
Junk Dealer.
Section 7
From.and after the 6" day of Sept. A.D. 1899 Junk Shops., Junk Stores or stroage
places of junk dealers carrying on business under this ordinance shall be located at
some place to_ c determined by the Bouard of Helth of the City of Pueblo and at no
otter placd.
Section 8.
Any corporation, company or person violating any of the provisi ns of this
ordinance shall be fined upon conviction not less than fifty 050.00) dollars nor
more that (5300.00) three hundred dollars for each offense and may in addition have
his license revoked.
Section 9.
Ordinance No. 535 of the City of Pueblo and all other ordinances and parts
of ordinances in conflict herewith., are hereby repealed.
Passed and approved August 14th., 1899
Oscar Q. McNeil, City Clerk Geo. F. West., Mayor
(seal)