§ 122-62. Daily report to police; fingerprints and information required from persons pawning property.

(a)

Contents of daily report. Every pawnbroker shall make a daily report in writing to the department of police in the form prescribed by the police chief of all property pledged to or bought by the pawnbroker during the 24 hours ending at 8:00 p.m. on the date of the report. The reports shall be typewritten. In addition to any other information required by the police chief, the reports shall show the name and address of the pawnbroker; the time of the transaction; the serial number of pawn tickets; the amount paid or advanced; a full description of the articles, including kind, style, material, color, design, kind and number of stones in jewelry and all identifying names, marks and numbers; and a description of person selling or pawning, including name, address, weight and height. Insufficient reports shall be rejected, and any pawnbroker making them shall be deemed guilty of an offense. In addition, pawnbrokers shall make daily reports of all typewriters, adding machines and radios coming into and going out of their places of business. The daily report shall be in such form and shall contain such information as may be required by the police chief, but shall contain sufficient information to identify each of the articles.

(b)

Fingerprints and information required. In addition to the owner records and information called for in subsection (a) of this section, each pawnbroker shall obtain from each person pawning any article with that pawnbroker the fingerprint of the right hand index finger, unless that finger is missing in which event the print of the next finger in existence on the right hand of the person pawning the article shall be obtained with a notation as to the exact finger printed. All prints shall be made on forms to be furnished by the department of police, and the pawnbroker shall obtain all other information called for on the form furnished. Fingerprints and the information as required in this section shall be obtained from all persons each time the persons pawn any article with a pawnbroker, regardless of whether or not that person may have previously pawned an article with the pawnbroker and been fingerprinted.

(c)

Exception. Subsection (b) of this section need not be complied with where the pawnbroker knows personally the person pawning the article or can identify within 90 days after the transaction the person pawning the article.

(d)

Effect of failure to comply. Failure to fingerprint or, in the alternative, to know personally or to be able to identify when called upon within 90 days after an article has been pawned the person pawning the article shall constitute an offense.

(Code 1977, § 14-6307)