HomeMy WebLinkAbout019 - 09/23/1907 - RELATING TO JUNK SHOPS Ordi'% ance No. / 9 series or.,1907.
Relating to junk shops.
BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY "F FORT
COLLINS:
Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person
or persons to carry on the business of buying or selling
junk or of conducting a junk shop within the corporate
limits of the City of Fort Collins, without first having
obtained a license therefor, as provided in this ordinance.
Section 2. The term "junk" as used in this ordi-
nance shall include all scorn out and discarded materials,
rags, old rope, old iron, brass, copper, tin, lead, and
other old metals ; discarded machinery, bottles, glass and
similar articles.
Section 3. By the term "junk shop", as used
in this ordinance, is meant any store, shop, dwelling
or other building, or any lot, yard or place where junk
is bought and sold as a business.
Section 4. A junk dealers license shall be issued
by the City Clerk, upon application being made, said appli-
cation to state the name of the applicant and the place where
such business is to be carried on,� upon payment to seid City
Clerk of the sum of $100.00 in advance. Such license shall
be good and valid for the period of one year from its issu-
ance and said license shall not be transferable.
Section 5. Every person granted a junk dealers license
shall enter into bond to the City of Fort Collins, with good
and sufficient surety to be approved by the T,:ayor in the penal
sum of V�500.00, conditioned for the due observance of all or-
dinances of the City of Fort Collins, as may be passed or i m
fort respecting junk shops at any time during the contlHUMM
of such license,
section 6. No keeper of a junk shop shall receive
in the line of his business any article or thing by way of pledge
or pawn.
Section 7. Every keeper of a junk shop shall pro-
vide and keep a book, in which shall be written at the time
of each purchase a description of the article so purchased;
the name and residence of the person or persons from whom
such purchase was made, and the day and hour of such pur—
chase.
Section 8. The said book shall at all reasonable
times be open to the inspection of the Mayor, City Marshal
and City Attorney of the City of Fort Collins, or any of
them.
Section 9. Every junk shop dealer Uho shall receive
or be in possession of any goods, articles, or things, which
may have been lost or stolen or alleged or supposed to have
been lost or stolen, shall forthwith on demand to view the
same exhibit the same to the ;Mayor or any Police officer of
the City of Fort Collins.
Section 10. Any person who shall violate any of
the provisionSof this ordinance, shall upon conviction be
each
fined forAsuch offense, not less than :50.00, nor more than
-X 00.00 and costs, and in default of the payment of such
fines and costs such person shall be iicprisoned in the
City Jail, until such fine and costs are paid, but not
to exceed ninety days.
Passed and adopted, signed and approved this Z 3
day of� 1907.
ayor.
Attes :»
C ty Clerk.—