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Home My WebLink About005 - 07/12/1915 - RELATING TO JUNK SHOP DEALERS AND JUNK PEDDLERS OR COLLECTORS ORDINAIICE IIO `J 1915 RELATING TO JUNK SHOP DEALERS AITD JUNK PEDDLERS OR COLLECTOFS BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF M CITY OF FORT COLLIES Section 1 It shall be unlawftil for any person or persons to operate a Junk shop or store as a dealer or carry on the business of a funk peddler or collector or to draw or drive or procure to be driven or drawn through the streets or alleys of the City of Fort Collins any wagon cart or other vehicle for the purpose of collecting or disposing of dunk without first having obtained a license therefor as hereinafter proia vided Section 2 Any pL-rson desiring to obtain a license either as a junk dealer or as a dunk peddler or collector shall male a vrritten application therefor to the City Clerk and shall set forth the full name of the applicant and the location in hich said business is to be carried on together with the consent in case of a dunk shop dealer in writing of the ovner of the property where the shop is to be located R4 -tip brxre� 9re and the dunk shop dealer ^hall in connection with said application file a bond with the City Clerk in the penal sum of Five Hundred Dollars (."�500 00) with such sureties as shall be ap,)rozed by the Commi.,sioner of Safety and Ex-officio Mayor conditioned that the principal named therein will observe all the ordinances and police regulations of the Clty of Tort Collins respecting the handling of dunk Such application together with the consent and bond above mentioned shall he submitted to the City Council at its first meeting after the same is filed �A:,p3iL� n r irr-� r7r�TTC^�--may + ..- . 4,e s��x tee to tbp r,t.T nn„=~ and after the City Council shall have approved such application and the location it may grant such license or licenses for which license there shall he paid into the City Treasury in advance the sum of o -5p 00 d Dollars (�.�r@0) for a junk dealer's license which said license shall entitle the licensee to operate a junk store or shop at one place within said city and to maintain one wagon and horse for the purpose of collecting junk in conrection therewith The license fee for a ,junk peddler or collector shall be Tvcntti-five Dollars (y,25 00) per anrnun in advance for eacnc�agon and if the licensed junk dealer shall desire to operate anladditional Wagon in connection with his junk shop he shall also pay Ti enty-five Dollars (y,25 00) per annum in advance for each Ladditional wagon engaged in collecting junk All wagons which shall be licensed under this ordinance shall have a license tag duly nuribered to be furnished bj the City Clerk Fnich license tag shall be attached to the right side of each wagon operated. by the junk dealer or junk peddler The City Council reserves the right to suspend or revoke all licenses issued in pursuance of this section for any violations of the city ordinances or of this ordinance or for good cause shown Such license unless sooner suspended or revoked shall be in force and effect for one year from the date of the issue trereof and no license shall be transferable Section 3 Every junk dhop dealer licensed under this ordinance shall keep a book in which shall be fairly writren in ink the da3 of each purchase or sale an accurate account or description in the English language of the goods articles or other things---except rags and bottles--purchased or sold where and from whom or to whom purchased or sold the amount of money paid or received therefor time of purer ase or sale -2- rhich book as cell as the articles purchaser shall at all reasonable times be open to the inspection of any member of the police department Every person licensed as a junk peddler or collector shall keep such record or memoranda as to enable him to locate the person from vhom he purchased ever; article of junk except rags and bottles Section 4 The term "junk ' as used in this ordinance shall include all worn-out and discarded materials rags or rope old iron brass copper tin lead and other metals discarded machinery or parts thereof bottles glass rubber in any form and similar articles By the term "junk shop" or "junk store" as used in this ordinance is meant any atore shop dwelling or any building or any lot yard or place there junk is bought and sold as a business by the term "junk peddler" or"junk collector" is meant any person who is engaged in buying collecting and selling ulthout naving any regular place of business articles heretofore defined as junk Section 5 No person licensed unaer the provisions of this ordinance shall sell yr remove from his place of business any article purchased by him until the same shall have been in his possession at least seventy-two (72) hours nor shall he purchase or receive anything from any minor ^ithout the written consent of the parents or guardian of said minor which written consent shall be preserved and kept on file for the inspection of the police department nor from any person who is at the time intoxicated or from any person who is an habitual drunkaid nor from any person known by him to be a thief or an associate of thieves or a receiver of stolen pro-oerty PROVIDED that a junk peddler or collector may sell to a regular licensed junk dealer any and -3- all junk at any time after its purchase Provided further that if any junk peddler or collector shall keep any ,funk-- except rags and bottles--in his possession more than twenty- four (240) hours he shall keep a record as required of the junk dealers in Section S hereof Section 6 Any person violating any of the provisions 0 of this ordinance shall be fined not less than Dollars nor more than Two Fundred Dollars (,�200 00) and costs and in default of the payment of such fine and costs such person shall be imprisoned in the city jail until such fine and costs are paid but not to '6cceed ninety (90) days Section 7 Ordinance Ito 19 of the Series of 1907 "Relating to Junk Shops " and all ordinances amending the same as well as all ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed Provided said repeal shall not operate to abate any causes of action which may have arisen under such prior ordinances or the amendments thereof and the City of Fort Collins shall have the right to prosecute under said ordinances all violations thereof and collect all penalties that may have accrued thereunder as though said ordinances had not been repealed or amended Passed and adopted this _L_L day of June A D 1915 XL4,4--t-�_ _77�1 Commissioner df PublU Safety and Ex-officio Layor 4TT City Clerk STATE OF COLORADO ) -ss COUNTY OF LARIMF.R ) I Ray Baxter City Clerk of the City of Fort Collins do hereby certify and declare that the foregoing ordinance consisting of seven (7) sections duly proposed and read at length at a meeting of the City Council held on the '� � day of 1915 was duly ordered by "Aye"and "Nay" vo 4 to be published in the Fort Collins Express a daily newspaper of the City of Fort Collins in accordance with the provisions of Section 7 of Article IV of the City Charter that thereafter and on- to-wit the / ?v day of 1915 at a regular meeting of the City Counci id ordinance came before said Council on its final passage a period of more than ten dayd having elapsed since the publication as above set forth and that said ordinance was upon second reading adopted as an ordinahce and thereafter and on to-vit the day of 2a1915 said Ordinance No as finally s sed d adopted was duly published in the Fort Collins press a daily newspaper published in the City of Fort Collins Colorado In Witness "hereof I have hereunto set my hand this / day of �' 1915 Apved � � City Clerk 'T r Mayor