§ 6.52.120. Goods to be held for thirty days.  


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  • All articles purchased, received, exchanged, pledged, pawned or otherwise taken into possession by any person operating any pawnbroker business or secondhand dealer business shall be segregated and made available for inspection by the police department in the place of business of the permittee for a period of five days immediately following receipt of the same, and shall be held for a period of thirty days after receipt thereof before being sold, exchanged or removed from the place of business where it was received, or delivered to any person or otherwise disposed of, except that such article may be delivered or returned to the true owner or to his authorized agent at any time, provided a hold has not been placed on such article by the police. Except however, for pawnbrokers, articles listed in Section 21201 of the Financial Code shall be exempt from this section.

(Prior code § 6707.16; Ord. 21866.)