Chapter 216
2008 -- H 7482
Enacted 07/05/08
A N A C T
RELATING
TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- SECOND-HAND DEALERS
Introduced
By: Representatives D Caprio, Ucci, and Fox
Date
Introduced: February 13, 2008
It is enacted by the General Assembly as
follows:
SECTION 1. Section
5-21-1 of the General Laws in Chapter 5-21 entitled "Second-Hand
Dealers" is hereby amended to read as
follows:
5-21-1.
Local licensing -- Fees -- Penalty. – Record of transaction. - - (a)
The city or
town council of any city or town is authorized
to provide by ordinance for the issuing and
revocation at pleasure of licenses to all
persons selling, purchasing, bartering, and dealing in junk,
old metals, and any other second-hand articles,
and to all persons establishing, operating, or
maintaining automobile junkyards, subject to any
conditions and restrictions and for a term not
exceeding one year that may be in the like
manner prescribed; and also for charging and
collecting fees for those licenses. The fees in
the like manner prescribed shall not exceed the sum
of one hundred dollars ($100) for the keeper of
a shop or storehouse for the reception of any junk,
old metals, or second-hand articles which is not
an automobile junkyard, the sum of five dollars
($5.00) for any foundryperson or other person
receiving the same for the purpose of melting or
converting the junk, old metals, or second-hand
articles into castings, the sum of five dollars
($5.00) for any gatherer of these items in any
bag, wagon, or cart, or the sum of one hundred
dollars ($100) for any person establishing,
operating, or maintaining an automobile junkyard; and
also to fix a penalty for carrying on that
business without a license, or in violation of any
ordinance or regulation made as authorized in
this chapter, not exceeding for any one offense a
fine of five hundred dollars ($500) or
imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months.
(b) The
ordinance shall provide that each person purchasing or receiving old or used
metals other than junked automobiles or
automobile parts shall maintain a record of each
purchase or receipt. The record shall include
the date of the transaction, the name, address,
telephone number and signature of the person
from whom the old or used metals are purchased or
received, a description of the old or used
metals, and the price paid for the old or used metals. The
records so kept shall be produced at the request
of law enforcement officials.
SECTION 2. This
act shall take effect upon passage.
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