1964-052 ORDImNCE No
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE
CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS, REQUIRING A LICENSE TO DEAL IN
PREDOMINANTLY USED OR SECOND-HARTD MERCHANDISE, REQUIRING
CERTAIN RECORDS THEREFOR, REPEALING CONFLICTING ORDINANCES
PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE, AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DENTON HEREBY ORDAINS
SECTION I. That the Code of Ordanances of the City of
Denton, Texas, is hereby amended by substatutang new subsections
(a)(3), (d) and (g) of Article 10 05 in Chapter Ten of said
Code of Ordinances which shall hereafter read as follows
(a) Definitions
(3) Second-hand Dealer A second-hand dealer is any
person, partnership or corporataon carryang on or pursuing
the business of buying, sellang, barterang or exchanging
predominantly used or predomanantly second-hand motor
vehacles, t~res and tubes, clothang, machanes, firearms,
weapons, radaos, appliances or devices, or parts of machanes,
appliances or devaces A dealer wall be deemed to be pre-
dominantly an such business af more than one-half (%) of
h~s transactaons during any month of the calendar year
involves used or second-hand merchandase
(d) Investaqataon of Applicants
(Repealed)
(g) Required Reports
(1) Every ]unk dealer or second-hand dealer shall legably
write, in duplicate, an offlcaal report, the form of whach
is to be approved by the Caty Secretary, of any junk or
second-hand merchandise purchased by or deposated for any
purpose with such dealer, together %tth an accurate de-
scription in the English language of the articles purchased
or deposited, the amount of money paid for same or loaned
thereon, the time and date of the purchase or deposit,
the name, sex, and address, if known, of the person sellang
or deposltlng said 3unk or second-hand merohandase
(2) The official reports shall be numbered consecutively,
and signed by the ]unk dealer or second-hand dealer or
has agent
(3) The reports required an thas paragraph shall at all
times, durzng ordinary working hours, be opened to the
inspection of the Chxef of Police or any Polace Officer
14) If such reports are not accurately kept and avaalable,
~he entire inventory of the dealers business shall be
sub]eot to reasonable inspection by the Chief of Police or
any Police ~fflcer
SECTION II That all ordinances or parts of ordinances
in force when the provisions of this ordinance become effective
whzch are znconslstent or in c onflzct wzth the terms or pro-
vzszons contazned zn this ordznance are hereby repealed to the
extent of any such conflzct
S~CTION III That ~f any section, subsection, paragraph,
sentence, clause, phrase or word zn this Ordinance, or appllca-
tzon thereof to any person or circumstances zs held znvalzd by
any court of competent ]urzsdzctlon, such holdzng shall not
affect the valzdzty of the remalnzng portions of this Ordznance,
and the Czty Counczl of the City of Denton, Texas, hereby
declares zt would have enacted such remaznzng portzons despite
any such znvalzdzty
SECTION IV That this Ordlnance shall become effective
fourteenth(14) days from the date of zts passage, and the Czty
Secretary zs hereby dzrected to cause the caption of thzs
Ordznance to be publzshed twzce zn the Denton Record Chronzcle
wlthzn ten (10) days of the date of zts passage
PASSED A~-D APPROVED th~s ~day of / ,
A D 1964
Warren Whltson, Jr , Mayor
~a~¥] of Denton, Texas
ATTEST
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM
tyQ Barton,C~ty Attorney
of Denton, Texas