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5.45.010 RECORD—KEEPING REQUIRED.

Every person buying, selling, exchanging, receiving in pledge, or otherwise dealing in, whether as a separate business or in connection with other business, secondhand or used diamonds, jewelry, silverware, old gold or silver within the City, shall keep a record on forms to be provided by the license bureau of the City in which shall be entered in the English language at the time of purchase, sale, pledge, or exchange of such articles, a description of such article, bought, sold, pledged, or exchanged, sufficient to identify the same, and the signature and address of the person buying, selling, pledging or exchanging such articles or any of them, and, if an exchange be made, likewise a description of the article or articles given in exchange. Such form shall be signed by the party possessing same and shall contain a statement of the nature of his or her ownership or interest in the article specified therein.