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Timestamp: 2019-02-18 20:55:46
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 102', '§ 102', '§ 102', '§ 102', '§ 102', '§ 102', '§ 102', '§ 102', '§ 102', '§ 1']

Borough of Brooklawn, NJ Jewelry, Gems, and Precious Metals
§ 102-3 Application and issuance of license.
§ 102-4 License fees; nontransferability.
§ 102-5 Revocation of license.
§ 102-6 Dealers' responsibilities, requirements and recordkeeping.
§ 102-7 Applicability.
§ 102-8 Surety bond.
§ 102-9 Purchase/sales to minors.
Chapter 102 Jewelry, Gems, and Precious Metals
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Brooklawn 4-21-2014 by Ord. No. 4-14[1]. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Canvassers and solicitors — See Ch. 64.
Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed former Ch. 102, Jewelry, Gems, and Precious Metals, adopted 3-19-2012 by Ord. No. 1-12.
The purpose and intent of this chapter is to assist law enforcement officials and victims of crime in recovering stolen precious materials, gems, gemstones and/or other articles by requiring minimum reporting, maintenance and distribution criteria for secondhand and transient dealers.
No person shall use, exercise or carry on the business, trade or occupation of buying scrap gold, old gold, silver, jewelry, home electronics/audio and visual equipment, musical instruments, telephones and telephonic equipment, scales, computers, computer hardware and software, typewriters, word processors, scanners, sporting goods of all kinds, antiques, platinum, all other precious metals, tools of all kinds, televisions, DVRs, GPS, camcorders, car stereos, gift cards, furniture, clothing or other valuable articles, hereinafter referred to as "secondhand goods or articles," or being a secondhand dealer within the Borough of Brooklawn without having first obtained a license from the Borough of Brooklawn.
For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meanings ascribed herein. Words used in the present tense shall include the future, words in the plural number shall include the singular number and words in the singular number shall include the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory, and not merely directory.
Acceptable forms of identification which include: a current valid New Jersey driver's license or identification card, a current valid photo driver's license issued by another US state, a valid United States passport, or other verifiable US government-issued identification.
The Chief of Police of the Borough of Brooklawn or his designee/representative.
A computerized internet-capable database with hardware and software compliant to that set by the Chief of Police.
Any person, partnership, corporation, or other entity, whether permanent or itinerant, who on one or more occasions (through any means) buys or sells or otherwise exchanges or trades secondhand gold, silver, precious metals, gems, or jewelry, and includes anyone advertising the purchase or sale of any of the aforementioned items.
A person or entity that is appointed or designated by the Chief of Police who is authorized to collect and maintain precious metal transaction information, or other purchase information as defined herein, for the Borough of Brooklawn.
A restricted monetary equivalent or script that is issued by retailers or banks to be used as an alternative to a nonmonetary gift.
Any business conducted intermittently within the Borough of Brooklawn or at varying locations.
Comprised of gold, silver, platinum and/or their alloys as defined in N.J.S.A. 51:5-1 et seq., N.J.S.A. 51:6-1 et seq., and/or N.J.S.A. 51:6A-1 et seq.; gems, gemstones, coins and all forms of jewelry herein contained.
Any article previously sold, acquired, exchanged, conveyed, traded or otherwise formerly owned, including but not limited to scrap gold, old gold, silver, jewelry, home electronics/audio and visual equipment, telephones and telephonic equipment, scales, computers, computer hardware and software, coins, electronic tablets, cameras, scanners, sporting goods of all kinds, antiques, platinum, all other precious metals, tools of all kinds, televisions, DVRs, GPS, camcorders, car stereos, gift cards, furniture, clothing or other valuable articles.
A dealer who has not been in any retail business continuously for at least six months at any address in the municipality where the dealer is required to register or who intends to close out or discontinue all retail business in the Borough of Brooklawn within six months, or as so defined in N.J.S.A 51:6A-5 and N.J.A.C. 13:47C-1.1.
Initial license application process.
Every dealer intending on conducting business with the jurisdiction of the Borough of Brooklawn shall first make application to the Borough Clerk and shall set forth the name and address of dealer, his or her age, whether or not he or she is a citizen of the United States and whether or not he or she has been convicted of a crime, the place of conviction, and the date thereof.
A dealer of precious metals, gems or gemstones or second hand goods, prior to buying, attempting to buy or offering to buy, shall be required to be fingerprinted and shall consent to an investigation of the applicant's moral character and business responsibility as deemed necessary by the Brooklawn Borough Police Department, for the protection of the public welfare. In the event that the dealer is a business entity other than a sole proprietorship, the officers in a corporation or the partners in a partnership (or limited partnership) shall be deemed to be the applicant(s) who shall be fingerprinted and investigated in accordance with this chapter.
Upon initial application to the Borough Clerk, each dealer shall be provided with an application prescribed by the Brooklawn Borough Police Department and shall provide the following information on said application:
Address from which dealer shall conduct business;
Copy of valid zoning and/or construction permits from the Borough of Brooklawn; and
Proof that dealer has obtained computer equipment and software required in § 102-6 of this chapter, for purposes of reporting all transaction data in electronic format to the Brooklawn Police Department.
Contingency. Upon completion of the investigation, the Chief of Police shall either approve or deny the license based upon the results of the Brooklawn Borough Police investigation. No license shall be issued without the approval of the Chief of Police or his or her designee.
Each application for a dealer of secondhand goods license shall be accompanied by an annual fee of $200 payable to the Borough Clerk by January 10 annually.
No license fee shall be prorated.
Conviction of any crime or disorderly persons offense involving moral turpitude; or
[Amended 4-20-2015 by Ord. No. 5-15]
Every dealer within the Borough of Brooklawn shall, upon the purchase of any precious metals or secondhand goods from the public, be required to do as follows:
Record on a numbered receipt the name, address and telephone number of the purchaser; the name, address and telephone number of the seller or sellers; the time and date of the transaction; the net weight in terms of pounds Troy, pennyweight (Troy) or kilograms/grams of the precious metals; fineness in terms of karats for gold, and sterling or coin for silver, in accordance with N.J.S.A. 51:5-1 et seq., and N.J.S.A. 51:6-1 et seq. This information is to be documented through use of an electronic database software system as designated by the Chief of Police. These records shall be subject to the inspection of any authorized police officer of the Borough of Brooklawn.
Through the use of applicably required computer equipment, and using the electronic format approved by the Chief of Police, enter all transaction into the electronic database within 48 hours from the date of purchase. The information entered will contain the information in § 102-6 above, plus the following:
A full description of the item or items purchased, including, but not limited to, marks, numbers, dates, sizes, shapes, initials, monograms and serial numbers;
A color photograph or color image of the seller's presented identification. A color photograph or color image of all items sold;
When photographing or imaging, all items must be positioned in a manner that makes them readily and easily identifiable;
Items should not be grouped together when photographing or imaging; each item will have its own color photograph or color image.
The precious metals are to be made available for inspection by the Chief of Police of the Borough of Brooklawn for a period of five days from the date the information required above is received by the Chief of Police on the approved form. The precious metals shall remain in the same condition as when purchased and shall not be changed, modified, melted or disposed of by the purchaser until the five-day period has expired. During this five-day period, the precious metals shall be placed in public view at the purchaser's place of business. If the property is such that it would create a hardship on the dealer by holding the precious metals for such period, the dealer may present the property to the Chief of Police in order that it may be photographed and, if deemed necessary by the Chief of Police, an investigation be implemented. The Chief of Police has the authority to grant the dealer a waiver of the requirement under this subsection.
In the event a database failure, or dealer's computer equipment malfunction, all transaction information is required to be submitted on paper forms approved by the Chief of Police. In the event that paper forms are used, the dealer is responsible to enter all transaction information into the database as soon as possible upon the dealer's equipment being repaired or replaced, or the database coming back into service. Failure by the dealer to properly maintain computer equipment in a reasonable fashion, or failure by the dealer to replace faulty computer equipment, may result in the dealer being cited for a violation of this chapter and subsequently being subject to the penalties for doing so.
Dealer payment to the sellers in cash shall be limited to two transactions during a seven-day period for the same seller. The seven-day period will commence on the day of the first transaction and end seven days after the transaction; i.e., if transaction number one occurs on Monday, the seven-day period ends on Sunday. Furthermore, no cash payments shall be made to the same sellers who make more than five transactions in any given thirty-day period. Sellers making transactions over the number of prescribed weekly and monthly periods will be paid by the dealer by means of a bank check drawn from the dealer's business account.
It shall be the requisite duty of every dealer, and of every person in the dealer's employ, to admit to the premises during business hours any member of the Brooklawn Police Department to examine any database, book, ledger, or any other record on the premises relating to the purchase of precious metals from the public, as well as the articles purchased or received, and to take possession of any article known by the police officer or official to be missing or to have been stolen, or where the officer or official has probable cause to believe the article is missing or stolen.
This chapter shall not apply to purchases made by jewelers or other dealers from wholesalers or other suppliers, but shall only apply to those purchases made from the public or other retail purchases. The dealer shall keep records of all wholesale purchases for a period of six months from the date of such purchase, which records shall be opened to investigation by the Brooklawn Borough Police Department.
Each licensee shall deliver a bond to the Borough Clerk executed by the applicant as principal with a surety company authorized to do business under the laws of the State of New Jersey as surety. The bond, to be approved by the Borough Attorney, shall be in the penal sum of $10,000, conditioned for the due and proper observance of and compliance with the provisions and requirements of all ordinances of the Borough in force or which may be adopted respecting the conduct of this business and conditioned also that the bond shall be and remain for the benefit of any person or persons who shall have received judgment against the licensee licensed under this chapter by reason of any damage sustained by any such person as a result of the operations of the licensee under this chapter, which damage shall be established by a judgment of a court of proper jurisdiction. Said bond shall contain the following language: "The obligation of this bond shall, in addition to the Borough of Brooklawn, be and remain for the benefit of any person who shall obtain a judgment against obligor, as a result of damage sustained in operation pursuant to any license granted under Chapter 107 of the ordinances of the Borough of Brooklawn. Said bond shall be kept for a minimum of one year from the date of issuance of license and must be renewed annually along with the license. As per state law, every itinerant business must also show proof of bond, issued license in jurisdiction of origin and weights and measures inspection."
No dealer within the Borough of Brooklawn shall purchase and/or sell any precious metals from any person under the age of 18 years.
Any person, firm or corporation who or which shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable for penalties or any combination thereof as set forth in § 1-15 of the Code of the Borough of Brooklawn, in the discretion of the Judge of the Municipal Court before whom such violation is heard and conviction made. Each day that a violation occurs shall be deemed a separate and distinct violation, subject to the penalty provisions of this chapter. Each violation shall result in an additional ten-day suspension. Any person who is convicted of violating the provisions of this chapter within one year of the date of a previous violation and who was fined for the previous violation may be sentenced by the Court to an additional fine as a repeat offender. The additional fine imposed as a repeat offender shall not be less than the minimum or exceed the maximum fine provided herein, and same shall be calculated separately from the fine imposed for the violation of this chapter.