5.24.040 Report to chief of police.
A. Every pawnbroker or secondhand dealer in the city of Anacortes shall, before six p.m. on each working day, furnish to the chief of police, on such forms as may be provided and in such format as may be required by the chief of police, a full, true, and correct transcript of the record of all transactions conducted on the preceding working day. This information shall be transmitted to the chief of police or a designee by electronic transmission through a modem or similar device.
B.
1. Pawnbrokers or secondhand dealers shall report their transactions electronically to the chief of police as required by subsection A of this section commencing on a date sixty days following the effective date of the ordinance codified in this section.
2. The police chief may, for good cause shown, grant a pawnbroker or secondhand dealer an extension of the otherwise applicable deadline set forth in subsection (B)(1) of this section to a date not later than December 31, 2008.
C. If, after establishing the format and requirements for the transmission of computerized reports of transactions, the chief of police alters the required format, pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers shall be given at least thirty days to comply with the new format requirements.
D. If a pawnbroker or secondhand dealer has good cause to believe that any property in his or her possession has been previously lost or stolen, the pawnbroker or secondhand dealer shall promptly report that fact to the Anacortes chief of police, together with the name of the owner, if known, and the date when, and the name of the person from whom it was received. (Ord. 2781 § 1, 2008: Ord. 2060 § 4, 1988)