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A secondhand dealer shall apply for a secondhand dealer permit in the following manner:

A. The City shall supply an application form for secondhand dealer permits.

B. The City may require that all secondhand dealers provide the following information on the application form:

1. The name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, Social Security number and date of birth of the person applying for the permit.

2. The name of the secondhand business in whose name the secondhand dealer permit should be issued if the application is approved.

3. The mailing address of the secondhand business and, if different from its mailing address, the physical location where the business is to be conducted in the City.

4. The web address of any and all web pages used to acquire or offer for sale regulated property on behalf of the secondhand business, and any and all internet auction account names used to acquire or offer for sale regulated property on behalf of the secondhand business.

5. An estimate of the total number of transactions the applicant expects the secondhand business to complete in the next calendar year.

6. Whether the applicant or any other person who owns, helps manage or operates the secondhand business ever has been engaged in a similar business; whether any permit similar to the one applicant seeks ever has been issued to the applicant or any person who owns, helps manage or operates the secondhand business; whether any such permit so issued ever has been suspended or revoked.

7. Such other information that the police chief may reasonably and lawfully require, including the fingerprints and a photograph of the applicant or any other person who will own, help manage or operate the secondhand business.

C. The City may require that all regular secondhand dealers supply the following information on the application form. This information is in addition to the information listed in subsection B of this section.

1. The name, mailing address, telephone number, Social Security number, date of birth and principal occupation of the applicant and any other person who owns, helps manage or operates the secondhand business.

2. The past five years of employment history of the applicant and any other person who owns, helps manage or operates the secondhand business.

3. A description of the property interest held by any person with an interest in the applicant’s secondhand business.

4. The name, address and phone number of each person who has loaned money or other property to the applicant for the applicant’s secondhand business.

5. Any criminal arrest or conviction the applicant or any other person who owns, helps manage or operates the secondhand business has had in the past 15 years. The applicant may be required to disclose where, when and the nature of any arrest or conviction.

6. A list of the businesses in which the applicant or any person who helps own, manage, or operate the secondhand business has an interest. A person need not disclose stock ownership in publicly traded corporations if the person owns less than five percent of the publicly traded corporation’s outstanding shares.

D. The applicant shall complete and submit a completed application form to the City that includes all information required by the City. At the time the applicant submits the completed application, the applicant shall pay a fee as required in BC 7.10.025. [BC 7.10.030, added by Ordinance No. 3774, 6/24/91; amended by Ordinances No. 4633, 2/25/14, Ordinance No. 4749, 1/8/19]