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~ `7 9 ORDINANCE N0. 8741 An Ordinance providing for the regulation of those persons, firms or corporations engaged in the purchase, collection, sale and exchange of used articles to be resold; requiring a license,. the keeping of records; the general regulation of the business, providing for penalties, and declaring an emer€ency. ,+:y,~~REAS, it is a natter of Common knotivlege that the business of dealing in old junk, second hand articles and similar merchandise furnishes peculiar facilities for the disposition and loss of identity of stolen goods, and articles infected with contagious diseases; that the business can be made a convenient "fence" for the protection of offenders f~_om discovery and punislunent and so to psarnote thieving; that amass of t~:orn-out and discarded materials ar•e frequently of highly combustible nature and theref are the business endangers the public morals, safety acid ~velfGre and is a subject for the exercise of police regulation, and ~:`1f=IEREAS, not~~:~itrlstalidipi~, the foregoing, the conduct of junk stores, < second hand stores, pgwn° brokers'. stoi:•es and similar merchandising, ~~Jhen lawi'ully conducted, is a legitimate business and is entitled to the same consideration and protection afforded any business conducted in the city. T~~ CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOi,LOViTS: Section 1. It shall be unlativful in the city of Eugene for any person,- t'irm or corporation to co:ramence or continue qs a substantial part of th~iir business the collection, purchase, exchange and s~:le of used articles without having first procured a license from the city of Eugene so to do. Section 2. This ordinance is not to be deemed to apply to persons dealing in new or• used automobiles, new and used furniture, new and used farm implements and macrinery and similar business but shall be deemed to apply to those places which devote a substantial portion of their business to buying, selling, exchanging and lending upon, used articles. Section 3. The Chief of Police of the cit;r of Eugene is hereby authorized and directed to prepare blanks in_tabulated form t o be filled out in ink by the herein described licensed merchants giving such inf ormation as he shall deem necessary for the ready identification of goods purchased or acquired by such merchant and each licensed merchant be and he is hereb~~ required to make up a record of all purchases at the time purchased upon the forms provided by the Chief of Police and to keep them in an orderly manner open for inspection of and delivery to police officers. Section 4. All used articles so purchased or acquired shall be segregated in such a man_ler as to pex~rrzt their identity from fire record kept and shall be so segregated for a pez•iod of seven days before resale, and iri case such merchant is directed by a police off'icer• to continue said segregation for a further period of seven days, such segregation shall continue for such period.