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468 AN ORDINANCE REGULATING AND LICENSING SECONDHAND PRECIOUS METAL BUSINESS WHEREAS, pursuant to Chapter 153A, Section 121, of the General Statutes of North Carolina, a county may by ordinance define, regulate, prohibit or abate acts, omissions or conditions detrimental to the health, safety or welfare of its citizens and the peace and dignity of the county. NOW, THEREFORE, the County Board of Commissioners of Cabarrus County hereby adopts the following ordinance: SECONDHAND PRECIOUS METAL BUSINESS Section 1. License Required. (a) No person, partnership, corporation or association shall operate a secondhand precious metal business as herein defined unless such person, partnership, corporation or association shall have first applied for and received a privilege license from the county tax collector. A separate license shall be required for each location, place or premises used for the conduct of a secondhand precious metal business, and each license shall designate the location, place or premises to which it applies. In addition, such business shall not be carried on or conducted in any other place than that designated in or by such license. (b) Every employee of a secondhand precious metal business shall, within five (5) days of being employed, register his name and address with the Cabarrus County Sheriff's Department and have his thumbprints, fingerprints and photograph taken by the Cabarrus County Sheriff's Department. Such employee shall then be issued by the Cabarrus County Sheriff's Department a certificate of compliance with this section. Section 2. Secondhand Precious Metal Business Defined. A secondhand precious metal business is hereby defined to mean any person, firm, corporation or association engaged in the business of purchasing, ~trading for or otherwise acquiring ownership of any secondhand article made, in whole or in part, of gold or silver or platinum. For purposes of~this article, the term "secondhand article" shall mean an article which has been used or which has been previously traded or sold by a retailer. For purposes of this article, the term "secondhand article" shall not include any coin or any gold or silver ingot or bar. Section 3. Investigation of License Applicant. (a) Any person applying to the Cabarrus County Tax Collector for a.~license to conduct the business of a secondhand precious metal dealer shall also report to the Cabarrus County Sheriff's Department and furnish his full name, address, physical description, age, North Carolina driver's license number (if applicable) and social security number to assist in an investigation of his criminal record and character. In addition, the applicant will be photographed and fingerprinted in order to facilitate the investigation. (b) In the event the applicant is a partnership or association, all persons owning or having an interest therein shall comply with the provisions of (a) above. (c) In the case of a corporate applicant, each stockholder owning ten percent (10%) or more of the corporation's common stock shall comply with the provisions of (a) above. Section 4. License Denial or Revocation. (a) No license shall be issued to any applicant if any person required to be investigated under Section 3 above has been convicted of any felony or of a crime involving fraud, theft or receiving or possessing stolen property in the five (5) years immediately preceding the date of the license application. (b) The conviction of any person required to be investigated under Section 3 above for any felony or for any crime involving fraud, theft or receiving or possessing stolen property or for any violation of this ordinance shall constitute grounds for immediate revocation by the Board of Commissioners of Cabarrus County of the privilege license issued to such secondhand precious metal business.