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Ordinance to Amend Subsections 9.13(14)(c)1-2 and 5 and Subsection 9.13(15)(a) of the City of West Allis Revised Municipal Code Relating to Salvage and Recycling Centers.
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The Common Council of the City of West Allis do ordain as follows:
PART I. Subsections 9.13(14)(c)1-2 and 5 and Subsection 9.13(15)(a) of the Revised Municipal Code are hereby amended to read as follows:
9.13 Salvage and Recycling Centers.
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(14) Regulations.
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(c) Recordkeeping.
1. For each purchase, receipt, or exchange of any regulated property from a customer, every salvage dealer licensed under this section shall complete a property transaction form. Such form shall contain a transaction number; the date of the transaction; the printed name and address of the seller; the type and weight of the property purchased, by the truckload or in bulk if a truckload or bulk purchase, along with any other additional description of the property; the amount paid for the property; and the seller’s signature. The form shall be kept either as a computer file or in a written document approved by the chief of police or the chief’s designee. No entry on such a form may be erased, mutilated, or changed. The salvage dealer shall maintain computerized files and written property transaction forms and retain them for not less than one year after the date of the transaction.
2. For each purchase, receipt, or exchange of any regulated property from a customer, every salvage dealer licensed under this section shall keep a permanent record and written inventory in such form as the Chief of Police shall prescribe, in which the dealers shall record legibly in English the name, address, and date of birth of each customer and driver’s license number or number of other adequate identification presented. The dealer shall also record the date, time, and place of the transaction; the amount paid for the property; and an accurate and detailed account and description of each item being purchased, including, but not limited to, any trademark, identification number, serial number, model number, brand name, description by weight and design of such article, and other identifying marks and identifying descriptions of personal nature. The written inventory shall be kept in a computerized file or in ink, and no entry in such inventory shall be erased, mutilated, or changed. The dealer shall retain each record and inventory for not less than one year after the date of transaction.
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5. The seller shall sign, in ink or by electronic signature, his or her name in such inventory register and on the declaration of ownership.
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(15) Transactions with Minors.
(a) No salvage dealer may engage in a transaction of purchase, receipt, or exchange of any regulated property from an unemancipated minor unless the minor is accompanied by his or her parent or guardian at the time of the transaction or the minor provides written consent from his or her parent or guardian to engage in the transaction.
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PART II. All ordinances or parts of ordinances contravening the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed.
PART III. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.
ATTO-Amend SS 9.13(14)(c)1-2-5 SS 9.13(15)(a) Salvage&RecyclingCenters