Office of the City Clerk - Record #: SO2017-5552

• Record #: SO2017-5552
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• Intro date: 7/26/2017
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Public Safety
• Final action: 9/6/2017
• Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Titles 4 and 8 by modifying Chapters 4-240 and 4-264 and adding new Section 8-4-053 regarding regulation of secondary cell phone market
• Sponsors: Emanuel, Rahm, Burke, Edward M., Mitts, Emma
• Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 4 - Businesses, Occupations & Consumer Protection - Ch. 240 Pawnbrokers, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 4 - Businesses, Occupations & Consumer Protection - Ch. 264 Secondhand Dealers, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 8 - Offenses Affecting Public Peace, Morals & Welfare - Ch. 4 Public Peace & Welfare

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
9/6/2017	54980	City Council	Passed as Substitute	Pass
8/31/2017		Committee on Public Safety	Substituted in Committee	Pass
7/26/2017	52574	City Council	Referred

SUBSTITUTE
ORDINANCE


BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION 1. Chapter 4-240 of the Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by deleting the language struck through and by inserting the language underscored, as follows:
4-240-010 Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(Omitted text is not affected by this ordinance)
"Secondhand property" has the meaning ascribed to that term by Section 4-264-005 of this Code.
"Serial number" has the meaning ascribed to that term by Section 4-264-005 of this
Code.
"Stolen cell phone database" has the meaning ascribed to that term by Section 4-264-005 of this Code.
"Wireless communication device" or "cell phone" means any device through which personal wireless services, as defined in 47 U.S.C. 332(c)(7)(C)(i), are transmitted.
4-240-150 Prohibited pledges or purchases.
No licensee under this chapter shall take or receive in pawn or pledge, for money loaned, or shall buy any property from a minor, or shall so take, receive or buy any such property, the ownership of which is in, or which is claimed by, any minor, or which may be in the possession or under the control of any minor.
LU No licensee under this chapter shall take any article in pawn or buy from any person appearing to be intoxicated or under the influence of any drug, nor from any person known to be a thief or to have been convicted of theft, er-burglary, robbery or armed robbery, and when any person is found to be the owner of stolen property which has been pawned or bought, such property shall be returned to the owner thereof without the payment of the amount advanced by the pawnbroker thereon or any costs or charges of any kind which the pawnbroker may have placed upon the same.
(2) No licensee under this chapter shall purchase or take in pawn any property which any law enforcement officer or any individual acting in behalf of a law enforcement agency explicitly represents to the licensee as being stolen or represents to the licensee such c...