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29 entriesSection 21625Establishes legislative intent for uniform statewide regulation and reporting of businesses principally buying, selling, trading, auctioning, or pawning tangible personal property to…Section 21626Defines 'secondhand dealer' as a person or business whose activities include buying, selling, trading, pawning, consigning, or auctioning secondhand tangible personal property.…Section 21626.5Exempts from 'secondhand dealer' status a person providing auctioneer services for a fee or salary and a business limited to reconditioning and…Section 21627Defines “tangible personal property” for secondhand-dealer rules to include specified serialized, pledged, and statistically significant stolen goods, with the stolen-goods list updated…Section 21627.5Defines 'CAPSS' as the California Pawn and Secondhand Dealer System, a single statewide uniform electronic reporting system operated by the Department of…Section 21628Requires covered secondhand and coin dealers to report nonfirearm secondhand property to CAPSS daily or by the next business day, excluding weekends…Section 21628.2Requires secondhand dealers, on the transaction date, to electronically report each acquired, traded, pawned, consigned, or auction-accepted firearm to the Department of…Section 21628.3Requires a secondhand dealer, when complying with the specified transaction-reporting requirements, to verify the identification of the seller or pledger once for…Section 21628.5Requires business-machine dealers to report used machines acquired from individuals by purchase, trade, sale, or consignment, and repaired machines when police or…Section 21629Exempts specified tangible personal property from the article's reporting rules, including qualifying interdealer transfers, bulk business or household liquidations, judicial or public-official…Section 21629.5Requires the article's requirements to apply, despite the general exemptions in the referenced provision, when a secondhand dealer acquires tangible personal property…Section 21630Requires a secondhand or coin dealer to transmit the required tangible-property acquisition report electronically to CAPSS by the next business day after…Section 21631Requires tangible personal property found in the shop of a California-licensed pawnbroker, secondhand dealer, or coin dealer to be reported and held…Section 21634Requires a chief of police or sheriff who receives a report filed on a form under the article to submit the original…Section 21636Requires secondhand and coin dealers to hold reported firearms for 30 days from electronic reporting and produce them for inspection. Allows department-authorized…Section 21636.1Requires secondhand and coin dealers to hold reported tangible personal property for seven days from CAPSS reporting and produce requested off-premises property…Section 21636.5Prohibits a secondhand dealer or coin dealer from promising a seller of tangible property that the seller may later repurchase the property…Section 21636.6Prohibits a person required to hold the referenced license from publicly advertising any matter relating to the licensed business unless the advertisement…Section 21637Requires compliance with consistent local ordinances and other state laws governing reporting, holding, or releasing tangible personal property despite the article. Prohibits…Section 21638Allows cities, counties, and cities and counties to enact, amend, or enforce secondhand- or coin-dealer ordinances consistent with the article. Prohibits local…Section 21638.5Exempts personal property pledged to a pawnbroker from the referenced statutory holding periods when the issue is redemption of that property by…Section 21640Prohibits any person from engaging in the business of a secondhand dealer, as that term is defined by the referenced provision, without…Section 21641Requires local authorities to license secondhand-dealer applicants without stolen-property convictions after Department of Justice review; if the department does not comment within…Section 21642Requires secondhand-dealer licenses to be renewed in the second year after issuance and every other year thereafter, with applicable renewal fees, and…Section 21642.5Requires initial and renewal license applicants to pay a Department of Justice fee up to $300, limited to regulatory costs and adjustable…Section 21643Prohibits engaging with a minor in any transaction that requires reporting under the referenced secondhand-property reporting rule or, beginning July 1, 2010,…Section 21645Sets misdemeanor penalties when a person knows or should know an article violation is occurring: a first offense carries up to a…Section 21646Allows a district attorney or the Attorney General, in the name of the people of California, to bring an action seeking to…Section 21647Allows a peace officer with probable cause to place specified property held by a licensed pawnbroker or secondhand dealer on a renewable…