Sec. 21-100. License required. Fee. Record of transactions.
Sec. 21-100. License required. Fee. Record of transactions. (a) No person may
engage in or carry on the business of purchasing gold or gold-plated ware, silver or
silver-plated ware, platinum ware, watches, jewelry, precious stones or coins unless
such person is licensed by the chief of police or, if there is no chief of police, the first
selectman of the municipality in which such person intends to carry on such business;
except that the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to the purchase of such items
from a wholesaler by a manufacturer or retail seller whose primary place of business is
located in this state. Such person shall pay an annual fee of ten dollars for such license.
The license may be revocable for cause, which shall include, but not be limited to, failure
to comply with any requirements for licensure specified by the licensing authority at
the time of issuance. A chief of police or first selectman shall refuse to issue a license
under this subsection to a person who has been convicted of a felony. A chief of police
or first selectman may require any applicant for a license to submit to state and national
criminal history records checks. If the chief of police or first selectman requires such
criminal history records checks, such checks shall be conducted in accordance with
section 29-17a. For the purposes of this subsection "wholesaler" means a person in the
business of selling tangible personal property to be resold at retail or raw materials to
be manufactured into suitable forms for use by consumers.
(b) Each such licensed person shall keep a record in which he shall note at the time
of each transaction a description of the goods purchased and the price paid for them,
the name and address of the person selling the goods and the date and hour any such
goods were received. Each such licensed person shall demand positive identification
from the person selling the article and the type or form of identification received shall
be noted in the record. Any state police officer or municipal police officer shall have
access to the record required to be kept under this section and may inspect the place
where the business is carried on as well as any goods purchased or received.
(c) No such licensed person may purchase any goods from a minor unless such
minor is accompanied by a parent or guardian. Each such licensed person may only pay
for goods received by check, draft or money order and no cash shall be transferred to
either party in the course of a transaction subject to the provisions of this section.
(d) At the time of making any purchase each licensed person shall deliver to the
person selling goods a receipt containing the information required to be recorded in
subsection (b) of this section, the amount paid for any goods sold and the name and
address of the purchaser.
(e) Upon request of the licensing authority each such licensed person shall make a
weekly sworn statement, describing the goods received and setting forth the name and
address of each person from whom goods were purchased, to the chief of police or first
selectman of each municipality in which he transacted business that week. Such sworn
statement shall not be deemed public records for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act, as defined in section 1-200.
(f) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more
than one thousand dollars.
(P.A. 80-477, S. 1, 2; P.A. 81-204; P.A. 83-509, S. 2, 3; P.A. 97-47, S. 23; 97-164, S. 9; P.A. 01-175, S. 19, 32.)
History: P.A. 81-204 required a police chief or first selectman to refuse issuance of a license to persons convicted of
a felony, allowed such officials to fingerprint applicants, provided that the price paid be included in the record and required
that no cash be given in a transaction; P.A. 83-509 amended provisions of Subsec. (a) concerning licensure by providing
that cause for revocation of license shall include, but not be limited to, failure to comply with any requirements for licensure
specified by the licensing authority at the time of issuance; P.A. 97-47 substituted reference to "the Freedom of Information
Act" for list of sections in Subsec. (e); P.A. 97-164 amended Subsec. (a) to require any fingerprints taken to be submitted
to the F.B.I. for a national criminal history records check; P.A. 01-175 amended Subsec. (a) by making a technical change
for purposes of gender neutrality and replacing language re fingerprinting and national criminal history records check with
language re state and national criminal history records checks pursuant to Sec. 29-17a, effective July 1, 2001.