California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 4 - Tangible Personal Property

• Section 21625.
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article to curtail the dissemination of stolen property and to facilitate the recovery of stolen...
• Section 21626.
  (a) A “secondhand dealer,” as used in this article, means and includes any person, copartnership, firm, or corporation whose business includes buying, selling, trading, taking in...
• Section 21626.5.
  “Secondhand dealer,” as used in this article, does not include either of the following:(a) Any person who performs the services of an auctioneer for a fee...
• Section 21627.
  (a) As used in this article, “tangible personal property” means all secondhand tangible personal property that bears a serial number or personalized initials or inscription or...
• Section 21627.5.
  “CAPSS” means the California Pawn and SecondhandDealer System, which is a single, statewide, uniform electronic reporting system that receives secondhand dealer reports and is operated...
• Section 21628.
  (a) Every secondhand dealer or coin dealer described in Section 21626 shall report daily, or no later than the next business day excluding weekends and holidays...
• Section 21628.2.
  (a) For purposes of this section, the “department” shall mean the Department of Justice.(b) Every secondhand dealer described in Section 21626 shall, in a format prescribed by...
• Section 21628.3.
  In complying with the requirements of Section 21628, a secondhand dealer shall verify the identification of the seller or pledger for each transaction, not for...
• Section 21628.5.
  (a) Every business machine dealer shall report all used business machines which he has purchased, taken in trade, or accepted for sale or consignment, from an...
• Section 21629.
  The provisions of this article shall not apply to any tangible personal property which has been:(a) Acquired from another secondhand dealer; provided the secondhand dealer selling...
• Section 21629.5.
  Notwithstanding Section 21629, the provisions of this article shall apply to any tangible personal property which has been acquired by a secondhand dealer with the...
• Section 21630.
  (a) A secondhand dealer or coin dealer shall electronically transmit to CAPSS no later than the next business day after the date of transaction excluding weekends...
• Section 21631.
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, all tangible personal property that is found in the shop of a pawnbroker, secondhand dealer, or coin dealer, doing...
• Section 21634.
  The chief of police or the sheriff who receives a report on a form filed pursuant to the provisions of this article shall daily submit...
• Section 21636.
  (a) Every secondhand dealer and coin dealer shall retain in his or her possession for a period of 30 days all tangible personal property reported under...
• Section 21636.5.
  No secondhand dealer or coin dealer shall promise a seller of tangible property that the seller may repurchase property sold to the secondhand dealer or...
• Section 21636.6.
  It is unlawful for any person, who is required to be licensed under Section 21640, to publicly advertise any matter relating to the business for...
• Section 21637.
  Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to excuse compliance with the provisions of any city, county, or city and county ordinance or any other state...
• Section 21638.
  The provisions of this article shall not prohibit enactment, amendment, or enforcement by any city, county, or city and county of any local ordinance relating...
• Section 21638.5.
  Sections 21636, 21637, and 21638, insofar as they apply to holding periods for personal property, are not applicable to personal property pledged to a pawnbroker...
• Section 21640.
  It is unlawful for any person to engage in the business of secondhand dealer, as defined in Section 21626, without being licensed as provided in...
• Section 21641.
  (a) The chief of police, the sheriff, or, where appropriate, the police commission, shall accept an application for and grant a license permitting the licensee to...
• Section 21642.
  (a) A license granted pursuant to Section 21641 shall be renewable the second year from the date of issue, and every other year thereafter, upon the...
• Section 21642.5.
  (a) The Department of Justice shall require each applicant for an initial license under Section 21641 of this code or Section 21300 of the Financial Code...
• Section 21643.
  No transactions that require reporting under Section 21628, or commencing July 1, 2010, Section 21628.2, shall be engaged in with a minor.(Amended by Stats. 2009,...
• Section 21645.
  A violation of any provision of this article under circumstances where a person knows or should have known that a violation was being committed is...
• Section 21646.
  The district attorney or the Attorney General, in the name of the people of the State of California, may bring an action to enjoin the...
• Section 21647.
  (a) (1) If a peace officer has probable cause to believe that property, except coins, monetized bullion, or “commercial grade ingots” as defined in subdivision (d) of...

Last modified: October 22, 2018