SECTIONS 21550-21556 - California Statutes

BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE

SECTION 21550-21556

21550. "Person" as used in this article includes firm and
corporation.
"Builders' tools" as used in this chapter includes all tools
customarily used in the construction, alteration, or repair of
buildings.

21551. Every person dealing in secondhand goods, wares or
merchandise, either as pawnbroker or otherwise, who buys or receives
as a pledge any builders' tools shall keep a register in which shall
be entered all of the following:
(a) The place, date and hour of the sale or pledge of any such
tools.
(b) The name, address and description of the seller or pledgor.
(c) A description of the tools, including all numbers, letters,
names and other identification marks appearing thereon.
(d) The name and address of the individual to whom such tools were
sold or pledged.

21552. Whenever any person referred to in this article ships or
otherwise transmits any builders' tools bought or received as a
pledge, to any place outside the county in which the tools were so
bought or so received, such person shall enter in the register
required to be kept by this article the date on which such tools were
shipped or otherwise transmitted, and the name and the place of
business or residence of the person to whom such tools were so
shipped or transmitted.

21553. Every person referred to in this article shall each day,
except legal holidays, deliver a full, true and complete copy of the
register required to be kept by this article to the chief of police,
city marshal, town marshal, or other head of the police department of
the city, city and county, town, or other municipality or district
wherein such builders' tools were bought or received in pledge.

21554. The report shall include references to all builders' tools
bought or received as a pledge or shipped or otherwise transmitted
since the preceding report.

21555. If there is no police department in the municipality or
district in which builders' tools are bought or received in pledge,
or from which they are shipped or otherwise transmitted, the report
required by this article shall be delivered or mailed each day,
except legal holidays, to the sheriff of the county.

21556. Any person who violates this chapter is guilty of a
misdemeanor.