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Lincoln Pawn and Jewelry <br />27 Rice Street <br />Little Canada, Minnesota 55113 <br />April 15, 1991 <br />Joel Hanson, City Administrator <br />City of Little Canada <br />515 Little Canada Road <br />Little Canada, Minnesota 55117 -1600 <br />Re: Proposed Pawn Shop Ordinance <br />Dear Mr. Hanson: <br />Thank you for allowing me to review and comment on the proposed <br />Pawn Shop Ordinance. I fully support the regulation of this <br />industry in ways which will ensure positive business /community <br />relations. Little Canada should indeed have an ordinance <br />regulating pawnbrokers and secondhand goods dealers. <br />The proposed ordinance which you provided me is quite thorough. <br />However, I would like to comment on a few issues. I will do so <br />in the order in which they appear in the proposed ordinance. <br />Page 13 Section 817.050 License Fee. <br />There are no fees suggested. I would request that the fees not <br />be excessive. For example, the City of Minneapolis requires a <br />Pawnbroker fee of $310.00 (1990) and a Secondhand goods dealer <br />fee of $105.00. The City of St. Paul requires a license fee of <br />$500.00. These fees are reasonable and fair. <br />Page 15 Section 817.090 Investigations. <br />There is no fee suggested here. It might be helpful to state the <br />fee in the ordinance. Again I would assume a fair and reasonable <br />fee for the investigation. <br />Page 18 Section 817.220 Holding. <br />I am not sure of the full intent of this paragraph. To the best <br />of my knowledge what is addressed here is the length of time any <br />item must be held if it is 1) purchased, or if it is 2) pawned. <br />To make that distinction a little clearer I would suggest the <br />following wording: <br />An item, purchased by a second hand goods dealer or <br />pawnbroker, for which a report to the appropriate law <br />enforcement agency is required, may not be sold or otherwise <br />transferred for a period of 30 days after the date of such <br />report to the appropriate law enforcement agency. Pawned <br />goods will be subject to the four month redemption period. <br />However, an individual may redeem an item pawned 72 hours <br />after the item was received on deposit, excluding Sundays <br />and legal holidays. <br />This wording, I believe, is a little more clear. It is also <br />Page 85 <br />