Permanent Records - Required; Content

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  2. Georgia Code
  3. Property
  4. Rights in Personalty
  5. Bailments
  6. Pawnbrokers
  7. Permanent Records - Required; Content

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Every pawnbroker shall maintain a permanent record book in which shall be entered in legible English at the time of each loan, purchase, or sale:

  1. The date of the transaction;
  2. The name of the person conducting the transaction;
  3. The name, age, and address of the customer; a description of the general appearance of the customer; and the distinctive number from the customer's driver's license or other similar identification card;
  4. An identification and description of the pledged or purchased goods, including, if reasonably available, the serial, model, or other number, and all identifying marks inscribed thereon;
  5. The number of the receipt or pawn ticket;
  6. The price paid or the amount loaned;
  7. If payment is made by check, the number of the check issued for the purchase price or loan;
  8. The maturity date of the transaction; and
  9. The signature of the customer.

(Ga. L. 1977, p. 1194, § 2.)

Cross references.

- Regulation of sales of used watches, Ch. 49, T. 43.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

County ordinance not in conflict.

- Since, inter alia, parts of Gwinnett County, Ga., Ord. No. 82-11 merely strengthened the requirements of O.C.G.A. § 44-12-132 as to the records that pawnbrokers were required to keep, the ordinance was not in conflict with O.C.G.A. § 44-12-130 et seq. Pawnmart, Inc. v. Gwinnett County, 279 Ga. 19, 608 S.E.2d 639 (2005).

Cited in Howell v. Roberts, 656 F. Supp. 1150 (N.D. Ga. 1987); Rogers v. State, 285 Ga. App. 568, 646 S.E.2d 751 (2007).


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