Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 29 - JUNK DEALERS LICENSE

AN ACT REQUIRING NON-RESIDENT JUNK DEALERS DOING A BUSINESS IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE TO SECURE A LICENSE THEREFOR.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. Any non-resident junk dealer or person or persons desiring to conduct the business of dealing in junk shall not be permitted to conduct and carry on such business within the State of Delaware until such person or persons shall have first secured a license therefor and shall pay to the Clerk of the Peace of the County in which the principal business of such licensee shall be conducted or carried on, the sum of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00); provided however, that such license shall not be required when such non-resident dealer is buying from and selling to or exchanging goods, wares and merchandise, with an established qualified dealer of the State of Delaware. The license provided for in this section shall expire on the 30th day of June next succeeding the issuance thereof.

Section 2. Any person found guilty of violating any of the provisions of this Act before any Justice of the Peace in the State of Delaware or any Court of Common Pleas in the State of Delaware shall forfeit and pay a fine of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) and in lieu of the payment of such fine shall be imprisoned not less than three months nor more than six months.

Approved April 12, 1935.