2005 California Penal Code Sections 343 CHAPTER 11. PAWNBROKERS

343.  Every person who purchases gold bullion, gold bars or gold
quartz or mineral containing gold, who fails, refuses, or neglects to
produce for inspection his register, or to exhibit all articles
received by him in pledge, or his account of sales, to any officer
holding a warrant authorizing him to search for personal property or
to any person appointed by the sheriff or head of the police
department of any city, city and county or town, or an order of a
committing magistrate directing such officer to inspect such
register, or examine such articles or account of sales, is guilty of
a misdemeanor.