2006 Michigan Compiled Laws - Mich. Comp. Laws § 445.472 Pawnbrokers, secondhand and junk dealers; fingerprints of seller, copies to municipal and state police.

Sec. 2.

At the same time any pawnbroker, secondhand dealer or junk dealer in this state shall receive any article of personal property, or other valuable thing, by way of pledge or pawn, or shall acquire or purchase any article of personal property, or other valuable thing, except new articles, wares, or merchandise purchased at wholesale from manufacturers, wholesale distributors or jobbers for retail sale to customers, except also motor vehicles, old rags, waste paper, books, magazines, tapestries, antiques and household furniture, he shall take in duplicate the legible imprint of the right thumb of the person from whom such property was received, or if that be not possible, of the left thumb or some other finger of such person. Such fingerprint shall be taken under such rules and regulations as prescribed by the commissioner of the Michigan state police. One copy shall be forwarded within 48 hours, together with a statement of the nature of the property received, to the chief of police or chief police officer of the city in which the place of business of such pawnbroker, secondhand dealer or junk dealer is located, or to the sheriff of the county in case such place of business shall be located outside the corporate limits of any city, together with a statement of the nature of the property received. The second copy shall be forwarded within 48 hours, together with a statement of the nature of the property received, to the commissioner of the Michigan state police in East Lansing.

History: 1945, Act 231, Eff. Sept. 6, 1945 ;-- CL 1948, 445.472 ;-- Am. 1953, Act 121, Eff. Oct. 2, 1953