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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 11-13 Authorized transactions.">
  <section prefix="§" num="11-13" heading="Authorized transactions.">
    <text>Each and every pawnbroker licensed as aforesaid:</text>
    <para num="(1)">shall be capable:<para num="(i)">of receiving from any person or persons (except a minor or apprentice, knowing or having reason to believe him to be such), bodies corporate, or politic, any deposit or merchandise of every description, as collateral security for such amounts thereon to be advanced by them, as they may deem proper and judicious;</para>
      <para num="(ii)">to hold and retain the same during such time as may be agreed on between the party or parties depositing the same and the said pawnbrokers; and</para>
      <para num="(iii)">to charge for such advances, interest at the established legal rate, and an additional charge as hereinafter specified, appropriate to the nature of the deposit, and the proper storage, removal and care of the same; and</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(2)">shall give to the party or parties so depositing, a certificate specifying:<para num="(i)">the sum advanced;</para>
      <para num="(ii)">the date of deposit;</para>
      <para num="(iii)">the article or articles deposited;</para>
      <para num="(iv)">the amount of charge;</para>
      <para num="(v)">the time for which such deposits shall be kept; and</para>
      <para num="(vi)">the name of the depositor, and his, her, or their place of business, and if none, of abode.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1879, art. 33, §32</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1893, art. 33, §39</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1927, art. 25, §34</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1950, art. 19, §44</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 15, §63</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 15, §82</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 1867-074</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
