Town of Amherst, NY
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2024-02-05
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 157 Secondhand Dealers
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Administration of Government
- Ch 5 Design Advisory Board
- Ch 6 Arts and Culture in Public Places Board
- Ch 7 Amherst Central Park Task Force
- Ch 8 Citizens' Advisory Committees
- Ch 9 Clerk
- Ch 10 Compensation
- Ch 11 Continuity of Government
- Ch 12 Employee Suggestion Program
- Ch 14 Defense and Indemnification of Employees
- Ch 14A Disabilities, Committee on
- Ch 15 (Reserved)
- Ch 16 Employees' Rights of Organization
- Ch 19 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 22 Freedom of Information
- Ch 25 Industrial and Commercial Incentive Board
- Ch 28 Local Laws, Adoption of
- Ch 32 Minority- and Women-Owned Business Utilization Commitment
- Ch 36 Open Burning
- Ch 39 Police Assistance, Power to Grant
- Ch 40 Purchasing
- Ch 42 Property, Lease or Sale
- Ch 43 Licensing of Property Managers
- Ch 44 Rental Unit Registration
- Ch 45 Residency Requirements
- Ch 52 Superintendent of Highways
- Ch 54 Supervisor
- Ch 55 Term Limits
- Ch 56 Tax Bill Enclosures
- Ch 56A Town Board
- Ch 57 Traffic Violations Bureau
- Ch 58 Adjudicatory Proceedings
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 65 Alarms
- Ch 68 Amusements
- Ch 74 (Reserved)
- Ch 77 Bingo
- Ch 78 Blasting and Explosives
- Ch 79 Boats
- Ch 83 Building Construction Administration
- Ch 85 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 87 Cable Television
- Ch 89 (Reserved)
- Ch 92 Conservation Easements
- Ch 95 Curb Cuts
- Ch 96 (Reserved)
- Ch 99 Animals
- Ch 103 Emergency Responder Radio Coverage
- Ch 104 Environmental Quality Review
- Ch 106 Excavations
- Ch 108 Expert Fees, Reimbursement of
- Ch 110 Fire Prevention
- Ch 114 Games of Chance
- Ch 116 (Reserved)
- Ch 118 Gasoline
- Ch 119 Geodetic Control Point Network
- Ch 120 Highways, Controlled-Access
- Ch 121 Historic Preservation
- Ch 122 House Trailers
- Ch 125 Improvements, Construction of Public
- Ch 126 Industrial Cost Recovery System
- Ch 127 (Reserved)
- Ch 129 Junkyards
- Ch 130 Landscapers
- Ch 132 Lighting
- Ch 138 Noise
- Ch 139 Notification of Defects
- Ch 140 Mailbox Setback
- Ch 143 Parking for Handicapped
- Ch 144 Parking, Off-Street
- Ch 145 Parks, Playgrounds and Recreation Areas
- Ch 148 Peddling, Soliciting, Transient Businesses and Mobile Food Vending
- Ch 149 Picketing
- Ch 151 Property Maintenance
- Ch 152 Public Nuisance Abatement
- Ch 153 Municipal Opioid Cost Recovery and Public Nuisance
- Ch 155 Recreation and Open Space
- Ch 157 Secondhand Dealers
- § 157-1 Definitions.
- § 157-2 Certain Goods to be Held Before Sale; Exemptions.
- Ch 158 Sewer Rates
- Ch 160 Sewers
- Ch 163 Sex Offenders, Registration of
- Ch 166 Snowplowing
- Ch 167 Social Host Liability
- Ch 169 Solid Waste
- Ch 172 Stormwater and Erosion Control; Illicit Discharges
- Ch 175 Taxation
- Ch 177 Taxicabs
- Ch 179 Trees
- Ch 181 (Reserved)
- Ch 184 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 186 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 189 Vehicles, Removal and Storage of
- Ch 191 Vending Machines
- Ch 194 (Reserved)
- Ch 198 Weapons
- Ch 199 Wild Waterfowl
- Ch 200 Wetlands
- Ch 203 Zoning
- Ch 204 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 205 Local Waterfront Revitalization Program (Lwrp)
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Amherst 11-3-2014 by L.L. No.
38-2014. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Peddling, soliciting, transient businesses and mobile food vending — See Ch. 148.
Any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association or
other entity and any principal, employee, agent or servant thereof
engaged in or conducting business for the purchase, sale, barter,
exchange or pawn of junk, antiques, secondhand articles and personal
property, gold, silver, platinum and other precious metals, gems and
precious and semiprecious stones or secondhand automotive vehicles.
Any dealer who, either wholly or in part, engages in or operates
the trade or business of buying, selling, trading, bartering or exchanging
secondhand personal property, including household goods and appliances,
gold, silver and other precious metals, any tools, fixtures, electrical
devices and bric-a-brac.
A.
Every secondhand dealer in jewelry, diamonds, watches, rings, furs,
gold, silver and plated ware shall hold said goods for a period of
twenty one (21) days from the time of purchase and shall not resell
the same until the expiration of said period. Every secondhand dealer
in clothing and tools shall hold said goods for twenty one (21) days
and shall not resell the same until the expiration of said period.
B.
Dealers in jewelry and kindred merchandise who buy, sell or deal
principally in new merchandise and who occasionally acquire secondhand
jewelry, diamonds, watches, rings, gold, silver and plated ware in
the course of their business shall hold said good for twenty one (21)
days and shall not resell the same until the expiration of said period.
C.
Any goods in this section which are acquired by an authorized licensed
dealer from another authorized licensed dealer who has held them for
the required twenty-one-day period shall be exempt from this holding
period.
D.
Any person who violates or causes or participates in the violation
of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine
not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) or to imprisonment
for not more than fifteen (15) days, or to both such fine and imprisonment.
Notwithstanding the penalties herein provided, the Town of Amherst
may enforce obedience to this chapter or any part thereof by injunction
to restrain the violation thereof.
