The licensing and regulation of pawnbrokers shall be in accordance with RSA 398 and any/all amendments thereto.

SECTION 1.
The provisions of New Hampshire Rev. Stat. Ann. 398 relating to pawnbrokers and all amendments thereto are hereby adopted and are in full force in the Town of Littleton.

SECTION 2.
No person shall carry on a business of a pawnbroker within the Town of Littleton unless he or she is duly licensed therefore by the Town Clerk, who is hereby delegated the licensing authority granted to the Board of Selectmen under RSA 398:5. The clerk may upon application, issue licenses to such persons as may be deemed proper to do business as pawnbrokers and such license shall be enforced for one year from the date of issue, but may be revoked by the Board of Selectmen under the terms of RSA 398:5. Such license shall designate the place where the business is to be conducted and the license shall not conduct any business as a pawnbroker at any other place in the Town without obtaining further license for additional locations. The FEE for each license shall be $50.00 per year.

SECTION 3.
Every person licensed as previously described shall keep a book of records at his or her place o f business in which they shall enter in English at the time of receiving same, a detailed description of any article left for pay, particularly mentioning any prominent or descriptive marks on same with the name and address of the person from whom he received it, noting also the day and hour and the amount paid or loaned thereon; and such book or record and the articles left for pawn, shall at all times be open to the inspection of the chief of police or any person designated by him.

SECTION 4.
No person licensed as aforesaid shall directly or indirectly receive any article in pawn from a minor, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe him to be such, without the consent in writing of a parent or guardian of such minor. All person so licensed, when requested to do so by the police chief, shall make a daily statement to him of the articles left with him for pawn.