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ORDINANCE NO. NS-1305 PAGE THREE of secondhand dealer or pawnbroker has been convicted of a viola- tion of any statute of this State or any ordinance of this City, regulating pawnbrokers or secondhand dealers, or has been con- victed of any crimes involving theft, receiving stolen property, embezzlement, fraud, false pretenses, or moral turpitude, when such conviction bears a reasonable connection to the business for which the certificate is sought, he shall refuse to issue said certificate. Any certificate issued hereunder may be re- voked for failure to maintain the standards required for issuance for same. No person shall carry on the business of a secondhand dealer or pawnbroker within the City without first receiving the certificate herein referred to, from the Chief of Police, and a clearance as to himself and as to each of his employees as herein provided for or after the certificate herein referred to has been revoked; and no person shall employ any person in such business who would be disqualified hereunder from obtaining a certificate to operate such business as herein provided for, or until such employee has been submitted to the Chief of Police for checking as provided for in Section 25-6. SECTION 7: Section 25-10 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 25-10. Hours of secondhand dealer and pawn- broker operation. No secondhand dealer or pawnbroker, and no person em- ployed by same, shall buy, trade, take in pawn, accept for sale on consignment, or accept for auctioning secondhand personal property, nor make any loan on any item of personal property except between the hours of seven (7) a.m. and nine (9) p.m. of any day. SECTION 8: The Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended by adding a section, to be numbered 25-11, which said section reads as follows: Sec. 25-11. Exemptions. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any identifiable secondhand tangible personal property which is exempt from state regulation of this subject, as found in Section 21629 of the Business and Professions Code of this State. SECTION 9: The Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended by adding a section, to be numbered 25-12, which said section reads as follows: Sec. 25-12. Taxation. Every person defined as a pawnbroker or secondhand dealer under Section 25-1 shall be considered a retailer for taxation purposes as set forth in Chapter 35 of this Code. SECTION 10: Chapter 6 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby repealed. SECTION 11: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The city Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases or portions be declared invalid or unconstitu- tional.