§ 6.44.010. Reporting requirements.

A.

All persons owning or operating any moving van, furniture car or any other vehicle, who shall haul or move or cause to be hauled or moved any article of household goods, furniture, pianos or personal effects of any resident of the area of the metropolitan government changing the place of his residence, or moving such articles or personal property to a place for storage or to a common carrier for transportation, shall make a report thereof to the chief of police upon report blanks which shall be furnished by the chief of police. Such reports shall contain generally the character of the property so moved, the full name of the owner or person in possession of or having the custody thereof, the address from which and to which such hauling or moving was done, the date thereof and the name of the owner and person in charge of such vehicle. Such report shall be filed within ten days after completion of such hauling or moving, where such property is delivered to a common carrier. The name and address of the consignee shall also be given in such report.

B.

It shall be the duty of the chief of police to furnish the blanks necessary for making such reports, and to have the information given on such reports transcribed upon filing cards, which cards shall be kept in alphabetical order in a card filing system. Such records shall be open to public inspection.

C.

It is unlawful for any person procuring the removal of any of the property herein described to give to the owner or operator of any vehicle employed to haul such property a fictitious name or to refuse to give the correct name of the owner or party in possession of such property or to wilfully deceive him as to same.

(Prior code § 29-1-42)