<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 5-86. - Penalties.</div>
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               (a)
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               Every person, firm, or corporation, their guests or employees, who shall knowingly
               violate any of the provisions of this article, shall, following trial thereof, be
               assessed a civil penalty of five hundred dollars ($500.00). Each day any violation
               of this article shall continue shall constitute a separate offense. If the violation
               is by an owner or major stockholder or managing partner of the pawnshop and the violation
               is knowingly committed by the owner, major stockholder, or managing partner of the
               pawnshop, then the license of the pawnshop may be suspended at the discretion of the
               court.
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               (b)
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               The provision of subsection (a) shall not apply to violations of G.S. Â§ 91A-10(6),
               which shall be prosecuted under the North Carolina criminal statutes.
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               (c)
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               Any contract or pawn, the making or collecting of which violates any provision of
               this article, except as a result of accidental or bona fide error of computation,
               shall be void, and the licensee shall have no right to collect, receive or retain
               any interest or fee whatsoever with respect to such pawn.
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               (Ord. of 1-7-97; Ord. of 1-20-22(1))
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