{"id":3269,"date":"2012-09-24T11:58:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T11:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=3269"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:07:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:07:24","slug":"st-louis-faces-cell-phone-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/st-louis-faces-cell-phone-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"St Louis Faces Cell Phone Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Cell-Phone.jpg\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3270\" title=\"Cell Phone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Cell-Phone.jpg\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3270 lazyload\" title=\"Cell Phone\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20180%20120%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Cell-Phone.jpg\"><\/a>A restrictions ordinance that could make life tough for people who want to sell their old cell phones is being proposed in St Louis.&nbsp; On Friday a news release stated that Mayor Francis Stay as well as Alderman Craig Schmidt that while St Louis has seen a decrease in larceny in general, the thefts of cell phones are actually on the rise.&nbsp; This has prompted police to collaborate with other city officials in order to come up with a proposal for an ordinance forcing anyone who sells and buys cell phones to have to have an official second hand dealer\u2019s license.<\/p>\n<p>If the proposal gets the go ahead, resellers would be forced to not only record the unique identity number of the cell phone but also to 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