(A) No person shall act as a pawnbroker, precious material dealer, secondhand retailer, or automated kiosk, or advertise, transact, or solicit business as a pawnbroker, precious material dealer, secondhand retailer, or automated kiosk without first having obtained a permit from the city. A person shall obtain a separate permit for each place of business at which the person acts or transacts business. However, any business engaging in two or more of the regulated business activities need apply for, and the city may issue, only a single permit Identifying which activities the business plans to engage in (i.e. pawnbroker and/or precious material dealer and/or secondhand retailer and/or automated kiosk). Any business operated one or more automated kiosks may be issued a single permit so long as the physical location of each automated kiosk placement is specifically identified.
(B) The permit shall be conspicuously displayed in the pawnbroker's, precious material dealer's, secondhand retailer's, or automated kiosk's place of business. The permit will expire on July 1 of each year and must be renewed by that date.
(C) Every pawnbroker, precious material dealer, secondhand retailer, and automated kiosk shall pay an annual permit fee of $250 at the time of issuance of the initial permit and at the time of each annual renewal to help cover the expense of administration of this article. The city shall adjust this fee annually to correspond with increases in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U). Any business applying for a permit to engage in two or more regulated activities (i.e. pawnbroker and/or precious material dealer and/or secondhand retailer and/or automated kiosk) need only pay a single permit fee. Automated kiosks need only pay a single permit fee for one or more kiosk location, so long as the location of each automated kiosk covered by the permit is specifically identified.
(D) Any person doing business as a pawnbroker, precious material dealer, secondhand retailer, or automated kiosk without a permit is guilty of a misdemeanor and is subject to the penalty provisions set forth in § 1-1-99.
(E) A person must apply to the city for a new permit upon any change, directly or beneficially, in the ownership of any pawnshop, precious material dealer, secondhand retail establishment, or automated kiosk. An application for a permit or an application to transfer an existing permit is not required upon any change, directly or beneficially, in the ownership of a pawnshop if one or more holders of at least 90% of the outstanding equity interest of the business before the change in ownership continue to hold at least 90% of the outstanding equity interest after the change in ownership.
(F) Any person who is declined a permit or permit renewal is entitled to a hearing as prescribed under § 13-6-10(C).