A. License Required: It shall be unlawful for any person to engage, conduct, keep, manage or operate any pawnshop or secondhand store without having first obtained a license therefor as provided for in this chapter and which is in full force and effect.
B. Application: An application for such license shall be made in writing to the city clerk in such form and manner as may be prescribed. An applicant who was not licensed by this chapter for the year immediately preceding the current application shall be required to be fingerprinted by the city’s police department. Cost of taking and processing such fingerprints shall be borne by the applicant.
C. Partnership, Corporation Or Association: When application for a license is made by or on behalf of a partnership, corporation or association, such application shall be made by the manager, officer, agent or other person who will have the direct charge and management of such pawnshop or secondhand store.
D. Investigation: Upon receipt of an application for a license, the police department shall cause an investigation to be made of the applicant.
E. Issuance Of License, Provisional License: Upon completion of such investigation, if the police department finds that the license applicant complies with the required qualifications set forth in this chapter, the city clerk shall issue a license. Licenses shall not be transferable either as to person or place. A provisional license may be issued pending completion of the required investigation.
F. License Fees:
1. Regular License: The city clerk shall collect before the issuance of any license or renewal thereof an annual fee of five hundred dollars ($500.00). If a license is granted pursuant to an application filed after June 30 of any year, the license fee for the balance of such year shall be two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00).
Each license shall remain in full force and effect until relinquished, suspended, revoked or expired. Every licensee, on or before each January 31, shall pay the city clerk five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each license held by him/her as the annual fee for the succeeding calendar year.
2. Limited License: For those secondhand dealers who purchase not more than ten (10) transactions of secondhand goods per month, the annual license fee shall be fifty dollars ($50.00).
G. Age Requirement: No license shall be issued to any person who is not eighteen (18) years of age or older.
H. License Denial; Refund: If any license applicant is denied a license for any reason, the required license fee shall be refunded to the applicant. No license fee shall be refunded as result of any suspension, revocation or for any license that is voluntarily surrendered by the holder of such license.
I. Location Requirements: No license shall be issued to any person for any proposed location that does not comply with the planning and zoning regulations and fire codes established by the city, county and the state.
J. Criminal History; State and Federal: To determine the suitability of prospective applicants for pawnshop, pawnbroker and secondhand dealer licenses, the police department shall require an applicant to provide information and fingerprints necessary to obtain criminal history information from the Idaho state police and the federal bureau of investigation. Pursuant to section 67-3008, Idaho Code, and congressional enactment public law 92-544, the police department shall submit a set of fingerprints obtained from the applicant and the required fees to the Idaho state police, bureau of criminal identification, for a criminal record check of state and national databases. The submission of fingerprints and information required by this subsection shall be on forms prescribed by the Idaho state police. The police department is authorized to receive criminal history information from the Idaho state police and from the federal bureau of investigation for the purpose of evaluating the fitness of applicants for pawnshop, pawnbroker and secondhand dealer licenses. As required by state and federal law, further dissemination or other use of the criminal history information is prohibited. (Ord. 628, 6-1-2021)