Broomfield, CO Business Licensing & Operations: Pawnbrokers (2026)

Broomfield Municipal Code § 5-38-090 folds pawnbroker regulation into the state framework: pawnbrokers must comply with Title 12, Article 56, C.R.S., Colorado's Pawnbrokers Act, rather than a separate Broomfield licensing scheme. On top of that state compliance duty, the section layers a local fingerprint requirement, mandating that pawnbrokers use the Touch Print I.D. Program by requiring each customer entering a contract for purchase or purchase transaction to place a right index fingerprint on the customer's declaration-of-ownership form. The completed form, with the original fingerprint, must go to the Broomfield Police Department along with the other records Title 12, Article 56 already requires pawnbrokers to keep.

Section 5-38-080 draws the line between the two trades covered by Chapter 5-38: a secondhand dealer may not receive property by way of pledge or pawn, may not loan or advance money against an item as security, and may not hold a pawnshop license, keeping pawnbroking and secondhand dealing legally distinct even though both sit in the same chapter. Because Broomfield leans on the state act for licensing substance, a pawnbroker operating in the city is really answering to two regimes at once: the Colorado Division of Financial Services under Title 12, Article 56, and Broomfield's added fingerprint and police-records duty under § 5-38-090.