Craven County, NC Business Licensing & Operations: Pawnbrokers (2026)

S. Chapter 66, expressly including currency converters, E-buyers, pawnbrokers, pawnshops, dealers and secondary metals recyclers, to report all transactions through an electronic data transmission system compatible with the Craven County Sheriff's computer system. The data must reach the officer the sheriff designates by noon following each regular workday, and in any event within 24 hours of the transaction record being created. Once entered, a record in the reporting system may not be erased, obliterated or defaced by the business, preserving a clean audit trail for the sheriff's office.

S. Chapter 66 at the state level, Craven County's own ordinance is narrowly aimed at the transaction-reporting mechanism the sheriff uses to track secondhand and pawned goods, rather than creating a separate county license or fee structure. S. Chapter 66 provides, which the county ordinance specifically flags as including Class 2 misdemeanor charges and revocation of the offender's license. That makes the sheriff's office the practical enforcement point for pawnbrokers operating in unincorporated Craven County: a shop can hold its state license and still face county prosecution and license jeopardy for failing to feed transactions into the required system on schedule.