Davie, FL Business Licensing & Operations: Pawnbrokers (2026)
Key Facts
- Effective date
- April 1, 2013
- Separation distance
- 2,500 feet
- Building type required
- Freestanding building only
- Separated from
- Pawnshops, schools, assembly uses
Summary
The Town of Davie, Broward County, confines new pawnshops to freestanding buildings set at least 2,500 feet from any other pawnshop, school, or place of public assembly under the town's land development code.
(OO)Pawnshops. After April 1, 2013, no pawnshop shall be established except within a freestanding building (a building which does not share common walls or a roof with another building or establishment), where such freestanding building is at least twenty-five hundred (2,500) feet from an existing pawnshop business, educational use or public assembly use, as measured in a straight line from the property line of the pawnshop parcel to the nearest property line of a parcel encompassing another pawnshop, an educational use or a public assembly use.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 75).
Full Breakdown
Sec. 12-34(OO) of Davie's Land Development Code, effective April 1, 2013, bars a new pawnshop from opening except inside a freestanding building, one that shares no common wall or roof with another business, located at least twenty-five hundred (2,500) feet from an existing pawnshop, an educational use, or a place of public assembly. Distance is measured in a straight line between the nearest property lines of the two parcels. Pawnshops also fall under the town's 'secondhand dealer' definition in Chapter 16, Article II, so an operator must separately hold a secondhand-dealer license and follow that article's recordkeeping and reporting rules.
Violations & Fines
Opening or operating a pawnshop within 2,500 feet of another pawnshop, school, or public-assembly use, or inside a shared-wall building, without required zoning approval.
Frequently Asked Questions
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