Killeen, TX Business Licensing & Operations: Pawnbrokers (2026)
Key Facts
- Report due
- every Monday by 12:00 noon
- Recipient
- chief of police
- Electronic exemption
- Leads Online enrollment
- Local license required
- no, only weekly reporting
- Holiday rule
- next business day at noon
Summary
Killeen doesn't issue its own pawnbroker license, that's handled by the state, but it does require every licensed pawn shop in the city to hand the police chief a complete copy of its transaction log every Monday by noon, the same reporting duty imposed on secondhand dealers.
Sec. 15-109. - Weekly report to be furnished to police department. All secondhand dealers and licensed pawn shops shall furnish a weekly report to the chief of police which consists of a full and complete legible copy of their log forms, as required under this article, by each Monday at 12:00 noon, or in the case where Monday is a holiday, the next business day at 12:00 noon. Dealers who choose to use the Leads Online program do not have to file a weekly report.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 38 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
Killeen's secondhand dealer ordinance in Chapter 15, Article VI expressly carves licensed pawn shops out of the local secondhand dealer license requirement: Section 15-100(d) states the term secondhand dealer does not include a person, partnership or corporation operating a licensed pawn shop, unless stated otherwise. The article then states otherwise for recordkeeping purposes. Section 15-109 requires all secondhand dealers and licensed pawn shops to furnish a weekly report to the chief of police, made up of a full and complete legible copy of their transaction log forms, due every Monday by 12:00 noon, or the next business day at noon if Monday falls on a city holiday.
A pawn shop that registers for the Leads Online electronic system and uploads its records there is excused from filing the separate paper weekly report. Any dealer using a manual log who refuses or fails to furnish it commits a violation of Section 15-109. Because the local ordinance pulls pawn shops in only for the reporting duty rather than for the licensing process itself, the license a pawnbroker actually needs to operate comes from the state, but the weekly report to the Killeen police department is a distinct, locally enforced obligation that runs independent of that state license.
Violations & Fines
A licensed pawn shop using a manual recording system that refuses or fails to furnish its weekly log report to the chief of police by the Monday noon deadline violates Section 15-109, punishable as an offense under this article's general penalty structure in Chapter 15.
Frequently Asked Questions
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