Palm Beach Gardens, FL Business Licensing & Operations: Pawnbrokers (2026)

Palm Beach Gardens' business tax fee schedule in section 66-69 lists pawnbrokers under item (19), "Other," alongside a short list of categories the city treats as needing extra scrutiny, firearms dealers, fortunetellers and clairvoyants, peddlers, auctioneers, and auction houses among them. The pawnbroker line sets the annual business tax at $785.00, plus an additional charge based on the pawnbroker's inventory, calculated the same way the retail and wholesale merchant tiers in section 66-69(5) price inventory. What sets pawnbrokers apart from most of that list is the qualifying phrase printed directly in the schedule: the license is available only if given city council approval, meaning the receipt is not issued as a matter of course once the fee is paid, the way it would be for a lawn service or a florist.

The schedule also flags the pawnbroker entry with the reference letters (a), (b), (c), (d), and (e); an editor's note attached to the fee schedule states that those letters carry meanings prescribed in section 66-67(a) of the Code, tying the pawnbroker entry to whatever additional conditions those letters designate elsewhere in chapter 66. Before any business tax receipt issues at all, section 66-67 requires an application, a premises inspection by all applicable city departments, and full compliance with city codes, on top of the city council approval the pawnbroker line specifically demands.