Pompano Beach, FL Business Licensing & Operations: Pawnbrokers (2026)
Key Facts
- Hours closed
- 8:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. daily
- Records
- Delivered to local law enforcement agency
- State license
- FDOR or FDACS copy required before BTR
- State law layered
- F.S. Ch. 539, Florida Pawnbroking Act
- Penalty
- Up to $500 fine or 60 days jail
Summary
Pompano Beach adds its own restrictions on top of Florida's Pawnbroking Act for every pawnshop in the city. Code of Ordinances Section 115.17 bars pawnbrokers from opening between 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m., requires transaction records to go to local law enforcement, and conditions any business tax receipt on a valid state license.
(A) In addition to the regulations set forth in F.S. Ch. 538 titled Secondhand Dealers and Secondary Metals Recyclers and in F.S. Ch. 539 titled “Florida Pawnbroking Act,” as may be amended from time to time, the city hereby adopts the following additional restrictions which shall apply in the city to the secondhand dealers, secondary metals recyclers, and pawnbrokers as defined in the statute. ... (3) A secondhand dealer, pawnbroker, or any employee thereof shall not have a secondhand store or pawnshop open or engage in or conduct business as a secondhand dealer or pawnbroker between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. ... (5) A copy of a valid license from the Florida Department of Revenue or the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, as applicable, shall be necessary before any Zoning Use Certificate and/or business tax receipt shall be approved for any secondhand dealer or pawnbroker.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2026 S-122: Supplement contains: Local legislation current through 2026-35, passed 7-29-26).
Full Breakdown
S. S. Chapter 538, the Secondhand Dealers and Secondary Metals Recyclers Act. Subsection (A) states the city adopts additional restrictions applying to pawnbrokers as defined in the state statute. Subsection (2) requires a pawnbroker to deliver and conform recordkeeping to the local law enforcement agency, including the exact amount of money paid or loaned for each item, and bars any entry in that record from being erased, obliterated, or defaced. m. Subsection (4) requires an original right thumbprint of the seller on transaction forms, usable only to identify that person when probable cause exists the goods are stolen.
Subsection (5) requires a copy of a valid license from the Florida Department of Revenue or the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services before the city will approve a Zoning Use Certificate or business tax receipt for the pawnshop. The section was adopted by Ord. 91-14 in 1990 and last amended by Ord. 2015-36 in 2015.
Violations & Fines
Pompano Beach enforces Section 115.17 through the city's general penalty at Section 10.99: a violation carries a fine of up to $500, imprisonment up to 60 days, or both, and each day a pawnshop operates outside the 8:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. curfew or without the required license on file is a separate offense. The city can also withhold or decline to renew the Zoning Use Certificate or business tax receipt until the state license copy is on file.
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