Sedgwick County, KS Business Licensing & Operations: Pawnbrokers (2026)

A. 16-706 et seq. Sec. 17-72 requires every pawnbroker to maintain, at the place of business, a register describing each item purchased or received: size, color, any trade or brand name, model and serial numbers, the time of purchase or receipt, the seller's correct legal name verified against at least two forms of identification, the seller's residence address, and their driver's license number if available. The register must also record the amount paid or loaned, entries must be made in ink within one hour of the transaction, and no entry may be erased, obliterated or defaced.

Sec. 17-73 then requires the pawnbroker to prepare two legible, correct copies of the prior day's register entries every day before 12:00 noon, available to any sheriff's deputy, including a physical description of the person who pawned or sold the item (hair color, eye color, height, weight, date of birth, race and sex), on individual forms no larger than four by six inches. A. 16-715. Sec. 17-71 makes Article III enforceable under Chapter 8, and because the article sets no violation classification of its own, a violation defaults to a Class F offense under Sec. 8-5(b), the county's baseline classification for code violations that aren't otherwise assigned a class.