Boone County, KY Business Licensing & Operations: Secondhand Dealers (2026)
Key Facts
- Hold period
- 72 hours before resale
- Register kept for
- Police Dept. and Sheriff
- Minimum seller age
- 18 years
- Restricted hours
- No buys 10 p.m.-8 a.m.
- Penalty grade
- Class A misdemeanor
- Applies to
- Unincorporated Boone County only
Summary
Boone County requires anyone buying, selling or trading second-hand or antique jewelry, coins, watches, diamonds, cutlery, or gold, silver and platinum items to keep a daily register of every article and seller, retain items unmixed for 72 hours, and never deal with a person under 18.
It shall be the duty of all persons dealing in the purchase, sale or exchange of second-hand or antique jewelry, coins, watches, diamonds or other precious stones, cutlery, old gold, silver, platinum, or other precious metals, or any other second-hand manufactured articles, composed wholly or in part of gold, silver, platinum or other precious metals to keep a daily register on a form provided by the County Police Department and the County Sheriff, of every article received by them in the course of their business and the persons from whom such articles were acquired.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2025 S-28: Supplement contains: Local legislation current through Ordinance 2025-20, passed 6-17-25; and State legislation current through KRS 2025).
Full Breakdown
Boone County Code Chapter 113, Precious Metals Dealers, governs anyone in the unincorporated county who buys, sells or exchanges second-hand or antique jewelry, coins, watches, diamonds or other precious stones, cutlery, or old gold, silver, platinum or other precious metals, or any other second-hand manufactured article made wholly or partly of those metals. 01, the dealer must keep a daily register, on a form supplied by the Boone County Police Department and the Boone County Sheriff, of every article received and the person who sold or exchanged it, including the seller's name, age, sex, race, address, driver's license number, a general physical description, and signature, along with as minute a description of the item as reasonable (including identification numbers and manufacturer's name).
02 requires the dealer to keep each day's intake separate and unmixed with items from other days, and to hold every article in the same condition received for 72 hours after receipt, available for examination by the Boone County Police Department, Sheriff's Department, State Police or other law enforcement officer, before it may be resold or exchanged. , regardless of the seller's age. These duties apply only within unincorporated Boone County; dealers inside Florence, Union or Walton answer to that city's own code.
Violations & Fines
Under § 113.99, violating any duty, requirement or prohibition in Chapter 113, including failing to keep the register, comingling articles, releasing an item before the 72-hour hold expires, or buying from a minor or outside permitted hours, is a Class A misdemeanor. The county's ordinance cross-references KRS 532.090 (imprisonment for misdemeanors) and KRS 534.040 (fines for misdemeanors) as the applicable Kentucky penalty statutes for that grade of offense.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I have to hold items before reselling them?
Can I buy jewelry or gold from a teenager?
What has to go in the daily register?
Does this apply if my shop is in Florence or Union?
Sources & Official References
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