Cranston, RI Business Licensing & Operations: Secondhand Dealers (2026)

No person shall engage in the business of selling, purchasing, bartering or dealing in junk, old metals, secondhand jewelry, precious metals or other metals, or any other secondhand articles, nor establish, operate or maintain automobile junkyards, nor keep a shop or storehouse or the reception of any junk, old metals, secondhand jewelry, precious metals or other metals or other secondhand articles which is not an automobile junkyard, nor engage in business as a foundryperson or other person receiving any junk, old metals, secondhand jewelry, precious metals or other metals or any other secondhand articles for the purpose of melting the same or converting the same into castings, nor gather any junk, old metals, secondhand jewelry, precious metals or other metals or other secondhand articles in any bag, wagon or cart, nor establish, operate or maintain an automobile junkyard, unless such person shall be duly licensed by the committee on safety services and licenses of the city council, and subject to the conditions and restrictions set out in this chapter.

B. As used in this chapter, "automobile junkyard" means a place where one or more unserviceable, discarded, worn-out junked automobiles, or bodies, engines, tires, parts or accessories thereof are gathered together.

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