Elko County, NV Business Licensing & Operations: Secondhand Dealers (2026)

The junk dealer rate sits in § 6-1-12(N) of the Elko County Code, inside Chapter 6-1, Business Licenses, Mountain City. The chapter governs the unincorporated Town of Mountain City only. It does not reach the incorporated cities of Elko, Carlin, Wells or West Wendover. Under § 6-1-1 the Town Board is the Board of County Commissioners of Elko County, the Clerk is the County Clerk, and the Sheriff is the Sheriff of Elko County.

Subsection (N) is headed Junk Dealers; Waste Products; Transient. It reaches every person collecting, purchasing, selling or dealing in junk, rubbish or any waste products, as owner, manager or agent, who has no regularly established place of business in the Town. The fee is $2.00 per day or $25.00 per month, and a monthly license dates from the first day of the month in which the business is conducted. Under § 6-1-8(B) a daily license is due each day in advance and covers midnight to midnight.

The code does not print a separate junk dealer rate for a dealer with a fixed place of business. Section 6-1-12(O) licenses any retail or wholesale seller of tangible personal property, or provider of services, not otherwise specifically licensed, by gross sales bracket: $15.00 per year at $25,000.00 or less in gross sales for the preceding 12 months, and $40.00 per year above that. Section 6-1-13 leaves the final category call to the Clerk. A licensee without a fixed place of business must carry the license at all times while working under § 6-1-6 and show it to any police officer or officer authorized to inspect licenses. Section 6-1-5 ties each license to the location named in the application. Separately, Title 4 zoning in the same code names secondhand stores as a use in its commercial district tables.