Gilbert, AZ Business Licensing & Operations: Secondhand Dealers (2026)

Section 14-201 defines a 'secondhand dealer' broadly as anyone buying, selling, trading, exchanging, or accepting on consignment secondhand items or 'precious items' such as secondhand gold, silver, platinum, jewelry or pearls, whether that is the dealer's principal business or merely incidental to another business; the definition expressly reaches antique dealers, auction houses and operators of automated buy-back kiosks. The article carves out several exclusions, however: a business that only takes secondhand goods in trade toward new merchandise, dealers whose transfers require a recorded written instrument under state law, nonrecurring garage or rummage sales between private individuals, and recycling businesses dealing only in metal, cans, paper, cardboard or glass.

Section 14-203 requires every covered secondhand dealer to hold the Town business license required under Section 14-36 and pay the reporting fee set by town council resolution, except that a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable secondhand dealer is excused from that fee. Section 14-204 requires the same 24-hour electronic transaction reporting to the Gilbert Police Department that applies to pawnbrokers, including a photograph of the item and an electronic signature and fingerprint of the seller, with exceptions for items such as media traded for store credit, clothing, used books and items under $50.

Section 14-206(b) sets the secondhand-dealer-specific hold: the dealer may not alter, destroy, conceal, give away, sell, trade or dispose of any secondhand item for at least ten days after delivering the Section 14-204 report, half the 20-day hold that applies to pawnbrokers under Section 14-206(a).