Glen Cove, NY Business Licensing & Operations: Secondhand Dealers (2026)

Glen Cove City Code Chapter 205, Article II regulates dealers in secondhand articles, defined broadly to include old gold and precious metals, coins, stamps, currency, firearms, cameras, business machines, musical instruments, outboard motors and electronic equipment (§ 205-11). Section 205-16 makes it unlawful to act as a secondhand dealer without a license, and the article creates three license types: a general license covering all secondhand goods except automobiles, a management license for operating an antiques or unique-articles exposition, and an exposition license for out-of-city antique dealers exhibiting at a fair or show (§ 205-16).

A general dealer must post a $10,000 bond approved by the City Attorney, and an exposition manager must post the same $10,000 bond for the exhibitors at the show (§ 205-17). Applicants must supply two photographs and fingerprints, and corporate officers and any stockholder holding 10% or more of the stock must be fingerprinted, with prints forwarded to the state Division of Criminal Justice Services (§ 205-20). (§ 205-23). Purchased articles generally cannot be resold until 15 business days after acquisition, and a dealer must report daily purchase information to the Chief of Police and keep a bound, consecutively numbered transaction book open to police inspection (§§ 205-22, 205-23, 205-26). Antiques over 50 years old, worth less than $250 and carrying no identifying marks, are exempt from the article (§ 205-12).