Glendale, CA Business Licensing & Operations: Secondhand Dealers (2026)

010 defines a "junk dealer" as a person with a fixed place of business in the city dealing in old rags, sacks, bottles, cans, paper, metal, rubber, or similar articles known as junk, and a "secondhand dealer" as anyone buying, selling, or dealing in used goods, wares, or merchandise generally. 050 that includes fingerprints and photographs for a police investigation and disclosure of any prior license refusal elsewhere. 040 imposes a distinct safety rule on junk dealers and auto wreckers: a storage yard for junk or dismantled vehicle parts must sit within a code-compliant building or inside a solidly fenced enclosure with a fence not less than six feet high, and if any part of that fence sits within 10 feet of a public way or a building, that section of fence must be at least eight feet high with materials stacked no higher than two feet below the fence top within that 10-foot zone; failing to meet this rule means the operator is treated as operating without a license at all.

050(A) keeps those records open to police inspection at all times. 070 exempts junk dealers buying or selling common low-value items, rags, non-cream or milk bottles, non-cement sacks, barrels, cans, shoes, lamps, stoves, and household furniture other than sewing machines or musical instruments, and secondhand dealers selling household furniture other than sewing machines, musical instruments, and typewriters, from the reporting and disposal-hold subsections. 090 requires true name, age, and address from every seller.