Lawrence, MA Business Licensing & Operations: Secondhand Dealers (2026)

44 requires dealers in secondhand articles, junk dealers, and keepers of secondhand shops to be licensed. 010 authorizes the city council to license such dealers as provided by Section 54 of Chapter 140 of the Massachusetts General Laws. citizen, literate in English, and whether any prior similar license was revoked, suspended, or surrendered and why. 00 for dealers in secondhand articles and old gold. 040. 060 requires every shopkeeper to keep a purchase book, approved as to size and style by the police director, recording a description of each article and the seller's name, age, and residence, open to police inspection at all times.

070 requires a number attached to each article at purchase and entered in that book. listing every article purchased the prior business day, its number, and price paid, or a report that nothing was purchased if that is the case. 090 bars selling jewelry within 30 days of purchase and bars any other secondhand article from resale within 14 days, and bars buy-back arrangements on jewelry at a stipulated price. 100 flatly bars purchasing or bartering for secondhand goods from a minor when the dealer knows or has reason to believe the seller is a minor.