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

City of Oneida Code § 135-2A requires anyone engaging in business as a secondhand dealer in the city to obtain a license from the City Clerk's office before starting, valid only for the calendar year issued and expiring at midnight December 31. Section 135-1 defines a covered secondhand dealer as anyone buying for resale items including bicycles and bicycle parts, jewelry, unset jewels, precious stones, gold, silver, coins, tools and power tools, chain saws, small household appliances, televisions and radios, mobile telephones, sound recorders and players, sterling silverware, clocks, watches, musical instruments, cameras and photographic equipment, video recorders, typewriters, calculators, copying machines, and computers and related accessories.

Section 135-2B requires a written application listing the applicant's name, residence and business address, date of birth, and the goods to be bought and sold, with the fee set by Common Council resolution under § 135-2C. A dealer operating at more than one location must amend the original license under § 135-2D, and § 135-2E bars a secondhand dealer's license from covering pawnbroking. Section 135-3A requires every dealer to keep a permanent, substantially bound record made at the time of each purchase, describing the article and the seller, written legibly in ink and never altered or erased, with every item tagged or numbered under § 135-3B.

every weekday and available to the Police Department on request, and § 135-3D lets any police officer examine the dealer's premises and goods during normal business hours. Section 135-4 then bars resale of any purchased article until seven days have elapsed after purchase and the daily report is completed, and § 135-5 requires every dealer to display a copy of the chapter, furnished by the Police Department, in a conspicuous place in the business.