Pueblo, CO Business Licensing & Operations: Secondhand Dealers (2026)

Section 9-10-65 of the Pueblo Municipal Code defines who needs the license. A secondhand dealer is anyone who engages in the business of buying, selling or trading secondhand property, anyone who operates a store for that purpose, and anyone who has repeatedly bought, sold or traded secondhand property. The third group catches people who never opened a shop. Casual sales and rummage sales held under Section 9-10-72 are excluded from the definition.

The list of secondhand property is long and specific. It names cameras, camera lenses, televisions, stereo equipment, musical instruments, skis, golf clubs, fishing rods and reels, firearms, bows, jewelry, watches, luggage, furs, computers, sewing machines and bicycles. It also sweeps in any used or previously sold item that is marked, or was once marked, with a serial or manufacturer's identification number and has a value of $30.00 or more. The exclusions are stoves, ovens, ranges, dishwashers, refrigerators, boats, airplanes, washing machines, clothes dryers, freezers, motor vehicles, snowmobiles, all terrain vehicles and any other item that weighs more than 600 pounds.

To apply, file the City's form with the City License Officer. The form asks for your name, address, telephone number and the address where the business will be conducted. A partnership discloses the names and addresses of at least three general partners, or of all general partners when there are fewer than three, and then states the names and addresses of additional limited partners. A corporation names its President, Secretary, Treasurer and any local manager. The $50.00 annual fee is paid with the application. The license expires at 12:00 midnight on December 31 next following, and it is renewed each year by paying the required fee again.

The license is only the first obligation. Section 9-10-66 requires a written record of every purchase, sale or trade, delivery of that record to the Chief of Police within 72 hours, a retained copy for at least three years, and a seven day hold on the goods. Section 9-10-67 adds a posted notice at the counter.