Redlands, CA Business Licensing & Operations: Secondhand Dealers (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing chapter
- Redlands City Code Ch. 5.52
- Covered goods
- Bicycles, jewelry, gold/silver, firearms
- Record inspector
- Chief of police or any officer
- Record form
- City-supplied blank
- Default penalty
- Misdemeanor, up to $1,000 / 6 mo. (§1.20.020)
Summary
Redlands requires anyone who buys or sells secondhand bicycles, jewelry, precious metals or firearms as a business to keep a police-inspectable record of every transaction on a city-supplied form. Chapter 5.52, dating to the city's prior code, names the police chief as the enforcing officer and applies citywide.
It is unlawful to buy or sell or otherwise deal as a business in secondhand bicycles, diamonds, silverware, jewelry, old gold or silver, firearms or any of such articles, without keeping a record of all such articles so purchased, acquired and sold, which record shall at all times during business hours be open to the inspection of the chief of police or any police officer of the city. ... Such record shall be kept upon a blank to be furnished by the city and shall show the name and address of the persons from whom the same was purchased or acquired and to whom sold and the date of purchase and sale.
Full Breakdown
020 specifies the record's format: it must be kept on a city-furnished blank and show the name and address of the person the item was purchased from and the person it was sold to, plus the dates of purchase and sale. The chapter is short (only these two sections) and carries no dealer-specific license fee or permit application of its own; it traces to the city's prior code Section 2351/2352, meaning the recordkeeping duty predates the current amlegal codification and has not been substantively rewritten since.
010, which makes any act "prohibited or declared unlawful" by the code a misdemeanor unless a different penalty is specified elsewhere. Dealers in these goods should also expect overlapping state recordkeeping and reporting duties for secondhand and pawn transactions under California Business and Professions Code provisions governing secondhand dealers, which operate independently of the city's record-format rule.
Violations & Fines
Because Chapter 5.52 sets no chapter-specific penalty, a violation defaults to the citywide general penalty in Section 1.20.020: a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in the city or San Bernardino County jail, a fine of up to $1,000, or both, unless the city attorney elects to charge it as an infraction (fines of $100/$200/$500 for first, second, and subsequent violations within a year).
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