San Angelo, TX Business Licensing & Operations: Secondhand Dealers (2026)

03 of the Code of Ordinances defines secondhand goods dealer broadly under Sec. 001 to specifically include pawnbrokers, salvage or junk dealers, secondhand furniture and auto parts dealers, flea market vendors, crafted precious metal dealers and business machine dealers. Rather than a discretionary license, the city runs this business class through a mandatory recordkeeping regime. Sec. 002 requires every dealer to keep a well-bound, ink-written daily record of each secondhand item purchased or pledged, including a full description, the price paid, the date, and the seller's name, address, nationality, sex, age, weight, height and driver's license or state ID number, which the dealer may only record after being shown the physical ID.

Sellers must certify the information is true, entries can never be erased or obliterated, and the police chief must approve the book or form used. Sec. 003 makes those records and the goods themselves open to inspection by any city peace officer at all reasonable times. Sec. 004 bars a dealer from disposing of purchased goods before the 11th day after the transaction report unless the dealer first records the buyer's name, address and description. Sec. 005 forbids knowingly buying any item with a tampered serial number, and Sec.

006 bars purchases from anyone under 18 without a parent or guardian's written consent. Sec. 008 clarifies that stricter federal, state or other city rules control when they conflict with this article, which matters because pawnshops also answer to the Texas Office of Consumer Credit Commissioner under state pawn law.