Shreveport, LA Business Licensing & Operations: Secondhand Dealers (2026)

Sec. 42-217(a) defines a secondhand dealer as every person engaged in the business of buying, selling, trading in, or otherwise acquiring or disposing of used or secondhand property, and lists examples running from jewelry, silverware and precious metals to mechanic's and carpenter's tools, automobile hubcaps and batteries, CDs, DVDs, and electronic games and gaming systems. Ordinance No. 99 of 2005 (6-28-05) added a detailed second category, "used building components," covering salvaged fixtures pulled from a structure, everything from bricks, gutters and lightning rods to sinks, cabinets, wiring, doors, windows, mantles, flooring and fencing, regardless of age, condition or monetary worth, so long as the item was once part of a building.

S. ; private residential garage or yard sales held at a residential address; and any charity holding a valid 501(c)(3) exemption. Every dealer who does not fall into one of those carve-outs must, under subsection (d), file all daily transaction records electronically to the law-enforcement web site the police department designates for that purpose, or in whatever other form the chief of police permits. The section sits in Article VIII, Division 1 of Chapter 42, alongside the parallel pawnbroker recordkeeping duty in Sec. S. 37:1861-37:1870.