Pawn shop.
Long Beach Municipal Code § 21.15.2008
in effect21.15.2008 - Pawn shop.
"Pawn shop" means and includes any use where a person, other than banks, trust companies, or bond brokers, who may otherwise be regulated by law and authorized to deal in commercial papers, shares of stock, bonds and other certificates of value, who keeps a pawn office, or engages in, or carries on the business of receiving jewelry, precious stones, valuables, firearms, clothing or personal property, or any other article or articles in pledge for loans, or as security, or in pawn for the repayment of monies, and exacts an interest for such loans, or who purchases articles or personal property and agrees to resell such articles so purchased to the vendors thereof, or their assigns, at prices agreed upon at or before the time of such purchases, respectively. Pawn shop also includes any use engaging in cash for gold and the like.
(ORD-13-0026 § 2, 2013; ORD-13-0018 § 15, 2013)
Source: City of Long Beach, Municipal Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/ca/long_beach/codes/municipal_code?nodeId=TIT21ZO_CH21.15DE_21.15.2008PASHFetched: 10/28/2026