5.12.075 Additional requirements for pawnshop licenses.
In order to be licensed and maintain a valid pawnshop license under this chapter, all pawnshops shall have a current valid federal firearms license, and all persons who own or possess an ownership interest of any nature whatsoever (owners) in any pawnshop(s) located within the City of Lakewood must satisfy the following criteria:
A. The owners must submit to the City on the pawnshop business license application form, in a form approved by the City, and shall supplement, amend and resubmit to the City any time the information thereon changes, the following information: each owner’s full name, residential address, telephone number, date and place of birth, race, gender, driver’s license number or state identification card number (with a photocopy of the driver’s license or state identification card), the extent and nature of the ownership interest, and signature.
B. The owners shall have had no criminal convictions or have been placed in any diversion programs, stipulations on continuances, deferred sentences and deferred prosecution or any similar judicial device during the period of the diversion, continuance, deferral or similar program within the previous seven years for any felonies and/or any crimes against moral turpitude, nor for any crimes involving firearms, illegal drugs, theft, possession of stolen property, pawnbroker statutes of the state of Washington or any other state, nor for any violations of the provisions of this chapter.
C. Each owner must meet the following additional criteria:
1. He or she must meet all of the requirements and be eligible to possess a firearm and a concealed pistol permit under the provisions of Chapter 9.41 RCW, including RCW 9.41.070;
2. He or she must not have a concealed pistol license in a revoked status;
3. He or she must be eligible to possess a federal firearms license;
4. He or she must possess a valid, current state firearms license.
D. The City is authorized and entitled to conduct, or have conducted for and on its behalf, investigations to substantiate and verify any of the above information. [Ord. 688 § 1, 2018; Ord. 217 § 1, 1999.]