5.12.076 Requirements for employment as a pawnbroker in pawnshops.
No person shall be employed to work in a pawnshop as a pawnbroker unless that person meets the following criteria:
A. The owner(s) of each pawnshop must submit to the City a list appended to pawnshop business license application form, in a form approved by the City, and shall supplement, amend and be resubmitted to the City any time the information thereon changes, the following information: each employee’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).
B. The employee shall have had no criminal convictions or have been included in any diversion programs, stipulations on continuances, deferred sentences and deferred prosecution and any similar judicial device during the period of the diversion, continuance, deferral or similar program within the previous seven years for any crimes against moral turpitude, nor for any felonies and/or 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 employee shall also meet the following additional criteria:
1. He or she must not be ineligible to possess a firearm under the provisions of Chapter 9.41 RCW, and he or she, if 21 years of age or older, shall have a current valid concealed weapons permit pursuant to RCW 9.41.070; including RCW 9.41.040 or 9.41.045;
2. He or she must not be ineligible to possess a federal firearms license;
3. He or she must not be ineligible to possess a state firearms license; provided, that with respect to the criteria set forth in subsections (C)(1), (C)(2) and (C)(3) of this section, these provisions shall not be construed as precluding a pawnshop from employing an employee who does not meet the requirements of said subsections (C)(1), (C)(2) and (C)(3) of this section where the failure of the employee to meet the requirements is solely because the employee’s age is under 21 years, so long as the employee is at least 18 years of age and the employee does not engage in or become involved with any transactions involving firearms or any other property where a customer must be 21 years of age.
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.]