Summit County
Summit County Office of Consumer Affairs
In short
Summit County Office of Consumer Affairs issues 3 permits we publish for Summit County, last verified 2026-09-30. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Motor Vehicle Repair Garage Consumer Duties (Codified Ordinances Chapter 769) | Summit County Office of Consumer Affairs | No fee | standing operational duty from the day the garage opens — §769.02 requires records to be kept 'for not less than two (2) years after their creation' rather than running on a permit term | 2026-09-30 |
| Solicitor / Peddler / Itinerant Vendor / Canvasser Licenseonly if it applies to you | Summit County Office of Consumer Affairs | $35 per license, paid to the Office of Consumer Affairs under §775.04 | one year or less, ending 31 December of the calendar year in which the license is acquired; not transferable under §775.05, and it must be carried and exhibited on request under §775.08 | 2026-09-30 |
| Secondhand Dealer Licenseonly if it applies to you | Summit County Office of Consumer Affairs | $25 on issue under §741.05, plus a $25.00 renewal fee under §741.06 | annual — §741.05 provides that 'the license shall expire annually on December 31'; no license issues until thirty days have passed from the date of the application | 2026-09-30 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Motor Vehicle Repair Garage Consumer Duties (Codified Ordinances Chapter 769)
Summit County regulates auto repair through duties rather than a credential: §769.01 to §769.04 of the Codified Ordinances bind every 'motor vehicle repair garage' — 'a business or individual regularly engaged in the repair of motor vehicles,' excluding a business that only dispenses fuel, checks fluids and replaces filters, and a shop repairing only its own fleet — and the chapter creates no license and charges no fee, so there is nothing to apply for and nothing to pay. What it does require is concrete. §769.02 requires all work orders, estimates and invoices to be kept available for inspection and copying by the Director or a designee 'for not less than two (2) years after their creation,' with copies supplied to a customer on request for a reasonable cost. §769.03 requires reasonable notice of the storage-charge policy and provides that no storage charge accrues 'for a period of forty-eight (48) hours (two business days) from the date of notification to a consumer that the repair … has been completed.' §769.04 governs estimates for any repair or service with an anticipated cost over $25.00 where there has been face-to-face contact: the shop gives the consumer a form recording the date, the supplier, the consumer's name and telephone number, the anticipated completion date and, if chosen, the anticipated cost, with an ESTIMATE disclosure offering a written estimate, an oral estimate or none; posts a conspicuous NOTICE sign in the customer area; may not exceed a quoted estimate by more than 10% without prior approval; must disclose charges for disassembly, reassembly, partially completed work and towing; must give an itemised list of repairs, parts (stating whether they are used, remanufactured or rebuilt), labour and the identity of the person who did the work; and must tender the replaced parts unless they are to be rebuilt, sold or returned under warranty and the consumer was told beforehand. Enforcement runs through the Title Five remedies in Chapter 761 and the Office of Consumer Affairs created by §201.02. Chapter 780 of the same title separately addresses fuel pump security for a shop that also sells fuel.
Solicitor / Peddler / Itinerant Vendor / Canvasser License
Codified Ordinances Chapter 775 licenses itinerant vendors, hawkers, peddlers, solicitors and canvassers. §775.02 provides that none of them 'shall sell or offer for sale any goods, merchandise, produce or anything of value in the County, or solicit or hawk any goods, merchandise or anything of value, without first obtaining a license therefor from the Office of Consumer Affairs,' and §775.09 extends the requirement to employees hired to peddle. §775.01 defines an itinerant vendor or hawker as one conducting 'a temporary or transient business of selling goods, wares and merchandise within the County' without intending to stay in one location more than four months, and a peddler as one selling 'at any place in, upon, along or through the streets, alleys or other public ways or places of the County or from house to house.' The fee and term are set in the ordinance text: §775.04 requires each applicant to 'pay to the office of Consumer Affairs the sum of thirty-five dollars ($35.00)' and provides that licenses run 'for a period of one (1) year or less which shall end on December 31 of that calendar year in which they are acquired.' Territory is settled inside the chapter and then narrowed by the county's own form. §775.16, 'Relation to Other Law,' states that 'this Chapter shall apply in all townships, villages and municipal corporations within the County of Summit,' with a township resolution regulating transient vendors or a village or municipal ordinance regulating peddlers and solicitors prevailing where one exists, and county applications required only where the locality has none; and the county's published application form (rev. 11/19) carries the acknowledgement that 'this is solely an application to solicit in the Bath Township, Richfield Township, Springfield Township, Northfield Center Township, and Twinsburg Township in Summit County, Ohio and cannot solicit until a license has been issued.' Those five townships are where the county license actually operates. The application itself requires a government photo ID, applicants to be 18 or over, about ten days' lead time, a BCI background check at the applicant's expense with fingerprinting by the Summit County Sheriff for a vendor 'operating out of and selling, bartering or exchanging goods from a motor vehicle to consumers, such as an ice cream, treats, and snacks vendor' (§775.03(c)), and, under §775.03(a)(10), 'if selling perishable food products, proof that they have obtained a certificate from the appropriate health department for their operation' — which for a food operation means the Summit County Public Health license listed separately. §775.06 excepts newspaper subscription solicitors, a manufacturer peddling its own article made within the county, court-ordered and bona fide auction sales, wholesale sales to a retail dealer, 'four or more itinerant vendors associated together in an enterprise such as a flea market, farmers market, craft show, stamp or coin collectors, bourse, trade show, or the like,' occasional fundraising sales by fraternal, civic, service or school organisations, political representatives and local religious groups. §775.07 limits peddling to the hours between 9:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., bars a noise device audible beyond 500 feet and stopping to sell within 200 feet of a school between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. in term time, and requires a three-day right to cancel and disclosure of the seller's name, address and telephone number and its refund policy. §775.99 makes an offence a minor misdemeanour with a fine up to $100. Codified Ordinances §201.02 creates the issuing Office of Consumer Affairs as a Division of the Executive's Department of Law and Risk Management under a Deputy Director of Consumer Affairs; the county's department directory carries no page for the Office and no telephone number for it is published, so the codified chapter and the county's own application form are the operative sources for what this license requires.
Secondhand Dealer License
Codified Ordinances Chapter 741 reaches further than a precious-metals rule. §741.02(a) provides that 'no person, partnership, corporation or other entity, unless duly licensed as provided in this chapter, shall engage in the regular business of purchasing, selling, exchanging or receiving secondhand items, except as set forth in Section 741.16,' and §741.02(b) adds the separate limb for 'secondhand precious stones or any secondhand manufactured article composed wholly or in part of gold, silver, platinum or other precious metal.' 'Secondhand' means 'that which has been used, or which has been previously traded or sold by a retailer,' excluding trade-ins credited against similar new merchandise, and 'regular business' means dealing on more than three days in a calendar year. §741.16 exempts persons dealing primarily in furniture, primarily in secondhand automobiles or primarily in coins, pawnbrokers complying with state law, sales by governmental entities, Sheriff's sales and sales by a receiver in bankruptcy. The fees are set in the ordinance text: §741.05 issues the license 'after payment of a fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00)' and provides that it 'shall expire annually on December 31,' and §741.06 sets a renewal fee of twenty-five dollars; the figures come from Ord. 81-285 and Ord. 2014-124 as carried in the current American Legal codification. Territory is settled inside this chapter: §741.17, 'Nonapplicability in Conflict,' provides that 'this chapter shall not apply within any municipality or township which has enacted a measure which regulates or prohibits the conducting of a secondhand dealer business' — so the county license does reach inside cities and villages that have not legislated on the subject. Two practical preconditions: §741.04 requires an inspection and test by the Summit County Division of Weights and Measures of every scale, balance and weighing or measuring device at the location, and provides that the application shall not be granted without that certification, which is valid only for the location on the application — the Division publishes its contact details on the Fiscal Office's Weights & Measures page; and §741.03(b)–(c) impose a thirty-day wait from application, two Summit County character references and disqualification for a felony involving fraud, theft or receiving stolen property in the preceding five years. Ongoing duties are substantial: a bound record book of every purchase (§741.10), a daily form to the Office of Consumer Affairs by noon of the following weekday, hand-delivered for the first forty-five days of business (§741.11), tagging of every article (§741.12), a ten-day hold before an article may be disassembled, altered, sold or removed from the county (§741.13), no purchases from anyone under 18 and none between 11:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. (§741.14), and the license number in every advertisement (§741.15). Codified Ordinances §201.02 creates the issuing Office of Consumer Affairs and organises it 'as a Division of the Executive's Department of Law and Risk Management,' supervised by a Deputy Director of Consumer Affairs; the county's department directory carries no page for the Office and no telephone number for it is published, so the codified chapter above is the operative statement of what the license requires. Buying precious metals from the public also requires a separate state precious metals dealer license from the Ohio Department of Commerce under ORC Chapter 4728.
Contact
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Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- Application for Solicitors, Peddlers, Canvassers (rev. 11/19) — Summit County's own form: 'this is solely an application to solicit in the Bath Township, Richfield Township, Springfield Township, Northfield Center Township, and Twinsburg Township in Summit County, Ohio'Summit County, Ohio · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-30
- Charter of the County of Summit, Article I §1.01 (concurrent exercise of municipal powers) and §1.02 (in a conflict, the exercise of powers by the municipality or township prevails)Summit County, Ohio (American Legal Publishing) · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-30
- Summit County Codified Ordinances Chapter 201, §201.02 — the Office of Consumer Affairs 'shall be organized as a Division of the Executive's Department of Law and Risk Management,' supervised by a Deputy Director of Consumer Affairs reporting through the Director of Law and Risk ManagementSummit County, Ohio (American Legal Publishing) · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-30
- Summit County Codified Ordinances Chapter 741, §§741.09–741.17 — §741.10 record book, §741.11 daily form to the Office of Consumer Affairs, §741.12 tagging, §741.13 ten-day hold, §741.14 purchase restrictions, §741.15 license number in advertising, §741.16 exemptions, §741.17 nonapplicability in conflictSummit County, Ohio (American Legal Publishing) · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-30
- Summit County Codified Ordinances Chapter 741, Secondhand Dealers, §§741.01–741.07 — §741.02(a) secondhand items generally and (b) precious stones and precious metals, §741.03 thirty-day waiting period and character references, §741.04 Weights and Measures certification, §741.05 $25.00 fee and December 31 expiry, §741.06 $25.00 renewalSummit County, Ohio (American Legal Publishing) · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-30
- Summit County Codified Ordinances Chapter 769, Motor Vehicle Repairs (Ord. 2004-455, adopted 8-30-04) — §769.02 two-year retention of work orders, estimates and invoices, §769.03 storage-charge policy and the 48-hour grace period, §769.04 written estimates above $25.00, the NOTICE sign, the 10% overrun limit and the tender of replaced partsSummit County, Ohio (American Legal Publishing) · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-30
- Summit County Codified Ordinances Chapter 775, §§775.03–775.09 — §775.04 '$35.00' fee and a term of one year or less ending December 31 of the year acquired, §775.05 non-transferability, §775.08 carrying and exhibiting the license, §775.09 employeesSummit County, Ohio (American Legal Publishing) · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-30
- Summit County Codified Ordinances Chapter 775, §§775.06–775.99 — §775.06 exceptions including flea markets and farmers markets, §775.07 operating rules, §775.16 'Relation to Other Law' applying the chapter in all townships, villages and municipal corporations subject to a local resolution or ordinance prevailingSummit County, Ohio (American Legal Publishing) · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-30
- Summit County Codified Ordinances Chapter 775, Solicitors, Peddlers and Canvassers, §§775.01–775.03 — definitions of itinerant vendor, hawker and peddler; §775.02 license requirement from the Office of Consumer Affairs; §775.03 application contents including a health department certificate for perishable food and BCI background checkSummit County, Ohio (American Legal Publishing) · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-30
- Weights & Measures — the Summit County Fiscal Office's own page: the Division tests scales, gas pumps, scanning systems, timing meters and platform scales, inspects packaged goods and examines the method of sale on items such as firewood; contact 330-630-7233, services@summitoh.netSummit County Fiscal Office · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-30
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