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Bucks County Sheriff's Department
In short
Bucks County Sheriff's Department issues 1 permit we publish for Bucks 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Precious Metals Dealer License | Bucks County Sheriff's Department | $50 per year | 1 year | 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
Precious Metals Dealer License
A retail-store business in Bucks County that buys precious metals from the general public for resale or refining — a pawn-shop or jewelry-buyer type operation — must obtain a Precious Metals Dealer License from the Bucks County Sheriff's Department under the Precious Metal Sale Regulation Law, Act 17 of 1984, §4(a), which requires the dealer to get a license 'from the sheriff of each ... county.' The statute caps the fee at $50 per year (§4(c)), and the implementing regulation, 37 Pa. Code §501.5, sets it at exactly that figure: 'The annual license fee is $50 payable at the time application is made to the county treasurer.' So the application itself is made to the Sheriff's Department, but the $50 annual fee is paid to the Bucks County Treasurer, and the license runs for a 1-year term under §4(d). Bucks County's own Weights & Measures program materials independently confirm the same $50 fee and 12-month term for this license.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Bucks County
- Phone
- Not verified — use the website
- Website
- www.buckscounty.gov/
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.
- 37 Pa. Code Chapter 501, Precious Metals (implementing the Precious Metal Sale Regulation Law)Pennsylvania Code & Bulletin · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-30
- Bucks County Department of Health, Precious Metal Scales and Enforcement memoBucks County Department of Health · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-30
- Precious Metal Sale Regulation Law, Act of February 24, 1984, P.L.92, No.17 (73 P.S. §§1931 et seq.)Pennsylvania General Assembly · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-30
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