Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, Special Services Division

Precious Metals Dealer License

A retail-store business in Montgomery County that buys precious metals from the public for resale or refining — a pawn-shop or jewelry-buyer type operation — needs this license, administered through the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, Special Services Division, under the Precious Metal Sale Regulation Law. Act 17 §2(c) caps the fee at 'not exceed $50 per year as set by the Attorney General,' and the implementing regulation, 37 Pa. Code §501.5, states the figure directly: 'The annual license fee is $50 payable at the time application is made to the county treasurer.' The Sheriff's own current program page separately offers a by-mail option totaling $62.50, describing the extra $12.50 as a mail-processing addition rather than a different base fee. Both the statute and the regulation name the county treasurer as the office the fee is payable to, while the Sheriff's own page instructs mail applicants to make their check payable to 'Montgomery County Sheriff' instead. The figure listed here is the $50 statutory fee; confirm with the Sheriff's Office, which takes the applications, which payee to name on the check. The license runs for a one-year term under Act 17 §2(d).