{"id":1640,"date":"2020-03-18T22:14:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T22:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2020-03-18T22:15:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T22:15:42","slug":"local-pawnbroker-rules-for-personal-property-texas-attorney-general-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/local-pawnbroker-rules-for-personal-property-texas-attorney-general-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Pawnbroker Rules for Personal Property? Texas Attorney General Opinion."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do municipalities have authority to set the amount of time a pawnshop holds personal property?  No<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do municipalities have the authority to require pawnshops to electronically report personal property  to law enforcement?   No<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Texas Pawnshop Act preempts municipal regulation<\/li><li>Section 371.005 specifically gives the Legislature exclusive authority over the operation of pawnshops<\/li><li>The ordinance also expressly conflicts with administrative regulations authorized by the Pawnshop Act<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is there wiggle room for municipal regulation? yes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>municipalities can regulate things related to pawnshops that are not the operation of the pawnshop<\/li><li>municipalities can reduce the amount of time pawnbrokers must retain purchased goods to less than 20 days<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/ken-paxton\/kp-0293?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">KP-0293 (2020)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do municipalities have authority to set the amount of time a pawnshop holds personal property? No Do municipalities have the authority to require pawnshops to electronically report personal property to law enforcement? No Why? Texas Pawnshop Act preempts municipal regulation Section 371.005 specifically gives the Legislature exclusive authority over the operation of pawnshops The ordinance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/1642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}