53 Pa. Stat. § 25252
All second-hand dealers, in cities of the second class, at the time of the passage of this act, shall, within sixty days of such passage, and every person, association, copartnership, and corporation, hereafter desiring to become a second-hand dealer, shall, before commencing such business, procure a license from the director of public safety in any city. All licenses shall be issued to expire on the thirty-first day of December, of the year for which they were issued, unless sooner revoked, and shall be renewed annually.
Before any license is issued, the applicant therefor shall pay to the city treasurer, a license fee of ten dollars ($10) for an itinerant second-hand dealer's license, or fifty dollars ($50) for a second-hand dealer's license for a permanent place of business. The treasurer shall issue his receipt for the payment of such fee. Upon presentation of such receipt, the director of public safety shall issue to the applicant a badge of an itinerant second-hand dealer, or a license certificate if a second-hand dealer having a permanent place of business. Such badge shall be worn by such itinerant second-hand dealer at all times when he is engaged in carrying on his business, and such license certificate shall be hung, and at all times kept plainly visible, in the place of business of the second-hand dealer having a permanent place of business.
53 P.S. § 25252