Pismo Beach Municipal Code Art. III Other Personal Services Businesses

A. "Check-cashing establishment." Any establishment whose primary purpose is to provide check cashing, pay day loans, car title loans, signature loans, and other similar financial services. Does not include a state or federally chartered bank, savings association, credit union, or industrial loan company. Does not include retail sellers engaged primarily in the business of selling consumer goods that provides check cashing services for a flat fee not exceeding two dollars ($2.00) as an incidental service.

B. "Gold and silver exchange." Any establishment that is engaged in accepting gold, silver, and/or other precious metals, primarily from jewelry, in exchange for monies. For establishments that engage in the exchange of monies for valuable articles other than precious metals, see "pawn shop."

C. "Pawn shop." Any establishment that engages in the business of receiving jewelry, precious stones, valuables, firearms, clothing, personal property, or any other article or articles in pledge for loans, or as security, or in pawn for the repayment of monies, and exacts an interest for such loans, or that purchases articles or personal property and agrees to resell such articles so purchased to the vendors thereof, or their assigns, at prices agreed upon at or before the time of such purchases, respectively. Does not include banks, trust companies, or bond brokers, who may otherwise be regulated by law and authorized to deal in commercial papers, shares of stock, bonds, and other certificates of value.

D. "Smoke shop." Any establishment that either: (1) devotes more than fifteen percent (15%) of its floor space or (2) devotes at least sixteen (16) cumulative cubic feet of shelf space to smoking paraphernalia. For purposes of this section, "smoking paraphernalia" means paraphernalia relating to the smoking of tobacco, cannabis, or other psychoactive substances, or inhalation of vapor containing nicotine, tetrahydrocannabinol, or other psychoactive substances, including but not limited to pipes, rolling papers, grinders, lighters, vape pens/e- cigarettes, cigarettes, cigars, chew, and loose tobacco. (Ord. O-2019-012 § 2 (part), 2019)

No personal service business defined in this article shall be established or operated within one thousand (1,000) feet from any like establishment. One thousand feet shall be the minimum linear distance between the closest points along the boundaries of the parcel upon which the existing personal services business is located and the parcel upon which the additional personal services business is proposed, respectively, as determined by the community development director or designee. (Ord. O-2019- 012 § 2 (part), 2019)