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~s9 ORDINANCE N0. 8714 An Ordina nce regulating auctioneers in the City of Eugene requiring a license, and imposing a penalty for violations thereof, and repealing all former auctioneer license ordinances. THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIP~ AS FCLL0I~~FS: Section 1. Ever-y person shall be deemed an auctioneer within the ~ I meaning of this ordinance, whose business it is to offer property for sale at ~ public outcry. Section 2. No person, firm or corporation shall conduct an auction sale or act as auctioneer. vaithin the City of Eugene without fiz•st obtaining a license therefor. Section 3. Auctioneers shall be divided into four classes, designated first, second, thin'd, and fourth class respectively. Section 4. Auctioneers of the first class shall be those who carry on their business at a designated place, which shall be known and advertised as an auction house only, which place shall be specified in their license; and auctioneers of tiie first class shall autornatically be qualified to act as auctioneers of the fourth class without further license. First class auctioneers shall pay a license fee of Sixty dollars per annum, payable each four months in advance, January first, l~~iay first, and September first. Section 5. Auctioneers oz' tYie second class shall be those v~Tho sell at auction to merchants or dealers only, and those tivYio conduct temporary auction sales of gold, silver, plated ware, precious stones, watches, or jewelry, or bankrupt, or damaged stocks of general merchandize, whether the same shall be their own property, or whether they sell the same as agents or employees of others, and all such sales above rientioned shall be deemed and defined to be temporary if they consist of stocks brought to this city and so offered witYiin one year of their arrival, or L.--hen the part' conducting the sale cannot give satisfactory evidence to the contrary, provided that this section shall not apply to judicial sales, or to public sales by guardians, executors, or adrnirlistrators; nor• to merchants desiring to close out their stocks, where the same has been kept as a continuous stock for• sale in the City of Eugene for one year or• more, but such ov~ner or the auctioneer selling the stock shall come under the third class. Second .class licenses strall be Twenty dollars per day or Seventy five dollars per week. Section 6. Auctioneers of the third class shall be tYiose sales of merchants desiring to close out their stocks, where the same ras been kept as a continuous stork for sale in the City of Y1'ugene for one year or• more and such owner or auctioneer shall. be required to pay Ten dollars per day or Thirty seven and 50100 Dollars per week:for a license to conduct a sale of the third class. I