HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCE NO. 8714~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 ~
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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.
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Section 7. Auctioneers of. the Fourth class shall be those who sell at
auction any personal property within the City of Eugene other- than that men-
tinned in Classes One, Tw o, and Three of this ordinance, and auctioneers of the
fourth class shall pay a license fee of y~~`'15.00 for each four months, payable in
advance commencing January first, 11~iay first, acid September first, of each year.
Section 8. No auctioneer shall ring a bell or permit the same to be
rung in, about,. or in front of the premises where he is conducting a sale,
before, after or during said sale, or on the streets; neither shall he permit
singing, music,or loud noises to made for the purpose of attractions, unless he
or they shall obtain a permit for. the same from the City Recorder, for which
permit he or they shall pay a fee of X2.50 per day for each person so ringing
a bell or singing,, playing, or performing.
Section 9. Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the
provisions of this ordinance shall be subject, upon conviction in the City
Recorder's Court, to a fine not exceeding X50.00 for each offense, and in
default of payment of such fine shall be imprisoned one day for each X2.00 of
the fine unpaid.; and the license so granted shall be f orfeited.
Section 10. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith ar•e hereby repealed.
Passed by the Common Council
this 9th day of February, 1942
/s/ JOF~T FIELDS
City Recorder rro Tem
Approved by the Ivlayor this
10th day of February, 1942
Ls1 ELISHA LARGE
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