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HomeMy WebLinkAbout3685 ORDINANCE NO. 3685 AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance No. 970 to provide that auctioneers with a permanent business in the City of Bremerton ~ place of shall not be subject to the special auction license provided for in Section No. 4 of Ordinance No. 970. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF BREMERTON, STATE OF WASHINGTON, AS FOLLOWS: SECTION NO. 1 AMENDMENT: This Ordinance amends Section 4 of Ordinance No. 970 to exempt those auctioneers having a permanent place of business in the City of Bremerton from the special auction license requirement found in Section No. 4 of Ordinance No. 970. The amendment of this ordinance is offered due to the fact that itinerant auctioneers require more policing, assume no responsibility for community welfare, and are a greater care to the City than those with fixed places of abode. SECTION NO. 2 SPECIAL AUCTION LICENSES: Section No. 4 of Ordinance No. 970 is hereby amended to read as follows: Section No. 4: Special Auction Licenses. It shall be unlawful to sell or offer for sale at public auction any goods, wares, merchandise, or other personal property that has been brought into the city for the purpose of being disposed of at auction, without first procuring, in addition to the auctioneer's license described in Section 1 of this Ordinance, a "special auction license". The fee for such special auction license shall be, and the same is hereby, fixed in the sum of $25.00 per day. Before any such special auction license shall be issued, there shall be filed with the City Clerk, in addition to the City Treasurer's receipt, showing payment for the license fee, a list of goods, wares, merchandise or other personal property so brought into the City of Bremerton for the purpose of sale at private auction, together with a statement of the time and place of such provided auction salve~. Such list and statement shall be verified under oath by the person bringing such goods into the City for the purpose of sale at public auction; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be construed as permitting a sale at public auction of jewelry brought into the City for the purpose of sale at public auction, unless the owner of such jewelry or the person or persons conducting the sale thereof shall have obtained a jewelry auction license as provided in this ordinance; PAGE 1; AND FURTHER provided that all of the requirements found above under Special Auction licenses shall be reqRired of an auctioneer having.~a permanent place of business in the City of Bremerton, except that said auctioneer having a permanent place i~n the City of Bremerton will not be required to pay the special auction license fee in the sum of $25.00 per day. APPROVED by the City Commissioners on the first readings this ~,c~ day of _ /~¢~,~,~¥ , 1982. PASSED by the City Commissioners of the City of Bremerton, Washington, signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in authentication of such passage this ~r~ day of ~~_~_, 1982. GENE NELSON Mayor ATTEST: KAT~IL~EN L. MANDIO City Clerk PAGE 2.