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Ordinance No. 0071 03-06-1956� � � � ORDINANCE NO. 71 An Ordinance Relati�g To and Re9ulating Auctioneers and Public Auctions and Vendues in the Village of Fridley, Licensing Same and Providing for Penalties For Violation. The Village Council of Fridley do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. For the purpose of this ordinance an auctioneer is any one who sells goods, wares or merchandise of any kind at public auction for any one or for himself; and any person who sells his own goods or property at puhlic auction or private auction is an auctioneer witliin thc meaning of this ordi- nance. The provisions of this ordi- nance shall not apply to judicial or siierifYS sales or sales made by executors or administrators, or to mortgage or lein foreclosure sales. SECTION 2. Every person, firm or corporation w�hose prop�rty is being sold at auction shall give to each and every purchaser of any article or articles or property sold at auc[ion a written invoice or sYatement containing a full des- cription of the article or articles so sold at auction, and the selling price thereof, and each and every warranty under which the article or articles are sold. This seMion not applicable on items under $100.00. SECTION 3, No auctioneer shall r.iake or cause to be made any Yalse cr fraudulent representafions or statements in respect to tne charactar, kind, quality, condition, ownership, situation or va7ue of any p^operty exposed, put up or offcred by him for sale at pub'ic auction, and no auctioneer shall put up or offer for sale at�public aucticn any article or property in respect to which any false or fraudulent statement or represen- tation shall have been made by hu.i, or to his knowledge, as to the charac.er. kind, quality, condition, ownership, situation or value of any such property. SECTION 4. At any auction sale described in Section 1 of this ordi- nance no person shall act or em- p`oy another to act as buy-bidder, or what is commonly known as capper or booster, or make or ac- cept any false or misleading bid. or fa�sely pretend to buy or sell any article °old or offered for sale at any such avctioa SECTION 5. Any person who shal] purchase any property at public auction in respect to which any false or fraudulent represen- tation or statement as to the char- acter, kind, quality, condition, ownership, situation or value of such property, shall have tieen made by him or to his knowledge, may sue and recocer from the auc- tioneer conducting such sale, or in whose name it shali have been conducted, a penalty of one hun- dred dollars in addition to any damages sustained by him by rea- son of such false or fraudulent statement or representations. SECTION 6. No person, firm or corporation shall sell or caused to be sold any motor vehicles in ex- cess of two vehicles at any auction unless the sale and auction hidding is conducted within a building. The building must have available to it sufficient off street paz'king to acwmmodate the vehicles of the patmns, customers and other per- sons invited to said premises. SECI'ION 7. No person or per- sons shall praMice or exercise the vxation of auctioneer or conduM and operate a public auction with- out having procured a license for same. The license fee shall be $10.00 per year and shall not be. pro-rated, and the licensing year shall start on May lst of each year. SECTIt�N S. No property or premises in the Viilage of Fridley shall be used for the purposes of a public auction without having a permit for the conduct of same. The application for permit shall be made in writing indicating the following information: a. Address of property where sale is to be conducted.� b. Nature of articles to be sold. c.� O�cners of praperty where sale is to be conduMed. d. Owners of articles to be sold. e. Hours of sale. � f. Pmposed dates of sale. g. Names, addresses and license numbers of auctioneers. h. If motor vehide sales, the size and floor area of proposed sale building. . i. Plan for off street parking. SECTION 9. The Village Coun- cil may gran{ a permit for a public auction upon its � determination that such sale or sales will not be adverse to the health, safety and morals of the crommunity. Permit fees will be as follows: Single sale (2 day ���� maximum) ..... ... $10.00 - � Weekly permit ...... $20.00 Full year pertnit (nOt to be pro-rated) .. $120.00 SECTION 10. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon con- viction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding ninety days. SECTZOV 11. This ordinance shall take effect and be in Yoree from and after its passage and publication. Passed by the Village Council of Fridley this 6th day of arch, 1956. q � ATTEST:.�� {. ��t'. E. GREIG, ' � Mayor. ERNEST- ADSEN, .� Clerk. � PUBI.I3HED IV THE COLIIMBIA HEIGHTS RECORD, MARCH 82, 1966 - :# � En ;;� �