The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to or affect the following:
(A) Persons selling goods pursuant to an order or process of a court of competent jurisdiction;
(B) Persons acting in accordance with their powers and duties as public officials;
(C) Any sale conducted by any merchant or mercantile or other business establishment from or at a place of business wherein such sale would be permitted by the zoning regulations of the city or under the protection of the nonconforming use section thereof, or any other sale conducted by the manufacturer, dealer or vendor and which sale would be conducted from properly zoned premises and not otherwise prohibited in other ordinances, with the signs not put up more than 48 hours prior to the sale; or
(D) Any bona fide charitable, eleemosynary, educational, cultural or governmental institution or organization when the proceeds from the sale are used directly for the institution’s or organization’s charitable purposes and the goods or articles are not sold on a consignment basis.
(‘90 Code, § 12.2-15) (Ord. passed 3-8-82)