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It shall be unlawful for any person to hold or conduct or aid in holding or conducting as an auctioneer in the City of Flint an auction or auction sale of any real estate or personal property without first obtaining from the City Council a license for that purpose and paying the license fee or fees hereinafter provided; and before any such license shall be granted the person applying therefor shall make an application in writing, giving his name and address and stating whether a license is desired for a period ending April 30 next following the date of the application, or whether such a license is desired for the period of ninety days or less, and such application shall contain an agreement that the license, if granted, shall be accepted on condition that it may be revoked, for a good cause, by the City Council; and no such license will be transferred. No license shall be required for a sale at auction under legal process where such sales are required by law to be made at public auction.
(Ord. 138, passed 12-7-1917; Ord. 328, passed 7-25-1923)
Any person applying for a license hereunder shall pay to the City Clerk a license fee as specified in Chapter 26 of this code.
(Ord. 138, passed 12-7-1917; Ord. 1066, passed 3-24-1953)
It shall be unlawful for any person to hold or conduct or to aid in holding or conducting as an auctioneer in the City of Flint any auction or auction sale without first executing a bond to the people of the State of Michigan with a surety company authorized to transact business in the State of Michigan as a surety, in the penal sum of $2,000.00 for the use and benefit of any and all persons claiming damages because of the violation of any of the provisions of the ordinance of which this amendment forms a part, which bond shall contain the conditions that the principal therein will well and faithfully in all things comply with the provisions of said ordinance and pay or cause to be paid all loss or damage that any and all persons may sustain by reason of the failure of said principal to comply with said provisions. The bond shall be approved by the Chief Legal Officer.
(Ord. 138, passed 12-7-1917)
The sale of any goods at auction which are being handled and sold within the City of Flint by transient traders or dealers, as defined by laws of the State of Michigan, shall not excuse the compliance by such transient trader or dealer with the laws of the State requiring the payment of a license fee as a transient trader or dealer.
(Ord. 138, passed 12-7-1917)
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation, to sell, dispose of or offer for sale in the City of Flint at public auction, or to cause or permit to be sold, disposed of or offered for sale in the City at public auction any gold, silver, plated ware, precious stones, semiprecious or synthetic stones, watches, clocks or jewelry, whether the same shall be their own property or whether they sell the same as agents or employees of others; provided, that this shall not apply to judicial sales or sales by executors, or administrators or to sales by or on behalf of licensed pawnbrokers of unredeemed pledges in the manner provided by law, nor to the sale at public auction of the stock of any person or persons, firm or corporation that shall, for the period of one year last preceding such sale, have been continuously in business in the City of Flint as a retail or wholesale merchant of gold, silver, plated ware, precious stones, watches, clocks or jewelry; provided further, that such sale at public auction of the stock of such merchant or merchants shall be held on successive days, Sundays and legal holidays excepted, and shall not continue for more than fourteen days and no more than two such sales shall be held within the period of any calendar year.
(Ord. 389, passed 6-15-1931)
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation to sell, dispose of or offer for sale in the City of Flint at public auction, or to cause or permit to be sold, disposed of or offered for sale in the City at public auction any new, used and secondhand household furniture, kitchenware, stoves, ranges, dishes, rugs, carpets, household equipment and floor coverings of every kind and nature, whether the same shall be their own property or whether they sell the same as agents and employees of others; provided, that this shall not apply to judicial sales or sales by executors or administrators or to sales by or on behalf of licensed pawnbrokers of unredeemed pledges in the manner provided by law, nor to the sale at public auction of the stock on hand of any person or persons, firm or corporation that shall, for the period of one year last preceding such sale, have been continuously in business in the City of Flint as a retail or wholesale merchants of new, used and secondhand household furniture, kitchenware, stoves, ranges, dishes, rugs and carpets, household equipment and floor coverings of every kind and nature; provided further, that such sale at public auction of the stock on hand of such merchant or merchants shall be held on successive days, Sundays and legal holidays excepted, and shall not continue for more than fourteen days and no more than two such sales be held within the period of any calendar year; provided further, that this shall not apply to sales by warehousemen of storage goods sold by them under their lien by virtue of the statute which said goods were actually in the warehouse in the City of Flint and the storage accrued thereon; provided further, that this ordinance shall not apply to individual householders seeking to dispose of their personal effects and have lived at the address where the sale is conducted for a period of not less than thirty days preceding the date of said sale. This proviso shall not be construed to mean a householder disposing of his personal effects is privileged to do so as a regular means for profit.
(Ord. 463, passed 6-26-1933)