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)