(A) No person shall, within the corporate limits of the city, exercise the calling of public auctioneer or sell any personal property at a public auction, except such as may be sold under and by virtue of legal process, without a license for that purpose, under penalty herein described.
(B) The licenses may be issued to any person of full age and good character, upon the person giving bond in the sum of $200, with security to be approved by the Mayor, conditioned for observance of all ordinances of the city applicable to the business so licensed and upon his or her paying, to the City Collector, the sum herein prescribed therefor.
(C) The license may be issued for a period of one day or one year. The applicant shall pay for the license as follows:
(1) One day: $5.
(2) One year: $25.
(D) No auctioneer shall fraudulently conspire with anyone to induce bidders more than its true face value for any article offered for sale by him or her or any artifice or collusion with any bidder or other person shall make any fraudulent or unreal sale with intention to defraud or to deceive any party bidding as to the value of any article offered for sale.
(Ord. 562, passed - -) Penalty, see § 123.99