No itinerant vendor shall advertise, represent or hold forth, or make, or have a sale of goods, wares or merchandise as a bankrupt, insolvent, assignee, trustee, estate, executor, administrator, receiver, attorney, manufacturer's wholesale or closing-out sale, or sale of any goods damaged by smoke, fire, water or otherwise, unless before so doing he shall state, in writing, under oath, to the Recorder at the time he makes application for the license as an itinerant vendor all the facts relating to the reason and character of such special sales as advertised, held forth, or represented, or to be made or had, including a statement of the names of the persons from whom such goods, wares or merchandise were purchased, and the date of the delivery of the same to the person applying for such license; the place, of any, such goods, wares or merchandise were previously exposed for sale; and such other and additional details as are necessary to locate exactly and fully identify all such goods, wares and merchandise proposed to be sold. Such itinerant vendor shall also include in such statement the name and residence of the owner or owners in whose interest the business is conducted. All of such matters and things the Recorder shall keep and maintain as a part of the records of his office, and all of which shall be in convenient form and open to public inspection.
(1965 Code Sec. 17-7.1.)