Upon receipt of any application, the City Auditor shall cause such investigation as he deems necessary to be made of the facts contained therein. No license shall be issued if any one or more of the following facts or circumstances are found to exist:
(a) The applicant was granted a license hereunder for a going-out-of-business sale within two years preceding the date of the filing of the application.
(b) The applicant either directly or indirectly, and within five years prior to the date of the filing of the application, conducted a sale in connection with which he advertised or represented that the entire business conducted at the location designated in the application was to be closed out or terminated.
(c) The applicant has heretofore been convicted of violation of this chapter or has had a license issued to him pursuant to this chapter revoked within a five year period immediately preceding the date of the filing of the application.
(d) The applicant has not been in business at the location described in the application for at least one year prior to the date of the filing of the application.
(e) A going-out-of-business sale has been conducted from the described premises in the period of two years prior to the date of the filing of the application.
(f) The inventory includes goods, wares or merchandise purchased by the applicant or added to his stock in contemplation of such sale and for the purpose of selling the same at such sale. For the purpose of this subsection (f), any unusual addition to the stock of the goods, wares and merchandise made within sixty days prior to the filing of the application shall be prima-facie evidence that the addition was made in contemplation of such sale and for the purpose of selling the same at the sale.
(g) The applicant, in the ticketing of the goods, wares and merchandise to be offered at the sale, has misrepresented the original retail price or value thereof.
(h) Any representation made in the application is false.
(Ord. 45-1962. Passed 8-28-62.)