(A) For the purpose of this chapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUCTION HOUSES. A house, building storeroom or place wherein goods and merchandise are sold at auction, provided that no auction house license shall be required by any merchant in closing out or winding up his or her business, wholly or in part at auction, if the time required therefore does not exceed 60 days, and provided further that any and all auctioneers employed by any merchant in such behalf shall be licensed as required by this chapter. Jewelry auction houses and jewelry auctions are specifically exempt from the provisions of this section, they being governed by a special ordinance.
(B) An auctioneer regularly and in good faith employed by an auction house duly licensed under this chapter shall not be required to take out a special license as an auctioneer so long as his or her professional activities are confined to the auction house.
(1980 Code, § 19.103)