HomeMy WebLinkAboutNS-796ORDINANCE NS-796 ADDING SECTIONS TO PART 6,
CHAPTER 3, ARTICLE VI OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL
CODE REGULATING AUCTIONS AND REPEALING ORDINANCE
NS-778
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: That the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby
amended by adding thereto sections at the end of Part 6, Chapter 3,
of Article VI of said Code in words and figures as follows:
Section 6362. License Required.
No person shall sell, or cause or permit to be sold, any
personal property in the City at auction unless such auction
sale is conducted or supervised by an auctioneer duly licensed
by the City, excepting auction sales held under court order,
or by assignees, administrators and executors, or any govern-
mental agency or department thereof.
Section 6363. License Requirements; Duties.
An applicant for an auctioneer's license shall have been a
resident of, or have been in business in, the City for a period
of one year next preceding his application. Said applicant
shall file with the Clerk of the Council a surety bond in the
amount of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) underwritten by a
surety company licensed to do business in the State of California.
The license fee shall be rlk~o Hundred and Fifty Dollars(S250.00)
per annum, payable in advance.
An auctioneer licensed by the City shall maintain his principal
office in the City. A licensee shall maintain legible records
of consignors and purchasers of consigned merchandise, and make
these records available for inspection by the Chief of Police
or his agents.
Section 6364. Sale of Merchandise; Time and Place of Sale;
Subject Matter of Sale,
A duly licensed auctioneer may accept consigned used merchan-
dise, or new merchandise which has been previously offered for
sale in a merchant's place of business for a period of at least
sixty (60) days, for sale by auction at his place of business
when such business is located in an M-1 Zone or a less restrictive
area, or when said place of business is located in an area zoned
C-2 if the business is adjacent and contiguous to an M-1 zoned
area. Selling at auction is not permitted after 11:00 P.M. of
any day, nor on Sundays or legal holidays.
New merchandise shall not be sold at an auctioneer's place
of business unless such new merchandise shall have previously
been offered for sale by a merchant at his place of business in
Orange County for a period of at least sixty (60) days. Such
merchandise may include items of new merchandise which have been
on order by said merchant for a period of at least sixty (60)
days prior to said auction sale. An auction sale at the
merchant's place of business shall be permissible only if it
consists of the inventory and the stock on hand at said place
of business, and the auction sale is a legitimate closing out
sale. No merchandise secured, purchased, or brought into a
merchant's place of business in anticipation of an auction sale
shall be sold at said auction sale.
SECTION 2: That Ordinance NS-778 is hereby repealed.
SECTION 3: That this Ordinance shall take effect thirty
days from and after the date of its adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Santa
Ana at its regular meeting held on the
ATTEST:
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
19th day of April, 1965.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF OP~NGE ) SS
CITY OF SANTA ANA )
I, DORIS M. BROWN, do hereby certify that I am the Clerk of
the Council of the City of Santa Ana, California; that the foregoing
Ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of
said City held on the 5th day of April, 1965, and was again con-
sidered by said Council at its regular meeting held on the 19th day
of April, 1965, and was at said meeting regularly passed and adopted
by the following vote, to wit:
AYES,
NOES,
ABSENT,
COUNCILMEN:Gilmore~ Brooks, Burk, Herrin, Markel~
McMichael~ Harvey
COUNCILMEN: None
COUNCILMEN: None
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
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