§ 9-801. PUBLIC AUCTION SALES.  


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  • No person shall advertise or conduct a public auction sale, or cause or permit to be advertised or conducted a public auction sale of any goods, wares or merchandise, whether the same is his own property or the property of someone else, without first obtaining a public auction permit. Without limiting the generality of the term "public auction sale," such sale shall include a sale in which, instead of the bidders making increasingly higher bids for an article or articles of merchandise, the seller or auctioneer announces a price at which he will sell one or more articles of merchandise and then, if no sale occurs, increasingly adds additional articles of merchandise to those originally offered, with or without varying the previously announced price, until a buyer is finally induced to buy the accumulated articles at the price fixed. (Orig. Ord. 3938; Am. Ord. 5875, 1961; Am. Ord. 80-171, § 16, eff. 12-26-80).