[Amended 5-28-2002 by Ord. No. 02-13]
No personal property (goods, wares or merchandise) shall be sold at
auction in the Borough of Chatham except in compliance with the provisions
of this chapter. It shall be unlawful to sell or cause or permit to be sold
at auction any personal property (goods, wares or merchandise) in the Borough
of Chatham unless such sale is conducted by an individual who has applied
to the Borough Clerk and obtained an auctioneer's license from the Mayor
and Council.
The fees for an auctioneer's license shall be as follows:
A. Two hundred dollars for a period of one year.
B. Ten dollars per day for any period less than one year.
Every applicant for an auctioneer's license shall file with the
Borough Clerk a surety bond running to the Borough of Chatham in the amount
of $2,000, with surety acceptable to and approved by the Borough Attorney,
conditioned that the said applicant, if issued an auctioneer's license,
will comply fully with all the provisions of the ordinances of the Borough
of Chatham and the statutes of the State of New Jersey regulating and concerning
auctions and auctioneers, will render true and strict accounts of all his
sales to any person or persons employing him to make the same, will not practice
any fraud or deceit upon bidders or purchasers of property from him at any
auction sale or suffer or permit any person in his employ to practice any
such fraud or deceit, and will pay all damages which may be sustained by any
person by reason of any fraud, deceit, negligence or other wrongful act on
the part of the licensee, his agent or employees in the conduct of any auction
or in the exercise of the calling of auctioneer.
It shall be unlawful to conduct an auction sale of personal property
(goods, wares or merchandise) on any of the streets, sidewalks or public property
of the Borough of Chatham.
Any person violating or failing to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable as provided in Chapter
1, §
1-14. The continuation of such violation for each successive day shall constitute a separate offense, and the person or persons allowing or permitting the continuation of the violation may be punished as provided above for each separate offense.