No licensed auctioneer shall sell or offer for sale at public auction, any real or personal property at or in any place, house, store, or building, other than the place, house, store or building designated in his or her license, except as provided in Section 9-3-2 of this article.
Licensed auctioneers may obtain daily licenses to conduct auctions at locations other than the premises licensed under the business license when the goods to be auctioned are owned by the owner or occupant of the premises where the auction will be held. A daily auction license shall not be issued for the same premises for more than seven days in any one calendar year. No separate business license shall be required for a daily auction license issued pursuant to this Section 9-3-2. The fee for each daily auction license shall be in the amount set forth in the Annual Fee Resolution.[1]
It shall be the duty of every auctioneer before beginning any
auction sale of real or personal property of any kind whatever to
state fully the terms and conditions upon which the sale will be made
and to announce to the persons present the character, quality, and
description of the property offered for sale.
No auctioneer or person being present when any real or personal
property is offered for sale at an auction shall knowingly make any
false representation or statement as to the ownership of, or the character
or quality of, the property so offered for sale, or as to the poverty
or circumstances of the owner or pretended owner of such property;
and if such false representation is made by the auctioneer, or by
any other person with such auctioneer's knowledge and consent or connivance,
the license of such auctioneer shall be revoked.
No auctioneer shall exhibit and offer for sale at auction any
article, and induce its purchase by any bidder, and then afterward
substitute any article in lieu of that offered to and purchased by
the bidder.
Any auctioneer who shall procure any person to make a fictitious
bid at any auction sale of real or personal property, or who shall
conspire with any person to make a fictitious bid at any such auction
sale, or any auctioneer who shall himself fictitiously raise any bids
in any such auction sale, shall be fined in an amount set forth in
the Annual Fee Resolution.[1] Upon conviction for of a second offense of this Section 9-3-6, the license of the auctioneer shall be revoked.
No real or personal property shall be sold at auction, or exposed
for sale, by any auctioneer in any public way or public place in the
Village.
No noise, instrument, or other means of attracting the attention
of the public, other than a sign or flag, shall be permitted to be
used in connection with any auction sale or near any place of such
sale, or at or near any auction room.
(A)
Except as provided in Section 9-3-9(B) of this Code, no person shall directly or indirectly advertise or cause to be advertised, represent or cause to be represented, or held out to the public in any manner that any sale of goods is an insurance, salvage, removal, insolvent's, assignee's, or creditor's sale of goods, or that it is a sale of goods which have been damaged by fire, smoke, water or otherwise, unless such person shall have first obtained a license to conduct such a sale from the Finance Director in accordance with all of the applicable provisions of 815 ILCS 350/1 through 350/12 and amendments thereto.
(B)
Section 9-3-9(A) of this Code shall not be applicable to any sales directly ordered by a court or referee in bankruptcy, or to any person acting under the direction and supervision of state or federal courts in the course of their official duties. Section 9-3-9(A) shall also not apply to any sales by a person regularly engaged in insurance or salvage sales of goods, or sale of goods which have been damaged by fire, smoke, water or otherwise, who acquired the goods for the account of others as a result of fire or other casualty.
