[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Shamokin 5-4-1959 by Ord. No. 98 (Ch. 87 of the 1967 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
Hereafter, every person or persons, firm or corporation, whether
principal or agent, engaged in the merchandise business within the
City of Shamokin who desires to conduct a fire, bankruptcy, closing-out
or going-out-of-business sale or similar sale shall, before engaging
in such sale, apply to the City Clerk and obtain from him a license
so to carry on and conduct such sale.
Such sale shall not continue for more than 14 days, and no new
or additional merchandise shall be added to the said stock after the
date of the permit.
To obtain said permit, a complete inventory of the goods and
wares to be sold at said sale must be submitted to the City Clerk,
and, upon issuance of permit, it is then illegal to add to this stock
and offer said merchandise for sale.
It is illegal to represent that the goods to be sold at said
sale are being offered at reduced rates by reason of fire, wreck,
bankruptcy, discontinuance of business, removal, etc., when said sales
are not in fact bona fide and not as represented by said merchant
or his agent or employee.
[Amended 6-11-1990]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate or fail to
comply with any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction
thereof before any Magisterial District Judge, be sentenced to pay
a fine of not less than $100 and not more than $300 and costs of prosecution
and/or suffer imprisonment for up to 180 days, or both. The continuation
of such violation for each successive day shall constitute a new and
separate offense, and the person or persons allowing the continuation
of the violation may be punished as provided above for each separate
offense.
Each day's illegal sale shall constitute a separate offense.
The fee for a permit under this chapter is $25.
