[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough
of Bergenfield 12-16-1975 by Ord. No. 1046 as Sec. 6-4 of the Revised General
Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Every general auctioneer shall obtain a license by filing an application
as provided by this chapter. The fee for the license shall be $25 per year.
A.
Pursuant to state law every licensed general auctioneer,
upon the receipt or acceptance by him of any personal property for the purpose
of sale at auction and before offering the same or any part thereof for sale
at auction, shall write or cause to be written, in a book to be kept by him
for that purpose, the name and address of the person who employed him to sell
such property, the name and address of the person for whose benefit, behalf
or account the property is to be so sold, the name and address of the person
from whom the auctioneer received or accepted the property, the name and address
of the owner of the property immediately prior to its receipt or acceptance,
the location with street number, if any, of the property immediately prior
to its receipt or acceptance, the date of the receipt or acceptance, the place
with street number, if any, in which the property is to be kept until sold
or offered for sale at auction, the place and street number, if any, in which
the property is to be sold or offered for sale at auction, a description of
the property, the quantity thereof and the distinctive markings thereon, if
any, and the terms and conditions upon which the auctioneer receives or accepts
the property for sale at auction.
B.
As used herein, the words "personal property" and "property"
shall mean any goods, wares, works of art, commodity, compound or thing, chattels,
merchandise or personal property which may be lawfully kept or offered for
sale.
C.
Nothing herein contained shall apply to the sale of real
property at auction.
Such books and entries therein shall at all reasonable times be open
to the inspection of the Mayor and the Chief of Police of the Borough, the
County Prosecutor, and any other person who shall be duly authorized in writing
for that purpose by any or either of them and who shall exhibit such written
authorization to the auctioneer.
As provided by state law, any person who violates the requirements of
the above sections of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Every general auctioneer shall, before any license is issued to him,
enter into a bond with sureties sufficient to be approved by the Borough Attorney
in the sum of $1,000 and conditioned for the due observance of all ordinances
of the Borough during the continuance of his license.
