No person shall engage in business as an auctioneer or conduct an auction
in the Village without first obtaining a license therefor.
In any sale by virtue of the foreclosure of a chattel mortgage, conditional sales contract or lien of any kind or sale by order of a creditors' committee, instead of the fee prescribed in §
138-13B, a fee of $5 shall be required with payment thereof to be made to the Village Treasurer within 24 hours following such sale.
Sections
138-12 and
138-13 of this article notwithstanding, no fee shall be required to be paid for a permit to conduct an auction directed to be held within the Village by the order of any court of competent jurisdiction or for a permit to a church or charitable, veterans, fraternal or religious organization to conduct an auction, the proceeds of which are to be devoted solely to the purposes of such organization.