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follows: ORDINANCE NO. 941 AN 0RDIEANCE AM~DING SECTION 17A of ORDINANCE NO. 658, REGULATING THE SALES OF GOODS, ~ARES AND ~ERCHANDISE BY AUCTION. The City Council of the City of Santa Aha do ordain as follows: Section 1. That Section 1VA of Ordinance No. 658 is hereby amended to read as "Section 17A: It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to sell, dispose of or offer for sale in the City of Santa Ana, at public auction, or to cause or permit to be sold, disposed of or offered for sale in the City of Santa Ana, California, at publio auction~ any platinum, gold, silver or plated ware, precious stones or semi-pre~i~us stones, watches or other Jewelry, or furniture, rugs or other house furnishings, whether the same shall be their own property or whether they shall sell the same as-agents or employees of others, except Judicial sales or those mad. by executors or administrators.of the estates of decedents; and, excepting, also sales made at public auction of the stock on hand of any person or persons or corporation that shall-for the period of one year.next preceding such sale have been c~ntinuously in business in the City of Santa Aha, California, as a retail or wholesale merchant; provid, that in the latter case, before such merchant may hold an auction he must obtain a pex~mit therefor which shall be applied for and issued in the following manner. Said merchant shall not less.than fifteen (1§), nor more than thirty (30) days previous to conducting such s~le make a written application ~herefor under oath to the City Council specifying the name and address of the applicant, the location and purpose of the sale and its expected duration and itemizing in detail the quantity, quality, kind or grade of each item of goods, wares and other articles to be sold, the wholesale market value thereof and the name of the amStioneer who shall conduct the sale. The application shall then be investigated by the Chief of Police and a report made thereon by him to the City C~uncil as to the character of the applicant and his auctioneer, the bona fide nature of the purpose of the sale and whether the place where it is proposed to carry on said sale is a proper place. The City Council must be furnished also with satisfactory evidence that the merchandise proposed to be sold is a bona fide part of the merchant's stock in trade and not secured, purchased or brought into said place of business, for, or in anticipation of said sale. The City Council in considering the application and attending faets~ sh~ll exercise a reasonable and sound'~iscretion in granting or denying the pe~ applied for, provided further, thst such sale at public auction shall be held on ~m$~$msive days, Sundays and legal holidays excepted, and shall not continue for more ~ (30) days in all from the co~mmencement of the sale, and shall be permitted only where such merchant is bona fide disposing of his stock for the purpose of retiring from business; and that said auction shall be conducted during the day time between the hours of si~and eight o'clock." Section 2. That the City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and cause the same to be published three times in the Santa Aha Daily mvening Register, a daily newspaper printed and published in the City of Santa Ana, and thirty days after its final passage this ordinance shall take effect and be in force. The above ordinance is approved this 30th day of March, 193l. F. L. Purintor~