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110 ORDINANCE NO. 1060 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 658 ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE LICENSING OF BUSINESS, SHOW, EXHIBITION AND GAMES CONDUCTED OR CARRIED ON IN TI~E CITY OF SANTA ANA, FIXING THE RATE OF LICENSE THEREFOR AND PROVIDING FOR COLLECTION THEREOF". THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1: That Section 42 of an Ordinance of the City of Santa Aha, numbered No. 858, and entitled "AN ORDIN;2~CE PROVIDING FOR THE LICENSING OF BUSINESS, SHOWS, EXHIBITION AND GA~ES CONDUCTED 0R CARRIED 0N IN TttE CITY OF SANTA ANA, FIXING THE RATE OF LICENSE THEREFOR AND PHOVIDING FOR COLLECTION THEREOF" be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:- "Section 42: For every person, firm or corporation conducting, managing or carrying on a closing out sale, fire sale, bankrupt sale or wreck sale, $100.00 per month. For the purposes of this ordinance a "fire, bankrupt or wreck sale" is defined to be and include the s~le of goods, wares or merchandise salvaged from a fire, wreck or other calamity, or a sale of goods, wares or merchandise advertised as a fire or bankrupt or wreck s~le. For the p~rpose of this ordinance a "closing out sale" is defined to be and include any sale of goods, W ares and merchandise which is~., or is advertised to be, a sale for the purpose of disposing of the stock of merchandise on hand or any major portion thereof in contemplation of discontinuing the operation or maintenance of the store or place of business of the seller or the removal thereof to another location, or any sale which is advertised or held out as being a s ale under bankruptcy, mortgage insolvency or assignee's or trustee's or creditor's sale. It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person, firm or corp- oration to conduct any sale mentioned in this section without having obtained a permit so to do, issued by the City Clerk of the City of Santa Ans. Such permi~ shall be issued by the City Clerk of the City of Santa Aha upon anplication and the payment of the license herein required; provided that any person who has had a license under this ordinance continuously for one year prior thereto may obtain a permit without additional license fee, to conduct such sale in the place of business covered by such license by filing with the City Clerk an application therefor containing a true statement of the facts concerning such closing out or removal, or fire, or bankrupt, or wreck sale, together with an inventory of the merchandise on hand and proposed to be sold. Such permit shall permit the sale of the merchandise then on hand in said store or place of business and no other merchandise, and shall be valid for a period of thirty (~0) days from day of its issuance and no license under this section shall be required during s~id thirty (50) day period for the conduct of such sale. SECTION 2: The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published in three consecutive issues of the ORANGE COUNTY REPORTER, a daily newspaper, printed, published and circulated in the City of Santa Ana, and hereby designated for thatpurpose, and thirty (50) days thereafter shall take effect and be in force.