3-8A-3: LICENSE REQUIRED; DATES PERMITTED:

Except sales under judicial process, it shall be unlawful for any person to sell, dispose of or offer for sale in the City, at public auction, any platinum, gold, silver or plated ware, precious or semiprecious stones, or imitations thereof, watches, clocks or jewelry, whether the same be his property, or whether he shall sell or offer the same for sale as agent, factor or employee of others; provided, however, that a closing out or pawnbroker auction, conducted by persons in fact retiring from business as retail and/or wholesale jewelry merchants, or by persons regularly engaged as pawnbrokers in the City, may be held, but no such auction shall be permitted unless and until the person desiring to hold such auction shall obtain a license therefor, and provided, only one pawnbroker auction shall be held in any year, and then only between August 15 and October 15. (1952 Code § 5-17-05)