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• 1 ORDINANCE NO. $/O -1/ 2 AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance No. 295-74, Chapter 7, Section 4, (codified as E.M.C. 5.28.040), reducing the auctioneers license fee 3 from Fifty Dollars per auction to One Hundred Dollars per year. 4 5 WHEREAS, City Council adopted Ordinance No. 295-74, Chapter 7, Section 4 6 which sets the auctioneers license fee at Fifty Dollars per auction; and 7 WHEREAS, City Council finds that a more appropriate fee would be One 8 Hundred Dollars per year. 9 NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: 10 Section 1: Ordinance No. 295-74, Chapter 7, Section 4 which is codified as 11 E.M.C. 5.28.040 and reads as follows: 12 5.28.040 License fee. 13 Any auctioneer selling, attempting to sell, or offering for sale any jewelry 14 consisting of watches, diamonds, precious stones and all jewelry of gold, silver or other metal, or anything commonly known as jewelry; or any 15 clothing, boots, shoes, dry goods, furniture, household goods of every kind, or any goods, wares or merchandise not otherwise mentioned herein, and 16 whether of the kind mentioned herein or not, at public auction in said city shall pay into the city treasury a license fee at the rate of fifty dollars 17 per year and procure license therefor upon payment of said license fee; provided however, a bona fide charitable nonprofit organization shall be 18 allowed to conduct one auction per year, for a period not exceeding more than three days, on the following conditions: 19 A. That the organization is a "bona fide charitable nonprofit organi- 20 zation" duly existing under the provisions of RCW Chapters 24.12, 24.20, or 24.28, or any nonprofit corporation duly existing under 21 the provisions of RCW Chapter 24.03 for charitable, benevolent, eleemosynary, educational, civic purposes only. The fact that 22 • contributions to an organization do not qualify for charitable contribution deduction purposes or that the organization is not 23 otherwise exempt from payment of federal income taxes pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, shall constitute 24 prima facie evidence that the organization is not a bona fide charitable or nonprofit organization for the purposes of this 25 section; 26 B. The auction be conducted by members of a "bona fide charitable nonprofit organization" and no person other than the organization 27 conducting said auction shall receive any benefit from such auction; 28 C. That the organization pay into the city treasury a license fee at 29 the rate of five dollars and procure a license therefor upon payment of said license fee. 30 31 be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 32