Ordinance 810-81 - Laserfiche WebLink

a 1 5.28.040 License Fee 2 Any auctioneer selling, attempting to sell, or offering for sale any jewelry consisting of watches, diamonds, precious stones and all jewelry of gold, 3 silver or other metal, or anything commonly known as jewelry; or any clothing, boots, shoes, dry goods, furniture, household goods of every kind, 4 or any goods, wares or merchandise not otherwise mentioned herein, and whether of the kind mentioned herein or not, at public auction in said city 5 shall pay into the city treasury a license fee at the rate of one hundred dollars per year and procure license therefor upon payment of said license 6 fee; provided however, a bona fide charitable nonprofit organization shall be allowed to conduct one auction per year, for a period not exceeding 7 more than three days, on the following conditions: 8 A. That the organization is a "bona fide charitable nonprofit organi- zation" duly existing under the provisions of RCW Chapters 24.12, 9 24.20, or 24.28, or any nonprofit corporation duly existing under the provisions of RCW Chapter 24.03 for charitable, benevolent, 10 eleemosynary, educational, civic purposes only. The fact that contributions to an organization do not qualify for charitable 11 contribution deduction purposes or that the organization is not otherwise exempt from payment of federal income taxes pursuant 12 to the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, shall constitute prima facie evidence that the organization is not a bona fide 13 charitable or nonprofit organization for the purposes of this section; 14 B. The auction be conducted by members of a "bona fide charitable 15 nonprofit organization" and no person other than the organization conducting said auction shall receive any benefit from such 16 auction; 17 C. That the organization pay into the city treasury a license fee at the rate of five dollars and procure a license therefor upon 18 payment of said license fee. 19 20 adiP411011 • 21 MAYOR ATTEST: 22 23 , I CLERK 24 25 Passed: /OA? 26 Valid: /D/3v Ari 27 Published: //AV// 28 29 30 31 32 -2-