HomeMy WebLinkAbout19 of 1921 - Amending Section 1287 etc. relating to transient merchants ROLL CALL
VOTING AYES;-NAY
Salt Lake City, Utah, March .2.9, 1921....
Barnes --
Burton
Crabbe _-_—_ I move that the ordinance be passed. •
Green --
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Mr. Chairman
Result AN ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE A14IFNDING SECTIONS 1287, 1289, 1290 and 1291
of the Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City, Utah, 1920, relating
to transient merchants.
Be it enacted by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake
City, Utah:
SECTION I. That Sections 1287, 1289, 1290 and 1291 of the
Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City, 1920, relating to tranbient -
merchants, be and they are hereby amended to read as follows:
SECTION 1287. TRANSIENT MERCHANT TO HAVE LICENSE.
It shall be unlawful for any person, or for any agent, servant,
or employe of any person to engage in, carry on or conduct
the business of a transient merchant in Salt Lake City without
first hbtaining a license so to do. The sale of each article
by any transient merchant without a license therefor shall be
a separate offense under, and a separate violation of, this
Section.
SECTION 1289. FEE. The license fee for engaging in,
carrying on or conducting business as a transient merchant
shall be the sum of One H-undred Dollars (c2100.00) per day
payable in advance for each day such business shall continue.
SECTION 1290. HEAARING ON APPLICATION. In case any
person shall claim to be a permanent merchant and shall be re-
quired to take out a license upon the ground that such person
is a transient merchant, the License Assessor and Collector
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shall so notify such person in writing;and in case such ap-
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plicant shall deny in writing that he is a transient mer
chant within the terms of Section 1288, the License Assessor •
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and Collector shall submit to the Board of Commissioners of
IvSalt Lake City the original letters or notices herein men-
tioned,Ij Whereupon the Board of Commissioners shall notify 1
such applicant in writing that on a day and at a time and
1 place therein mentioned said Board shall take for h`ear-
up
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ing the question as to whether said applicant is or is not
a transient merchant, at which time and place said aopiica4
may appear and be heard. That at the time and place named
in said notice said Board of Commissioners shall take up
said matter and shall determine said question upon the fact
presented to it,and shall enter an order according to its
judgment upon the facts so presented. If it shall be deter±
mined that said applicant is a transient merchant, he shall;
pay the license fee provided for in Section 1289 of this
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chapter; provided that as a condition of transacting busi-
ness as a transient merchant without the payment of such l
license fee, said person may be required to give a corporati
surety bond to the City of Salt Lake in the penal sum of
Two Thousand Dollars C`a,000.00) to be approved by the Boar
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of Commissioners to secure the payment of the license fee
required in the event that he fails to become a permanent
merchant' Provided further, that if such person remains in
business in the City of Salt Lake for six months, he shall
be considered and deemed a permanent merchant and such bond)
phail thereafter be of no force and effect.
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SECTION 1291. UNL.IINUL TO CONDUCT BUSINESS VII'THOUI
BOND WHILE APPLICATION PENDING. It shall be unlawful for 1
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ii any person, or the agent of any person, to conduct business
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111 at the place occupied for such purpose at the time of the
application for a license or at any other place in Salt Lake
City as a transient merchant after said license has been re-
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fused. or during the pendency of the question as to whether
or not said applicant is or is not a transient merchant, be-
fore the board of commissioners of this city) unless said
applicant shall execute and deliver to Salt Lake City a cor-
porate surety bond in the sum of <)2,000.00 with good and
sufficient sureties to be approved by the board of commis-
sioners, conditioned that the obligor therein will pay said
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city the license fee of y 100.00 per day for each and every
day said business shall be carried on after the refusal of cl,
license, during the continuance of such business, or, in case
the matter is to be heard by the board of commissioners, un-�
til it shall be determined whether or not said applicant is
or is not a transient merchant, and that in the event that
it shall be determined that said obligor is a transient mer-
chant, said obligor will cease conducting such business as
transient merchant, or will continue to pay said i)100.00 peal
day for each and every day said business is so conducted.
SECTION 2. In the opinion of the Board of Commissioners,
't is necessary to the peace, health and safety of the inhabitan a
f said Salt Lake City that this ordinance become effective imme -
ately.
' SECTION 3. This ordinance s 1 take effect upon its
ublication.
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assed by the Board. of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah,
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his\1. day of � p ,. , 1921.
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