58 of 1925 - Licensing chain merchant scheme of sales ROLL CALL
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VOTING AY NAY
Vy Salt Lake City,Utah Nov..�....3Q ,192---b-.
Barnes
Burton ` I move that the ordinance be passed.
Finch
Grp 4?
Mr. Chairman
Result AN ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR the licensing of chain scheme
and sales devices.
Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Salt lake
City, Utah:
SECTION I. There is hereby created a new section in Chap-
ter 33, Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City, Utah, 1920, to be
known as Section 1346, providing for the licensing of chain mer-
chandising or sales devices, which said section shall read as fol-
lows:
section 1346. It shall be unlawful for any person
to engage in, carry on, conduct, operate or promote the busi-
ness of chain merchandising without first having procured a
licensee as in this section provided.
The words "chain merchandising"'as used herein shall
be deemed to include any scheme or sales device for the distri-
bution of Foods, wares or merchandise predicated upon the sale
or distribution of coupons, tickets, receipts or contracts re-
presenting value in money, Foods, wares or merchandise, which
coupons, tickets, receipts or contracts may, at the option of
the holder, be redeemed in _..oeds, wares or merchandise upon the
payment of money or the rendition of services of any kind what-
soever to the promoter of such scheme, or to the holder of
coupons;, tickets, receipts or contract; or any chain scheme
or sales device wherein the holder of coupons„ tickets, receipts
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or contracts may receive money, goods, wares or merchandise
by selling or disposing of similar coupons, tickets, receipt-
or contracts, or by the payment of money.
The license fee for the business of chain merchan-
dicing shall be $250.00 per year, or any portion thereof,
and a sum which shall equal twenty-five (25%) per sent of
the cost or selling price of any coupons, tickets, receipts
or contracts representing value,for each and every person
employed or engaged in selling or distributing tickets, cou-
pons, receipts or contracts. The license fee of :250.00
shall be collected at the time application for license is
filed and the license fee imposed upon persons engaged in
selling or disposing of coupons, tickets, receipts or con-
tracts shall be collected from the applicant monthly by the
license assessor. No license shall be granted unless and
until the applicant shall have agreed to submit his books
monthly to the license assessor for the purpose of establish-
ing the number of persons engaged in selling or disposing of
coupons, tickets, receipts or contracts, and shall have also
filed a bond in the sum of $2500.00, which bond shall run to:
(a) Salt Lake City and be conditioned upon the account-
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ing and payment to Salt Lake City by the principal of all
license fees imposed by this ordinance.
(b) Any person injured or damaged by reason of any
false or fraudulent representation of the principal or his
agents or by the failure of principal to fdtlfill any and all
representations contained in any ticket, coupon, receipt or
contract.
SECTION 2. In the opinion of the Board of Commissioners
t is necessary to the peace, health and safety of the inhabitants
,f Salt Lake City, that this ordinance become effective immediatel, .
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall take effect at once upon
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its publication. ��
Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City,
- • Utah, this , day of , A.D. 1925.
Mayor.
City Recorder.
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