Section 16-1101. AUCTIONEER'S LICENSE

 

1101.1Auctioneers' licenses are issued under paragraph 9 of the Act of Congress approved July 1, 1932 (D.C. Official Code § 47-2808 (2001 Ed.)), which also sets the license fee.

 

1101.2No licensed auctioneer shall permit any other person or corporation to hold or conduct any auction sale in his or her name.

 

1101.3An applicant for an auctioneer's license shall have three (3) sets of fingerprints taken by the Metropolitan Police Department, which shall become a part of the application.

 

1101.4Any applicant who is not a resident of the District of Columbia shall have his or her fingerprints taken by the Metropolitan Police Department or by the police department or comparable authority where the applicant is a resident.

 

1101.5If the fingerprints are taken by other than the Metropolitan Police Department, the fingerprints shall be attached to and accompanied by an affidavit of the authority taking the fingerprints stating that the fingerprints are the fingerprints of the applicant.

 

1101.6Fingerprints taken under this section shall be submitted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and to such other and further authorities as the Chief of Police may deem advisable for comparison and record.

 

1101.7No person shall be granted a license to conduct an auction sale or sales in the District unless the applicant
has passed his or her eighteenth (18th) birthday and has been a bona fide resident of the District of Columbia for at least six (6) months immediately preceding the application or has been regularly employed or engaged in business in said District of Columbia for a continuous period of at least six (6) months immediately preceding the application.

 

1101.8If an applicant who does not meet the residence requirements of this section, but possesses special qualification which will contribute to the effective sale of specifically described goods, the Mayor may, if the application is supported by a petition setting forth exceptional circumstances, authorize the issuance of a license.

 

1101.9A license issued under § 1101.8 shall expire upon the sale of the specified goods, or upon the expiration of the license year in which the license is issued, whichever occurs first. The applicant, in the application for a license, shall consent to this requirement for the expiration of the license.