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Intro~d By: City Manager
Introduction Date: 10-10-77
Public Hearing and
Enactment: 11-14-77
CITY OF SEWARD, ALASKA
ORDINANCE NO. 444
AN ORDINANCE ADJUSTING THE FEES AND BONDS REQUIRED OF TRANSIENT
MERCHANTS
THE CITY OF SEWARD, ALASKA ORDAINS:
Section 1. Section 16-5, Code of Ordinances of the City
of Seward, Alaska, is hereby repealed and re-enacted as follows:
Sec. 16-5.
Same--Fees; bond; issuance.
The license
of peddling
per day, or
fee for engaging in or carrying on the business
or hawking, or either, shall be fifty dollars
two thousand dollars for one year.
The license fee for an auctioneer, itinerant vendor or
person engaged in a temporary or transient business of
vending or selling merchandise, stocks or bonds or other
articles of commerce shall be fifty dollars per day, or
two thousand dollars for one year.
The license fees above required shall accompany the
application, or be deposited with the city clerk-treasurer
before the license is issued.
Before any license herein provided for is issued, the
applicant therefor shall also deposit with the city clerk-
treasurer a good and sufficient bond in the sum of five
thousand dollars conditioned that the applicant will not
cheat or defraud any person in any manner whatsoever in
the business for which the license is desired during the
term for which the license is granted, which bond shall
be and remain in full force and effect during the time
of such license and for ninety days after the expiration
thereof. Such bond shall be approved by the mayor before
the license is issued. Default in any of the conditions
of the bond shall give the aggrieved party the right to
sue and recover on such bond in his own name from the
principal and sureties without joining the city as a
party to such proceeding.
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Sec. 16-5. Same--Fees; bond; issuance. (cont'd)
After such application has been filed and such fee paid,
and bond filed and approved, as above provided, the city
clerk-treasurer shall, without undue delay, issue the
license to the applicant, which license shall state the
nature of the business, the fee paid, the place where the
business is to be conducted if it be that of an auctioneer,
itinerant vendor or person engaged in a temporary or
transient business of vending or selling as aforesaid
and the period of time for which the license is granted,
giving the first and last date of such period.
The license fee and bond requirements of this section
shall not apply to temporary fund raising activities of
charitable, religious, civic, educational or other non-
profit organizations which have been operative within the
City for a period of not less than one year and which
have applied to the city clerk for the required license
at least two weeks in advance of the scheduled sales or
vending activity.
Section 2. This ordinance takes effect immediately upon
enactment.
this
ENACTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEWARD, ALASKA,
14th day of November , 1977.
CITY OF SEWARD, ALASKA
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Mayor
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AYES: CAMPBELL, HUGLI, MOTT AND VINCENT
NOES: GILLESPIE, LEER AND POTTS
ABSENT: NONE
ATTEST:
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
HUGHES, THORSNESS, GANTZ, POWELL
& BRUNDIN
Attorneys for the City of Seward,
Alaska
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Ranald H. Jarrell
(City Seal)