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PUBLIC LAW 86-219-SEPT. 1, 1959

[73 S T A T.

(b) If the Commissioners shall be satisfied from said application that the proposed sale is of the character which the applicant desires to advertise and conduct, the Commissioners shall issue a license, upon the payment of a fee of $100 therefor, together with a bond, payable to the District of Columbia in the penal sum of $1,000, conditioned upon compliance with this Act, to the applicant authorizing him to advertise and conduct a sale of the particular kind mentioned in the application. Any merchant who shall have been conducting a business in the same location where the sale is to be held for a period of not less than one year, prior to the date of holding such sale shall be exempted from the payment of the fee and the filing of the bond herein provided. Endorsement. (c) The Commissioners shall endorse upon such application the date of its filing, and shall preserve the same as a record of oifice, and shall make an abstract of the facts set forth in such application, and shall indicate whether the license was granted or refused. t^tV^i\^t^°'^^^^^ (^) ^ ^ y person making a false statement in the application prostatement. ° """" vided for in this section shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of perjury. Prohibitions. SEC. 3. No person in contemplation of a closing-out sale under a license as provided for in section 2 of this Act shall order any goods, wares, or merchandise for the purpose of selling and disposing of the same at such sale, and any unusual purchase and additions to the stock of such goods, wares, or merchandise within 60 days prior to the filing of application for a license to conduct such sale shall be presumptive evidence that such purchases and additions to stock were made in contemplation of such sale. di^^fof^s^e'.'^*'^"' SEC. 4. No person carrying on or conducting a closing-out sale or a sale of goods, wares, or merchandise damaged by fire, smoke, water, or otherwise, under a license as provided in section 2 of this Act shall, during the continuance of such sale, add any goods, wares, or merchandise to the stock inventoried in his original application for such license, and no goods, wares, or merchandise shall be sold at or during such sale, excepting the goods, wares, or merchandise described and inventoried in such original application. date?mwin^of °^ SEC. 5. No persou shall conduct a closing-out sale or a sale of goods, cation. wares, or merchandise damaged by fire, smoke, water, or otherwise beyond the termination date specified for such sale, except that an extension may be authorized upon proper showing of need; nor shall any person, upon conclusion of such sale, continue that business which had been represented as closing out or going out of business under the same name, or under a different name, at the same location, or elsewhere in the District of Columbia where the inventory for such sale was filed; nor shall any person, upon conclusion of such sale, continue business contrary to the designation of such sale. Penalty. SEC. 6. (a) Any person who shall advertise, hold, conduct, or carry on any sale of goods, wares, or merchandise under the description of closing-out sale or a sale of goods, wares, or merchandise damaged by fire, smoke, water, or otherwise, contrary to the provisions of this Act, or who shall violate any of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than $300 or imprisonment for ninety days or both. (b) Prosecutions for violations of this Act and regulations promulgated under the authority of this Act shall be conducted in the name of the District of Columbia by the Corporation Counsel or any of his assistants.

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