CHAPTER 4. AUCTION SALES OF JEWELRY.
Sec. 4.8. Articles offered for sale--Labeling required.
It shall be unlawful for the holder of a permit to conduct a public
auction of jewelry or for his agents, servants or employees to sell or offer for
sale at auction any jewelry to which there is not attached a card or label
containing a true and correct statement plainly written or printed in the
English language specifying the kind and quality of metal of which such article
is made or composed, or the percentage of carat or purity of such metals. If
such articles are plated or overlain, then such tag or label shall contain a
true statement of the kind of plate. When precious stones are sold or offered
for sale at auction, as such or as part of an article of jewelry, such statement
shall set forth the true name of such stones. When imitations of precious or
semiprecious stones are offered for sale or sold at auction, as such or as part
of an article of jewelry, the imitations shall be described or defined as
synthetic or imitations of such stones as they purport to represent. When
watches or clocks are sold or offered for sale at public auction the true names
of the manufacturers shall be stated in writing and no parts of the movements or
mechanism thereof shall be substituted or contain false or misleading names or
trade marks, neither shall secondhand or old movements be offered for sale in
new cases without a true statement to that effect. Used and rebuilt watches
shall be so indicated. Such card, tag or label shall remain securely attached to
any such article of merchandise, shall be delivered to the purchaser as a true
and correct description and representation of the article sold and shall be
deemed prima facie evidence of intent to defraud in case such written statement
is not a true and correct description or representation of such article sold.
(Ord. No. 462, § 7.)
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