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conduct, he shall issue a license, upon the payment of a fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) therefor, together with a bond, payable to Cabarrus County in the penal sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00), conditioned upon compliance with this article, to the applicant authorizing him to advertise and conduct a sale of the particular kind mentioned in the application; provided, however, that the license fee provided for herein shall be good for a period of thirty (30) days from its date, and if the applicant shall not complete said sale within said thirty-day (30) period then the applicant shall make application to said Tax Collector for a new permit, which shall be good for an addition period of thirty(30) days, and shall pay therefor.the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00); and provided further a second extension period of thirty (30) days may be similarly applied for and granted by t~e Tax Collector upon payment of an additional fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) and upon the Tax Collector being satisfied that the applicant is holding a bona fide sale of the kind contemplated by this ordinance and is acting a bona fide manner. No additional bond shall be required in the event of one or more extensions as herein provided for. 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, or any merchant who shall have been conducting a business in one location for such period but who shall, by reason of the building being untenable or by reason of the fact that said merchant shall have no existing lease or ownership of the building and shall be forced to hold such sale at another location, shall be exempted from the payment of the fees and the filing of the bond herein provided for. c. The Tax Collector shall endorse upon such application the date of its filing, and shall preserve the same as a record of his office, and shall make an abstract of the facts set forth in such application, and shallindicate whether the license was granted or refused. d. Any person making a false statement in the application provided for in this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined Fifty Dollars ($50.00) or imprisoned for thirty days or both in the discretion of the court. Section 3. No person in contemplation of a closing-out sale under a license as provided for in Section 2 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 sixty (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. Section 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 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 as damaged merchandise at or during such sale, excepting the goods, wares or merchandise described and inventoried in such original application.