2000 Minnesota Statutes

     330.01 Auctioneers' licenses, to whom granted. 

    Subdivision 1.  (a) The county auditor may license any 
 person having the qualifications specified in clause (b) of this 
 subdivision as an auctioneer.  The license shall be issued by 
 the auditor and shall authorize the licensee to conduct the 
 business of an auctioneer in the state of Minnesota for the 
 period of one year.  It shall be recorded by the auditor in a 
 book kept for that purpose.  Before the license is issued the 
 applicant shall pay into the county treasury a fee of $20.  The 
 auditor shall, not later than the 15th day of the following 
 month, transmit a copy of the license to the secretary of state 
 together with $10 of the fee, which shall be deposited in the 
 general fund. 

    (b) A natural person is qualified to be licensed as an 
 auctioneer if 18 years of age or over and a resident of the 
 county of application for at least six months immediately 
 preceding the date of application.  No copartnership, 
 association or corporation may be licensed as an auctioneer.  
 However, nothing in this subdivision shall be construed as 
 preventing auctioneers who are duly licensed in accordance with 
 the provisions of this chapter, from combining in associations, 
 copartnerships, or corporations, provided that each and every 
 member of these associations or copartnerships and each and 
 every person or agent conducting auction sales on behalf of 
 these corporations is a duly licensed auctioneer as provided in 
 this chapter.  Nothing herein shall be construed to apply to the 
 owner of property for at least six months selling it at an 
 auction.  

    Subd. 2.  Repealed, 1965 c 874 s 10 

    HIST: (7322) RL s 2813; 1901 c 249; 1913 c 11 s 1; 1917 c 87 s 
 1; 1927 c 173; 1937 c 313 s 1; 1941 c 170; 1943 c 311 s 1; 1949 
 c 516 s 1; 1965 c 874 s 1; 1969 c 399 s 1; 1969 c 737 s 1; 1973 
 c 725 s 58; 3Sp1981 c 2 art 1 s 57; 1986 c 444