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330.110 License suspension, revocation, and other penalties -- Grounds.
The board may suspend for a period up to five (5) years or revoke the license of any
licensee, or levy fines not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000), with a maximum fine
of five thousand dollars ($5,000) per year arising from any single incident or complaint,
against any licensee, or place any licensee on probation for a period of up to five (5)
years, or require successful passage of any examination administered by the board, or
require successful completion of any course of auction study or auction seminars
designated by the board, or issue a formal reprimand, or order any combination of the
above, for violation by any licensee of any of the provisions of this chapter, or for any of
the following causes:
(1) Obtaining a license through false or fraudulent representation;
(2) Making any substantial misrepresentation;
(3) Pursuing a continued and flagrant course of misrepresentation or intentionally
making false promises or disseminating misleading information through agents or
advertising or otherwise;
(4) Accepting valuable consideration as an apprentice auctioneer for the performance of
any of the acts specified in this chapter, from any person, except his or her principal
auctioneer;
(5) Failing to account for or remit, within a reasonable time, any money belonging to
others that comes into the licensee's possession, commingling funds of others with
the licensee's own funds, or failing to keep the funds of others in an escrow or
trustee account;
(6) Paying valuable consideration to any person for services performed in violation of
this chapter, or procuring, permitting, aiding, or abetting any unlicensed person
acting in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter;
(7) Entering a plea of guilty, an Alford plea, a plea of no contest to, or being convicted
of, any felony, and the time for appeal has passed or the judgment of conviction has
been finally affirmed on appeal;
(8) Violation of any provision of this chapter or any administrative regulation
promulgated by the board;
(9) Failure to furnish voluntarily at the time of execution, copies of all written
instruments prepared by any licensee to each signatory of the written instrument;
(10) Any conduct of a licensee which demonstrates bad faith, dishonesty, incompetence,
or untruthfulness;
(11) Any other conduct that constitutes improper, fraudulent, dishonest, or negligent
dealings;
(12) Failure to enter into a binding written auction listing contract with the seller or with
the seller's duly authorized agent prior to advertising, promoting, or offering any
real or personal property by or at auction;
(13) Failure to provide a receipt to all persons consigning personal property with any
licensee for auction;
(14) Failure to establish and maintain, for a minimum of five (5) years from final
settlement, complete and correct written or electronic records and accounts of all
auction transactions, including:
(a) Listing contracts, including the name and address of the seller;
(b) Written purchase contracts;
(c) Descriptive inventory and final bid amounts of all items or lots offered;
(d) Buyer registration records; and
(e) Settlement records, including all moneys received and disbursed and escrow
account activity;
(15) Failure of any licensee to present any auction-related information, including but not
limited to advertisements, listing contracts, purchase contracts, clerking records,
buyer registration records, settlement records, escrow account information, license,
or any other auction-related information, subsequent to a request by the board's
executive director, a board compliance officer, or board counsel; or
(16) Failure of a principal auctioneer to provide supervision to his or her apprentice
auctioneers.
Effective: June 24, 2015
History: Amended 2015 Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 6, effective June 24, 2015. -- Amended
2009 Ky. Acts ch. 70, sec. 11, effective June 25, 2009. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts
ch. 285, sec. 7, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 344, sec. 10,
effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 170, sec. 9, effective July 13,
1990. -- Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 407, sec. 6, effective July 13, 1984. -- Created
1962 Ky. Acts ch. 251, sec. 11.
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