1999 Minnesota Code
Chapters 324 - 338 Trade Regulations, Consumer Protection
Chapter 330 Auctioneers
Section 330.01 Auctioneers' licenses, to whom granted.

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 Repealed, 1965 c 874 s 10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