Section 4.28.070 Jewelry sales.

No auctioneer shall sell, or offer for sale in the city, any watch, or watches, jewelry, or articles made or purporting to be made of gold or silver, or other precious metals, unless the same shall be at least the fineness of fourteen carats, as known to the trade. Whenever auctioneer offers for sale any watch or jewelry, or other things made of metal resembling gold or silver, or other precious metals, the auctioneer at the time of offering the same for sale and before selling the same shall state in a loud and distinct voice, such as all persons in the room where same is offered for sale can hear, the kind of metal of which such watch, jewelry or other thing is made; or if the same is plated, such auctioneer shall loudly proclaim that the article is plated and with what metal the article is plated. (Ord. S-8329, 1966)