Montgomery County                                2379

14-14. Same—Licensing.         

It shall be unlawful for any person, house, company, association or
body corporate to operate, set up, establish or conduct any business or
enterprise mentioned in the preceding Section of this Code, unless such
person shall first obtain a license, if such is required by any rule, regulation
or law passed under the authority of the preceding Section of this Code, for
the operation of such business enterprise, and shall pay such sum as may
be fixed as a license fee for the business or enterprises so operated or
established; provided, that any person, house, company, association or body
corporate that shall operate or establish any business or enterprise men-
tioned in the preceding Section, without first having procured the license
prescribed, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined as pre-
scribed by law not more than one thousand dollars for such offense, or such
other penalty as provided in such law.

14-15. Bicycles.

The Council is hereby authorized and empowered to provide by law
for the registration and licensing of bicycles owned or operated within
the limits of Montgomery County and to require that all such bicycles be
registered and that a license tag be affixed. The license fee shall not
exceed one dollar, shall be issued upon proof of ownership, and no me-
chanical inspection shall be required to obtain such license. The Council
is further authorized to provide penalties for the violation thereof.

The word "bicycle," as used herein, shall mean a light vehicle having
two wheels one behind the other. It shall not include motor propelled
vehicles.

14-17. Same—Regulation and licensing generally.

The Council is hereby authorized to provide by law for regulation and
licensing of pawnbrokers and their activities, as it shall deem necessary to
promote the public health, safety, morals and welfare of the community.

14-18A. Closing-Out Sales.

The Council is hereby authorized and empowered to provide by law
for the licensing and conduct of any sale which is advertised to be a
termination of business or a cessation of the operation of said business,
or a transfer to a new name or any other such sale in connection with
which there is any representation by the individual, partnership, voluntary
association or corporation conducting such sale, that the sale is being con-
ducted or is required or compelled to be conducted, for reason of economic
or business distress, or inability to continue business for any reason; or
any other expression or characterization closely similar to any of the fore-
going and calculated to convey to the public the information or belief that
upon the disposal of the goods to be placed on sale, the business being con-
ducted at any location will cease, or be discontinued, or otherwise be
vacated or transferred, surrendered or handed-over to a successor in
business or conducted under a new name; or a sale in anticipation of, or in
avoidance of termination, liquidation, revision, windup, discontinuation,
conclusion, dissolution or abandonment.

14-19. License fees generally.

The Council shall fix and enforce a uniform schedule of fees for
licensing any class of business or enterprise as it may deem necessary,
or the Council by resolution may authorize the County Executive by