Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 58-1017

  • Auctioneer: means a person who conducts a public auction as herein defined;

    (b) "clerk" means: (a) the county clerk of the county wherein the public auction is to be held if the public auction is to be held outside the corporate limits of a city; (b) the city clerk, city license collector or other person or officer designated by a city to issue public auction licenses of the city wherein the public auction is to be held;

    (c) "inventory" means a list of new goods, wares and merchandise offered at public auction, showing make and model; also their serial number, if any;

    (d) "person" means and includes an individual, firm, association, corporation or any other legal entity;

    (e) "public auction" means the offering for sale or selling of new goods, wares or merchandise to the highest bidder or offering for sale or selling of new goods, wares or merchandise at a high price and then offering the same at successive lower prices until a buyer is secured; and

    (f) "new goods, wares and merchandise" means those not previously sold at retail. See Kansas Statutes 58-1015

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Residence: means the place which is adopted by a person as the person's place of habitation and to which, whenever the person is absent, the person has the intention of returning. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

Any person desiring to offer any new goods, wares or merchandise for sale at public auction shall file, in duplicate, an application for a license for that purpose with the clerk of the county or city in which the said auction is proposed to be held. The application shall be filed not less than ten (10) full days prior to the date the said auction is to be held. The application shall state the following facts:

(a) The name, residence and post-office address of the person making the application, and if a firm, association or corporation, the name and address of the members of the firm or association or officers of the corporation, as the case may be.

(b) If the applicant is a corporation then there shall be stated on the application form the date of incorporation, the state of incorporation and if for a corporation formed in a state other than the state of Kansas the date on which such corporation qualified for authority to do business as a foreign corporation in the state of Kansas.

(c) The name, residence and post-office address of the auctioneer who will conduct such public auction.

(d) A detailed inventory and description of all such new goods, wares or merchandise to be offered for sale at public auction which inventory shall list the items set forth in paragraph (c) of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 58-1015.

(e) The number of days and dates on which said auction will be held.

(f) A statement that the applicant has complied with all the requirements made of the applicant by the director of revenue under the Kansas retailers’ sales tax act and that the applicant holds a valid unrevoked certificate of registration issued by the director of revenue to sell tangible personal property at retail as a transient seller in the state of Kansas.

(g) The said application shall be verified.