§ 54-55. Bond.

(a)

Before any license shall be issued for engaging in a transient or itinerant business as provided in this article, the applicant for such license shall file with the city's building and licensing department a bond running to the city in the amount established by resolution of the city council, executed by the applicant, as principal, and two sureties upon which service of process may be made in the state.

(b)

The bond is to be approved by the city attorney, conditioned that the applicant shall comply fully with all of the provisions of the ordinances of this city and the statutes of this state regulating and concerning the sale of goods, wares, and merchandise, and will pay all judgments rendered against the applicant for any violation of the ordinances or statutes, or any of them, together with all judgments and costs that may be recovered against him by any person for damage growing out of any misrepresentation or deception practiced on any person transacting such business with such applicant, whether the misrepresentations or deceptions were made or practiced by the owners or by their servants, agents, or employees, either at the time of making the sale or through any advertisement of any character whatsoever, printed or circulated with reference to the goods, wares, and merchandise sold or any part thereof.

(c)

Action on the bond may be brought in the name of the city to the use of the aggrieved person. Such bond must be approved by the city attorney, both as to form and as to the responsibility of the sureties thereon.

(Code 1979, § 32-206.5)