It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to
engage in any business or occupation in the City of Dearborn without
having first applied for and obtained a license to conduct such business
or occupation from the City Clerk and without paying the license fee
therefor, all as provided for in this Chapter.
All applications for the licenses required herein shall be made
to the City Clerk on appropriate forms provided for that purpose by
the City. All licenses issued by the City Clerk shall be in such form
as is provided by the Board of Aldermen; provided however, that such
license shall bear the signature of the Mayor of the Board of Aldermen
and the City Clerk, the date of issuance thereof and the date of expiration,
as well as any additional information that may be required by the
Board of Aldermen.
[CC 1971 §§3-17 — 3-18; Ord.
No. 292 §§1 — 2, 9-20-2010]
Tax Imposed. Every business, firm, corporation,
partnership or person engaging in business, trade, occupation or amusements
in the City of Dearborn shall pay a license tax of twenty-five dollars
($25.00) per year. Only one (1) occupational license shall be required
for each individual business establishment.
No license issued under the provisions of this Chapter shall
be assignable or transferable but shall apply only to the person to
whom same is issued. In the event any licensee, as provided for herein,
shall move his/her place of business from one location to another
location within the City, said licensee shall submit a statement of
the fact of such change to the City Clerk who may transfer such license
as to location only. In no event, however, shall such license be transferred
from one person to another or from the kind of business or occupation
originally licensed to another type of business or occupation.
[Ord. No. 298 §§1 —
2, 7-13-2011]
The term of the licenses issued pursuant to the provisions of
this Chapter shall be from January first (1st) to December thirty-first
(31st) of the same year. In the event any licensee hereunder shall
commence business after January first (1st) and prior to December
thirty-first (31st), the City Clerk shall issue such license at the
rate charged for one (1) full year and shall not prorate said license
fee imposed.
All applications for renewal of a license provided for herein
shall be filed no later than December first (1st) of each year.
Each license issued by the City under the provisions of this
Chapter shall be carefully preserved and shall be displayed in a conspicuous
place in the place of business authorized to be conducted by said
license. If there is no place of business, said license shall be carried
on the licensee's person.
[CC 1971 §3-19]
Notwithstanding any other provision of this law, the license
for the operation of a garage business shall be issued for no more
than one quarter (¼) of the calendar year and shall be successfully
renewable for no more than one quarter (¼) of the calendar
year at a time. The fee to be paid for such garage license shall be
two dollars fifty cents ($2.50) per quarter of the calendar year with
no proration of any portion of such quarter. All operators of licensed
garages shall keep the premises on which such businesses are located
in a neat and good orderly condition and shall not permit the accumulation
of junk, trash, debris and wrecked vehicles. Any licensee holding
a garage license, who shall have abided by the requirements of this
Chapter and the other ordinances of the City of Dearborn, shall be
entitled to have his/her license renewed for such quarter license
period to the next quarter license period upon making application
therefor and paying the license fee herein prescribed. Any licensee
who shall violate the terms of this Section or any other ordinances
of the City of Dearborn may in the discretion of the Board of Aldermen
be denied the renewal of said license.