Every year the City shall issue mercantile licenses in the manner
and for the fees set forth in this chapter.
[Amended 2-13-1979 by Ord. No. 1321; 4-14-1992 by Ord. No. 1518]
Every year every person desiring to continue to engage in or
to begin to engage in the business of wholesale or retail vendor or
dealer in goods, wares or merchandise, and any person conducting a
restaurant or other place where food, drink or refreshments are sold
or a place of amusement in the City shall, on or before the first
day of January of each license year or prior to commencing business
in any such license year, procure a mercantile license for his or
her place of business or, if more than one, for each of his or her
places of business in the City from the City Manager, who shall issue
the same upon the payment of a fee of $15 for a wholesale or retail
license or, if more than one, for each of his or her places of business
in the City for each license year. Such license shall be conspicuously
posted at the place of business or each of the places of business
of every such person at all times.
[Amended 4-14-1992 by Ord. No. 1518]
Whoever being required under the provisions of this chapter
to procure a mercantile license fails or refuses to do so, and whoever
fails to keep his or her license conspicuously posted at his or her
place of business shall, upon conviction before a District Justice,
be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $600, plus costs of prosecution
and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment
for a period not exceeding 90 days.