Any individual, company, society, association, corporation,
manager, contractor, subcontractor or their agents or employees shall
not open, keep, maintain or carry on any employment agency in the
Town unless he shall have first procured a license therefor as provided
in this chapter.
Every person licensed under this chapter to carry
on the business of an employment agency shall pay to the Town Clerk
a license fee in an amount as shall be set from time to time by resolution
of the Town Board before such license is issued.[1]
He shall also deposit before such license is issued
a bond in the penal sum of $5,000 with two or more sureties or a duly
authorized surety company, to be approved by the Town Attorney. The
bond shall be payable to the Town of Fallsburg and shall be conditioned
that the person applying for the license will comply with this chapter
and shall pay all damages occasioned to any person by reason of any
misstatements, misrepresentation, fraud or deceit, or any unlawful
act or request of any licensed person, his agents or employees while
acting within the scope of their employment, made, committed or omitted
in the business conducted under such license or caused by any other
violation of this chapter in carrying on the business for which such
license is granted. Any person aggrieved by the action of the licensee
shall have the right of action on the bond for the recovery of money
or damages, or both.
The name and address of the applicant to whom employment
is promised or offered, or to whom information or assistance is given
in respect to such employment.
All registers, books, records and other papers required
to be kept, pursuant to this chapter, in any employment agency shall
be open at all reasonable hours to the inspection of the Town Clerk
and to any duly authorized agent or inspector of the Town Clerk or
other Town official.
All of the provisions of Article I of this chapter shall apply to the licensing of employment agencies.