[Code 1964, § 8-100]
In this article, "retail florist" means any person regularly
engaged in the business of selling, at retail, any flowers, funeral
sprays, wreaths, designs, corsages, potted plants or cutting or bedding
plants. "Retail florist" shall not include a person selling produce
alone at or upon any municipally owned or regulated public market
or to wholesale dealers or producers or to a person selling only dry
bulbs, roots, tubers, corms, unpotted hardy perennials, deciduous
plants, seedlings, evergreens, shrubs, vines, vegetable plants or
cereal plants.
[Code 1964, § 8-106]
Every retail florist shall properly keep and care for all cut
flowers and plants kept or offered for sale at retail and shall make
sales only from a regularly established retail flower store or flower
greenhouse which shall be equipped with adequate refrigeration to
properly care for cut flowers and plants.
[Code 1964, § 8-107]
It shall be unlawful for any retail florist to display for sale
any cut flowers upon any public sidewalk except within a municipally
operated market.
[Code 1964, § 8-101]
Every person engaged in the business of retail florist in the
City must first obtain a license authorizing the conduct of the business
before engaging in the business.
[Code 1964, § 8-102]
An application for a retail florist's license shall be made
in writing to the City Clerk and filed in the office of the City Clerk.
Each application shall include a statement giving the true location
at which it is proposed to carry on the retail florist business; the
name, age and place of residence of the applicant if an individual;
the name of the individual members if a firm or copartnership and
the principal place of business if a corporation which shall be verified.
No license shall be issued to any person under the age of 18 years.
[Code 1964, §§ 8-103, 8-104]
The annual license fee for a retail florist's license shall
be $20. No fee for any license issued under the provisions of this
division shall be subject to any refund for the unexpired portion
of the term for which it is issued.
[Code 1964, § 8-105]
No license issued under the provisions of this division shall
be transferable. The license shall be conspicuously displayed in the
place of business of the florist.
[Code 1964, §§ 8-108, 8-109]
Any license issued pursuant to this division may be revoked
by the mayor on legal proof of the violation of the provisions of
this article or of the laws of the state. Before any license is revoked,
the licensee shall be entitled to a hearing upon due notice.
