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.
A. 
No person following for a livelihood the profession or calling of minister of the gospel, duly accredited Christian Science practitioner, teacher, professor in a college, priest, lawyer, certified public accountant, dentist, chiropractor, optometrist, chiropodist, or physician or surgeon in this City shall be taxed or made liable to pay any municipal or other corporation tax or license fee of any description whatever for the privilege of following or carrying on such profession or calling, and after December 31, 2003, no investment funds service corporation as defined in Section 143.451, RSMo., may be required to pay any such license fee in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) annually, any law, ordinance or Charter to the contrary notwithstanding.
B. 
No person following for a livelihood the profession of insurance agent or broker, veterinarian, architect, professional engineer, land surveyor, auctioneer, or real estate broker or salesman in this City shall be taxed or made liable to pay any municipal or other corporation tax or license fee for the privilege of following or carrying on his/her profession unless that person maintains a business office within the City of Dearborn.
A. 
Any license issued by the City pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter may be revoked by the Board of Aldermen for any of the following reasons, as well as for any other reasons specified in this Chapter:
1. 
Any failure to comply with or any violation of any provisions of this Chapter, or any other ordinance of the City regulating the business, occupation or activity licensed, or the Statutes of the State of Missouri by any licensee.
2. 
Violation of the terms and conditions upon which the license was issued.
3. 
Failure of the licensee to pay any tax or obligation due to the City.
4. 
Any misrepresentation or false statement in the application for a license required herein.
5. 
Failure to display the license required herein.
Revocation of any license shall be in addition to any other penalty or penalties which may be imposed pursuant to these provisions.
A. 
In any case in which a complaint has been made to the Board of Aldermen, or in which the Board of Aldermen have on their own determined that cause may exist for the revocation of a license under the provisions of this Chapter, the following procedures shall be followed:
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The Board of Aldermen shall set a date for a hearing to consider the question of revocation.
2. 
At least ten (10) days prior to said hearing, written notice shall be mailed to the licensee, by registered mail, return receipt requested, to his/her last known address as shown in the records of the City Clerk advising the licensee of the time, date and place of hearing and of the reason for considering the revocation of his/her license.
3. 
During the pendency of this hearing before the Board of Aldermen, the licensee shall be permitted to continue the operation of his/her business.
4. 
At the hearing set by the Board of Aldermen, the Board of Aldermen shall hear all relevant and material evidence justifying the retention of the license.
5. 
The licensee may be present in person and/or by his/her attorney and may present evidence.
6. 
After hearing the evidence presented, the Board of Aldermen shall vote on the issue of whether the subject license shall be revoked.
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The affirmative vote of a majority of the Board of Aldermen shall be necessary to revoke any license.
[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.
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Editor's Note: Former Section 605.120, Exhibitions and Shows, was repealed 12-11-2017 by Ord. No. 328.