No person shall commence, conduct or carry on any of the businesses
or business activities listed in this section without having applied
for and been granted a permit therefor by the city council. Permits
shall be issued in cases where the council finds that the applicant
and proposed participants in the business or business activity are
of good moral character, and the proposed business or activity will
apparently be conducted in compliance with all applicable laws and
regulations, local, state or federal, that all state and federal licensing
requirements apparently have been or will be complied with, and that
the proposed location or locations for the business or activity will
be desirable to the public convenience and welfare and will be in
harmony with the various elements and objectives of the Palm Springs
general plan, and all other officially adopted policies and regulations
of the city:
(1) Automobile or truck rental or leasing (subject to processing in accordance with Chapter
5.40);
(2) Automobile
wrecking businesses where wrecked or damaged automobiles are bought
or sold in whole or in part;
(3) Bankrupt,
assigned or damaged goods sales, selling or offering for sale any
bankrupt, assigned or damaged stock of goods, wares, or merchandise,
of whatsoever nature or kind;
(6) Circuses, menageries and the like, as referred to in Section
3.84.090;
(8) Secondhand
dealers, dealing in secondhand goods, wares, or merchandise whether
or not carried on in conjunction with another business or with the
business of dealing in new merchandise.
(Prior code § 2371; Ord. 909 § 6, 1971)
No person shall conduct or carry on the business of locksmith,
or a key or lock repair shop or business, without having applied for
and been granted a permit therefor by the chief of police. Such permits
shall be issued in cases where, after investigation the chief of police
determines that the applicant and proposed participants in the business
or business activity are of good moral character, and that the issuance
of the permits will not prejudice the public peace, safety, morals
or welfare.
(Prior code § 2372; Ord. 909 § 6, 1971)
The city council shall have the power to revoke any permit issued pursuant to Sections
5.72.010 or
5.72.020, after a hearing conducted with due notice and in accordance with the legal principles of due process, and as a result of which hearing the council finds and determines that factual grounds exist, irrespective of when the same first arose, which would justify denial of issuance of a permit in the first instance, under the criteria prescribed in the section under which the permit was issued.
(Prior code § 2373; Ord. 909 § 6, 1971)