Except in cases specifically provided for otherwise in this chapter and Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16, 5.24 and 5.68, the license term for licenses issued under this chapter and Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16, 5.24 and 5.68, shall be for a term of twelve months commencing from the first day of the calendar year quarter in which the license is first issued. Semiannual licenses shall be from the first day of the quarter of the calendar year in which the same is issued, for a period of six months. Quarterly licenses shall be from the first day of the calendar quarter in which the license is issued to and through the last day of such calendar quarter. Monthly licenses shall be from the first day of the calendar month in which such license is issued to the end of such calendar month. Weekly licenses shall commence on Monday of each week and shall terminate on Sunday. Daily licenses shall commence at twelve-one a.m. of any day and shall terminate at twelve midnight of such day.
(Prior code § 8-5)
No license under this chapter or Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16, 5.24 or 5.68, for any succeeding current or unexpired license period, shall knowingly be issued to any person who at the time of making application for such license is indebted to the city for any unpaid license fee; provided, that the city clerk or his duly authorized deputy may enter into an agreement with any person indebted to the city for the nonpayment of license fees for any past license period, agreeing with such person that such person may pay delinquent license fees for any past license period in equal installments extending over a period not to exceed one year. In such agreement, such debtor shall acknowledge its debt to the city and agree in case default is made in the payment of any installment agreed to be paid thereunder, that the whole amount agreed to be paid shall become immediately due and payable and that in case suit is brought to enforce collection of the amount agreed to be paid under such agreement, that the debtor will pay all costs of suit incurred by the city. In case such agreement is executed, licenses for any current or ensuing license period may be issued to any such person paying the fee prescribed for the current or ensuing license period, together with penalties, if any.
(Prior code § 8-6)
No license issued under the provisions of this chapter or Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16, 5.24 or 5.68 shall be construed as authorizing the conduct of or continuance of any illegal or unlawful business.
(Prior code § 8-7)
Duplicate licenses may be issued by the city clerk to replace
any license previously issued which has been lost or destroyed, upon
the applicant therefor filing an affidavit attesting to such fact
and at the time of filing such affidavit paying to the city clerk
a fee of two dollars and fifty cents therefor.
(Prior code § 8-8)
Except as otherwise specifically provided by the provisions of this chapter and Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16, 5.24 and 5.68, all licenses shall be kept and posted in the following manner:
B.
Any
person engaged in business in the city, but not operating from a fixed
place of business, shall keep the license issued to him upon his person
at all times while engaged in such business;
C.
As directed by the city clerk, each person driving, operating or having control of any wagon, cart or other vehicle, or using or controlling any tray, basket or other receptacle, or controlling, possessing or operating any machine, device or equipment, including vending machines, where a license is required under the provisions of this chapter and Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16, 5.24 and 5.68, shall fix thereon a license tag or plate or decal as issued by the city clerk and at the place directed by the city clerk, or if the city clerk shall so direct, shall procure a license holder and fix thereon for the purpose of holding the city license, or, if the city clerk shall so direct, shall carry a license or identification card, as directed by the city clerk, upon his person. Any license plate or tag or decal shall be placed so that it is always plainly visible. No person shall keep any license or plate, tag, decal or identification card longer than thirty days after the expiration of the term for which the license is issued, and no person, except the licensee or his authorized agent, shall take or remove any license, plate, tag or identification card from the person lawfully entitled to the same or removed from the place where posted or fixed;
D.
All
junk dealers, junk collectors, secondhand dealers and collectors,
solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, vendors and employees of any of the
foregoing, engaged in business within the city at a place other than
a fixed place of business, shall at all times while so engaged in
such business within the city, carry upon their person an identification
card issued by the city clerk, setting forth the name and address
of the licensee as well as the name and address of the employee if
the person so engaged in such business is one other than the licensee,
and in addition, setting forth such other identification matter deemed
necessary by the city clerk. This section shall also apply to insurance
agents or brokers who are otherwise entitled to a free license and
the issuance of an automatic permit upon establishment of a state
license.
(Prior code § 8-9)
No license issued pursuant to this chapter or Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16, 5.24 or 5.68, shall be transferable; provided, that where a license is issued authorizing a person to conduct business at a particular location, such licensee may, upon application therefor, and upon payment of a fee of five dollars, have the license previously issued amended so as to authorize the conduct of such business from such other location.
(Prior code § 8-10)
Unless specified otherwise in this chapter or Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16, 5.24 or 5.68, or in any special permit or license, all licenses shall be subject to renewal upon the anniversary date of the license, and the fee for the same shall then be immediately due and owing. Every person failing to pay such license fee on such due date shall become subject to a penalty of ten percent of the amount of such license for each thirty days thereafter until the same, plus such penalty, has been paid in full.
(Prior code § 8-11)
