Every person desiring to transact, conduct, undertake or carry on a business whose activities, volumes of people, or traffic control demands, requires regulation to protect the public health, safety and welfare must obtain a regulatory permit pursuant to this chapter prior to undertaking such business activities and pay a regulatory fee in the amount established by resolution of the City Council.
(Ord. 557 § 3, 2019)
Every person required to obtain a regulatory permit must submit a written application on a form prescribed by the issuing officer. The application must state the name and address of the applicant, the description of the property by street and number where the business or activity will be conducted, the nature of the regulatory permit for which application is made, the character of the business or activity proposed to be conducted and such other information as the issuing officer or designee may require.
(Ord. 557 § 3, 2019)
Upon receipt of an application for a regulatory permit, accompanied by the required fee, the issuing officer, with the assistance of any office or department which the issuing officer may deem appropriate, investigates the matters set forth in such application, the safety and sanitary conditions in the place proposed for the business or activity.
(Ord. 557 § 3, 2019)
A regulatory permit constitutes an element of a business license that contains conditions of operation required by this title and otherwise determined necessary for the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare by the issuing officer. Regulatory permits are issued for the purpose of business regulation.
(Ord. 557 § 3, 2019)
A. 
A business license subject to a regulatory permit is an element of a business license but may be denied, revoked or conditioned by the issuing officer independent of a business license, pursuant to Sections 4.02.020, 4.02.060, and 4.03.040, respectively, for a violation of any condition in the permit or provision of law regulating places or activities of the character for which the license is granted and for the following reasons:
1. 
If the applicant is not a fit or proper person to conduct the regulated business;
2. 
If the premises are not a suitable or proper place for the regulated business;
3. 
If the health, welfare or public morals of the community warrant such denial.
B. 
The issuing officer may issue the license upon such conditions as he or she determines would eliminate the situations which would otherwise result in denial of such license.
(Ord. 557 § 3, 2019)