No person shall operate, and no license shall be issued for, any of the following businesses until a permit has first been obtained therefor upon application in writing for such permit pursuant to this chapter as follows:
Automatic and semiautomatic car washing;
Ball, dart, knife or ring throwing, or other similar device;
Billiard hall;
Boardinghouse, home for aged, day nursery;
Bowling alley;
Children's boarding school;
Chutes;
Circus or carnival when conducted as a primary business.
(A)
Sideshow where separate admission fee is charged,
(B)
Exhibition or place of amusement charging paid admission,
(C)
Circus or carnival when conducted as a sales promotion for or incidental to another licensed business in the city—permit to be issued as a business license by city license collector;
Commercial dump;
Day nursery or day nursery school;
Dismantling;
Explosives, manufacture, sale, use or transportation of (Chapter 17.04);
Ferris wheel;
Fireworks stand (Chapter 5.48);
Funeral parlor;
Galvanic battery;
Games of skill and science;
Hack (certificate of convenience required);
Hazardous business (Chapter 17.04);
Home for the aged;
Hospital;
Itinerant vendor (permit required for each vendor);
Jitney (certificate of convenience);
Junk dealer;
Junkyard;
Kennel;
Kinetoscope, showing, letting or renting use of;
Lung tester;
Merry-go-round;
Miniature railway;
Muscle tester, showing, letting or renting use of;
Oil drilling;
Pawnbroker;
Peddler or hawker (permit required for each peddler);
Pool room;
Private day or board school;
Rest home;
Secondhand store or dealer, or collecting, purchasing, selling or dealing in junk;
Shooting gallery;
Skating rink;
Solicitor (permit required for each solicitor);
Taxicab (certificate of necessity required);
Trailer parks;
Undertaking establishment;
Weight guessing instrument or machine, showing, or renting use of or any other similar machine, instrument or device not named herein.
(Prior code § 6300)
The application for any permit required by this chapter shall be filed with the license collector, shall be signed and verified by the applicant and shall set forth the following:
(1) 
The name and address of the applicant;
(2) 
The name and address of the persons by whom employed, if any;
(3) 
The nature of the business for which a permit is requested;
(4) 
The place where such business is to be conducted;
(5) 
A brief description of the nature and amount of equipment to be used in such business;
(6) 
The personal description of the applicant;
(7) 
Evidence of the identity of the applicant of such character as the city council may require;
(8) 
Fingerprints and thumbprints of applicant.
(Prior code § 6301)
The city council may, after investigation of said application and of said business proposed to be conducted, grant or refuse to grant a permit. The city council shall have the right to refuse any such permit if it determines that the granting of the same or the conduct of the business will be contrary to the preservation of the public peace, health, safety, morals or welfare of the city or its inhabitants. If such permit is granted the city council may impose such terms, conditions and restrictions upon the operation and conduct of such business, not in conflict with any paramount law, as it may deem necessary or expedient to protect the public peace, health, safety, morals or welfare of the city or its inhabitants. Any applicant for such a permit shall be entitled to a hearing thereon before the city council upon a request therefor.
(Prior code § 6302)
(a) 
In the event of an application for a peddler's, solicitor's or itinerant vendor's permit, if the license collector shall determine, after a reasonable investigation, that the applicant is of good moral character and proposes to engage in an enterprise which shall not be detrimental to the public peace, health, safety, morals or welfare of the city or its inhabitants, said license collector shall then issue the permit required. In the event of any refusal on the part of the license collector to issue the required permit, the applicant may appeal to the city council for a review of such matter. After hearing thereon, the city council shall have the right to refuse such permit if it determines that the proposed enterprise will be detrimental to the public peace, health, safety, morals or the welfare of the city or its inhabitants.
(b) 
In addition to the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, the license collector shall issue an itinerant vendor permit only if the applicant meets the following conditions:
(1) 
Applicant has obtained a temporary use permit to occupy private property for outdoor sales on property that has not been issued more than three temporary use permits for itinerant vending within a calendar year. The duration of each permit for the activities shall be limited to a period not to exceed four consecutive calendar days;
(2) 
Applicant has obtained a resale and tax identification number registered with the state of California and a federal tax I.D. number or otherwise demonstrates the applicant's compliance with the applicable resale regulations.
(Prior code § 6302(a); Ord. 2067 § 5, 2009)
Such permit shall be posted in a conspicuous place on the premises where the business for which such permit it issued is conducted, and shall remain so posted during the period the permit shall be in force.
(Prior code § 6303)
Unless otherwise stated in this code, the fee for filing an application for a peddler's, solicitor's or itinerant vendor's permit shall be thirty dollars, and the fee for filing an application for any other permit mentioned in this chapter shall be sixty dollars. The fees are intended to cover the actual costs of investigation and no part of such fees shall be waived or refunded, except for persons engaged in interstate commerce.
(Prior code § 6304; Ord. 1470 § 8, 1978)
No license shall be issued for the operation of any hack, taxicab or jitney bus unless and until the applicant shall hold in good standing a certificate of public convenience and necessity for such operation issued by the city.
(Prior code § 6306)
The chief of police shall, upon the request of the city council, investigate and report to the city council all facts or evidence bearing upon the place where the proposed business is to be located and the character, reputation and moral fitness of those who will be in charge thereof.
(Prior code § 6308)
When the city council shall issue any permit under the terms of this chapter, the same may be revoked at any time thereafter by the city council if the city council becomes satisfied that the conduct of such business does or will in any manner endanger the public welfare or that the same has been conducted in an illegal, improper or disorderly manner. The city council may revoke or suspend permits issued for any business where the proprietor or person in charge thereof violates or permits any infraction of any law of the state or any ordinance of the city. No permit for any business shall be revoked or permanently suspended under the terms of this chapter unless the permittee shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor hereunder or unless a notice and public hearing thereof be first given the permittee, provided, however, that any such permit may be temporarily suspended without such notice or hearing by the city council.
(Prior code § 6309)