A.
It shall be the duty of the city finance director and he or she is directed to enforce each and all of the provisions of Chapters 5.04 through 5.20, and the chief of police shall render such assistance in the enforcement hereof as may from time to time be required by the city finance director and/or city council.
B.
The city finance director in the exercise of the duties imposed upon him or her hereunder, and acting through his deputies or duly authorized assistants, shall examine or cause to be examined all places of business in the city to ascertain whether the provisions of Chapters 5.04 through 5.20 have been complied with.
C.
The city finance director and each and all of his assistants, and any police officer shall have the power and authority to enter, free of charge, and at any reasonable time, any place of business required to be licensed herein, and demand an exhibition of its license certificate. Any person having such license certificate theretofor issued in his possession or under his control who wilfully fails to exhibit the same on demand, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to the penalty provided for by the provisions of Chapters 5.04 through 5.20. It shall be the duty of the city finance director, and each of his assistants, to cause a complaint to be filed against any and all persons found to be violating any of such provisions.
(Prior code § 9-131; Ord. 590, 1983)
A.
The amount of any license tax and penalty imposed by the provisions of Chapters 5.04 through 5.20 shall be deemed a debt to the city, and any person carrying on any business without first having procured a license from the city so to do shall be liable to an action in the name of the city in any court of competent jurisdiction, and for the amount of the license tax and penalties imposed upon such business.
B.
The
conviction and imprisonment of any person for engaging in any business
without first obtaining a license to conduct said business shall not
release such person from paying the license tax to conduct such business,
nor shall the payment of any license tax prevent a criminal prosecution
for the violation of any of the provisions of this chapter.
(Prior code § 9-132; Ord. 590, 1983)
A sign or advertisement kept, exhibited or published indicating
that any person is engaged in a business, trade or profession for
which a license is required hereunder, or shall hereafter be required
or for the performance of services wherein a charge is made or compensation
accepted, shall be prima facie evidence that such person is engaged
therein.
(Prior code § 9-133; Ord. 590, 1983)
The city council may suspend, revoke, withdraw or discontinue
any license granted under the provisions of this chapter whenever
the council has reason to believe that the business conducted thereunder
by the licensee, his, their or its servants or employees, is a nuisance,
a menace to public health, or detrimental to the peace and morals
of the city, or that violations of the laws of the state or of the
city have been committed or are being permitted to be committed upon
the premises where such business is being conducted. Such suspension,
revocation, withdrawal or discontinuance shall be by resolution duly
made and carried and spread upon the minutes of the city council.
(Prior code § 9-135; Ord. 590, 1983)
