[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Mayville 6-9-2025 by Ord. No. 1148-2025. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A. 
Except as provided in Subsection B, no person shall operate or maintain weights and measures, weighing or measuring devices and systems and accessories relating thereto which are used commercially within the City of Mayville in determining the weight, measure or count of commodities or things sold or offered or exposed for sale on the basis of weight, measure or count unless each such device is licensed by an annual weights and measures license issued pursuant to the provisions of this section.
B. 
Occasional sales temporarily permitted by a special event permit are exempt from licensing under this section.
The application for a weighing or measuring device license shall be made in writing on a form provided for such purpose by the City Clerk and signed by an individual authorized to sign for the applicant. Such application shall state the type and number of weighing and measuring devices to be licensed, the address at which the device(s) is located, the applicant's full name and post office address and whether such person is an individual, partnership, limited liability company or corporation. If a partnership, the application shall state the names of partners together with their addresses. If a corporation or limited liability company, the application shall state the names and addresses of all officers and agents of the applicant.
The City Clerk shall issue a license to the applicant if the requirements of this Code have been met. Each store or other business location shall require a separate license.
Licenses issued under this chapter shall expire on December 31 of each year.
It shall be the duty of the City Clerk to notify the appropriate city officials and to order the immediate enforcement of the provisions of this chapter in cases involving failure to renew a weighing or measuring device license. Said licensee shall be prohibited from operating or maintaining a weighing or measuring device until such time as a valid license has been obtained under the provisions of this chapter.
A. 
The Council shall annually assess fees to each licensee based on the numbers and types of weighing and measuring devices licensed as of January 1 of that year. The total of the fees assessed, and the fees collected under § 194-4 shall not exceed the actual costs of the weights and measures program.
B. 
The Clerk shall prepare a proposed schedule of assessments prior to the assessment and mail to each licensee a copy of the proposed schedule together with a notice of the date and time at which the Council will consider the assessments.
C. 
At least 10 days after such mailing, the Council shall consider the Clerk's proposed schedule of assessments and approve it or adopt such other schedule of assessments as it deems reasonable. The Clerk shall mail to each licensee an invoice for the amount of the fee assessed to the licensee by the Council.
D. 
Each licensee shall pay the fee assessed to it within 30 days after the invoice is mailed.
E. 
Schedules, notices and invoices shall be considered mailed to a licensee when mailed by first class mail to the licensee at the licensee's address as shown on the application form.