[HISTORY: Adopted by the Council of the City
of Rye 2-4-1942 as Art. 7 of Ch. 3; renumbered Art. 12 of Ch. 3, 5-4-1960.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
Any person desiring to procure a license required
by this Code shall file with the Clerk a written application upon
a blank form prepared and furnished by the City. Such application
shall be signed and sworn to before a notary public or other officer
authorized to administer oaths in the State of New York. No applicant
to whom a license has been refused or who has had a license which
has been revoked shall make a further application until a period of
at least six months shall have elapsed since the last previous rejection
or revocation unless he can show that the reason for such rejection
or revocation no longer exists.
Upon the filing of the application and any bond,
certificate, report or statement that may be required in addition
thereto, and the payment of the fee herein provided, the Clerk shall
issue a license to the applicant. No license shall be refused except
for the protection of the public safety, health, morals or general
welfare. No license shall be granted to a person under 21 years of
age. A license shall not be assignable. Any holder of such a license
who permits it to be used by any other person, and any person who
uses such license issued to any other person, shall be guilty of a
violation of the provisions of this Code. Whenever a license shall
be lost or destroyed, a duplicate in lieu thereof may be issued by
the Clerk upon the filing with him of an affidavit setting forth the
circumstances of the loss and what, if any, search has been made for
its recovery. The license issued shall, unless otherwise provided,
include the right to use only one vehicle in carrying on the business
for which the person is licensed. Every licensee, while exercising
his license, shall have or carry the license with him and shall exhibit
the same upon demand. Any licensee using a vehicle in carrying on
his business may employ two persons and no more to assist him, but
such persons shall so act only while accompanying the licensee in
the use of said vehicle. In case any licensee shall remove his place
of business designated in the license, he shall immediately thereupon
give notice to the Clerk and have the new address endorsed upon such
license.
All licenses issued pursuant to this Code shall
expire annually on the 31st of December next succeeding the date of
issuance thereof, unless sooner revoked, and shall be renewable on
or before such date in each year, except where otherwise provided.
The Mayor may, at any time, revoke or suspend
any license after a hearing for a violation of any ordinance or law
or any rule, regulation, order or special direction duly made as authorized
by any provision herein. Written notice of such revocation or suspension
and the reason therefor shall be served upon the person named in the
application by mailing the same to the address given in the application,
and upon filing a copy of such notice in the Clerk's office, with
an affidavit of mailing, such license shall be revoked or suspended.
When a license shall be revoked, no refund of any unearned portion
of the license fee shall be made.
