Intent. It is the intent of this section to require a business license for any business located within any business, manufacturing, institutional, park and recreational, planned development and for certain uses in the agricultural zoning districts. To clarify, a business license is specifically required for the following commercial uses within agricultural districts: boarding and riding stables (commercial); contract sorting (commercial), grading and packaging of fruits and vegetables (commercial); orchards (commercial); plant nurseries (commercial retail sales); greenhouses for the retail sales of plants and flowers (commercial retail sales); kennels; landscaping (commercial); veterinarian offices and veterinarian emergency services offices. A business license is also required for community living arrangements within any zoning district pursuant to this section. Approved temporary uses pursuant to §
420-140.1 of this chapter are exempt from obtaining a business license. Commercial communications structures and their tenants, transmission lines, electric power substation or gas metering substation, utility substations and wind energy conversion systems and cemeteries are exempt from this section.
A. Requirements.
(1) The licensed use shall be a legal use allowed within the underlying
zoning district or shall be a legal nonconforming use as defined in
this chapter.
(2) A valid certificate of occupancy/compliance shall have been issued
by the Village for the business activity to occur on the property
or within a portion of the property.
B. The licensed address shall be subject to periodic inspections to
verify compliance with the Village ordinances.
C. An annual business license is required pursuant to §
420-43 below.