CHAPTER 11. BUSINESS LICENSES AND REGULATIONSCHAPTER 11. BUSINESS LICENSES AND REGULATIONS\Article I. Licenses Generally

Article I. Licenses Generally

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation either as principal or agent, to pursue, conduct, carry on or operate within the City any carnivals, street fairs, shows or attractions, fortunetellers and any other business, avocation, profession or occupation named in this article, without paying a license fee in advance to the City Clerk for a license therefore.  The City Clerk shall not issue any license as required in this section until the application is approved by the Board of Commissioners.  Each such license may be issued for the number of days in which the application therefore is approved and the fee paid in advance.

(Code 1982)

No person shall pursue, conduct, carry on or operate more than one kind of business named in this article at the same location, or at different places within the City, without a license issued by the City.

(Code 1982)

A.    Every license issued for a place of business shall be kept posted in a conspicuous place at the location for which issued during the time that it is in force.

B.    Licenses issued to itinerants, peddlers, and others who have no fixed place of business shall be carried at all times upon the person and shall be exhibited upon request of any Public Safety Officer or any resident of the City.

(Code 1982)

There is hereby levied and assessed license fees as follows:

A.    Carnivals and street fairs, each show or attraction for which an admission is charged, ten dollars ($10.00) per day.

B.    Fortunetellers, astrologers, astronomers, clairvoyants, mind readers, palmists and persons by whatever name known engaged in disclosing the past or predicting the future, five dollars ($5.00) per day.

(Code 1982)

Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.

(Code 1982)

No license under this article shall be transferable or assignable.

(Code 1982)