For the license year beginning in January, 1984, as soon as this section (Ord. 582, passed February 15, 1984) becomes legally effective, and each license year thereafter on or before January 31, every person desiring to continue to engage in, or hereafter to begin to engage in, the business of wholesale, or retail, or wholesale and retail, vendor or dealer in goods, wares and merchandise, and any person conducting a restaurant or other place where food, drink or refreshment is sold in the township, shall, on or before the first effective date of this section in 1984, and each license year thereafter, or prior to commencing business in any such license year, apply for and procure a mercantile license for his or her place of business, or if more than one, for each of his or her places of business, in the township, from the Collector, who shall issue the same upon payment of a fee for each such license, as set from time to time by resolution of the Board of Township Commissioners, for such license year. The fee for obtaining such license shall be in the amount set forth by the Board of Commissioners in the fee resolution. Each application for a license shall be signed by the applicant, if a natural person, and, in the case of an association or partnership, by a member or partner thereof, and, in the case of a corporation, by an officer thereof. Such licenses shall not be assignable and shall be conspicuously posted at the place of business or at each of the places of business of every such person at all times. In the case of loss, defacement or destruction of any license, the person to whom the license was issued shall apply to the Collector for a new license for which a fee of an amount set forth by the Board of Commissioners in the fee resolution shall be charged.
(Ord. 582, passed 2-15-1984; Ord. 920, passed 12-18-2013; Ord. 925, passed 4-16-2014)