(A) It shall be the duty of the City Clerk to receive all applications for license to carry out any business, occupation or activity as an itinerant merchant, transient merchant or itinerant vendor within the city and to issue the license, pursuant to the application, whenever it shall appear that all provisions of this subchapter relating to the issuance thereof shall have been complied with by the applicant therefor. All applications for license to carry out any business, occupation or activity as an itinerant merchant, transient merchant or itinerant vendor within the city shall be filed, by the applicant, with the City Clerk.
(B) The applications shall be in writing, shall be sworn to and signed, by the applicant himself or herself if an individual, by all partners if a partnership, or by the president if a corporation, and shall show the following:
(1) The name or names of the person or persons having the management or supervision of the applicant’s business during the time that it is proposed that it will be carried on in the city; the local address or addresses of the person or persons while engaged in the business; the permanent address or addresses of the person or persons; the capacity in which the person or persons will act (that is, whether as proprietor, agent or otherwise); the name and address of the person, firm or corporation for whose account the business will be carried on, if any; and if a corporation, under the law of what state the same;
(2) The place or places in the city, where it is proposed to carry on applicant’s business and the length of time during which it is proposed that the business shall be conducted;
(3) A statement of the nature of merchandise to be sold or offered for sale by the applicant;
(4) A brief statement of the nature of the advertising done or proposed to be done in order to attract customers;
(5) Credentials from the person for whom the applicant proposes to do business, authorizing the applicant to act as the representative; and
(6) Other reasonable information as to the identity or character of the person or persons having the management or supervision of the applicant’s business or the method or plan of doing the business as the City Clerk may deem proper.
(C) No license to carry out any business, occupation or activity as an itinerant merchant, transient merchant or itinerant vendor within the city shall be issued unless and until an application for the license, as herein provided, shall have been filed. In the event that the City Clerk shall fail, neglect or refuse to issue any license applied for pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter, any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association, receiver or trustee aggrieved by the failure, neglect or refusal shall have the right to appeal the failure, neglect or refusal to the City Council. The appeal shall be perfected by filing, with the City Council, a written statement setting forth the grounds for the appeal, the statement to be filed no later than 14 days after the day on which notice of the refusal of the City Clerk to issue the license applied for is mailed to the last known address of the applicant therefor. The City Council shall set the time and place for a hearing on the appeal and notice shall be given to the appellant, therein by registered mail, postage prepaid, at his or her last known address. The order of the City Council on the appeal shall be final.
(Prior Code, § 10-103)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see Neb. RS 17-134