(A) No valet parking operator license, or renewal thereof, shall be issued unless the applicant agrees to park all cars entrusted to him or her in legal off-street or legal on-street sites. Acceptance of the license shall evidence the valet parking operator’s agreement to comply with all applicable requirements of this chapter.
(B) No valet parking operator license, or renewal thereof, shall be issued unless the applicant provides proof to the City Collector that he or she has obtained liability insurance covering all locations at which he or she operates or seeks to operate in the minimum amounts of $500,000 per occurrence for public liability, $100,000 per occurrence for property damage and $100,000 per occurrence for garage keepers’ legal liability. The insurance policy shall be for a term at least coextensive with the duration of the license and shall not be subject to cancellation except upon 30 days’ prior notice to the City Collector. Upon termination or lapse of the licensee’s insurance coverage, any license issued to him or her shall automatically expire.
(C) No valet parking operator license, or renewal thereof, shall be issued unless the applicant provides proof to the City Collector that the business establishment for which the valet parking service is to be provided has made available a loading zone at least 25 feet in length immediately adjacent to its premises for the pickup and delivery of the patrons’ vehicles. Where the loading zone is to be on-street, the business establishment shall have applied to the City Council for the designation of a curb loading zone and/or tow zone, and no license shall be issued for the operation of a valet parking service at that establishment unless and until the designation has been approved and the curb loading zone and/or tow zone signs have been installed.
(D) No valet parking operator license, or renewal thereof, shall be issued unless the applicant provides proof satisfactory to the City Collector that, with respect to each business served, the valet parking operator has available legal off-street parking spaces equal in number to 10% of the occupancy content of that business. A space is available if owned or leased by the valet parking operator or if the valet parking operator has a contractual right to place a vehicle in that space. Additionally, a plan for where it is anticipated the vehicles in excess of the available legal off-street parking spaces number will be parked must be submitted.
(E) No valet parking operator license shall be issued to any person who has not submitted to a criminal history background check and found not to have been convicted of a felony or convicted of any crime involving motor vehicles, theft, fraud, deception or moral turpitude. If the applicant is a partnership, then each member of the partnership must be eligible to receive a valet parking operator license. If the applicant is a corporation, then each officer, manager or director thereof and any stockholder owning in the aggregate of more than 5% of the stock thereof must all be eligible to receive a valet parking operator license. The fee for conducting each criminal history background check shall be paid by the applicant at the time the initial application is submitted to the City Collector at an amount set from time to time by the city’s Police Department. Anyone entering the business of a valet parking operator after the license is initially issued shall be promptly reported to the City Collector and the person shall promptly submit to a criminal history background check.
(F) No valet parking operator license, or renewal thereof, shall be issued to any applicant who has been found in violation of any provision of §§ 877A.02, 877A.04 or 877A.06 two or more times within the 180-day period prior to the date of the application or three or more times within the 365-day period prior to the date of the application.
(Ord. 04-30, passed 8-10-2004)