(a) No person, firm or corporation shall engage in the business of operating any process, apparatus or device for the reduction of animal or vegetable products, tankage or fertilizers, or in rendering grease or fats, or manufacturing glue from animal or vegetable matter or in the business of collecting butcher offal or inedible fats within the City, unless the owner or person having control thereof or operating the same has first applied for and obtained a license from the Commissioner of Assessments and Licenses. Such license shall cover the period from July 1 until June 30 or any portion of such period, shall expire on June 30 of such period for which it was issued, irrespective of the date of its issuance and shall not be transferable. Whenever the interest of such licensee ceases, the license immediately becomes void. However, upon the death of a licensee, the license shall be valid for thirty (30) days from the date of death in favor of the legal representatives of the licensee, provided that such thirty (30) days do not extend beyond June 30 of the period for which such license was issued.
(b) This section does not apply to any person, firm or corporation rendering the products of animals slaughtered or processed in their own establishment.
(Ord. No. 511-76. Passed 6-14-76, eff. 6-18-76)