(A) No person shall maintain, operate or engage in any business, commercial, vocational or occupational activity for which a license is required under this code, without a license issued pursuant to the provisions of this code and which has not been revoked or suspended.
(B) No person engaged in the commercial activities associated with itinerant peddlers, transient merchants, or solicitors, as described in § 5.202, shall make any false and material misrepresentation or engage in any act constituting fraud designed to obtain business or consummate sales.
(C) No person engaged in the commercial activities associated with itinerant peddlers, transient merchants, or solicitors, shall:
(1) Call attention to his business or to his merchandise by blowing a horn, ringing a bell, by the use of a voice amplifying device, or by any other method of causing a loud noise, except as permitted by § 5.606 of this code; or
(2) Sell or solicit on Sunday, or after the hour of 9:00 p.m. unless an appointment with the customer has been arranged in advance; or
(3) Enter or conduct business upon premises where a sign or plaque is conspicuously posted stating that no solicitors or peddlers are allowed unless a prior appointment is arranged with a resident of said premises.
(D) (1) No person engaged in the business of selling new or used cars, shall do any act in violation of the conditions and requirements prescribed by § 5.205.
(2) The provisions of this section apply to any licensee, his employees or agents, or any person engaged in such conduct without a license, provided, no employee shall be liable under this section for any acts of his employer of which said employee had no knowledge or reason to know.
(E) No person operating a fresh food store or a food establishment, as either licensee, owner, or employee, shall fail to abide by any order of a health inspector designed to protect the health and welfare of the public and patrons of the establishment.
(F) No person shall operate or maintain a fresh food store or a food establishment in substantial and continuing disregard of prescribed sanitation standards. Three or more warning tags from a health inspector within a six-month period shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this section.
(G) No person who has custody or control over the use of a game of skill, as defined by § 5.402, shall allow such game to be used as a gambling device.
(H) No person operating a taxicab shall charge, or attempt to charge, a passenger a greater rate of fare than that established by Council resolution.
(I) No person operating a taxicab shall knowingly deceive with intent to defraud a passenger as to the whereabouts of said passenger's destination, or the distance to be traveled.
(J) No person shall make a material and false misrepresentation on a license application for the purpose of obtaining said license.
(K) No person, firm or corporation in charge of any place of amusement, entertainment, or refreshment, or other place of business shall knowingly and willfully condone or permit any minor under the age of 18 years of loiter, loaf, or idle in such place during the hours prohibited by this chapter.
(1) This section shall not be construed as permitting the presence at any time of any person under the age of 18 years in any place where his presence is now prohibited by any existing law or ordinance.
(2) Whenever the owner or person in charge or in control of any place of amusement, entertainment, refreshment, or other place of business shall find persons under the age of 18 years loitering, loafing, or idling in such place of business, he shall immediately order such persons to leave and if such person refuses to leave the said place of business, the operator shall immediately notify the Police Department and inform them of the violation.
(L) No person engaged in the business of leasing or renting motor vehicles shall rent any such vehicle to any individual who does not have a valid driver's license pursuant to M.S. Chapter 171, as it may be amended from time to time, for the operation of said vehicle.
(M) No licensee under Chapter 5 of this code or any other person authorized to sell glue containing the intoxicating substances defined in § 10.304 shall sell such glue from a self-service display.
(N) No person shall fail to pay a taxicab operator the fare which is due and owing, upon termination of any taxicab ride which was commenced within the city, or terminated within the city, provided however:
(1) That in the event of a bona fide dispute as to the amount of fare due and owing, such person shall be provided on demand the name and license number of the taxicab operator, together with a written receipt specifying the amount paid, the trip mileage and the place of commencement and place of destination of the trip, and further provided;
(2) That refusal of the taxicab operator to provide the above-described information, when so requested, shall be an absolute defense to this section.
(O) No person shall loiter, engage in disorderly conduct or cause any nuisance on the parking area of a restaurant so as to disturb the quiet and good order of the neighborhood.
(P) No person shall operate or maintain a pool table, billiard table, bowling alley, or game of skill, as defined by § 5.402, within 100 feet of the nearest point of any school or church premises within the limits of the City of Columbia Heights.
(`77 Code, § 10.301) (Am. Ord. 992, passed 3-22-82; Am. Ord. 977, passed 9-29-81; Am. Ord. 1127, passed 8-25-86) Penalty, see § 10.401