§ 11.01.305 SCHEDULE OF BUSINESSES REQUIRING CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE OR PERMIT.

   The businesses listed below shall require a certificate of compliance or permit as indicated:

Business	Certificate of Compliance or Permit
Ambulance service	CPL
Amusement machines	CPL
Animal hospitals, kennels and boarding stables	CPL
Animal shows when performance involved and/or admission charged	CPL
Art/antique show	CPL
Arcade, amusement	CPL
Automobile repair	CCFD
Bankruptcy sales or close out sales	CPL
Beer bars, beer and cocktail	CPL
Billboards	CCFD
Billiard halls	CPL
Bowling alleys	CPL
Bridge club card rooms	CPL
Bus service, charter or otherwise	CPL
Carnivals	CPL
Car wash, automatic	CPL
Child nurseries, private schools	LAHD
Christmas trees, decorations and miscellaneous merchandise sales other than in connection with a business already paying a tax hereunder	CCFD
Detective agencies, private police agencies, watchmen, and security guard agencies	CPL
Drycleaning plant, cleaning and pressing shop	CCFD
Entertainment provided in connection with a beer bar, cocktail bar, or bona fide restaurant, except for adult uses regulated by Chapter 11.13 of this Code	CPL
Food storage establishments, whether retail, wholesale or manufacturing	LAHD
Fortune-telling	See sections 11.06.200 - 11.06.235
Golf course or golf driving range	CPL
Health clubs, spas or other similar types of establishments, excluding massage establishments	CPL
Hospitals	CPL
Junk dealers and collectors	CPL
Klieg light operators	CCPD
Laundries	CCFD
Laundromats, when operated as a business located in a hotel, motel, apartment house and multiple unit structures	CCFD
Laundromats and all other forms of self-service clothes washing and drying	CCFD
Lectures, limited time performances, or shows	CPL
Locksmiths	CCPD
Machine shops	CCFD
Manufacturing establishments not otherwise listed	CCFD
Massage establishments (including health clubs, spas or other similar types of establishments that offer massage services)	See Chapter 11.07
Mortuaries	CPL
Newsracks	See sections 9.08.600 - 9.08.675
Oil storage tank station	CCFD
Oil well operations	See Chapter 11.12
Pawnbrokers	CPL
Pool halls	CPL
Production businesses, television and motion picture:
Itinerant motion picture/television producers	CCFD
Motion picture/television production on City streets or other public places or on locations other than a motion picture/television studio	CCFD & CCPD
Public parking in lots or garages	CPL
Rentals:
Motor vehicles, including campers, motor-homes, trucks, trailers and any other means of transportation when self-propelled by an engine or motor	CPL
Personal property	CPL
Apartments, rooming houses, hotels, motels, trailer park spaces and commercial property	CCFD
Repair shops	CCFD
Restaurants, smoking	LAHD, CCFD/BD
Restaurants, nonsmoking	LAHD, CCFD/BD
Restaurants serving beer, wine or distilled spirits, smoking	LAHD, CPL, CCFD/BD
Restaurants serving beer, wine or distilled spirits, nonsmoking	LAHD, CPL, CCFD/BD
Restaurants with a seating capacity of more than twenty-five (25) seats, which were lawfully doing business in Culver City within one (1) year prior to March 14, 1991	LAHD
Restaurants serving beer, wine or distilled spirits with a seating capacity of more than Twenty-five (25) seats, which were lawfully doing business in Culver City within one (1) year prior to March 14, 1991	LAHD, CPL
Resthomes	CPL
Retail establishments:
Food, drugs, and farm products	LAHD
Rinks, ice skating, and roller skating	CPL
Sanitariums	CPL
Satellite master antenna system companies	See Chapter 15.02
Second hand dealers	CPL
Service stations, gasoline, diesel	CCFD
Soliciting or distributing handbills and promotional materials and other canvassing	CCPD
Street vending	See sections 11.09.200 - 11.09.215
Studios, motion picture/television/radio	CCFD
Taxicabs	See Chapter 11.10
Telephone solicitation	CPL
Theatres and temporary entertainment provided under a tent or temporary structure	CPL
Theatres for plays and motion pictures, except for adult uses regulated by Chapter 11.13 of this Code	CPL
Towing service	CPL
Trade shows, commercial promoters	CPL (also see section 11.01.310)
Used cars, trailers, or mobilehomes, wholesale or retail sales	CPL
Van and storage, including personal property movers	CCFD
Vending machines:
Dispensing any food, drink or other edibles or merchandise (except bulk)	LAHD
Dispensing in bulk unsorted confections, nuts, or merchandise at random without selection by the customer	LAHD
Vendors	CPL
Warehouses not used in connection with established businesses in the City	CCFD
Wholesale establishments:
For food, drugs and farm products	LAHD & CCFD
All others	CCFD
Woodworking shops	CCFD
Wrecking yards or dismantling yards	CPL

 

('65 Code, § 19-47) (Ord. No. 87-002 § 1; Ord. No. 91-004 § 9; Ord. No. 98-006, §§ 6, 7; Ord. No. 2016-009 § 3)

§ 11.01.310 SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR TRADE SHOWS.

   No permit issued for a trade show shall allow an event to continue for more than the thirty (30) consecutive days unless the event is to take place wholly within a building not used to provide access to various retail establishments. A permit issued to the same permittee, trade show or promoter subject to the thirty (30) day limitation shall not be renewed, nor shall another permit be issued for the same building used to provide public access to various retail establishments unless not less than thirty (30) calendar days have elapsed since the expiration of the prior permit. The complete application for the permit must be submitted to the Committee at least fifteen (15) days prior to the show unless the Committee determines otherwise.

('65 Code, § 19-48) (Ord. No. 87-002 § 1)

§ 11.01.315 ENCLOSED BUILDING REQUIREMENT.

   A tax certificate shall not be issued to conduct any business which is not carried on entirely within a completely enclosed building until a permit therefor has been issued by the Committee on Permits and Licenses or the City Council has authorized such permit to be issued. This section shall not be applicable to the outdoor display of goods as permitted in § 9.08.040 and the Zoning Code, as set forth in Title 17 of this Code.

('65 Code, § 19-49) (Ord. No. 87-035 § 1; Ord. No. 96-018 § 2)

§ 11.01.320 PERMITS REQUIRED FOR CERTAIN BUSINESSES.

   It is unlawful for any person to engage in any business which is designated in this Chapter as requiring a permit without first obtaining a permit in accordance with the provisions of this Subchapter.

('65 Code, § 19-52) (Ord. No. CS-49 § 21.01)

§ 11.01.325 APPLICATION FOR PERMIT.

   Application for permit shall be filed with the Tax Collector, in triplicate, on forms provided by him, the original of which shall be duly acknowledged before the Tax Collector or Deputy Tax Collector or some other person lawfully authorized to administer oaths, and shall supply the following information:

   A.   A full identification of the applicant and all persons to be directly or indirectly interested in the proposed business;

   B.   The residence and business address and the citizenship of applicant, including all directors and officers of any corporation;

   C.   The location of the proposed business or place for which the permit is requested and the name of the owner and the present use of such premises;

   D.   The exact nature of the proposed business for which the permit is requested and the name under which it is to be operated;

   E.   The past experience of the applicant in the business to which the requested permit appertains and the name, address, and past experience in such business of the person to be in charge thereof;

   F.   Whether or not any permit has been revoked and, if so, the circumstances causing such revocation;

   G.   Such further information as required by the Tax Collector or the Committee on Permits and Licenses or the City Council.

('65 Code, § 19-53) (Ord. No. CS-49 § 21.02; Ord. No. 88-009 § 1)

§ 11.01.330 INVESTIGATION OF APPLICATION.

   Immediately upon filing a properly executed application for a permit, the Tax Collector shall refer one copy to the City Manager and one copy to the Department Head, whose duty it is to inspect the type of business involved. Such Department Head shall make such investigation of the applicant and of the statements set forth in the application, as he shall deem sufficient, and make a written report thereof to the Tax Collector, who shall refer such report and recommendation, together with a copy of the application to the Committee on Permits and Licenses for a hearing set at a certain day, not more than 30 days from the date of filing the application. At such hearing any person interested shall be entitled to be heard and to file objections, protests or recommendations, relative to the subject matter.

('65 Code, § 19-54) (Ord. No. CS-49 § 21.03; Ord. No. 88-009 § 1; Ord. No. 2006-009 § 22 (part))

§ 11.01.335 NOTICE OF HEARING ON APPLICATION.

   The Tax Collector shall notify the applicant in writing of the time and place of the hearing before the Committee on Permits and Licenses or the City Council, which shall be given at least three days prior thereto, unless the applicant waives such notice in writing. Whenever the Committee on Permits and Licenses or the City Council deems that a public notice should be given of a special hearing with respect to the application, the applicant shall pay to the City Clerk a fee, as established by resolution, before such notice is given, which payment shall not be in lieu of any license fee or other tax otherwise imposed by law.

('65 Code, § 19-55) (Ord. No. CS-49 § 21.04; Ord. No. 88-009 § 1; Ord. No. 2007-02 § 13)