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Every person, before opening, maintaining or operating a business for the lending of money, as described in Section 25-4, in the city, shall make application to the city manager for a license for each such business maintained or operated by him, upon a blank to be furnished by the city manager on a form prescribed by such officer, which shall include, among other things, the full name and address of the applicant, both residence and place of business, including the street and number, and if the applicant is a partnership or association, the full name and address of every member thereof, if a corporation, the name and address of each officer or director of such corporation, if a trustee, the name and address of the cestui que trust, and if an agent, representative or broker, the name and address of the client or principal; also the name under which the business is to be conducted.
Every such application for license shall be sworn to by the applicant. (Code 1941, Art. 73-2; Ord. 3484)
A separate license and application shall be required for each establishment, office or place of business conducting a business of lending money as provided in this article regardless of the ownership of such business. (Code 1941, Art. 73-2; Ord. 3484)
The application and the information required in the application for a license required by this article as set out in Section 25-6 shall be furnished annually on each renewal of any such license. (Code 1941, Art. 73-2; Ord. 3484)
It shall be the duty of every licensee to pay all ad valorem taxes levied and assessed by the city against such licensee, and the sufferance by any such licensees of such ad valorem taxes to become delinquent shall constitute just cause for the refusal to renew the license or for the revocation of the same. (Ord. 3484)
Each license for a business of lending money shall state the address at which the business is to be conducted and the name under which the business is to be conducted. Such license shall be kept conspicuously posted in the place of business of the licensee where it may be readily available for inspection by the public. (Code 1941, Art. 73-3)
No license issued under the provisions of this article shall be transferable or assignable but shall be valid only for the use of the licensee named therein, nor shall any licensee maintain more than one place of business under the same license; provided, however, that the city manager may issue more than one license to the same licensee upon compliance with all the provisions of this article governing an original issuance of a license. (Code 1941, Art. 73-3)
A license issued under the provisions of this article shall be valid only at the address stated in such license; provided, however, that should a licensee desire to change his place of business to another location, he shall give written notice thereof to the city manager who shall attach to the license, in writing, a record of the change and the date thereof, which record shall be authority for the operation of such business under such license at such new location. (Code 1941, Art. 73-3)
In order to defray part of the expense necessary to provide the surveillance, supervision and inspection required under the terms of this article, there is hereby levied a license fee of $50.00 per annum for each business so operated, which fee shall be collected by the assessor and collector of taxes from each applicant for each such license. Such license fee shall be payable on an annual basis and shall be due and payable for any year not later than the 10th day of January of each year, such fee to cover the calendar year. If a license to operate any such business is granted during a current year, the fee shall be made pro rata for the balance of the calendar year on a basis of the number of months and fraction thereof remaining in said calendar year, such pro rata rates to be figured from the first day of each month. The license fee shall be paid to the assessor and collector of taxes of the city after the applicant has filed the application provided for in Section 25-6 with the city manager and secured such license as provided for in Section 25-5. (Code 1941, Art. 73-4)