(A) No person, firm, association, or corporation shall conduct, operate, transact, engage in, or carry on any of the industries, trades, pursuits, professions, vocations, or businesses within the city, hereinafter specified and enumerated, without first applying for and obtaining a license therefore from the said city as herein provided, and if such application for license be granted, shall pay said fee therefore as set forth as defined by classification pursuant of resolution of the City Council.
(B) The City Council (the Council) may license, tax and regulate businesses per MCA § 7-21-4201.
(C) The Council may fix the license fee amounts, terms, and manner of issuing and revoking licenses, and may refuse to issue licenses when deemed best by the Council for the public interests.
(D) The City Treasurer must collect the city business license fees in the manner and at the time prescribed by this code.
(E) The fees received from business licenses shall be used to defray the expense of issuing the licenses and the expense of enforcing this chapter
(F) Terms not defined in this chapter shall take legal definition from the state statutes.
(G) Business licenses are valid for a period of one year from July 1 through June 30 of the following year.
(Prior Code, § 5.02.020) (Ord. 97, passed 11-19-2001; Ord. 128, passed 9-8-2009; Ord. 2019-13, passed 10-7-2019)
Statutory reference:
City Treasurer, see MCA §§ 7-21-4102 and 7-21-4103
Council, see MCA § 7-21-4101
Similar provisions, see MCA § 7-21-4101