(A) Required. It is unlawful for any person to engage in, carry on, maintain, or conduct the business of buying, selling, or dealing in motor vehicles in the city unless and until a license to so engage in business shall have been granted.
(Prior Code, § 118.39)
(B) Applications; contents. Any person desiring to obtain a license to conduct, maintain, carry on, or engage in the business of buying, selling, or dealing in motor vehicles shall make application in writing on a form prescribed by the City Controller to the Controller. The application must be filed at least 30 days before the hearing of the application. When issued, the license shall show the following:
(1) Whether applicant is a person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation;
(2) The names and post office addresses of all officers or members of the corporation, partnership, firm, or association;
(3) The street number of the building or location at which the applicant intends to carry on, maintain, conduct, or engage in business; and
(4) Other information as the City Controller shall request.
(Prior Code, § 118.40)
(C) Applications; denial; reconsideration. If any license application under this subchapter is declined or a license revoked, no application shall be again considered for a period of less than six months.
(Prior Code, § 118.41)
(D) Independent consideration for each location. Each application for a license under this subchapter shall be considered independently by the City Controller and the issuance of a license to engage in business at one location in no way entitles the applicant to a license for a second location unless the same is duly approved by the Controller.
(Prior Code, § 118.42)
(E) Fees. Each applicant filed under this subchapter shall be accompanied by a fee of an amount as set by the city from time to time for the first location and a fee of another amount as set by the city from time to time for each additional location. The entire fee shall be refunded in the event the application is declined.
(Prior Code, § 118.43)
(F) Qualifications and bond of applicant. No application for a license under this subchapter from any person shall be considered until the person has become bona fide residents of the state, or has posted a surety bond satisfactory to the City Controller of not less than an amount as set by the city from time to time, which shall be used to satisfy any judgment obtained against the licensee upon grounds of fraudulent transactions in the motor vehicle business.
(Prior Code, § 118.44)
(G) Issuance; display. The City Controller shall, for cause, refuse to authorize a license under this subchapter or shall, if there is no cause for acting otherwise, issue a certificate of license to the applicant, which certificate shall be displayed in a conspicuous place in his or her place of business.
(Prior Code, § 118.45)
(H) Transfer of locations. If the licensee shall, at any time, change the location of his or her place of business, he or she shall again file with the City Controller a new application for a license to do business in the location, which shall be handled as outlined in this subchapter.
(Prior Code, § 118.46)
(I) Expiration. All licenses shall be so issued as to expire on the December 31 of each year and, if no application for renewal has been filed with the City Controller by the December 31 for the following year, the licensee’s right and license to sell automobiles shall become null and void.
(Prior Code, § 118.47)
(J) Grounds for revocation. No licensee under this subchapter shall permit another person to operate a business on a location for which the licensee has a license and, if the licensee shall permit the abuse of his or her license, the license shall be revoked ipso facto.
(Prior Code, § 118.48)