§ 12-6 SAME — INVESTIGATION; ISSUANCE.

   Upon filing the application hereinabove provided, the same shall be referred to the Chief of Police and if, after investigation by said Chief of Police, the City Council shall determine that said applicant is a fit, proper and suitable person to operate said equipment and said applicant has complied with all of the requirements of this ordinance, the City Council shall authorize the City Clerk to issue said applicant a license of the type for which application has been made, which license shall expire on April 30, subsequent thereto, and in case the application of said applicant is denied, then the City Clerk shall return to said applicant all license fees which have been paid by the applicant as hereinabove provided.

(Ord. 235, passed 4-25-1938; Ord. 1038, passed 9-4-1952)

§ 12-7 USE OF DEVICES CARRYING MUSIC TO PUBLIC STREETS PROHIBITED.

   No outside speaker or other device shall be attached to any automatic music machine which is designed to or does carry sound of music emanating from said machine to a public street.

(Ord. 235, passed 4-25-1938)

Cross-reference:

   Sound devices, see §§ 31-70—31-79

§ 12-8 SOUNDS AUDIBLE IN PUBLIC STREETS PROHIBITED DURING CERTAIN HOURS.

   Between the hours of 1:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m., it shall be unlawful for any person in charge of any such music machine to operate or to permit such music machine to be operated in such a manner that the sound created, emitted or transmitted by such machine shall be audible to persons upon any public street or highway in the City of Flint.

(Ord. 235, passed 4-25-1938)

ARTICLE II. BUILDING CONTRACTORS

§ 12-9 “BUILDING CONTRACTOR” DEFINED.

   (a)   BUILDING CONTRACTOR. Every person, firm, partnership, corporation, association or other organization or any combination thereof, who is engaged in the business of accepting orders or contracts on a cost plus, fixed fee, stated sum, percentage or any combination thereof, or other compensation other than wages for doing work on or in any building or structure requiring the use of stone, brick, mortar, concrete, wood, structural steel or iron, sheet iron, metallic piping, tin, lead, roofing, insulation or any other building material, or for the execution of any building operations on public or private property using building materials or any combination thereof, or for excavating foundations or for the construction of retaining walls, docks, drive piling or the construction in general of structures of any and all descriptions, or for remodeling, repairing or razing any structure, or who shall supervise all or any part of the construction of any of the buildings or structures above described, shall be deemed to be a “building contractor” within the meaning of this ordinance.

   (b)   PERSONS shall mean individual, firm, partnership, association, syndicate, corporation or other form of business organization.

(Ord. 483, passed 3-20-1942)

Cross-reference:

   Buildings, see Ch. 11

Statutory reference:

   Regulation of residential builders and the like, see MCLA 338.1501 et seq.

§ 12-10 EXEMPTIONS.

   This ordinance shall not apply:

   (a)   To an authorized representative or representatives of the United States of America, the State of Michigan, the County of Genesee or the City of Flint, Michigan; or

   (b)   Sole owners of property, building structures or persons making repairs thereon for their own use.

(Ord. 483, passed 3-20-1942)

§ 12-11 LICENSE REQUIRED.

   No person shall engage in the business of building contractor in the City of Flint without first obtaining a building contractor’s license as provided herein.

(Ord. 483, passed 3-20-1942)