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CITY OF FLINT, MICHIGAN CODE OF ORDINANCES
PART I. CHARTER
PART II. THE CODE OF ORDINANCES
CHAPTER 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS*
CHAPTER 2: ADMINISTRATION*
CHAPTER 3: ADVERTISING AND SIGNS
CHAPTER 4: AIR POLLUTION CONTROL
CHAPTER 5: AIRPORT
CHAPTER 6: ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR SALES
CHAPTER 7: AMBULANCES
CHAPTER 8: AMUSEMENTS
CHAPTER 9: ANIMALS AND FOWL*
CHAPTER 10: AUCTIONS
CHAPTER 11: BUILDINGS
CHAPTER 12: BUSINESS AND OCCUPATIONS GENERALLY*
ARTICLE I. AUTOMATIC MUSIC MACHINES
ARTICLE II. BUILDING CONTRACTORS
ARTICLE III. BUMP SHOP
ARTICLE IV. CIGARETTE VENDING MACHINES AND MECHANICAL AMUSEMENT DEVICES
ARTICLE V. COIN-OPERATED LAUNDRY AND DRY CLEANING FACILITIES
ARTICLE VI. CUTTING, REMOVING OR TRIMMING TREES
ARTICLE VII. INITIAL MERCHANTS
ARTICLE VIII. JUNK DEALERS, SECONDHAND DEALERS, PAWNBROKERS AND THE LIKE
ARTICLE IX. LEASING MOTORCYCLES AND THE LIKE
ARTICLE X. NONFIRE ALARM SYSTEMS
ARTICLE XI. SALE AND DISTRIBUTION OF CHRISTMAS TREES
ARTICLE XII. SALE AND DISTRIBUTION OF COAL AND COKE
ARTICLE XIII. USE OF BUILDINGS, STANDS AND THE LIKE FOR CERTAIN BUSINESSES
ARTICLE XIV. WRECKERS AND WRECKER AND TOWING SERVICE
ARTICLE XV. EDUCATIONAL MUSEUM/THEME PARK
ARTICLE XVI. CAR WASHES
ARTICLE XVII. CLUBS
ARTICLE XVIII. FILLING STATIONS
ARTICLE XIX. HOTELS AND ROOMING HOUSES
ARTICLE XX. OPEN PARKING STATIONS
ARTICLE XXI. SOLICITOR’S, CANVASSER’S AND PEDDLER’S LICENSE
ARTICLE XXII. CHARITABLE SOLICITATIONS AND THE LIKE
ARTICLE XXIII. SALE OF ICE CREAM FROM VEHICLES AND THE LIKE
ARTICLE XXIV. SIDEWALK PHOTOGRAPHERS
ARTICLE XXV. FREIGHT CARRIERS
ARTICLE XXVI. TAXICABS, AND OTHER FOR-HIRE VEHICLES
ARTICLE XXVII. OUTDOOR PAY TELEPHONES
ARTICLE XXVIII. GARAGE/YARD SALES
ARTICLE XXIX. FIREWORKS
CHAPTER 13: CEMETERIES
CHAPTER 14: CIVIL DEFENSE AND DISASTER
CHAPTER 15: TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
CHAPTER 16: ELECTRICAL CODE
CHAPTER 17: FENCES
CHAPTER 18: TAXATION; FUNDS; PURCHASING*
CHAPTER 19: FIRE PROTECTION*
CHAPTER 20: RESERVED
CHAPTER 21: RESERVED
CHAPTER 22: HEATING
CHAPTER 23: RESERVED
CHAPTER 24: HOUSING
CHAPTER 25: RESERVED
CHAPTER 26: LICENSING FEES AND OTHER CHARGES
CHAPTER 27: RESERVED
CHAPTER 28: MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
CHAPTER 29: MUNICIPAL RETAIL AND WHOLESALE GROWERS’ MARKET
CHAPTER 30: NUISANCES*
CHAPTER 31: GENERAL OFFENSES*
CHAPTER 32: RESERVED
CHAPTER 33: PARKS
CHAPTER 34: RESERVED
CHAPTER 35: PERSONNEL*
CHAPTER 36: PLUMBING
CHAPTER 37: POLES AND WIRES
CHAPTER 38: RAILROADS
CHAPTER 39: REFUSE, GARBAGE AND WEEDS
CHAPTER 40: RESERVED
CHAPTER 41: SCHOOLS
CHAPTER 42: STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
CHAPTER 43: RESERVED
CHAPTER 44: RESERVED
CHAPTER 45: TREES AND SHRUBS
CHAPTER 46: UTILITIES*
CHAPTER 47: WARDS AND PRECINCTS
CHAPTER 48: WATERCRAFT
CHAPTER 49: WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
CHAPTER 50: ZONING*
APPENDIX: COMPILED ILLUSTRATIONS
TABLE OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES*
APPENDIX A
PART III: PARALLEL REFERENCES AND INDEX
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§ 12-43 LICENSE — REQUIRED; APPLICATION; ISSUANCE; DISPLAY.
   No person, firm or corporation shall engage in the business of cutting, removing or trimming trees on private property within the City of Flint without obtaining a license as herein provided. Any person, firm or corporation making application for the license shall furnish to the City Clerk, on a form to be prescribed by him, information concerning the name and organization of the applicant, a description of the equipment and procedures employed and the nature of operations conducted. Upon receipt of such information, and the certificates of insurance required in this article, the City Clerk shall issue a license to such applicant and such license shall be shown to any person who shall do business with the licensee and who shall request same. The issuance of a license hereunder shall not obviate the necessity of obtaining such other licenses and permits as shall be required by the ordinances of the City of Flint.
(Ord. 2026, passed 1-22-1968)
Cross-reference:
   Trees and Shrubs, see Ch. 45
§ 12-44 SAME — FEES; TERM.
   Upon receipt of the application, the City Clerk shall issue a license upon the payment of a fee prescribed in Chapter 26 of this Code. All such licenses shall be for a period of one year and shall expire on April 30 next following the date of issuance, and there shall be no rebate for any lesser time.
(Ord. 2026, passed 1-22-1968)
§ 12-45 INSURANCE.
   No license shall be issued unless and until the applicant shall furnish a certificate of insurance, cancelable only upon thirty (30) days written notice to the City Clerk of the City of Flint, in accordance with the following. Said policy of insurance shall indemnify the applicant in the sum of at least twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) for property damage, one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) for injury or death to one person and three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00) for injury or death to more than one person in any one accident. In the event the applicant is covered by the Workers’ Compensation Law of the State of Michigan, said applicant shall furnish evidence of insurance in accordance with statutory requirements. Such policy of insurance shall indemnify the applicant for any and all liability to persons with whom he is transacting business and their property, in the above amounts, in addition to the public liability above specified. The certificate of insurance shall be approved as to form and content by the Chief Legal Officer. Upon cancellation or expiration of the required insurance, the City Clerk shall notify the licensee in writing and said licensee shall forthwith cease and desist from engaging in the business aforedescribed business.
(Ord. 2026, passed 1-22-1968)
ARTICLE VII. INITIAL MERCHANTS
§ 12-46 “INITIAL MERCHANT” DEFINED.
   INITIAL MERCHANT. Any person, firm or corporation engaging initially in the sales of goods, wares or merchandise and who, for the purpose of conducting the business, occupies either in whole or in part, a room, building, structure or vacant property for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares and merchandise. The provisions of this ordinance shall not apply to commercial travelers making sales to dealers or selling agents in the usual course of business for resale nor to merchants having regularly established places of business within the City of Flint for incidental or temporary sales or deliveries from trucks or railroad cars; nor to any sales of goods, wares or merchandise during the continuance of any annual fair; nor to any sales by societies acting for charitable or religious purposes.
(Ord. 1876, passed 11-18-1965)
§ 12-46.1 TRANSACTING BUSINESS ON NONRESIDENTIAL PRIVATE PROPERTY.
   It shall be unlawful for any private property owner of nonresidential private property in the City of Flint to authorize a peddler or solicitor, whether by lease or otherwise, to transact or attempt to transact business on such private property in the City of Flint unless the private property owner first obtains a copy of the current license required by this article and issued to the peddler or solicitor. The private property owner shall be required to produce, upon demand of the authorized agents of the City of Flint, a copy of the license.
(Ord. 3187, passed 11-11-1991)
Cross-reference:
   Peddlers, solicitors and transient merchants, see §§ 10-8; 12-46; and 12-17112-179
§ 12-47 WHEN PERSON DEEMED ENGAGED INITIALLY IN SALES.
   Any person, firm or corporation shall be considered as engaging initially in sale of goods, wares or merchandise until December 31 of the year in which the license is issued.
(Ord. 1876, passed 11-18-1965)
§ 12-48 LICENSE REQUIRED.
   Every merchant, before opening and/or operating a mercantile establishment in the City of Flint, or before advertising or exposing his goods, wares or merchandise for sale, shall procure from the City Clerk an Initial Merchants License.
(Ord. 1876, passed 11-18-1965)
§ 12-48.1 PENALTY — DESIGNATION AS MUNICIPAL CIVIL INFRACTION.
   Any person, association or corporation found in violation of § 12-48 shall be found responsible of a municipal civil infraction pursuant to §§ 1-10 through 1-21.
(Ord. 3549, passed 6-9-2004)
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