§ 4-2-5 ISSUANCE OF LICENSE.
   The Clerk shall issue the license applied for, upon forms furnished by the city, upon proper application being made therefor and compliance by applicant with the following terms and conditions:
   (A)   Payment of the fee provided for in § 4-2-3 of this chapter;
   (B)   Showing that the business or activity is not immoral, vulgar or illegal;
   (C)   In case of fortune tellers, palm reader, clairvoyants or related activities, the furnishing to the Clerk of a certificate of health from a duly licensed and practicing physician in the city;
   (D)   Execution and filing with the Clerk by any person, engaged in any business or activity referred to in this chapter and not a resident or having a permanent place of business or resident agent in Iowa of an instrument containing the following:
      (1)   An agreement that said person shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the District Court of the state in and for Lee County, at Fort Madison, over all civil actions or proceedings against such person, for damages to any person or property growing out of or in any way connected with the operation of such business, firm or corporation in the city or within the police jurisdiction thereof;
      (2)   An appointment irrevocable for six months after said person, leaves the city, the Clerk, as lawful attorney upon whom may be served all original notices of suit pertaining to such actions and proceedings;
      (3)   An agreement by said person, that any original notice so served shall be of the same legal force and validity as if personally served in the state; and
      (4)   An agreement by said person to assume full liability for any damage to person or property occasioned by the negligence of any person, animal, equipment or other thing employed or used by or in connection with the business or activity mentioned in this chapter whether the same be employed or used by such person, or by an independent contractor associated, with, performing with or in any way connected with said person.
   (E)   In the case of a circus, carnival, show, menagerie, shooting gallery or house moving, the execution and filing with the Clerk of a good and sufficient bond or liability insurance policy, in the respective amounts specified below, the bond to be with surety or sureties to be approved by the Clerk and conditioned that the principal and surety will pay all damages to person or property caused by the negligence of any person, animal, equipment, or other thing employed or used by or in connection with any of the businesses or activities mentioned in this division (E), whether the same be employed or used by the person conducting such activity or business or by an independent contractor associated with, performing with or in any way connected with said person, said bond to be in force six months after its execution and until any action, suit, or proceeding commenced within said six-month period is disposed of:
 
Circus
$25,000
Carnival
$25,000
Show
$10,000
Menagerie
$10,000
Shooting Gallery
$10,000
House Moving
$1,000
 
(Ord. A-48, passed 12-28-1953)