(A) Compliance required. No person, either directly or indirectly, shall conduct any business or nonprofit enterprise, or use in connection therewith any vehicle, premises, machine, or device, in whole or in part, for which a license or permit is required by any law or ordinance of this city, without a license or permit therefor being procured and kept in effect at all times as required by this chapter or other law or ordinance of this city.
(B) Special sales. This chapter shall apply to all business in the nature of special sales for which a license is required by any law or ordinance of this city, and it shall be unlawful for any person, either directly or indirectly, to conduct any sale except in conformity with the provisions of this chapter.
(C) One act constitutes doing business. For the purpose of this chapter, any person shall be deemed to be in business or engaging in nonprofit enterprise, and thus subject to the requirements of divisions (A) and (B) of this section, when he does one of the following acts.
(1) Selling any goods or service.
(2) Soliciting business or offering goods or services for sale or hire.
(3) Acquiring or using any vehicle or any premises in the city for business purposes.
(D) Agents responsible for obtaining license. The agents or other representatives of nonresidents who are doing business in this city shall be personally responsible for the compliance of their principals and of the businesses they represent with this chapter.
(E) Separate license for branch establishments.
(1) A license shall be obtained in the manner prescribed herein for each branch establishment or location of the business engaged in, as if each branch establishment or location were a separate business; however, warehouses and distributing plants used in connection with and incidental to a business licensed under the provisions of this chapter shall not be deemed to be separate places of business or branch establishments.
(2) Each rental real property shall be deemed a branch establishment or separate place of business for the purposes of this chapter when there is a representative of the owner or the owner's agent on the premises who is authorized to transact business for the owner or owner's agent, or there is a regular employee of the owner or of the owner's agent working on the premises.
(F) Joint license. A person engaged in two or more businesses at the same location shall not be required to obtain separate licenses for conducting each business; but, when he is eligible, he shall be issued one license, which shall specify on its face all such businesses.
(G) No license required for mere delivery. No license shall be required of any person for any mere delivery in the city of any property purchased or acquired in good faith from the person at his regular place of business outside the city where no intent by the person is shown to exist to evade the provisions of this chapter.
(H) Special permits to nonprofit enterprise. The City License Officer, upon approval of the City Council, shall issue special permits, without the payment of any license fees or other charges therefor, to any person or organization for the conduct or operation of a nonprofit enterprise, whether regularly or temporarily, when he finds that the applicant operates without private profit, for a public, charitable, educational, literary, fraternal, or religious purpose.
(1) Application for special permit. An applicant for a special permit shall submit an application therefore to the City License Officer, upon forms prescribed by the City License Officer, and the applicant shall furnish additional information and make any affidavits as the License Officer shall require.
(2) Special permittees must conform. A person or organization operating under a special permit shall operate the nonprofit enterprise in compliance with this chapter and all other applicable rules and regulations, except as provided herein.
(‘83 Code, § 110.03) Penalty, see § 10.99