(A) Each application for a license shall be accompanied by a receipt from the city for payment in full of the required fee for the license. All fees shall be paid into the General Fund of the city. Upon rejection of any applications for license, the city may refund the license fee paid, minus the amount of costs necessary for application, investigation and review, including, but not limited to, costs relating to administration, planning, legal inspection and police investigation.
(B) All licenses shall expire on the last day of December in each year. Each license shall be issued for a period of one year, except that when the application is made, a license may be issued for the remainder of the year for a pro rata fee. In computing the fee, any unexpired fraction of a month shall be counted as one month. Application for renewal of licenses shall be required to be filed each year.
(C) The annual fee for an adult use-principal license shall be as set by resolution of the Council. The Council shall not set this fee arbitrarily but shall determine the amount in relation to its best estimate of actual costs of administration, planning, legal inspection and police investigations related to the application and ongoing operation of the business.
(D) No part of the fee paid by any licensee shall be refunded, except in the following instances upon application to the City Manager within 30 days for the happening of any of the following events. There shall be refunded a pro rata portion of the fee for the unexpired period of the license, computed on a monthly basis, when operation of the licensed business ceases not less than one month before expiration of the license because of:
(1) Destruction or damage of the licensed premises by fire or other catastrophe;
(2) The licensee’s disabling illness; and/or
(3) The licensee’s death.
(2003 Code, § 6.40-6) (Ord. 75, passed 12-12-1997)