(A) Any person proposing to engage in any of the following businesses or activities in the city shall apply in writing to the City Council for a license:
(1) Bowling alley operator;
(2) Billiard or pool room operator;
(3) Companies of gypsies and fortune tellers;
(4) Junk dealer;
(5) Taxicab business;
(6) Dine and dance hall operator;
(7) To conduct a subscription dance or other public or warehouse dance;
(8) Pawnbroker ($5,000 bond required by state law); and
(9) Limousine service.
(B) Each applicant for any license in addition to any requirements provided elsewhere in this Code shall state in his or her application the name and address of the owner of the business for which the license is sought, and, if the owner is a corporation or association, the name and address of the person who will manage and be responsible for the conduct of the business; the character of the business, and the location thereof; and any other information as may be required by the City Council.
(C) No license shall be granted for any business enumerated in this section unless the City Council shall be satisfied that the applicant therefor is of good moral character, or if the applicant be a corporation or association, that the proposed manager is of good moral character; that the place proposed for the business is a suitable place; and that all applicable provisions of law, this Code and other ordinances are complied with.
(D) The City Council, in its discretion, may refuse to grant a license for any such business enumerated in this section upon a finding that:
(1) The applicant, or manager, is not a person of good moral character;
(2) The place proposed for the business is not suitable; or
(3) Some provision of law, this Code or other ordinance would not be complied with.
(E) After having granted the license the City Council may, upon notice, revoke the license in the manner then or thereafter provided for the revocation of licenses; provided, that whenever any such license is revoked, the ratable part of the license tax shall be returned to the party who paid the license tax; provided further, that any license granted for any business enumerated in this section shall not be valid at any place other than the place designated in the license; provided further, that whenever a license for any business specified in this section is once granted, it may be renewed from year to year thereafter at the same location and under the same ownership and management upon application to the license officer if there has been no revocation of any license prior to any application for a renewal thereof.
(F) There shall be no more than six licenses issued inside the city for the operation of pawnshops. An applicant desiring a pawnbroker’s license when the maximum number of licenses under this subsection has been issued shall file with the City Council a written request to be considered for a pawnbroker license if any existing pawnbroker license shall be revoked, not renewed, or for any other reason lapse or become invalid. If at the time any license lapses or becomes invalid and there are two or more requests for consideration for a license, the City Council shall consider the requests in the order in which they were filed, with the first request in time receiving first consideration.
(Ord. No. 963, passed 5-8-1980; Ord. No. 1191, § 1, passed 5-13-1982; Ord. No. 1430, § 2, passed 8-9-1984; Ord. No. 1956, § 1, passed 2-20-1989; Ord. No. 2344, § 1, passed 6-24-1991)