(A) The license fee which shall be charged by the City Clerk for such license shall be:
(1) $35 per week;
(2) $75 per month; and
(3) $150 per year.
(B) The annual fees herein provided shall be assessed on a calendar year basis and on or after July 1, the amount of such fee for annual license shall be half the amount stipulated above for the remainder of the year.
(C) No fee shall be required of any person who is a war veteran and who has first obtained a peddler's license pursuant to the terms and provisions of Act No. 359 of the Public Acts of 1921, as amended, being M.C.L.A. §§ 35.441 through 35.443 provided that the goods, wares, and merchandise proposed to be sold by said person are his own.
(D) None of the license fees provided for by this chapter shall be so applied as to occasion an undue burden upon interstate commerce. In any case where a license fee is believed by a licensee or applicant for a license to place an undue burden upon such commerce, he may apply to the Manager for an adjustment of the fee so that it shall not be discriminatory, unreasonable, or unfair as to such commerce. The application may be made before, at, or within six months after payment of the prescribed license fee. The applicant shall, by affidavit, and supporting testimony show his method of business and the gross volume of business and such other information as the Manager may deem necessary in order to determine the extent, if any, of such undue burden on such commerce. The Manager shall then conduct an investigation, comparing the applicant's business with other business of like nature and shall make findings of fact from which he shall determine whether the fee fixed by this chapter is unfair, unreasonable, or discriminatory as to the applicant's business and fix as the license fee for the applicant, an amount that is fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory, or if the fee has already been paid, shall order a refund of the amount over and above the fee so fixed. In fixing the fee to be charged, the Manager shall have the power to base the fee upon a percentage of gross sales or any other method which will assure that the fee assessed shall be uniform with that assessed on businesses of like nature, so long as the amount assessed does not exceed the fees as prescribed by division (A) above. Should the Manager determine the gross sales measure of the fee to be the fair basis, he may require the applicant to submit either at the time of termination of the applicant's business in the city or at the end of each three month period, a sworn statement of the gross sales and payment of the amount of fee therefore, provided that no additional fee during any one calendar year shall be required after the licensee shall have paid an amount equal to the annual license as prescribed in division (A) above.
(Ord. 8.4a, passed 10-5-82; Am. Ord. passed 7-3-90)