For the license year, every person desiring to continue to engage in, or hereafter to begin to engage in, the business of wholesale or retail vendor or dealer in goods, wares and merchandise, and any person conducting a restaurant or other place where food, drink or refreshments are sold, or a place of amusement, in the City, and every broker, shall, on or before March 31 of the license year, prior to commencing business in such license year, procure a mercantile license for his or her place of business, or if there is more than one, for each of his or her places of business in the City, from the Finance Director, who shall issue the same upon payment of a fee for a wholesale or retail license, broker's license, or a combined wholesale and retail license. Such license shall be conspicuously posted at the place of business, or at each of the places of business, of every such person at all times. The fees for the aforementioned licenses shall be established by ordinance of City Council and amended from time to time.
(Ord. 4698. Passed 12-21-94; Ord. 5353. Passed 5-31-23.)