(a) No person shall commence, conduct or purport to commence or conduct, the following business activities within the boundaries of the city of La Puente without possessing a valid business permit issued pursuant to this chapter:
(1) Adult entertainment business.*
(2) Adult entertainer.*
(3) Amusement device or business or enterprise attractive to children.*
(4) Automobile or truck dismantling or disassembling, or selling of dismantled parts. *
(5) Automobile wrecking business.*
(6) Billiard club.*
(7) Bowling alley.*
(8) Carnival.*
(9) Dances — private dance, public dance, special dance or teenage dance.*
(10) Entertainment. *
(11) Escort bureaus.*
(12) Escorts.*
(13) Fortunetelling business.*
(14) Going-out-of-business sales and similar sales. *
(15) Gun dealer.*
(16) Junk dealer.*
(17) Junk yard.*
(18) Managers and Promoters.*
(19) Massage establishment.*
(20) Newsracks.
(21) Massage technician.*
(22) Modeling studios.*
(23) Motion picture and television filming.
(24) Pawnshop or broker.*
(25) Peddler.
(26) Private patrol cars.*
(27) Racing handicap service, including advertising horse race predictions.*
(28) Refuse disposal facility.
(29) Rest home.
(30) Secondhand store.*
(31) Sanitarium.
(32) Shooting gallery.*
(33) Shopping center carnivals, fairs or amusement rides.*
(34) Show.*
(35) Solicitation.
(36) Taxicab operator.*
(37) Taxicab driver.*
(38) Tattoo parlor or body piercing.*
(39) Temporary outdoor promotional sales when processed in the manner specified in Section 5.08.050.
(40) Yard sale.
Notes:
*Indicates the applicant is required to be fingerprinted by the Los Angeles County sheriff’s department.
(b) No person may advertise or announce a business activity located in the city of La Puente until he or she has obtained a business permit, where required. “Advertising” or “announcement” includes, but is not limited to, disseminating pamphlets or handbills, publishing newspaper announcements, and broadcasting advertisements on radio, television, the Internet, or by any other communication device.
(c) When any person is engaged in more than one business activity for which a business permit is required in a single location, that person shall be deemed to be conducting each business activity separate and apart from each other business activity even if the separate business activities constitute a single business.
(d) No business permit issued by the city pursuant to this chapter shall be construed as authorizing any business activity which is prohibited under the laws of the United States or the state of California. the federal and state constitutions, this code, or any other applicable law, ordinance, rule or regulation. Any such business permit shall be void.
(e) The director of community development, referred to herein as “director,” shall keep all applications and related records for business permits under this chapter.
(Ord. 789 § 6, 1999; Ord. 788 § 31, 1999; Ord. 786 § 2 (part), 1999)