(A) Compliance required. It shall be unlawful for any person, either directly or indirectly, to conduct any business or non-profit enterprise, or to use in connection therewith any vehicle, premises, machine or device, in whole or in part, for which a license or permit is required by any law or ordinance of this city, without a license or permit therefor being first procured and kept in effect at all times as required by this chapter or other law or ordinance of this city.
(B) Special sales. This chapter shall apply to all business in the nature of special sales for which a license is required by any law or ordinance of this city and it shall be unlawful for any person, either directly or indirectly, to conduct any like sale except in conformity with the provisions of this chapter.
(C) Agents responsible for obtaining license. The agents or other representatives of non-residents who are doing business in this city shall be personally responsible for the compliance of their principals and of the businesses they represent with this chapter.
(D) Separate license for branch establishments. A license shall be obtained in the manner prescribed herein for each branch establishment or location of the business engaged in, as if each branch establishment or location were a separate business; provided that warehouses and distributing plants used in connection with and incidental or a business licensed under the provisions of this chapter shall not be deemed to be separate places of business or branch establishments. Each rental real property shall be deemed a branch establishment or separate place of business for the purposes of this chapter when there is a representative who is authorized to transact business for the owner or owner's agent or there is a regular employee of the owner or of the owner's agent working on the premises.
(E) Joint license. A person engaged in two or more businesses at the same location shall not be required to obtain separate licenses for conducting each of the businesses but, when eligible, shall be issued one license which shall specify on its face all the businesses.
(F) No license required for mere delivery. No license shall be required of any person for any mere delivery in the city of any property purchased or acquired in good faith from the person at his or her regular place of business outside the city where no intent by the person is shown to exist to evade the provisions of this chapter.
(G) Special permits to non-profit enterprise. The City License Officer shall issue special permits, without the payment of any license fees or other charges therefor, to any person or organization for the conduct or operation of a non-profit enterprise, either regularly or temporarily, when he or she finds that the applicant operates without private profit, for a public, charitable, educational, literary, fraternal or religious purpose. An applicant for a special permit shall submit an application therefor to the City License Officer, upon forms prescribed by the License Officer, and shall furnish additional information and all other applicable rules and regulations except as provided herein.
(H) Exclusions from chapter provisions. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any public officer who may in pursuance of legal process sell at public auction any property of any kind whatsoever, nor shall the provisions of this chapter include or apply to persons engaged in the sale of farm products only.
(Prior Code, § 11-102) Penalty, see § 10.99