A. License Required: Every person who shall engage in the business of moving buildings and structures within the Town shall obtain a license therefor from the Town Clerk-Treasurer, and no such license shall be granted until the party applying therefor shall have given the bond required by subsection C of this section.
B. License Fee; Term: Any person engaging in the occupation of house moving shall pay a license fee as established by resolution of the Town Board of Trustees, which license shall expire on July 1 of each year.
C. Bond Requirements: The bond to be given by a licensed house mover shall be executed to the Town in the penal sum of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) with a surety company authorized to do business in the State of Oklahoma as surety thereon, which bond shall be for the benefit of the Town and any private person or corporation sustaining damages under the conditions thereof. Any such private person or corporation shall be entitled to sue thereon, in his or her or its own name. The bond shall be conditioned, among other things, that if the license shall be granted, the licensee will in all respects comply with this chapter and with the ordinances of the Town relating to the use or obstruction of the streets, highways, and other public ways and shall protect the Town from all liability which may arise or be occasioned, either directly or indirectly, from the moving of any building or structure of the licensee, his or her agents, servants, employees, workers, contractors, or subcontractors, while engaged in any work in connection with the moving of any building or structure, including any loss or damages which may be sustained because of the stoppage of any business or industry located along the route over which the building or structure shall be moved, caused or occasioned by the operation of moving such building or structure. (2018 Code)