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Every applicant for a license required by this chapter shall file with the city manager a written application containing the name of the person making such application, and if such business is to be conducted under a fictitious name, the name of each and all persons interested in such business. Such application shall specify the location by street and number of the premises in or upon which such place of business is to be conducted or the location by street and number of the establishment to which the clothes, textiles, apparel or other fabrics are to be taken. Such application shall be made on forms furnished by the city, shall be verified and shall be accompanied by the license fee as required by this chapter. (Prior code § 15-1-3)
A. The license fee for a transient cleaner, dyer or presser, as defined in this chapter, shall be five dollars per day or fraction thereof for each person engaging in such business.
B. The annual license fee for permanent cleaners, dyers or pressers shall be twenty-five dollars.
C. Any person maintaining an establishment for the purpose of cleaning, dyeing or pressing outside of the city but soliciting such articles for such purpose within the city and taking the article outside of the city and returning the same, shall pay a license fee of one hundred dollars per annum for each solicitor.
D. Any person operating or conducting a school for the teaching of cleaning, dyeing or pressing, as defined in this chapter, within the city, shall pay a license fee of two hundred fifty dollars per annum.
E. A separate license is required for each branch establishment or separate place of business. Where there is no fixed place of business, a permit is required for each vehicle or means of transportation used. (Prior code § 15-1-6)
Every person, before being granted any of the licenses provided for in this chapter, shall deposit with the city clerk a standard form of bailees' customers' insurance policy, to be approved by the city commission, insuring all kinds of lawful goods and articles to be dry cleaned, dyed or pressed by the insured, which are the property of its customers, while in the custody of the insured, its agents or stores and while being transported in due course of transit from its establishments, agents, or stores or while in the custody of such person, against direct loss or damage. Any license issued under this chapter shall immediately be revoked and canceled in the event the holder of such license permits his policy of insurance to lapse. (Prior code § 15-1-9)
The licenses provided for in this chapter shall not be issued unless and until the building inspector of the city shall first have certified to the city manager that the provisions of the building code of the city pertaining to dry cleaning, dyeing and pressing establishments have been fully complied with. (Prior code § 15-1-10)
Any transient cleaner, dyer, or presser, as defined by this chapter, or any person who may desire to qualify as a permanent cleaner, dyer or presser shall, upon making application for such permanent cleaner's, dyer's or presser's license, deposit with the city clerk a corporate surety or cash bond in the sum of five hundred dollars, to be approved by the city commission, to guarantee full and complete compliance with the provisions of this chapter. After being fully qualified as such permanent cleaner, dyer or presser, such bond shall be returned to such applicant, less the license fee of twenty-five dollars for one annual license for a permanent cleaner, dyer or presser. Such license shall be dated from the date of the original application therefor. If such applicant shall fail to qualify and be classified as a permanent cleaner, dyer or presser as defined in this chapter, the total amount of such bond shall thereupon be forfeited. (Prior code § 15-1-7)
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