(a) Requirement of License. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in or prosecute within the City any business, trade, occupation, profession, calling, vocation or activity for which the payment of any City license tax or fee is required or for which a City license certificate is required without having paid to the City such license tax or fee or without holding an appropriate, currently valid City license certificate, as provided by this chapter; and the fulfillment of all terms and conditions of such license certificate and the provisions of this chapter relating thereto shall be conditions precedent to engaging in or prosecuting within the City and such business, trade, occupation, profession, calling, vocation or activity.
(b) License Fee. All businesses, trades, occupations, callings, vocations, or activities (except for alcohol licenses) which require a license according to subsection (a) hereof shall pay an annual fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) to be paid on or before July 1 of each year in order to conduct business within the City of Mannington.
(c) Severability. If any section, sentence, clause, phrase or work of this section shall be declared invalid for any reason whatsoever, such decision shall not affect the remaining portions of this article which shall continue in full force and effect, and to this end the provisions of this article are hereby declared to be severable.
(Ord. 479. Passed 6-19-23.)