(A) Each applicant for a town license shall make application to the Recorder on a form to be provided by the town, and holders of business franchise certificates or other forms of state licenses authorizing them to do business within the town shall display such state certificates or licenses to the Recorder at the time of making application to the town license.
(B) Upon payment of such license tax or fee as may be imposed by this chapter or elsewhere in the code or other ordinance, upon the town license for which application is made, the Recorder shall issue the license applied for, provided, that the application is in proper form, and that all conditions precedent to the issuance of such license appear to the date of filing thereof, and he or she shall not issue any such license until authorized so to do by the Town Council, and in any case the payment of any license tax or fee shall be deferred until such application has been approved by the Town Council.
(C) The Recorder shall maintain on file all applications for town licenses and a record of each license issued, which shall set forth the name and business address of the licensee, the date of issuance and the term for which issued, the type of license, the amount of license tax to be paid, the number of the license, and such additional information as may be pertinent to establish that all requirements of law and ordinances have been complied with.
(Prior Code, § 5-105)
Statutory reference:
Required issuance of town license upon application therefor and payment of town license tax by holder of corresponding state license, see W. Va. Code § 8-13-4