(a) Each applicant for a City license shall make application to the City Recorder on a form to be provided by the City, and holders of business franchise certificates or other forms of state licenses authorizing them to do business within the City shall display such state certificates or licenses to the City Recorder at the time of making application for a City license.
(b) Upon the payment of such license tax or fee as may be imposed by this chapter or elsewhere in this Code or other ordinance, upon the City license for which application is made, the City Recorder shall issue the license applied for; provided, that the application is in proper form, and that all requirements of state law, this Code and other ordinances and all conditions precedent to the issuance of such license appear to the City Recorder to have been complied with.
(c) The City Recorder shall maintain on file all applications for City license and a record of each license issued, which shall set forth 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.