(A) No person shall within the city engage in, transact, carry on or do or cause to be done in public with a profit motivation, any vocation, trade, business, profession, exhibition, entertainment, game or act described in this chapter within the city without having paid the required license fee and without having first obtained a license.
(B) This chapter shall not apply to local service clubs or persons selling by wholesale or by the distribution of samples, or by pre-appointment, or to lecturers on scientific, historical or literary subjects, or to sales made by any person authorized by law to sell real or personal property, such as realtors and auctioneers.
(C) The City Council, taking into consideration the nature of the business or licensed activity and all other circumstances bearing on the business activity, shall fix the license fee by resolution so that all license fees shall be reasonable and uniform under like conditions.
(2013 Code, § 17-1.1) (Ord. 14733, passed 1-12-2004; Ord. 14884, passed 3-14-2011; Ord. 14886, passed 6-27-2011)