(a) No person, firm partnership, association or corporation shall engage in the business of selling, maintaining, leasing, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving or installing an alarm system on or in any building, structure or facility in this City without first having obtained an alarm dealer's license as provided in subsection (b) hereof.
(b) Applicants for an alarm dealer's license under this chapter shall file with the Director of Finance a written application on forms provided for such purpose, which application shall be signed by the applicant if an individual, by all partners if a partnership and by the president if a corporation and set forth the following information: name, date of birth, social security number, nation of citizenship, location of place of business, past criminal record, and if previously engaged in business as an alarm dealer, the location, date and name of the prior alarm business.
(c) The Director of Finance shall issue an alarm dealer's license or deny the issuance of such a license within thirty days from the date of application.
(d) The Director of Finance may, and is hereby authorized to deny, suspend or revoke any alarm dealer's license applied for or issued hereunder for failure to comply with or to maintain compliance with any applicable provisions, standards or requirements of this chapter, or of regulations promulgated hereunder, or of any other applicable laws, ordinances or regulations of the City or State, or for any false statement or misrepresentation on the application, or for conviction of any felony or offense of moral turpitude within five years immediately preceeding the date of the filing of the application.
(e) The annual alarm dealer's license fee shall be as provided by ordinance of Council and shall not be prorated. The fee shall be used to help defray the cost incurred by the City in the administration, maintenance and supervision of the provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 167-1986. Passed 10-6-86.)