(A) Definition. The term RETAIL HARDWARE STORE, as used in this section, means any building, room, enclosure, premises, place, establishment or part of an establishment in the Village operated, maintained or conducted for the sale or offering for
sale at retail of any of the following articles: hardware; tinware; aluminumware; enamelware; cutlery; tools; implements; apparatus; machinery; plumbing; engineers’, janitors’, blacksmiths’, contractors’ or electrical supplies; gas, plumbing or electrical fixtures; other articles or wares made largely of metals; kerosene; rifles, shotguns and loaded shot shells or cartridges; provided, however, that dealers or establishments or parts of establishments of a similar nature specifically defined and licensed elsewhere in this Code shall be exempt from the provisions licensing retail hardware stores.
(B) License. No person shall engage in the business of a retail hardware store without a license therefor. The fee shall be as set forth in § 110.13 (retail store).
(C) Application; investigation.
(1) The applicant for a retail hardware store license shall describe the premises to be licensed and state the location of the same.
(2) The Building Director shall cause an investigation to be made of the premises named and described in the application for a license to conduct a retail hardware store, for the purpose of determining the fitness and suitability of such premises for such business from a sanitary standpoint, and determining whether or not the premises comply with all the provisions of this Code and the laws of the state regulating health, safety and sanitation so as to safeguard properly the lives and health of the employees engaged therein. The Chief of the Fire Department shall investigate such premises to determine whether the fire regulations of this Code applicable thereto have been complied with.
(D) Additional privileges. Every licensed retail hardware store shall have the privilege of engaging in the business of a retail paint store within the same building, room, enclosure, premises, place, establishment or part of an establishment without the necessity of obtaining an additional license.
(1997 Code, § 32.26) (Am. Ord. CO-09-27, passed 10-6-2009; Am. Ord. CO-2021-21, passed 8-17-2021)