No license, permit or fee shall be required from any person exempted from Municipal license by Federal or State law. The City Manager, the City Licensing Officer and the City Treasurer are hereby created as a License Exempt Board, and shall have the power to grant an exemption from, or reduction in any license or permit fee to any blind or crippled person, or to any veteran of an American war, or to any charitable, religious, civic, political, benevolent or patriotic organization deemed by such Board to merit exemption or reduction; provided, that such exemption or reduction shall not be granted for a period longer than the current license year; and provided further, that the licensee or permittee shall be given a certificate with the exemption or reduction clearly marked thereon, and the reason therefor. Each exemption or reduction granted under the provisions of this section shall be reported to the Council at its next meeting, and the Council may affirm, qualify or reject any such exemption or reduction. The action of the Council shall be final.
(1977 Code Sec. 31.21.)