All persons engaged in trades, businesses, professions, or occupations in the City of Moundsville, or the activities and privileges otherwise listed in this article shall be licensed in accord with the provisions of this article. No person shall carry on any activity hereinafter mentioned, upon which a fee is imposed, without payment of such license fee. The payment in full of the proper fee, the issuance of a license certificate under the provisions of this article and the fulfillment of all terms and conditions of such grant shall be conditions precedent to the carrying on of any activity for which a license is required by this article; provided, however, that no such license certificate shall be issued to any applicant who owes a prior, delinquent financial debt to the City resulting from the nonpayment of any tax, fee, lien, service charge or other assessment. In the event such an applicant has entered into payment arrangements acceptable to the City to pay such prior, delinquent, financial debt, a license shall be issued contingent upon compliance with such payment arrangements. (Passed 10-18-16.)