Before said Clerk shall issue any license to any person proposing to engage in the business, occupation or profession of resident, transient or itinerant portrait or commercial photography, or in the enlarging, copying, coloring or portrait finishing of photographs, such applicant person shall execute an indemnity bond in the amount of $200 to the city for the use and benefit of the patrons of said person who are residents of the city, and which bond shall be approved by the Mayor of the city as to form and security. In lieu of surety, $200 in cash may be deposited with the City Clerk to be returned without interest by the Clerk to the applicant within 30 days after the end of the license period or any renewal period thereof should such license be renewed. The applicant shall further appoint the City Clerk as his or her process agent in all matters connected with or arising out of said applicant’s business, occupation or profession of portrait or commercial photography, or the enlarging, copying, coloring or portrait finishing of photographs, or the solicitation or offering for sale thereof, whether by the applicant or by his or her agents, subcontractors or employees in the city, before obtaining such license. It shall be the duty of the Clerk immediately to advise the applicant by registered mail, addressed to said applicant at his or her place of business at the address furnished in the indemnity bond, of the nature and pendency of any action brought against said applicant wherein process is served on the said Clerk.
(1974 Code, § 3-7-3) (Ord. 382, passed 8-12-1949)