(A) Each applicant for a city license shall make application to the City Recorder on a form to be provided by the city, and holders of business franchise certificates or other forms of state licenses authorizing them to do business within the city shall display such state certificates or licenses to the City Recorder at the time of making application for a city license.
(B) Upon the payment of such license tax or fee as may be imposed by this subchapter or elsewhere in these codified ordinances or other ordinance, upon the city license for which application is made, the City Recorder shall issue the license applied for; provided, that the application is in proper form and that all requirements of state law, these codified ordinances and other ordinances and all conditions precedent to the issuance of such license appear to the City Recorder to have been complied with; and provided further, that applications for licenses which are required to be issued by Council shall be referred by the City Recorder to Council at its next meeting succeeding the date of filing thereof, and he or she shall not issue any such license until authorized to do so by Council, and in any such case the payment of any license tax or fee shall be deferred until such application has been approved by Council.
(C) The City Recorder shall maintain on file all applications for city licenses and a record of each license issued, which shall set forth the name and business address of the licensee, the date of issuance and the term for which issued, the type of license, the amount of license tax to be paid, the number of the license and such additional information as may be pertinent to establish that all requirements of law and ordinances have been complied with.
(Prior Code, § 733.02)