(A) Compliance required. It shall be unlawful for any person, either directly or indirectly, to engage in any business, or to use in connection therewith any vehicle, premises, machine or device, in whole or in part, for which a license or permit is required by any provision of this title or any other law or ordinance of the city, without a license or permit therefor being first procured and kept in effect at all times as required by any such provision of this title or any other law or ordinance of the city.
(B) One act constitutes doing business. For the purpose of this title, any person shall be deemed to be engaged in any business for which a license or permit is required, and thus subject to the requirements of this title when he or she does one act of:
(1) Selling any goods or service for which a license is required;
(2) Soliciting such business or offering such goods or services for sale or hire; and/or
(3) Acquiring or using any vehicle or any premises in the city for such business purposes.
(C) Agents responsible for obtaining license. The agents or other representatives of non-residents who are doing business in the city shall be personally responsible for the compliance with the provisions of this title by their principals and of the businesses they represent.
(D) Separate license for branch establishments. A license shall be obtained in the manner prescribed herein for each branch establishment or location of the business engaged in, as if each such branch establishment or location were a separate business; provided that, warehouses and distributing plants used in connection with and incidental to a business licensed under any provision of this title shall not be deemed to be a separate place of business or branch establishment.
(E) No license required for mere delivery. No license shall be required of any person for any mere delivery in the city of any property purchased or acquired in good faith from such person at his or her regular place of business outside the corporate limits where no intent by such person is shown to exist to evade the provisions of this title.
(1992 Code, § 400:00) Penalty, see § 10.99