(A) Each application for a license must be submitted to the City Administrator and accompanied by payment in full of the required fee for the license. Upon rejection of any application for a license, the city will refund the license fee.
(B) All licenses expire on December 31 in each year. Each license will be issued for a period of one year; except that, if a portion of the license year has elapsed when the application is made, a license may be issued for the remainder of the year for a prorated fee. In computing such fee, any unexpired fraction of a month will be counted as one month.
(C) The annual fee for an adult establishment license is $1,000.
(D) No part of the fee paid for any license issued under this section will be refunded, except in the following instances upon application to the City Administrator within 30 days from the happening of the event. The city will refund a pro rata portion of the fee for the unexpired period of the license, computed on a monthly basis, when operation of the licensed business ceases no less than one month before expiration of the license because of:
(1) Destruction or damage of the licensed premises by fire or other catastrophe;
(2) The licensee’s disabling illness;
(3) The licensee’s death; and
(4) A change in the legal status making it unlawful for the licensed business to continue.
(1992 Code, § 1095:30) (Ord. 1173, passed 11-3-1997; Ord. 1476, passed 8-1-2011)