(a) License fee. No person without a city license shall engage in or prosecute within the city any business, activity, trade, or employment without a city license. The license fees hereinafter specified are hereby levied on every person or entity engaging in or prosecuting within the city any such business, activity, trade, or employment.
(b) Annual fee. The annual general license fee for all business, activity, trade, or employment within the city shall be $25, unless hereinafter specifically stated otherwise.
(c) Pawnbrokers.
(1) The annual license fee to engage in the business of pawnbroker shall be $100.
(2) The term
PAWNBROKER as used in division (c)(1) hereof shall include any person engaged in the business of lending money on deposit or pledge of personal property or other valuable thing, other than securities or printed evidence of indebtedness, or in the business of purchasing personal property, such as articles made of or containing gold, silver, platinum, or other precious metals or jewels of any description for the purpose of reducing or smelting them into any form different from their condition or construction when purchased, or reselling or marketing of the product.
(3) Such business is hereby prohibited from purchasing items from juveniles under the age of 18 years.
(4) All pawnbrokers licensed pursuant to division (c) hereof shall keep a separate book open to inspection by a member of the Police Department or other city officer in which shall be written in the English language at the time of the pledge, purchase, or exchange of any article, a description thereof, including any model number, serial number and other identification numbers, if applicable, and the name, description, and residence of the pledge or person from whom purchased and received which shall be ascertained by requiring an identifier issued by a government agency with a picture of the subject and one other corroborating means of identification and the day and hour such transaction was made. Each entry shall be numbered consecutively commencing with number one.
(5) When a permit holder (pawnbroker) purchases personal property, such as articles made of or containing gold, silver, platinum, or other precious metals or jewels of any description for the purpose of reducing or smelting them into any form different from their condition or construction when purchased or for the reselling or marketing of the product shall keep the personal property in its original form for a period of 12 days before it may be altered in any way.
(6) A tag shall be attached to such article in some visible and convenient place with the number thereupon corresponding to the entry number of such book.
(7) All pawnbrokers shall provide the Chief of Police with a copy or summary of the records required to be kept as hereinabove described at such times and in such form as shall be designated by the Chief of Police.
(8) Every person convicted of a violation of the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than $200 or more than $500 and such fine shall not be suspended.
(d) Hawkers and peddlers.
(1) The annual license fee to act as hawker or peddler as those terms are defined in this section shall be $10 if the person licensed travels without a motor vehicle; $15 if he or she travels with a motor vehicle of not more than one-half ton capacity; $50 if he or she travels with a motor vehicle of more than one-half ton capacity, but not exceeding one ton capacity; $100 if he or she travels with a motor vehicle of more than one ton capacity, but not exceeding two ton capacity; and $150 if he or she travels with a motor vehicle of more than two ton capacity, plus $100 for each additional ton or fraction thereof over two-ton capacity. The person licensed shall pay at the same rate for each and every motor vehicle so used.
(2) Any person exempt from the payment of a license fee under the laws of the state shall likewise be exempt from the payment of a license to the city hereunder, provided that any such person claiming to be exempt shall furnish the City Treasurer a license receipt from the clerk of the county court of the county of his or her residence showing that he or she is so exempt under the laws of the state.
(3) Any person who shall carry goods, wares, or merchandise from place to place, either in person or by agent or employee, and sell, for delivery at the same time, any such goods, wares, or merchandise to any purchaser, at wholesale or retail, and any person who shall solicit for the purpose of rendering any service, shall be deemed a hawker or peddler under this section.
(e) Itinerant vendors.
(1) The annual license fee to carry on the business of itinerant vendor of goods, wares, and merchandise, whether acting as principal or agent, shall be $500.
(2) When used in this section, the term
ITINERANT VENDOR shall mean and include all persons who engage or conduct within this city, either in one locality or in traveling from place to place, a temporary or transient business of selling goods, wares, and merchandise; and who, for the purpose of carrying on such business, use, lease, or occupy either in whole or in part, a room, building, or other structure, or who use, lease, or occupy for such purposes a room or rooms in any hotel or lodging house, for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares, and merchandise; and the person so engaged shall not be relieved from the provisions of this section by reason of association temporarily with any city or neighboring dealer, trader, merchant, or auctioneer, or by conducting such temporary or transient business in connection with or as part of the business of, or in the name of, any city or neighboring dealer, trader, merchant, or auctioneer. The provisions of this section shall not apply to sale made to persons by commercial travelers, or selling agents in the ususal course of business, nor to bona fide sales of goods, wares, or merchandise by sample for future delivery; nor to hawkers or peddlers in the streets, roads, or highways, from packs or vehicles, nor to persons selling meat or the products of the farm, garden, or diary, nor to any sales of goods, wares, or merchandise on the grounds of any agricultural association during the continuance of any annual fair held by such association; nor to any sales by societies acting for charitable, religious, or benevolent purposes; nor to judicial sales directed by law, or under the orders of any court; nor to the sales of the common necessities of life in any public market place.