No person shall, directly or indirectly, either in person or by his or her agent, employee or lessee, conduct the mining or removal of more than 500 tons of a mineral material or disturb more than one acre of land a year in the regular operation of a business by removing the over-burden lying above a natural deposit thereby exposed or by mining directly from the deposit lying exposed, without first obtaining a license therefor from the City Council of the City of Perry.
(Ord. 216. Passed 12-17-91.)