(a) The fee which shall be charged by the Mayor for a canvasser's or solicitor's permit shall be five dollars ($5.00) per day, twelve dollars and fifty cents ($12.50) per week, twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per month or seventy-five dollars ($75.00) per year.
(Adopting Ordinance)
(b) None of the permit fees provided for by this chapter shall be so applied as to occasion an undue burden upon interstate commerce. In any case where a permit fee is believed by a permittee or an applicant for a permit to place an undue burden upon interstate commerce, he or she may apply to the Mayor for an adjustment of the fee so that it shall not be discriminatory, unreasonable or unfair as to interstate commerce. Such application may be made before, at or within six months after payment of the prescribed permit fee. The applicant shall, by affidavit and supporting testimony, show his or her method of business, the gross volume or estimated gross volume of business and such other information as the Mayor may believe necessary in order to determine the extent, if any, of such undue burden on the interstate commerce. The Mayor shall then conduct an investigation, comparing the applicant's business with other businesses of a similar nature and shall make findings of fact from which he or she shall determine whether the fee fixed by this chapter is unfair, unreasonable or discriminatory as to the applicant's business. The Mayor shall fix as the permit fee for the applicant an amount that is fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory or, if the fee has already been paid, shall order a refund of the amount above the fee so fixed. In fixing the fee to be charged, the Mayor shall have the power to base the fee upon a percentage of gross sales or any other method which will assure that the fee assessed shall be uniform with that assessed on businesses of a similar nature, so long as the amount assessed does not exceed the fees as prescribed by subsection (a) hereof. Should the Mayor determine the gross sales measure of the fee to be the fair basis, he or she may require the applicant to submit, either at the time of termination of the applicant's business in the City or at the end of each three-month period, a sworn statement of the gross sales and to pay the amount of fee therefor, provided that no additional fee during any one calendar year shall be required after the permittee has paid an amount equal to the annual permit fee as prescribed in subsection (a) hereof.
(Ord. 1955-50. Passed 9-6-55.)