(A) Compliance required. It shall be unlawful for any person, either directly or indirectly, to conduct any business or non-profit enterprise, 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 law or ordinance of this city, without a license or permit therefor being first procured and kept in effect at all such times as required by this chapter or other law or ordinance of the city.
(B) Special sales. This chapter shall apply to all business in the nature of special sales for which a license is required by any law or ordinance of the city and it shall be unlawful for any person, either directly or indirectly, to conduct any such sale except in conformity with the provisions of this chapter.
(C) One act constitutes doing business. For the purpose of this chapter, any person shall be deemed to be in business or engaging in non-profit enterprise, and thus subject to the requirements of divisions (A) and (B) of this section, when he does one act of:
(1) Selling any goods or service,
(2) Soliciting business or offering goods or services for sale or hire,
(3) Acquiring or using any vehicle or any premises in the city for business purposes.
(D) Agents responsible for obtaining license. The agents or other representatives of non-residents who are doing business in this city shall be personally responsible for the compliance with this chapter of their principals and of the businesses they represent.
(E) Separate license for branch establishments.
(1) 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 the provisions of this chapter shall not be deemed to be separate places of business or branch establishments.
(2) Each rental real property shall be deemed a branch establishment or separate place of
business for the purpose of this chapter when there is a representative of the owner or the owner's agent on the premises who is authorized to transact business for such owner or owner's agent, or there is a regular employee of the owner or of the owner's agent working on the premises.
(F) Joint license. A person engaged in two or more businesses at the same location shall not be required to obtain separate licenses for conducting of each such business, but when eligible, shall be issued one license which shall specify on its face all such businesses.
(G) 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 regular place of business outside the city where no intent by such person is shown to exist to evade the provisions of this chapter.
(H) Special permits to non-profit enterprise.
(1) The City Administrative Officer shall issue special permits, without the payment of any license fees or other charges therefor, to any person or organization for the operation of a non-profit enterprise, either regularly or temporarily, when he finds that the applicant operates without private profit and for a public, charitable, educational, literary, fraternal, or religious purpose.
(2) Application for special permit. An applicant for a special permit shall submit an application therefor to the City Administrative Officer, upon forms prescribed by the City Administrative Officer, and shall furnish such additional information and make such affidavits as the City Administrative Officer shall require.
(Ord. 1995-4, passed 6-1-95)