A. For every person, firm or corporation conducting, managing or carrying on the business of a collection agency, the fee shall be established by resolution of the Mayor and Common Council.
B. As used in this section, the term "collection agency" means and includes all persons, firms, corporations and voluntary associations engaging, directly or indirectly, as a primary or secondary object, business or pursuit, in soliciting claims for collection, and in the collection of claims owing, or due, or asserted to be owing or due to another, and any person, firm or corporation or voluntary association engaged in collecting accounts for another, whether the employment is for one or more persons, firms, corporations or voluntary associations, or in the selling or furnishing of any collection system or collection letter forms or collection letters, or any house agency, firm, person, corporation or voluntary association using a fictitious name in collecting its own accounts receivable with the intention of conveying to the debtor that a third party has been employed to collect such accounts.
C. Attorney Conducting Collection Agency. Any attorney at law who directly or indirectly by the use of agents, representatives, fictitious names or otherwise, solicits claims or accounts for collection, or who solicits or demands payment of claims from debtors through or by the use of laymen, employees or agents, or the use of fictitious names; or any attorney at law who makes a practice of accepting assignments to himself or herself or to any agent, employee or fictitious name, of claims or accounts for collection, shall be deemed to be conducting a collection agency. "Collection agency" includes all attorneys at law who are in fact conducting collection agencies whether included in the foregoing definition or not.
(Ord. MC-817, 1-07-92; Ord. MC-744, 10-08-90)