Every license which is not paid within a period of 30 days from the time the same becomes due and payable is declared to be delinquent and, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the City Clerk shall thereupon add to the license a penalty of 10% of the license so delinquent; if the license is not paid within 45 days from the time the license becomes due and payable, an additional sum of 15% of the license, making a total of 25% shall be added to the license and collected as a penalty.
(1994 Code, § 5.04.160)