(a) The City Recorder shall transmit to the City Manager on or before the fifteenth day of each month a true and complete list of all persons to whom certificates of licenses have been issued in the City during the next preceding month together with all the fees collected therefor, specifying in such list the date of every certificate, the amount of the fee assessed therefor, the amount actually paid and such other particulars as may be required by the City Manager or other designated official. Such list shall be verified by the affidavit of the City Recorder. If no certificate of license was issued during any month, such fact shall be reported to the City Manager.
(b) In the event the City Manager shall discover any person transacting any business, activity, trade or employment for which a license is required by this article, without having obtained such license, he shall issue a certificate of license to such person and collect the amount of the fee due. He shall keep a full and accurate record of all the licenses issued and fees collected by him. He may require the services of any member of the Police Department in making collections. The City Manager, with the approval of Council, may appoint agents to collect fees required by, or to enforce in any other respect, the provisions of this article. The compensation of such agents shall be paid out of the taxes collected.
(1972 Code §11-1-14; 11-1-15)