(a) Every applicant for a City license shall make application to the City Recorder on a form to be provided by the City and applicants shall display any state certificates or licenses to the City Recorder upon request of said City Recorder at the time of making applications for a City license.
(b) Upon payment to the City Recorder of such license tax or fee as may be imposed by this article or elsewhere in this Code or other Ordinance for the particular City license for which application is made, plus a license issuance fee of fifty cents (50¢) as compensation to the City Recorder for his services, the City Recorder shall issue the license applied for; provided, that the application is in proper form and that all requirements of State law, this article and other ordinances appear to the City Recorder to have been complied with, and provided further, that applications for licenses which are required to be issued by the Common Council shall be referred by the City Recorder to the Common Council at its next meeting succeeding the date of filing thereof, and he shall not issue any such license until authorized so to do by the Common Council, and in any such case the payment of any license tax or fee shall be deferred until such application has been approved by the Common Council.
(c) The City Recorder shall maintain on file all applications for City licenses and a record of each license issued which shall set forth the name and business address of the licensee, the date of issuance and the term for which issued, the type of license, the amount of license tax or fee paid, the number of the license, and such additional information as may be pertinent to establish that all requirements of law and ordinances have been complied with.
(Ord. 2-24-86.)