(A) Before any license as herein provided shall be issued for engaging in business as an itinerant merchant, transient merchant, itinerant vendor, peddler, canvasser or solicitor as herein defined in the city, the applicant shall file with the City Clerk an instrument nominating and appointing the Clerk, or the person performing the duties of the position, his or her true and lawful agent with full power and authority to acknowledge service of notice or process for and on behalf of the applicant in respect to any matters connected with or arising out of the business transacted under the license and the bond given as required by this chapter, or for the performance of the conditions of the bond or for any breach thereof, which the instrument shall also contain recitals to the effect that the applicant for the license consents and agrees that service of any notice or process may be made upon the agent, and when so made shall be taken and held to be as valid as if personally served upon the person or persons applying for the license under this chapter, according to the law of this or any other state, and waiving all claim or right of error by reason of the acknowledgment of service or manner of service.
(B) Immediately upon service of process upon the Clerk as herein provided, the Clerk shall send to the licensee at his or her last known address, by certified mail, return receipt requested, a copy of the process.
(1992 Code, § 113.04) (Ord. 31477, passed 3-14-1977)