(A) Each applicant for a city license shall make application to the City Clerk, on a form to be provided by the city, and holders of business franchise registration certificates or other forms of state licenses authorizing them to do business within the city shall display such state certificates or licenses to the City Clerk at the time of making application for a city license. Upon payment to the City Clerk of such license tax or fee as may be imposed by this chapter or elsewhere in this code or other ordinance for the particular city license for which application is made, plus a license issuance fee of $0.50, or other amount deemed appropriate by the Municipal Court, as compensation to the City Clerk for his or her services, the City Clerk shall issue the license applied for; provided, that the application is in proper form and that all requirements of state law, this code, and other ordinances appear to the City Clerk 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 Clerk to the Common Council at its next meeting succeeding the date of filing thereof, and he or she 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.
(B) The City Clerk 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.
(Prior Code, § 14-3)
Statutory reference:
Required issuance of city license upon application therefor, see W. Va. Code 8-13-4