(a) Before the Clerk shall issue any license to any person, firm or corporation proposing to engage in the business, occupation or profession of resident, transient or itinerant portrait or commercial photography, or in the enlarging, copying, coloring or portrait finishing of photographs, such applicant person, firm or corporation shall execute an indemnity bond in the amount of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) to the Village for the use and benefit of the patrons of such person, firm or corporation who are residents of the Village, and which bond shall be approved by the Mayor as to form and security. Such bond shall have as surety either a regularly licensed corporate surety company or a resident and real property owner of Monroe County, Ohio who shall be worth at least the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) above his debts and exemptions in property subject to execution and sale, and who shall make an affidavit to that effect before signing as surety.
(b) In lieu of surety, two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) in cash may be deposited with the Clerk to be returned without interest by the Clerk to the applicant within thirty days after the end of the license period or any renewal period thereof should such license be renewed. The applicant shall further appoint the Clerk as his process agent in all matters connected with or arising out of applicant's business, occupation or profession of portrait or commercial photography, or the enlarging, copying, coloring or portrait finishing of photographs, or the solicitation or offering for sale thereof, whether by the applicant or by his agents, subcontractors or employees in the Village before obtaining such license. It shall be the duty of the Clerk immediately to advise the applicant by registered mail, addressed to the applicant at his place of business at the address furnished in the indemnity bond, of the nature and pendency of any action brought against such applicant wherein process is served on the Clerk. (Ord. 018. Passed 2-17-51.)