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HomeMy WebLinkAbout744 General License Ordinance51 ORDINANCE NO. 744 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN REPEALING SECTION 3-101, OF THE REVISED AND COMPILED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN AND RE- ENACTING SAID SECTION 3-101 M IF THE REVISED AND COMPILED ORDINANCES OFTHE CITY OF MERIDIAN; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.. WHEREAS, the Mayor and the City Council of the City of Meridian, State of Idaho, have concluded that it is in the best interest of the City to repeal and readopt Ordinance 3-101, GENERAL LICENSE CONDITIONS contained in Title 3, Chapter 1 of the Revised an Compiled Ordinances of the City of Meridian with appropriate changes to the Ordinance. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, ADA COUNTY, IDAHO; SECTION 1: That Section 3-101 is hereby repealed. SECTION 2: That Section 3-101 of the Revised and Compiled Ordinances of the City of Meridian is hereby re-enacted to read as follows: "3-101: GENERAL LICENSES: (a) No person, firm, company or corporation shall engage in, prosecute or carry on, any trade, business, profession, or activity, within the limits of the City of Meridian, for which a license may be required by this Chapter, or by any Ordinance of the City, until he, she, or it, shall have obtained the license required for that trade, business, profession, or activity, all hereafter referred to as "Activity". (b) Every person, firm, company or corporation required by this Chapter or any Ordinances of the City, to obtain a license to engage in any trade, business, profession, or activity, for which a license is required shall pay to the City Treasurer the sum or sums, required to be paid for a license. With the receipt of the City Treasurer, which receipt .shall set forth the kind of activity for which a license is desired, the Applicant shall apply to the City Clerk for the license desired. The City Clerk may issue a license to the party or parties applying upon compliance, by the Applicant, with the provisions relating to obtaining a license for the business, trade, profession, or activity, for which such license is desired. (c) Every license to be taken out under and by virtue of this Chapter, or other City .Ordinance, shall contain and set forth the purpose, trade, business, profession, or activity for which such license is granted, and the name and address of the person, persons, or entity requesting the same. Said license, but shall not authorize the carrying on of said activity in any other location. If the entity to which, or to whom, a license has been issued changes its name or address, the activity shall inform the City Clerk of such and request that a new license be issued. Until the new license is issued, the existing license shall be void. GENERAL LICENSE ORDINANCE PAGE 1 5~ (d) In every case where more than one activity, for which a license is required, is carried on in the same place by the same person or entity, the person or entity performing the activity must obtain a license for each activity and pay the license fee for each activity. (e) All licenses issued as quarterly licenses shall expire the last day of each quarter, vix. first day of March, first day of June, first day of September, first day of September. All quarterly licenses shall be dated and paid from the first day of the quarter and shall extend only to the last day of the quarter. (f) All licenses required by this chapter shall be paid in advance and prior to the issuance. (g) If any person, persons, or entity shall exercise or carry on any activity or do any act exercising, carrying on, or performing the activity for which a license is required by this Chapter, or any Ordinance of the City, without obtaining the license required, or violate any of the provisions of this chapter, or any other Ordinance requiring a license shall be subject to, on conviction thereof, for every. such offense, imprisonment for a term not to exceed thirty (30) days, or to a fine not to exceed Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) or to both such imprisonment and fine. (h) In order to determine an Applicant's suitability for a license as a: 1. City Alcohol. License and Permits 2. Peddlers and Solicitors 3. Itinerant Merchants 4. Precious Metals Dealers 5. Pawn Brokers 6. Escort Business Operators and Employees 7. Private Security Service Operators and Employees 8. All new City employees 9. Obscenity Activists who are subject to licensing 10. Massage Parlor Employees, owners and operators 11. P.A.L. Coaches and Volunteers 12. Citizens on Patrol Volunteers 13. Police Reserves the City of Meridian shall require the Applicant to, and the Applicant shall, furnish to the Meridian Police Department a full set of fingerprints. The Police Department shall perform, or have the Idaho Department of Law Enforcement or the Federal Bureau of Invest- igation pertorm, a criminal background investigation. The Police Department shall obtain written consent of the Applicant for the criminal background investigation and if the Applicant does not execute the consent, the application shall be denied. The Meridian Police Department shall submit the completed fingerprint card to the Idaho Department of Law. Enforcement, the Idaho Department of Law Enforcement is authorized to submit the fingerprints to the FBI for a national criminal history record check. The Applicant shall pay for the costs of the City of Meridian for all Federal Bureau of Investigation, State of Idaho Department of Law Enforcement, or any other investigations requested, or performed, by the City of Meridian." SECTION 3: EFFECTIVE DATE: WHEREAS, there is an emergency, therefore, which emergency is hereby declared to exist, this Ordinance shall be in full force and GENERAL LICENSE ORDINANCE PAGE 2 53 effect from and after its passage, approval and publication according to law. PASSED AND APPROVED this 17th day of September, 1996. ATTEST: WILLIAM G. BERG, JR., C LERK ~~~~~ M~ ~" CITY OF MERIDIAN. ORDINANCE NO. 744 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN REPEALING SECTION 3-101, OF THE REVISED AND COMPILED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN AND RE- ENACTING SAID SECTION 3-101, OF THE REVISED AND COMPILED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the Mayor and the City Council of the City of Meridian, State of Idaho, have concluded that it is in the best interest of the City to repeal and readopt Ordinance 3-101, GENERAL LICENSE CONDITIONS contained in Title 3, Chapter 1 of the Revised and Compiled Ordinances of the City of Meridian with appropriate changes to the Ordinance. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, ADA COUNTY, IDAHO; SECTION 1: That Section 3-101 is hereby repealed. SECTION 2: That Section 3-101 of the Revised and Compiled Ordinances of the City of Meridian is hereby re-enacted to read as follows: "3-101: GENERAL LICENSES: (a) No person, firm, company or corporation shall engage in, prosecute or carry on, any trade, business, profession, or activity, within the limits of the City of Meridian, for which a license may be required by this Chapter, or by any Ordinance of the City, until he, she, or it, shall have obtained the license required for that trade, business, profession, or activity, all hereafter referred to as "Activity". (b) Every person, firm, company or corporation required by this Chapter, or any Ordinances of the City, to obtain a license to engage in any trade, business, profession, or activity, for which a license is required, shall pay to the City Treasurer the sum, or sums, required to be paid for a license. With GENERAL LICENSE ORDINANCE PAGE 1 the receipt of the City Treasurer, which receipt shall set forth the kind of activity for which a license is desired, the Applicant shall apply to the City Clerk for the license desired. The City Clerk may issue a license to the party or parties applying upon compliance, by the Applicant, with the provisions relating to obtaining a license for the business, trade, profession, or activity, for which such license is desired. (c) Every license to be taken out under and by virtue of this Chapter, or other City Ordinance, shall contain and set forth the purpose, trade, business, profession, or activity for which such license is granted, and the name and address of the person, persons, or entity requesting the same. Said license shall authorize the continuance of the activity named therein for the term of such license, but shall not authorize the carrying on of said activity in any other location. If the entity to which, or to whom, a license has been issued changes its name or address, the activity shall inform the City Clerk of such and request that a new license be issued. Until the new license is issued, the existing license shall be void. (d) In every case where more than one activity, for which a license is required, is carried on in the same place by the same person or entity, the person or entity performing the activity must obtain a license for each activity and pay the license fee for each activity. (e) All licenses issued as quarterly licenses shall expire the last day of each quarter; viz., first day of March, first day of June, first day of September, first day of December. All quarterly licenses shall be dated and paid from the first day of the quarter and shall extend only to the last day of the quarter. (f) All licenses required by this chapter shall be paid in advance and prior to issuance. (g) If any person, persons, or entity, shall exercise or carry on any activity, or do any act exercising, carrying on, or performing the activity for which a license is required by this chapter, or any Ordinance of the City, without obtaining the GENERAL LICENSE ORDINANCE PAGE 2 license required, or violate any of the provisions of this chapter, or any other Ordinance requiring a license, shall be subject to, on conviction thereof, for every such offense, imprisonment for a term not to exceed thirty (30) days, or to a fine not to exceed Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00), or to both such imprisonment and fine. (h) In order to determine an Applicant's suitability for a license as a: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 10. 11. 12. 13. City Alcohol License and Peddlers and Solicitors Itinerant Merchants Precious Metals Dealers Pawn Brokers Escort Business Operators Private Security Service Employees All new City employees Obscenity Activists who Licensing Permits and Employees Operators and are subject to Massage Parlor Employees, owners and operators P.A.L. Coaches and Volunteers Citizens on Patrol Volunteers Police Reserves the City of Meridian shall require the Applicant to, and the Applicant shall, furnish to the Meridian Police Department a full set of fingerprints. The Police Department shall perform, or have the Idaho Department of Law Enforcement or the Federal Bureau of Investigation perform, a criminal background investigation. The Police Department shall obtain the written consent of the Applicant for the criminal background investigation and if the Applicant does not execute the consent, the application shall be denied. The Meridian Police Department shall submit the completed fingerprint card to the Idaho Department of Law Enforcement, The Idaho Department of Law Enforcement is authorized to submit the fingerprints to the FBI for a national criminal history record check. The Applicant shall pay for the costs of the City of Meridian for all Federal Bureau of Investigation, State of Idaho Department of Law Enforcement, or any other investigations requested, or performed, by the City of Meridian." GENERAL LICENSE ORDINANCE PAGE 3 SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE: WHEREAS, there is an emergency therefor, which emergency is hereby declared to exist, this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage, approval and publication according to law. PASSED AND APPROVED this 17th day of September, 1996. ATTEST: G. BERG, JR., GENERAL LICENSE ORDINANCE CITY OF MERIDIAN z ' - ��Z -� _Y,Of RT D. CORRIE, MAYOR ,I1i11111111►/)!, CLERK = BEAL _ PAGE 4