5.20.050 License application – Approval or disapproval procedure – Regulatory license.
The business license staff person shall collect all license fees and shall issue licenses in the name of the city to all persons qualified under the provisions of this chapter and shall:
A. Adopt all forms and prescribe the information required to implement this chapter.
B. Submit all applications to department heads as listed below for their endorsements as to compliance by applicant with all city regulations, which they have the duty of enforcing:
1. Ambulance services license: Valley Regional Fire Authority and police department;
2. Amusement device license: police (four or under) and community development and public works and police (five or more);
3. Auto races license: Valley Regional Fire Authority, community development and public works, and police departments;
4. Cabaret licenses – Regulatory license: Valley Regional Fire Authority and police departments;
5. Carnivals, circuses, shows, licenses – Regulatory license: Valley Regional Fire Authority, community development and public works, and police departments;
6. Dance licenses – Regulatory license: Valley Regional Fire Authority and police department;
7. Fire extinguisher service licenses: Valley Regional Fire Authority;
8. Massage business, health salon, licenses – Regulatory license: community development and public works, police departments and appropriate county health department;
9. Merchant patrol and private detective licenses: police department;
10. Motor vehicle wreckers licenses: community development and public works and police departments and Valley Regional Fire Authority;
11. Outdoor musical entertainment licenses – Regulatory license: community development and public works and police departments and Valley Regional Fire Authority;
12. Pawnbrokers/secondhand dealers licenses: police department;
13. Solicitor license – Regulatory license: police department;
14. Tow truck business license: Valley Regional Fire Authority, community development and public works and police departments;
15. Taxicab and for-hire;
16. Marijuana related activities – Regulatory license: community development and public works, police and utilities departments, and Valley Regional Fire Authority;
17. Mobile vendors and food trucks – Regulatory license.
C. Notify any applicant of the acceptance or rejection of their application and shall, upon denial of any license, state in writing the reasons therefor, the process for appeal and deliver them to the applicant.
D. Deny any application for license upon written findings that the granting would be detrimental to the public peace, health or welfare:
1. Whenever any such license is denied the applicant may within 15 calendar days from date of action file written notice of appeal to the city’s director of community development and public works. Action of the city’s director of community development and public works may be appealed 15 calendar days from date of action to the hearing examiner, and action of the hearing examiner shall be conclusive and not subject to review.
2. When the issuance is denied and any action instituted by the applicant to compel its issuance, such applicant shall not engage in the business for which the license was refused unless a license is issued pursuant to a judgment ordering the same. (Ord. 6876 § 6, 2022; Ord. 6613 § 7, 2016; Ord. 6532 § 7, 2014; Ord. 5897 § 9, 2005; Ord. 4012 § 2, 1984.)