§ 4-38. License.

(a)

Required; application. Any person desiring to engage, as principal, in the business of distributing commercial or noncommercial handbills for hire, shall make application to and receive from the commissioner of revenue a license in the manner and for the period prescribed by the terms of this article and by all relevant provisions of this Code and other ordinances. Such applicant shall make written application to the commissioner of revenue upon a form provided for such purpose by the commissioner of revenue. Such form shall contain, among other things that may be required, the name, the business address and a brief description of the nature of the business to be conducted by the applicant, and the probable number of agents and employees so to be engaged, together with a request for a license for the period for which the applicant seeks to engage in such business.

(b)

Revocation. The commissioner of revenue may revoke the license obtained under an application containing a false or fraudulent statement knowingly made by the applicant with the intent to obtain a license by means of false or fraudulent representations, or for violation of this article.

(c)

Fee. The application shall be accompanied by the fee provided in section 40-107. No license issued under this article shall be transferable, and, if any such license shall be surrendered by the licensee therein named or shall be revoked for cause, neither the licensee named in such license nor any other person shall be entitled to any refund of any part of such fee.

(d)

Duration. The handbill distributors' annual licenses and semiannual licenses shall be dated and issued as of January 1 or July 1 and shall remain in effect for a period of one year or six months, respectively, from the date of issuance; and the handbill distributors' weekly or daily licenses shall remain in effect for a period of one week or one day, respectively, from the date of issuance.

(e)

Scope of requirements. Persons acting for licensees, as agents or employees in the distributing of handbills, shall not be required to obtain a license or pay a fee, but each such person shall comply with each and all of the other provisions of this article and be subject hereto; provided that individual proprietors of neighborhood stores or shops desiring to distribute commercial handbills by their own employees may obtain a license so to do by the payment of an annual registration fee of $1.00.

(Code of Gen. Ords. 1967, § 2.24)