Beaumont Municipal Code Ch. 5.24 Enforcement

If any person, persons, firms, or corporations, or their agents (hereinafter "individual"), shall transact, engage in, or carry on any business, trade, profession, exhibition or occupation, within the City, without first procuring from the City a license or permit therefor, he, she, it or they, for each violation of this Title, shall be deemed guilty of an infraction or misdemeanor as hereinafter specified. Such individual shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every day or portion thereof during which any violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance is committed, continued, or permitted. Any individual convicted of a violation of this ordinance shall be: (1) guilty of an infraction offense and punished by a fine not exceeding $100.00 for a first violation; (2) guilty of an infraction offense and punished by a fine not exceeding $200.00 for a second violation of the same ordinance and perpetrated by the same individual. The third and any additional violations of the same ordinance and perpetrated by the same individual shall constitute a misdemeanor offense punishable by a fine not exceeding $1,000.00 or six (6) months in jail, or both. Notwithstanding the above, the first offense may be charged and prosecuted as a misdemeanor. Payment of any penalty herein shall not relieve an individual from the responsibility for correcting the violation. Any individual who removes any notice or order posted, as required in the Chapter, is guilty of an infraction.

(Ord. 333 § 2-b, 1961; Ord. No. 799, §§ 1, 2, 12-28-99)

The conviction and punishment of any person having engaged in business without a license shall not excuse or exempt such person from the payment of any license fee due or unpaid at the time of such conviction, and the same shall remain a debt to the City and nothing contained in this Chapter shall prevent a civil liability for any violation of any provision of this Title.

(Ord. 333 §2-c, 1961)