El Monte Municipal Code Ch. 5.36 Firearms Sales

When a business permit or license is to be issued to a business that is engaged in, or intends to engage in, the sale, resale, transfer, advertising, offering, or exposing for sale or transfer, of any pistol, revolver or other firearm capable of being concealed upon the person, said business permit or license shall be in the form prescribed by the Attorney General of the state pursuant to California Penal Code Section 12071. Said business permit or license shall be effective for not more than one year from the date of issue and be subject to the following conditions, for breach of any of which the business permit or license shall be subject to forfeiture:

A. The business shall be carried on only in the building designated in the business permit or license;

B. The business permit or license, or a copy thereof, certified by the city, shall be displayed on the premises where it can easily be seen;

C. No pistol or revolver shall be delivered:

1. Within fifteen (15) days of the application for the purchase and when delivered shall be unloaded and securely wrapped; nor

2. Be delivered unless the purchaser either is personally known to the seller or shall present clear evidence of his identity.

D. No pistol or revolver, or imitation thereof, or placard advertising the sale or other transfer thereof, shall be displayed in any part of said premises where it can be readily seen from the outside.

The aforesaid conditions shall be printed on or securely affixed to said business permit or license in such a manner that said conditions are plainly visible when said business permit or license is displayed pursuant to subsection B of this Section.

(Prior code § 6120.1)

Each business receiving a business permit or license pursuant to Section 5.36.010 of this chapter shall pay a tax of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per year plus an amount based upon the annual gross receipts of such business according to the following schedule:

(Prior code § 6120.2)