Lawndale Municipal Code Ch. 5.06 Administration

It is the responsibility of the city to prepare and issue a license under this chapter upon payment of the appropriate fees in accordance with the requirements of this chapter.

(Ord. 685-91 § 4)

Any license issued pursuant to this title shall be valid only in the calendar year in which it was issued.

(Ord. 685-91 § 4)

The amount of any license fee imposed by this title shall be deemed a debt to the city and any person engaged in any business for which a license is required by this chapter, without having paid the license fee and secured the appropriate license from the city, shall be liable in an action in the name of the city in any court of competent jurisdiction for the amount of such license fee and applicable penalties.

(Ord. 685-91 § 4)

In no case shall any mistake made by the city in collecting, or stating the amount of any license fee due under this chapter, prevent or prejudice the collection by the city of such amount as shall be actually due to the city from any person engaged in business requiring a license under this chapter.

(Ord. 685-91 § 4)

Any person requiring a license pursuant to this chapter shall apply for same on the form(s) provided by the city. All applications shall be completed and signed by an individual authorized to apply on behalf of the person or business for whom the license is to be issued.

(Ord. 685-91 § 4)

Any person who knowingly provides false, misleading or incomplete information on any application or written statement required by this title shall, upon the first offense, have a penalty added to the amount of license fee due. The penalty shall equal twenty-five percent of the license fee due or fifty dollars, whichever is greater. Each subsequent offense shall constitute an infraction.

It is unlawful for any person, knowingly or intentionally, to misrepresent to any city official any material fact in procuring the license.

(Ord. 685-91 § 4)

The city council, city manager and city attorney shall be authorized to access and utilize criminal history record information when required to determine if a license certificate is to be issued.

All information pertaining to criminal history records remain confidential.

(Ord. 685-91 § 4)

Conviction (including pleas of guilty and nolo contendere) of a felony shall be grounds for denying a license for the following business classifications:

Fortune teller;

Guns/ammunition sales;

Private patrol;

Retail liquor sales;

Solicitor;

Taxi driver.

(Ord. 685-91 § 4)

Each license prepared and issued by the city pursuant to this title shall state the name of the person to whom it is issued, the classification of the business licensed, the location or place wherein the business is located, the expiration date of the license, the fees paid, and such other information as may be pertinent to the business.

(Ord. 685-91 § 4)

All officers of the finance department, parking control aide officers and code enforcement officers of the city are hereby authorized as license inspectors and shall examine all places of business, wheeled vehicles and persons required to obtain a license, and to see that such appropriate license certificates have been procured.

All officers of the finance department, parking control aide officers and code enforcement officers, as well as law enforcement personnel, shall have the power to enter, at any time and without charge, any place of business in the city for which a license is required by this chapter and to demand presentation of the license. It shall constitute a violation of this code for such person then and there to fail to present such license.

When any person, by use of signs, circulars, cards, telephone books or newspapers, advertises, holds out or represents that he or she is in business in the city and when such person fails to deny by a sworn statement given to the business license officer or agent that he or she is not conducting a business in the city, these facts shall be considered prima facie evidence that such person is conducting a business in the city.

(Ord. 685-91 § 4; Ord. 755-94 § 3)

Owners shall be liable for, and shall pay to the city, any business license fee due to the city from any of their contractors, and contractors shall be liable for, and shall pay to the city any business license fee due to the city from any of their subcontractors or materialmen, who performed work or furnished materials to or for any improvement at such time as the statement of names and addresses of such subcontractors and materialmen is required to be filed by Lawndale Municipal Code Section 5.05.020 prior to final inspection or issuance of the certificate of occupancy, or if such a statement is not required to be filed, then prior to the completion of any such work or improvement.

(Ord. 805-96 § 1)