Los Angeles Municipal Code Div. 3 Permit Applications

Section 103.02 Permit Required. 103.02.1 Permit Applications. 103.03 Public Hearings. 103.04 False Statements. 103.05 Overlapping Business. 103.06 Permits – Duration. 103.06.1 Permits – Renewal. 103.06.2 Temporary Permits. 103.07 Permits – Annual Fee. 103.08 Permits Non-Transferable. 103.09 Permit for Each Location. 103.10 Change of Location. 103.11 Additional Locations.

The Board may require a public hearing prior to taking action on an application for a permit or a renewal thereof. The Board may require an applicant to cause to be published a notice of public hearing two times at intervals of not less than five days within the 21-day period following the filing of an application in a newspaper of general circulation in the district where the business is to be located or conducted. Furthermore the Board may give notice, by mail, as prescribed by the Board to all property owners within three hundred feet of the proposed business.

The Board shall cause to be posted a suitable public notice at the location where the business is to be conducted. The applicant shall bear all expense involved in mailing, printing, publishing and posting such notice. (Amended by Ord. No. 137,649, Eff. 1/6/69.)

(a) Notice – Contents. Such public notices shall conform to rules and regulations adopted by the Board and shall be designed to inform the public as to the nature of the business to be engaged in its location, the

name or names of the applicant or applicants, the time of the public hearing and the right of persons objecting to be heard. (Amended by Ord. No. 134,317, Eff. 6/2/67.)

(b) Protests by Interested Persons. Any interested person may file written protests or objections any time before or at the hearing on such application, The Board shall give consideration to all such protests in

reaching a decision on such application. (Amended by Ord. No. 134,317, Eff. 6/2/67.)

Any person who makes a false statement in an application for a permit under this article, or in their report required by this article is guilty of a misdemeanor.

If any person shall engage in, manage, conduct, or carry on at the same time more than one of the businesses for which a permit from the Board is required, such person shall comply with all of the provisions affecting such businesses.

(a) Annual Police Permit Fee – Payable. The annual police permit fees required by this article for existing police permits shall become due and payable each year during the two months next preceding the first day of January of the calendar year for which annual police permit fee is paid. (Amended by Ord. No. 137,438, Eff. 11/7/68.)

(b) Late Filing – Discretion of Board. The Board may, in its discretion, authorize the acceptance of an annual police permit fee paid within 15 days after the annual police permit is due if the Board finds that the failure to pay said fee within the time allowed was due to inadvertence or excusable neglect. (Amended by Ord. No. 137,438, Eff. 11/7/68.)

(c) Late Filing – Veterans. Whenever a person who previously held a permit but failed to pay the prescribed fee within the time provided, shows to the satisfaction of the Board that the person’s failure to pay such fee within the time provided herein resulted from the person’s induction or entrance into the armed forces of the United States, or of any allied nation, and that the application for a permit is made within six months after the applicant’s honorable discharge from the service, the annual police permit fee only shall be charged thereof. (Amended by Ord. No. 137,438, Eff. 11/7/68.)

(d) Late Filing – Effect. If the annual police permit fee is not received within the time allowed in Subsections (a), (b) and (c) of this section, the permit shall terminate and the former permittee shall cease engaging in the trade, business or occupation for which the permit was required. Application for a new permit may be made as set forth in this article.

The application shall be considered as an original application for a permit and the fee shall be that prescribed for the issuance of an original permit. (Amended by Ord. No. 143,868, Eff. 10/23/72.)

(e) Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection (a), annual police permit fees, except those owed by Firearms Vendors and Firearms Salespersons required by this article to be paid for the year 2021 shall become due and payable on June 30, 2021. (Amended by Ord. No. 187,119, Eff. 8/7/21.)

(Amended by Ord. No. 175,676, Eff. 1/11/04.)

A permit issued by the Board may not be sold, transferred, or assigned by any permittee or by operation of law, to any other person, group, partnership, corporation, or any other entity. Any sale, transfer, or assignment or attempted sale, transfer, or assignment shall be deemed to constitute a voluntary surrender of the permit and the permit shall thereafter be null and void. A permit held by a corporation or partnership or other business entity is subject to the same rules of transferability as stated above. A new permit shall be required for a transfer of stock that causes a change in the controlling interest in a corporate permittee, and for a change in the majority ownership of a partnership or other legal entity, whether by sale, exchange or other means.

(Amended by Ord. No. 175,676, Eff. 1/11/04.)

A permit issued by the Board is valid only for the address or location specified on the permit.

Where permitted by this article, a change of location may be endorsed on a permit by the Board upon written application by a permittee accompanied by the change of location fee prescribed in Section 103.12.

The fee imposed by this section shall not apply to the relocation of a business from a building or structure which was damaged or destroyed as a result of the earthquake of January 17, 1994 and its aftershocks, as determined by the Department of Building and Safety. (Paragraph Added by Ord. No. 170,126, Eff. 12/29/94.)

The Board may issue permits for additional locations to a permittee upon a written application accompanied by the original permit fee prescribed in Sec. 103.12, or the prescribed additional location fee where such fee is designated in this article.