Article 2 — License Requirements

No person shall conduct, operate or engage in any activity or object listed in Section 8.08.060, within the area of application, without having a valid, unrevoked, unsuspended public health license therefor. (CCCC § 413-3.602)

The following must be licensed hereunder: restaurants, retail food markets, wholesale food markets, food processing establishments, roadside stands, food salvagers, ice plants, peddlers, itinerant restaurants, bakeries, retail food vehicles, food vending machine businesses, public swimming pools, wiping rag businesses, small water systems, septic tank-chemical toilet cleaners, hazardous waste generators and infectious waste producers. (CCCC § 413-3.604)

Licenses required by this chapter are in addition to any other license or permit required within the area of application, and do not exempt any person, operation or premises from sanitary requirements enforced by the Health Officer. (CCCC § 413-3.606)

Licenses shall be for not more than one year. None is valid after midnight on February 28th (29th) after its date of effectiveness. (CCCC § 413-3.608)

If a person engages in, conducts, manages or carries on, at the same time, more than one licensable activity or object, each such activity or object shall be considered as separate and distinct from the other(s), whether located on the same premises or not. (CCCC § 413-3.610)

A. Exhibition on Request. Every person required to have a license hereunder shall show it on request by the Health Officer. B. Fixed Place of Business. Every such person with a fixed location of such activity shall keep such license conspicuously posted therein. C. Itinerant and Vehicle. Every such person without a fixed place of such activity shall carry such license with him or her at all times while so engaged; and the operator of every retail food vehicle shall keep its license in it while it is so used. (CCCC § 413-3.612)

A. Identification Plate. Each food or drink vending machine shall have conspicuously affixed thereon a durable identification plate, setting forth its model number or symbol and its individual identifying serial number. B. Identification Decal. Each such machine shall have similarly affixed a decal or other identification, if furnished by the Tax Collector, indicating that the required health license fee has been paid for the current license year. C. List of Machines. The operator of a food or drink vending machine activity shall maintain in its principal place of business in this city a current record or list by serial number of every such machine and its location within the area of application.

D. Annual Report. On or before December 1st of each year, such operator of a food or drink vending machine business shall give the Tax Collector a list of the addresses at which his or her licensable machines are located, which he or she intends to license for the following license year. (CCCC § 413-3.614)

Every person owning, conducting or operating any activity for which a license is required hereunder shall apply for a license to the Health Officer, on a form provided by him or her. If the Health Officer approves the application, he or she shall so indicate to the Tax Collector, to whom the applicant shall then pay the required fee and penalty, if any. The Tax Collector shall issue a public health license when these requirements have been met. Temporary licenses are governed by Section 8.08.190. (CCCC § 413-3.802)

Every public health license shall contain the following information: A. Name and address of the licensee; B. Nature and location of the licensed activity or object; C. If issued for a retail food vehicle, the vehicle identification number or license number; D. Date of issuance, and statement of its period of validity or of its invalidity after February 28th (29th) or other specified date; E. Statement that it is not transferable between persons, vehicles, objects or places; and F. Statement that it is conditioned on compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. (CCCC § 413-3.804)

The Tax Collector, when required or when he or she deems it necessary hereunder, shall issue with any license further identification in the form of a license plate, decal or gummed sticker to be conspicuously displayed. (CCCC § 413-3.806)

Within three working days after the initial issuance of a license, the Tax Collector shall give the Health Officer a copy. (CCCC § 413-3.808)

A. Issuance. On or before every January 31st, the Tax Collector may send to each person who obtained a license during the license year a bill (invoice) for the appropriate license fee for the following year. He or she shall promptly send the licensee a fee-receipted license when the fee is paid. This "receipt" is merely the "fee-paid" copy of the license. B. Effective Date and Display. No such license is valid or issuable until the required license fee is received by the Tax Collector, including penalty unless the fee is received or postmarked before the effective (delinquency) date. The licensee shall display the fee-receipted license, or shall make it available for objects or machines. C. Report on Renewals. On every April 1st, or as soon as practicable thereafter, the Tax Collector shall notify the Health Officer of the names of those persons who have, and who have not, renewed their licenses. (CCCC § 413-3.810)

The Tax Collector, upon receiving a fee of ten dollars ($10.00), may issue a new license to a licensee who shows that his or her license has been lost or stolen, or who owns or operates a retail food vehicle which replaces a formerly licensed vehicle. (CCCC § 413-3.812)

The Auditor shall refund to a licensee all moneys erroneously collected if the licensee files a proper claim demonstrating this to the Auditor. (CCCC § 413-3.814)

The Health Officer may issue a nonrenewable temporary license for activities or objects licensable hereunder for a period of not over thirty-one (31) consecutive calendar days in any license year. The application and other matters regulated by Sections 8.08.120 through 8.08.190 shall be conformable herewith, except that the Health Officer shall administer them and may regulate and prescribe forms therefor conformable herewith. (CCCC § 413-3.816)

A. Blind. The Tax Collector shall issue without fee, but on application, a license to any blind person (having not more than ten percent visual acuity in the better eye without correction) who otherwise would be entitled to such license, and who files with his or her application a certificate signed by a licensed physician or by the State Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation that he or she is a blind person. B. Charitable or Tax-Supported Institutions. The Tax Collector shall issue, without fee, but on application approved by the Health Officer, a license to any person who conducts a licensable activity exclusively for religious or charitable purposes if at least seventy-five (75) percent of the net proceeds from such activity inures directly to the benefit of such purposes, and to any tax-supported person. C. Delivery Vehicles. Vehicles used by a fixed-location food market or restaurant licensed hereunder to deliver food products therefrom need not be separately licensed. D. Hazardous Waste Facility Permittee. The term "hazardous waste generator" shall not include any business required to have a hazardous waste facility permit issued by the State Department of Health Services. Possession of a currently valid hazardous waste facility permit issued by the State Department of Health Services shall constitute prima facie proof of exemption from this section. (CCCC §§ 413-3.1002 — 413-3.1008)