Ordinance 1139ORDINANCE NO. 0 3`1
AN ORDINANCE ADDING A NEW CHAPTER TO THE EDMONDS
CITY CODE, CHAPTER 4.72, ESTABLISHING BUSINESS
• LICENSES, PROVIDING FOR THE PROCEDURE OF APPLICA-
TION, FEES, TERMS, ELIGIBILITY, RENEWAL, REVOCA-
TION AND SUSPENSION. AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR
VIOLATION THEREOF.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON
DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. There shall be added to the Edmonds City
Code a new chapter entitled Chapter 4.72, Business Licen-
ses, and which shall read as follows:
4.72.010 Definitions In construing the provisions
of this chapter, save when otherwiso declared or clearly
apparent from the context, the following definitions shall
be applied.
1. The term "person" shall include one or more persons
of either sex, corporations, Nirtnerships, associations, or
other entity capable of having an action at law brought
againft such entity, but shall not include employees or
persons licensed pursuant to this Chapter.
2. The term "business" includes all services and
activities engaged in with the object of pecuniary gain,
benefit or advantage to the person, or to the person, or to
• another person or class, directly or indirectly, whether
part time or full time, except those business activities
for which licenses or franchises are required by the follow-
ing Chapters of the Edmonds City Code: 4.01 (B & 0 Tax);
4.04 (Advertising License); 4.12 (Peddlars & Solicitors);
4.16 (Trade Stimulators and Punch Boards); 4.20 (Cigarette
Vending Machines); 4.24 (Gam:Licenses); 4.28 (Pinball Ma-
chines); 4.32 (Public Amusements); 4.36 (Moving Picture
hows); 4.40 (Public Dances); 4.48 (Cabaret Dances); 4.56
(Sound Trucks); 4.60 (Taxicabs); 4.64 (Garbage Collection);
5.28 (Fireworks); 11.16 (Sewer Code); 11.20 (Septic Tanks); _.r;_
11.28 (Obstructing Public Places); or by Ordinance No. 1126
(CATV) and except nonbusiness activites carried on by a
religious, charitable, benevolent, fraternal or social
organization.
4.72.020 Business Lice nse_B2 uired. It shall be unlaw-
ful for any person to conduct, operate, engage in or practice
any business in the City of Edmonds that is conducted,
operated, engaged in or practiced in whole or in part from
real property located within said City, without having first
obtained a business license from said City. If more than one
business * conducted on a single premises= a separate
license shall be required for each separate business con-
ducted, operated, engaged in or practiced.
4.72.030 P ocsdure
1. Application for said Business Licenae shall be
made in writing to the City Clerk upon a form provided by
said Clerk, and the applicant shall at the same time deposit
with the City Clerk in advance the license fee herein required.
The application shall state the nature and address or addresses
of the business or businesses, or proposed business or busi-
nesses, of the applicant, and such other information as
requested by the City Clerk.
If the applicant be a partnership, the application must
be made by one of the partners, if a corporation, by one of
the officers thereof; if a foreign corporation, a partner-
ship or non-resident individual, by the resident agent or
local manager of said corporation, partnership or individual.
2. The City Clerk shall present all applications for
licenses to the Mayor. The Mayor shall cause an investiga-
tion of the application to be made by the proper City
officials and shall grant or refuse to grant the license
within 15 days of the date of application. If an appli-
cation is refused the reason for refusal shall be designa-
ted on the application. The fee shall not be refunded.
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4.72.04C Fee and Term The fee for said business license
shall be the sum of five ($5.00) dollars, and need not be
renewed unless the licensee changes the nature of his busi-
ness, adds a new business, or changes his address, in which
case or cases the license shall be deemed expired and he
• shall apply for a new license prior to commencing the new
business or commencing any business at a new or additional
address. Said licenses shall not be transferable.
4.72.050 Ineligible Activities. Notwithstanding any
provision hereof to the contrary, a license hereunder may
not be issued to any person who uses or occupies or pro-
poses to use or occupy any real property or otherwise con-
ducts or proposes to conduct any business in violation of the
provisions of any ordinance of the City of 40monds or the
statutes of the State of Washington. The grartting of a
business license shall in no way be construed as permission
or acquiescence in a prohibited activity or other violation
of the law.
4.72.060 Revocation or _Suspension The City Council
shall, at any time, suspend or revoke any license issued
hereunder whenever the licensee or officer or partner thereof
has been convicted in any court of competent jurisdiction of
violating any statute of the United States or the State of
Washington or any Ordinance of the City of Edmonds upon the
business premises stated in the license or in connection with
the business stated in the license; or where the place of
• business does not conform to the ordinances of the City of
Edmonds; Provided, a hearing thereon shall be had before
such revocation or suspension, and the licensee shall be
notified in writing by sending the same to the address
stated in the license of the intention of the City Council
to revoke or suspend said license at a regular meeting of said
City Council at a time and date denominated in said notification
giving the licensee at least six (6)days notice prior to the date
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for the hearing. The licensee may appear at said time and be
heard in opposition to such revocation or suspension.
4.72-08+0 Penalty for Violation Any person, as defined
herein, and the officer- directors, managing agents, or
partners of any corporation, firm, partnership or other
• organization or business violating or failing to comply with
any provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine
in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars or by impris-
onment for a period not exceeding six months, or both, and
each day of violation shall constitute a separate offense.
4.72.090 Severability In the event that any portion
of this chapter shall be held illegal or unconstitutional,
all the remaining portions hereof shall be and remain in
full force and effect, it being expressly declared that
each word, phrase, sentence and section, would have been
prepared, proposed and adopted irrespective of any invalid
provision.
Section 2. This Ordinance shall take effect and be
in force January 31, 1966.
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ATTEST:
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GORDON MAY
• IRENE VARNEYMORON
CITY CLERK, IRENE VARNEY MORAN
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL:_=•' I f9Ba
FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: SFP
PUBLISHED:
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