License required; prohibition

(a)

No business enterprise shall engage in the business of recovering, towing, removing and storing of motor vehicles which are parked on private real property and parked without the permission of the owner of the private real property unless such business enterprise shall first apply for and obtain, and subsequently maintain in unrevoked status, a license.

(b)

The requirement for a license hereinabove described is a requirement separate and apart from and in addition to any county or municipal requirements for local business tax receipts. The required license is a regulatory license and not a revenue license.

(c)

Nothing herein shall be construed to mean that a natural person cannot work in or for such business enterprises without such license. There is no requirement that employees or agents of such business enterprises apply for and obtain the license provided for by this article. The practice of a business enterprise to consider persons as independent contractors or employees shall not be construed to permit avoidance of the requirement that the business enterprise itself apply for, obtain, and maintain a license.

(Ord. No. 9762, § 1(5), 12-8-83; Code 1980, § 42-75; Ord. No. 12885, § 1, 2-8-07)