Prior to the adoption of Ord. 16432 on 05/01/2000, Section 13-20 read as follows.

(a) License required. It shall be unlawful for any person, either directly or indirectly, to conduct any business or nonprofit enterprise, or to use in connection therewith any vehicle, premises, machine or device in whole or in part, for which a license or permit is required by any law or ordinance of this city, without a license or permit therefor being first secured and kept in effect at all such times as required by this article or other law or ordinance of this city.

(b) Special sales. This article shall apply to all business in the nature of special sales for which a license is required by any law or ordinance of this city; and it shall be unlawful for any person, either directly or indirectly, to conduct any such sale except in conformity with the provisions of this article.

(1) One act constitutes doing business. For the purpose of this article, any person shall be deemed to be in business or engaged in nonprofit enterprise, and thus subject to the requirements of subsections (a) and (b) of this section, when he does one act of:

(2) Agents responsible for obtaining license. The agents or other representatives of nonresidents, who are doing business in this city, shall be personally responsible for the compliance of their principals, and of the businesses they represent, with this article.

(3) Separate license for branch establishments. A license shall be obtained in the manner prescribed herein for each branch establishment or location of the business engaged in, as if each such branch establishment or location were a separate business; provided that warehouses and distributing plants used in connection with and incidental to a business licensed under the provisions of this article shall not be deemed to be separate places of business or branch establishments.

(4) Joint license. Every person engaged in more than one related occupation, where all such occupations are operated as one business under the same management and at the same location, may pay one license fee on the gross receipts of the combined occupations for all such occupations licensed. This may also apply in the case of contractors who may engage in more than one type of contracting where the fee rate is the same; except, that in all cases, the computation of fee shall be based on the occupation with the highest maximum fee.

(5) No license required for mere delivery. No license shall be required of any person for any mere delivery in the city of any property purchased or acquired in good faith from such person at a regular place of business outside the city where no intent by such person is shown to evade the provisions of this article.

(6) Special permits to nonprofit enterprises. The business license administrator will issue special permits without the payment of any license fees or other charges therefor to any person or organization for the conduct or operation of a nonprofit enterprise, either regularly or temporarily, when he finds that the applicant operates without private profit, for a public, charitable, educational, literary, fraternal, civic or religious purpose.

a. Application for special permit: An applicant for a special permit shall submit an application therefor to the business license administrator, upon forms prescribed by the administrator, and shall furnish such additional information and make such affidavits as the administrator shall require

b. Special permits must conform: A person or organization operating under a special permit shall operate his nonprofit enterprise in compliance with this article and all other applicable rules and regulations, except as provided herein.

~~(c)~~ ~~Special permits for garage sales.~~ No garage sale, as defined within this article, shall be conducted by any person or organization without first obtaining a special permit from the business license administrator. The administrator shall issue special permits without the payment of any license fees or other charges therefor to any person or organization for the conduct or operation of a garage sale, when under the following conditions:

(1) Including the garage sale for which the permit is requested, no more than two (2) garage sales per dwelling located on a lot within a residential zoning district, as defined in the zoning ordinances of the city, will be held in the present calendar year; and for other uses allowable under this Code in residential zoning districts, no more than two (2) such sales will be held per calendar year for the requesting group or organization which forms a part of such zoning use (for example, school band or athletic team).

~~Exception. One additional sale per year shall be allowed if the sale for which the permit is requested:~~

~~a. Results from the resident of that dwelling or lot moving from that lot to another dwelling or lot; or~~

(2) The garage sale for which the permit is requested will be held only from 8:00 a.m. to sundown on weekdays and Saturdays, and from 9:00 a.m. to sundown on Sundays and holidays. The sale shall not extend for more than three (3) days.

~~(3) The placement of signs, placards, flyers, or other forms of advertising, or direction, off-premises, is strictly prohibited.~~

~~(4) If food is to be served, the applicant has first obtained the required permits from the health department.~~

(5) If the sale is to be conducted on more than one lot or dwelling, the written permission of the occupants of adjoining lots or dwellings on either side of the lots or dwellings on which the sale is to take place, is obtained.

Any person or organization to whom a special permit for a garage sale is issued shall prominently display such permit on the premises of the sale and keep same available for inspection at all times during such sale.

(1) No more than two garage sales may be conducted at any dwelling in a calendar year. However, a third garage sale may be conducted at a dwelling if the sale is conducted by a resident who is moving from the dwelling or by the estate or heir of a person who died while living at the dwelling.

(2) No more than two garage sales may be conducted at any nonresidential use located in a residential zoning district.

(6) It shall be unlawful for any person to advertise, conduct or permit to be conducted, any garage sale in violation of this section.