§ 6.02.060 — Business license required

6.02.060 - Business license required.

(A) It is unlawful for any person to: (1) Commence, institute, advertise, aid, carry on, engage in or continue in the City any business without a valid unexpired license issued pursuant to this Code; (2) Cause, encourage, allow or permit another, on that person's behalf, to commence, institute, advertise, aid, carry on, engage in or continue in the City any business without a valid unexpired license issued pursuant to this Code; or (3) Commence, institute, advertise, aid, conduct, manage or carry on, either permanently or temporarily, any business of any other person if the person who commences, institutes, advertises, aids, conducts, manages or carries on such business knows or should know that such other person is not licensed under this Title to commence, institute, advertise, aid, conduct, manage or carry on such business. (B) Each day or portion thereof in which a violation of any provision of Subsection (A) of this Section is committed, continued or permitted constitutes a separate offense. (C) All licenses issued under this Chapter: (1) Shall be conditioned upon the obligation of the applicant, the licensee, the principal, their employees and those acting on their behalf to refrain from exercising deliberate ignorance toward any private nuisance, public nuisance or chronic nuisance activity occurring at, or arising from, the business location or activity, and to timely abate such nuisances. Deliberate ignorance is exhibited by intentional or criminally negligent disregard of the offending condition or activity. Deliberate ignorance is done in a criminally negligent manner if it jeopardizes another's health, safety or welfare; interferes with the objectively reasonable use and enjoyment of adjacent property or any public property; or has a detrimental effect upon adjacent property values; and (2) May also be conditioned upon the licensee posting a bond in an amount determined by the Director to be reasonably appropriate to guarantee the performance or fulfillment of all conditions, or compliance with all restrictions, imposed upon the license, licensee, applicant or its principal(s). (D) A multi-jurisdictional license may be issued within specifically-identified categories to those businesses intending to operate or capable of operating in more than one licensing jurisdiction within the Southern Nevada area. Issuance of this type of license shall be in accordance with local ordinances and an interlocal agreement between or among participating jurisdictions. One license fee which is the congregate of the license fees of all participating jurisdictions will be collected by the jurisdiction in which the primary fixed business of the applicant is located. The fee will be proportionately distributed based on the fee schedule for each jurisdiction. Notwithstanding any provision of this Title, the Director is authorized, but not required, to establish fixed license renewal cycles specifically applicable to each category and to prorate license fees in the following circumstances: (1) In connection with applying new multi-jurisdictional license provisions to existing licenses; (2) Upon the initial issuance of a new multi-jurisdictional license; or (3) Upon the addition a participating jurisdiction to an existing multi-jurisdictional license.

(Ord. No. 6264, § 1, 8-21-13; Ord. No. 6164, § 4, 11-2-11; Ord. 5873 § 2, 2006: Ord. 3332 § 1, 1988: Ord. 2186 § 2 (part), 1981: prior code § 5-1-2 (A); Ord. No. 6871, § 1, 7-17-24)