§ 66-405. Booting service business licensed to operate in the city.

(a)

A booting service business licensed to operate in the city shall: No booting service business shall operate within the city, without first being licensed by the department of safety and permits, and any other applicable city departments.

(1)

Use a unique name which shall be clearly distinguishable from any other booting service business.

(2)

Maintain a business office in the city. Provide an office in the city open 24 hours a day, seven days a week to receive payment to remove a boot.

(3)

Provide fingerprints of each owner, general partner, officer, principal director and stockholder owning ten percent or more of the business. Each person shall state if he has been charged or convicted of any crime or city code violation within the past ten years preceding the date of application, including the specific charge, the status, the date of conviction, place of conviction and sentence for such violation. Each applicant shall provide the fingerprints required by the department of police and pay all necessary fees. The department of police shall provide to the director of the department of safety and permits all available information regarding any charges or arrests it may possess regarding any applicant or employees of the booting service business. The director of the department of safety and permits shall have the right to reject the application based on any possible previous violations. The applicant may appeal the rejection to the city council within ten calendar days of such rejection. The director of the department of safety and permits shall immediately revoke the license for any false, incomplete or inaccurate information provided the city.

(4)

Provide fingerprints of all employees placing or removing boots. Said employees shall be free from addiction to alcohol or any narcotic or drug, not have been convicted of any felony or driving while intoxicated, and be at least 18 years old.

(5)

Follow all of the requirements contained in section 66-403.

(6)

Possess a minimum $150,000.00 surety bond acceptable to the director of the department of safety and permits.

(7)

Each applicant for a booting service business license under this article shall at all times keep in full force and effect a public liability insurance policy written by an insurance company authorized to do business in the State of Louisiana in the following amounts: $250,000.00 for injury or death to one person, $500,000.00 for each injury or death from each occurrence, and $100,000.00 for property damage. Proof of the required insurance must be submitted to the department of safety and permits.

(b)

The superintendent of police may authorize paid details to only those booting service businesses having all of the necessary city licenses and permits, and meeting all of the requirements contained in this article.

(c)

Records shall be kept a minimum of five years, and shall be made available to city inspectors upon request during normal working hours at the booting service business or at the offices of the city.

(d)

Any booting service business that violates any provisions of this section as determined by the director of the department of safety and permits, unless otherwise stated, may have its license to operate immediately revoked or suspended for up to one year, and may not reapply for a new license for at lease one year from said revocation or suspension. No person listed in subsection (a)(3) above associated with one booting service company may apply with another booting service company for at least one year following the license revocation of the first company.

(e)

Any booting service business that operates within the city without the necessary license(s) and permits shall be fined $500.00 for each day in violation or for each boot placed without the necessary license, whichever is greater.

(f)

The annual license fee shall be $250.00 to be paid when application is filed. All licenses shall expire on September first of each year subject to renewal year to year thereafter.

(Ord. No. 19,838, § 1, 10-5-00; Ord. No. 19,860, § 1, 10-19-00)