§ 5.5. Not to be issued to persons owing license taxes to city; exceptions.

No license for any ensuing, current or unexpired license period shall knowingly be issued to any person who at the time of making application for any license is indebted to the city for any unpaid license tax required to be paid under the provisions of any ordinance of the city; provided, that the city clerk, or his duly authorized deputy, may enter into an agreement with any person indebted to the city for the nonpayment of license taxes for any past license period, agreeing with such persons that payment of delinquent license taxes for any past license period may be made in equal installments extending over a period not to exceed one year. By such agreement, the debtor shall acknowledge to the city and agree, in case default be made in the payment of any installment arranged to be paid thereunder, that the whole amount agreed to be paid shall become immediately due and payable. The debtor shall acknowledge to the city and agree that in case suit be brought to enforce the collection of the amount to be paid under such agreement, that the debtor will pay all costs of suit incurred by the city. When such agreement is executed, licenses for any current or ensuing period may be issued to the debtor upon such person paying the tax prescribed for the current or ensuing license period, together with penalties, if any. (Ord. No. 802, § 6; Ord. No. 868, § 6; Ord. No. 871; Ord. No. 1055, § 2, Exh. A.)