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A. Monetary Penalty. Failure to pay the license fee with thirty days after the day on which it is due and payable shall render the business enterprise subject to a penalty of five percent of the amount of the license fee for the first month of the delinquency and an additional penalty of five percent for each succeeding month of delinquency, but not exceeding a total penalty of twenty-five percent of the amount of such license fee in any event.

B. Collection. Any license fee or tax due and unpaid and delinquent under this chapter, and all penalties thereon may be collected by civil action, which remedy shall be in addition to any and all other existing remedies and penalties.

C. Revocation of License. The city clerk may revoke any license issued pursuant to this chapter to any business enterprise or other person who is in default in any payment of any license fee hereunder, or who shall fail to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter. Notice of such revocation shall be mailed to the license holder by the city clerk and on and after the date thereof any such business enterprise who continues to engage in business shall be deemed to be operating without a license and shall be subject to any and all penalties herein provided.

D. Criminal Penalty. Any business enterprise violating or failing to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter or any lawful rule or regulation adopted by the city council pursuant thereto, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine in a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in jail for a term not exceeding ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (Ord. 778 § 2, 1994; Ord. 297 § 9, 1976).