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ORDINANCE NO. 2288-05
CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO BUSINESSES OPERATING
WITHOUT A LICENSE, PROVIDING FOR AN INVESTIGATIVE
FEE AND AMENDING CITY CODE SECTION 8-191
THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK DOES ORDAIN:
SECTION 1. Section 8-191 of the St. Louis Park Ordinance Code is amended by adding the
following:
(d) Any person who commences operation of a business without a license may be
charged an additional investigative fee at the time the license is initially issued in an amount
established in the City's fee ordinance. Whether the person will be charged an investigative fee
will be determined administratively by the City Manager or designee based upon the amount of
investigative time and effort expended by the City in generally policing the City for unlicensed
businesses and in bnnging the particular offending business into compliance
SECTION 2. Section 8-33 of the city code states that all fess for licensing shall be
set by City Council. Investigative fee shall be $300 per establishment requiring a
business license.
SECTION 3. The fees set in Section 2 above shall be included in Appendix A of the
city code with other fees and charges called for by ordinance.
ION 4. This Ordinance shall take effect fifteen days after its publication.
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City Manager
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ed by the City Council February 7, 2005
Cit' Attorney
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(A) The newspaper has complied with all of the requirements constituting qualification as a
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(B) The printed public notice that is attached was published in the newspaper once each
week, for one successive week(s), it was first published on Thursday, the 17 day
of February , 2005, and was thereafter printed and published on every Thursday
to and including Thursday, the day of , 2005; and printed below is
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Subscribed and sworn to or affirmed before me
on this 17th day of February , 2005.
RATE INFORMATION
(1) Lowest classified rate paid by commercial users
for comparable space
102) Maximum rate allowed by law
(3) Rate actually charged
$ 2 85 per line
$ 6 20 per line
$ 1.30 per line
City of St. Louis Park
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SUMMARY
ORDINANCE NO 2288-05
AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO BUSINESSES
OPERATING WITHOUT A LICENSE, PROVIDING
FOR AN INVESTIGATIVE FEE AND AMENDING
CITY CODE SECTION 8-191
-This oidinance establishes an investigatne fee for new
businesses that operate without the required business li-
cense The proposed mdmance amendment is intended to
iecove, City incurred expenses when a business iequired
to be licensed begins operating without (list obtaining
such license and to encourage compliance with standard
licensing procedures
This mdmance shall take efTcd Mei ch 15 2005
Adopted by the City Council Fein wu y 7 2005
Jeffrey W Jacobs /s/
Mayor
A copy of the full text of this ordinance is available for in-
spection with the City Clerk -
Publish in Si Louis Palk Sailor February 17 2005
Feb 17 20051ad/SumOrd 2288 Invest fee