Ordinance 13-11

This ordinance: • Deletes provisions and regulations of the Title 4 that are no longer necessary; particularly those chapters which require the licensing of the following: carnivals; circuses; merry-go-rounds; museums; shooting galleries; skating rinks; theaters; pool tables; jitneys; and horse-drawn vehicles for hire. • Updates the chapter regulating taxicabs, since no update has occurred in the last thirty years, to do the following: increase the number of passengers a taxicab can carry from six to eight; require insurance in accordance with the City’s Risk Department’s established amounts; require the safety inspections of all taxicabs to be conducted by an independent inspector instead of the City’s Police Department; and establish a new procedure for the revocation of a license and new penalty provisions that are in line with other chapters of the City’s municipal code. • Amends the chapters regulating pawnshops and secondhand dealers in three keys ways: (1) eliminate the license fee; (2) establish a new procedure for the revocation of a license and new penalty provisions that are in line with other chapters of the City’s municipal code; and (3) require all such businesses to electronically transfer information regard n/a n/a • Adds a new chapter to the municipal code, Chapter 4.22, entitled Dealers in Valuable Metals. This new chapter will require all dealers in valuable metals to be licensed by the city and will further require said dealers to electronically transfer information regarding any item purchased within 48 hours of the purchase via a law enforcement website designated as an agent of the City of Bloomington Police Department.