City staff preview sweeping business-license code rewrite, propose tighter insurance and background checks
Aug 24, 2026
City staff presented three draft ordinances to recodify Chapter 2 business licensing: renaming the 'general' business license, reorganizing license types, updating insurance minimums to industry standards, adding state-required fingerprint-based background checks for massage business employees, changing private security titles and shortening temporary permits, and extending residential mobile-vendor hours to 9 p.m.
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City clerk’s office staff, represented by licensing enforcement officer Billy McCray, presented a multiyear code-scrub effort that would repeal and replace parts of Chapter 2 (items 7B–7D) to reorganize business-licensing provisions, clarify structure and update terminology and insurance requirements.
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