Fayette Existing Businesses ordinance (§ 605.520)

A. All existing home businesses and/or trades which meet local, State and Federal requirements shall be accepted in their current state and be issued a business license upon registration and approval by the Board of Aldermen.

B. All existing home businesses and/or trades conducted from a residential dwelling shall register with the City Clerk within ninety (90) days of the effective date hereof on a form provided by the City Clerk.

C. All those persons failing to register within ninety (90) days shall be subject to the provisions herein ninety (90) days from the effective date hereof. The City Clerk shall cause public notice of this provision for registration to be printed in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Fayette.

D. The City Clerk shall cause the same written notice to be mailed within sixty (60) days of the effective date hereof to the last known address of those persons conducting home businesses and/or trades as recorded in the office of the City Clerk.

E. All residential dwellings being used for a home business and/or trade as defined herein on the effective date hereof shall, upon the sale, transfer or rental of such property, be thereafter governed by the terms set out herein.

F. No home business and/or trade existing at the effective date hereof shall increase in floor area occupied or nature of business as registered except in conformity herewith.