No person or entity shall engage in the operation, conduct or carrying on of any trade, profession, business or privilege within the village until the operator of such business shall have secured from the village a license to operate such business. The license required in this article shall be in addition to any vehicle license, alcoholic beverage license, building permit or fees, or any other license or permit required by this Code or state or federal law.

(Code 2024, § 3.1.8(A))

The requirements of this article shall not apply to any person or entity that meets the following criteria:

1. Any yard sale, estate sale, estate auction or the like.
2. Any religious or not-for-profit organization conducting a fundraising activity.
3. Any school, school board, parent teacher association (PTA), or any organization associated with any school conducting a fundraising activity.

(Code 2024, § 3.1.8(B))

Application for the operation of a business is available in the office of the clerk of the village and shall be made upon the form prescribed. Upon receipt of an application to operate a business, the village board shall have the sole authority to determine whether or not such application shall be approved and a license issued. No license shall be issued, nor shall approval be granted where municipal approval is required for any state or federal license, to any person or entity indebted to the village on any claim, tax, or account which is more than 60 days delinquent.

(Code 2024, § 3.1.8(C))

Unless otherwise provided, the license term shall begin on May 1 of each year and shall terminate on April 30 of the following year. Where a license is issued for less than one year, the effective date of such license shall be the date of issue.

(Code 2024, § 3.1.8(D))

A license fee as provided in the village fee schedule shall be charged for each business license issued. If application for a business license is made more than six months after the beginning of the license term as described in HVC 12.04.040, then the fee for such license shall be as provided in the village fee schedule. The license fee must be paid in full before the issuance of any license sought.

(Code 2024, § 3.1.8(E))

Any person or entity issued a business license under this article shall display such license at all times in a conspicuous location where such trade, profession, business, or privilege is operated, conducted, or carried on.

(Code 2024, § 3.1.8(F))

Unless otherwise provided, no business license shall be transferable unless such transfer is specifically authorized by the board of trustees.

(Code 2024, § 3.1.8(G))

The location of any business licensed by the village may be changed upon written notice to the clerk of the village ten days in advance of the date the business will be conducted in the new location, provided that the new location is in compliance with building codes, zoning requirements, and any other applicable requirements of all village ordinances.

(Code 2024, § 3.1.8(H))

All businesses licensed under this article shall be inspected by officials of the village semiannually to ensure that businesses comply with the ordinances of the village.

(Code 2024, § 3.1.8(I))

1. Any business license issued by the village may be suspended by any official of the village for cause, or if conditions precedent to the issue of the business license are not complied with. Notice of suspension must be in written form.
2. For the purposes of this article, the term "cause" includes the doing or omitting of any act, or permitting any condition to exist in connection with any trade, profession, business or privilege for which a license is granted on any premises or facilities used in connection therewith, which act, omission or condition is:
   1. Contrary to the health, morals, safety, or welfare of the public;
   2. Unlawful, irregular or fraudulent in nature;
   3. Not authorized or beyond the scope of the license granted;
   4. Forbidden in any ordinance or any duly or adopted rule of the village, pertaining to the trade, profession, business, privilege or act for which the license has been granted; or
   5. The failure to continue to comply with all conditions as precedent to the issuance of the license.

(Code 2024, § 3.1.8(J))

Any person or entity holding a business license issued by the village suspended according to HVC 12.04.100 shall be entitled to a hearing before the village board of trustees, provided that a written request for such hearing is filed with the clerk of the village within ten days after receipt of notice of suspension. The village board may confirm such suspension, or it may revoke or reinstate such license, as it shall deem best. The decision of the village board shall be final.

(Code 2024, § 3.1.8(K))

Any person or entity who engages in the operation, conduct or carrying on of any trade, profession, business or privilege without a license issued by the village shall be in violation of this article and shall be subject to a fine of not less than $100.00. Each day or fraction of a day that this article is violated shall constitute and be considered a separate offense.

(Code 2024, § 3.1.8(L))

1. Definitions. The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this section, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this subsection, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
   
   Amusement device means:
   1. Any automatic musical instrument and automatic motion picture machine, including phonograph, player piano, music box, juke box, or other instrument or device capable of producing or reproducing any vocal or instrument sounds and motion picture machines and motion picture sound machines which are governed or controlled by the deposit of a coin or token.
   2. Any pinball or ball table machine or marble machine or any other similar type of game or machine or table in which any ball, sphere, missile, arm, crane, rod, or plunger is struck, released, controlled or manipulated for the purpose of amusement or skill, or any machine operated by electric beam or electrical impulse or any other type of mechanical or electrical machine or game controlled or manipulated for the purpose of amusement or skill and in which a test of skill is involved, and for the playing of which a fee is charged.
   3. Any game, such as shuffleboard, played by driving with the hand on a cue or any other stick, pieces of metal, wood or other substances toward certain marks or marked squares or compartments on a table, floor or other surface, and which game is played for the purpose of amusement or skill and in which a test of skill is involved, and for the playing of which a fee is charged.
2. License required. No person shall keep or permit to be kept any amusement device in any public or private place for general operation by or for the amusement of the public without first having applied for and received a license for each amusement device.
3. Application. Applicants must file the following information with the village clerk:
   1. Name of the applicant.
   2. Description of the amusement device, including factory, model or other distinguishing number or identification.
   3. Location of the premises where the amusement device is to be kept for use.
4. License fee. The annual license fee for each amusement device kept or installed on any premises shall be as provided in the village fee schedule and shall be payable in advance on or before December 1 of each license year. No license issued shall be transferable. The license issued shall be affixed in a conspicuous place in or upon the amusement device for which it is issued.
5. Disturbance of peace and quiet prohibited. No license issued shall permit the operation of any amusement device at any place or in any manner which will disturb the peace and quiet of persons outside the premises where the amusement device is located.

(Code 2024, § 3.1.1)

No person shall keep for public use, or let for hire, gain or profit within the corporate limits of the village any billiard table, pool table, bowling alley or nine or ten pin alleys without a license. A license fee as provided in the village fee schedule is required for each billiard table, pool table bowling alley or nine or ten pin alley.

(Code 2024, § 3.1.2)

1. License required. No person shall move any building or other structure along the streets, avenues or alleys of the village without first obtaining a license as a house mover.
2. License fee and bond. Any person may obtain a license as a house mover upon the payment of an annual license fee as provided in the village fee schedule and the execution to the village of a bond in the sum of $50,000.00. Conditions:
   1. The party applying for the license will pay the village and any owner any and all damages which may occur to any trees, pavements, streets or sidewalks, telegraph, telephone or electric light wire within the village, whether the damage or injury shall be inflicted by the party or his agent, employee or workmen.
   2. A certificate of insurance shall be presented indicating that the house mover has public liability insurance in the amounts of $100,000.00 for bodily injury and $100,000.00 for property damage.
   3. The village shall be held harmless from all suits and damages to property or persons while moving any building or structure along the streets of the village.
   4. The house mover shall not cut wires but shall give 24 hours' notice to the owners of the house to move and adjust them. The house mover shall pay for expenses incurred to do so.
   5. The party (house mover) will save and indemnify and keep harmless the village from all liabilities, judgments, costs and expenses which may in any way accrue against the village in consequence of the granting of the license or any permit and will in all things comply with the ordinances of the village and all permits granted to him.
3. Building or structure fee.
   1. Any person licensed as a house mover, shall, in addition to all other licenses provided, pay to the village clerk the sum as provided in the village fee schedule for each building or structure to be moved in accordance with these provisions.
   2. Permit to issue. When such application shall have been filed, the building inspector shall have authority, in his discretion, to issue a permit to any of the parties applying for the permit to occupy portions of the streets so applied for specifying in the permit all the privileges granted within this section, with the terms and conditions of this section. The said building inspector shall see that they are fully and completely complied with. The applicant must present all permits received from the state highway department when buildings are to be moved along state highways within the corporate limits of the village.
4. Revocation. The building inspector shall have authority, in his discretion, to revoke such permits and all privileges granted and to require the removal of all material, dirt, rubbish, and obstruction of any kind placed upon the street.

(Code 2024, § 3.1.3)

1. Definitions. The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this section, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this subsection, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
   
   Kennel means a lot or premises or portion thereof, on which more than four dogs, cats, or other household domestic animals, over four months of age are to be kept, of which more than two such animals are boarded for compensation or kept for sale.
2. License required. No person shall engage in the business of buying, selling or dealing in birds, dogs, or other small animals used a household pets and for domestic purposes without first obtaining a license.
3. Application. Any person desiring a license required by this section shall make written application therefor to the village clerk, stating the name and residence of the applicant and the place at which the applicant intends or desires to carry on the business, giving the street location as well as a description of the premises.
4. Investigation and issuance. Upon the filing of an application for a license required by this section, it shall be the duty of the animal control officer to cause an investigation to be made of the premises named and described in the application for the purpose of determining the fitness and suitability of the premises for the business from a public health standpoint. The animal control officer shall submit to the village board the application, together with his recommendation for or against the issuance of the license. If the village board shall be satisfied that the applicant or its chief officers, if applicant is a corporation, is in conformity with the provisions of this section and HVC article 12.04, the village clerk, upon payment by the applicant of the license fee prescribed in this section, shall issue a license to the applicant.
5. License fee; term of license. Any person desiring a license required by this section, where not less than three and not more than a total of 20 birds, dogs, cats, and other small animals are held for sale as household pets and for domestic purposes, shall pay a license fee as provided in the village fee schedule annually; where more than 20 birds, dogs, cats, and other small animals are held for sale as household pets and for domestic purposes, the license fee shall be as provided in the village fee schedule annually. Each license issued shall expire on the third Tuesday in April following the date of issuance.
6. Supplemental to state law. The provisions of this section are in addition to, and not in replacement of, any state law.

(Code 2024, § 3.1.4)

1. Registration required. No person shall engage in business as a canvasser, solicitor, or peddler, calling at residences without the previous consent of the occupant for the purpose of soliciting orders, sales, subscriptions or business of any kind, or seeking information or donations without first having registered in the office of the village clerk.
2. Application. Applicants must file the following information with the village clerk:
   1. Name and description of the applicant;
   2. Signature;
   3. Two portrait photographs of approximately two inches by two inches;
   4. Employer's name, address, and phone number;
   5. A brief description of the nature of the business and the products to be sold;
   6. Name of the manufacturer of the products, or the organization being represented;
   7. Method of operation to sell the product.
3. Investigation and issuance. The village clerk shall investigate all information furnished by the applicant, within a period not to exceed 14 days. Each applicant who shows evidence of good character and who pays the fee, or who has been exempted from the payment of the fee, shall be furnished a certificate indicating that he or she has registered, showing the dates covered by the registration.
4. Fee and duration of permit. A license fee as provided in the village fee schedule shall be charged for seasonal non-door-to-door salespersons payable to the village clerk. The fee will cover the six-month period following the date of the license. Any organization which is exempt from taxation under the Internal Revenue laws of the United States as a bona fide fraternal, charitable, benevolent or nonprofit organization shall be exempted from the payment of the registration fee and photograph requirements. The registration fee can be paid and the certificate issued only during the working hours of the village clerk.
5. Identification. Each person shall at all times while soliciting, canvassing, or peddling in the village carry the registration certificate with a two-inch by two-inch portrait photograph attached, and the certificate with attached photograph shall be exhibited by whenever the registrant is required to do so by any enforcement officer or by any person solicited.
6. Exemptions. The provisions of this section shall not apply to officers or employees of the village, county, state, or federal government, or any subdivision when on official business.
7. Revocation. Registration may be revoked by the president of the village board or the designated village official or enforcement officer because of any violation by the registrant of this section or of any other ordinance of the village, or of any state or federal law, or whenever the registrant shall cease to possess the qualifications and character required in this section and HVC article 12.04 for the original registration.

(Code 2024, § 3.1.5)

1. License required. No trap shoots, skeet shoots or similar activities shall be held within the municipal limits of the village unless the sponsor or party holding the trap shoot, skeet shoot or similar activity shall first have secured a license from the village clerk.
2. Application for license. The village clerk may issue a license to the applicant upon the filing of the following:
   1. A written application stating where the trap shoot, skeet shoot or similar activity is to be held and the sponsor of the same; and
   2. Evidence that the sponsor has taken out insurance to protect the village against any and all claims which may arise from the conduct of such trap shoot, skeet shoot or similar activity.
3. License fee. A license fee as provided in the village fee schedule is required for each day that the trap shoot, skeet shoot or similar activity is to be conducted.

(Code 2024, § 3.1.6)

1. License required. It is unlawful for any corporation or association, not incorporated under state law, to engage in the village in effecting fire insurance or to transact any business of fire insurance in the village, while in default, by not fully complying with any of the requirements of this section, and until such requirements shall have been fully complied with; but this provision shall not relieve any company, corporation or association from the payment of any risk that may be undertaken in violation of this section and HVC article 12.04.
2. Fees. Any such corporation, company or association not incorporated under the laws of the state, which is engaged in the village in effecting fire insurance, shall pay the village treasurer for the maintenance, use and benefit of the village fire department, a sum of money equal in amount to two percent per annum of the gross receipts received as premiums upon fire insurance policies of any and all agents of such corporation, company or association, during the year ending on July 1 in each year, for any insurance effected, or agreed to be effected on property located in the village, by or with such corporation, company or association during such year.
3. Reports. Every person acting in the village as agent, for or on behalf of any such corporation, company or association shall, on or before July 15 of each and every year, render the village clerk a full, true and just account verified by his oath, of all premiums upon fire insurance policies which, during the year ending the first day of July preceding such report, shall have been received by him or by some other person for him in his behalf of any such corporation, company or association on property located in the village. Such agent shall also at the time of rendering the aforesaid report pay to the village treasurer the sum of money for which such company, corporation or association represented by him is chargeable, by virtue of the provisions of this section and HVC article 12.04.
   1. The sum of money for which such company, corporation or association is so chargeable may be recovered of it, or its or agent, by an action in the name of and for the use of the village as for money had and received. Nothing in this section shall be held to exempt any person, corporation, company or association from indictment and conviction under the provisions of the Foreign Fire Insurance License Fee Act, 65 ILCS 58/11-10-0.01 et seq.
   2. No insurance agent in the village shall have any insurance business or dealings with any company, association or corporation not incorporated under the laws of the state, which shall be in default for not reporting or making payments, until it shall have complied with all the requirements of this section.

(Code 2024, § 3.1.7)

1. Applicability of provisions. The provisions of HVC article 12.04, except as otherwise provided, shall apply to all video gaming as hereinafter defined, whether specifically licensed or regulated under other provisions of this Code or other ordinances, or not.
2. License.
   1. No person, either as owner, lessee, manager, officer or agent, or in any other capacity, shall operate or permit to be operated any video gaming terminal, as defined herein, at any premises within the village without first having obtained a video gaming license from the village. The license provided for in this section shall permit a licensee to operate video gaming terminals at the specified establishment;
   2. No applicant, including any person, either as owner, lessee, manager, officer or agent, shall be eligible for a video gaming license from the village, nor shall an existing license holder be entitled to maintain a video gaming license, unless each of the following requirements are met and continue to be met:
      1. The applicant holds the appropriate certificate or license from the state permitting video gaming and is in good standing with same;
      2. The establishment must maintain customer seating outside of the gaming area but within the premises at a ratio of at least five seats for each permitted video gaming terminal;
      3. The applicant is not in arrears in any tax, fee or bill due to the village or state;
      4. The applicant has completed and complies with all the application requirements set forth in subsection (d) of this section and is not disqualified due to a felony, gambling offense, or crime of moral turpitude; and
   3. The president shall be the approving authority for all licenses. In the event a licensee or prospective licensee disagrees with any action taken by the president, an appeal may be made directly to the president and board of trustees of the village at its next regularly scheduled meeting after written notice of the action from which an appeal is made.
3. License application requirements. The license applicant shall provide the following information to the village on a form provided by the village:
   1. The legal name of the establishment;
   2. The business name of the establishment;
   3. The address of the establishment where the video gaming terminals are to be located;
   4. A phone number for the establishment;
   5. An e-mail address for the establishment;
   6. The name and address of every person owning more than a five percent share of the establishment;
   7. The name, address, phone number and e-mail address of any terminal operator or distributor proposed to own, service or maintain video gaming terminals at the establishment;
   8. A copy of the establishment's state video gaming license.
4. Application filing; renewals.
   1. Applications shall be processed by the village clerk.
   2. Every video gaming license holder shall be required to file a renewal application, which may contain the same or similar information as set forth in subsection (c) of this section. Renewal applications shall be due on or before June 1 unless that day falls on a holiday, in which case the application may be received by the clerk on the following business day.
5. License fees.
   1. The fee for operation of a video gaming terminal shall be as provided in the village fee schedule per terminal annually.
   2. Said fees are not subject to proration or refund and are due prior to issuance of the license.
   3. All licenses required by this section shall be prominently displayed next to the video gaming terminal.
6. License revocation or suspension. The president, at any time, may notify any licensee under this section within five business days of any charge of a violation of any of the provisions of this section in connection with the operation of any video gaming terminal. After a hearing presided over by the president, the president may order the revocation of the license upon a finding that the violation has occurred, and the license shall thereupon be terminated. The licensee may appeal the revocation as prescribed in subsection (b)(3) of this section. In the event of the revocation or denial of any license or registration under this subsection, such person shall not be issued any license provided for in this article for one calendar year following the revocation or any appeal thereof.

(Code 2024, § 3.1.9)

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning. Terms not herein defined shall have the meaning customarily assigned to them.

Tobacco product means any substance containing tobacco leaf, including, but not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff, chewing tobacco or dipping tobacco.

Vending machine means any mechanical, electric or electronic, self-service device, which, upon insertion of money, tokens or other form of payment, dispenses tobacco products.

(Code 2024, § 4.13.1)

It is unlawful to sell, offer for sale at retail, to give away, deliver, or to keep with the intention of selling at retail, tobacco products within the village without first having obtained a tobacco dealer's license required by this article. Every holder of a tobacco dealer's license issued pursuant to this article shall immediately post and keep posted while in force, in a conspicuous location on the premises, the license so issued.

(Code 2024, § 4.13.2)

Application for a license hereunder shall be made in writing to the office of the village clerk on forms provided. The term of the license will be for one year, from May 1 to April 30 of the year following its issue.

(Code 2024, § 4.13.3)

The fee for a tobacco dealer's license shall be as provided in the village fee schedule per year or any part of a year thereof.

(Code 2024, § 4.13.4)

Signs informing the public of the age restrictions provided for in this article shall be posted by every retailer within the corporate limits of the village at or near every display of tobacco products for sale. Each sign shall be clearly visible and shall state: "The sale of tobacco products to persons under 21 years of age is prohibited by ordinance of the Village of Hampton."

(Code 2024, § 4.13.5)

It is unlawful for any person, including any licensee, to sell, offer for sale, buy for, give away or deliver cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco or tobacco in any of its forms to any person within the corporate limits of the village under the age of 21 years.

(Code 2024, § 4.13.6)

It is unlawful for any person under the age of 21 years to purchase, or to misrepresent their identity or age, or use any false or altered identification for the purpose of purchasing tobacco products.

(Code 2024, § 4.13.7)

It is unlawful for any person under the age of 21 years to accept, possess or consume any cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco or tobacco in any of its forms, provided that the possession or consumption by a person under the age of 21 years is under the direct supervision of the parent or guardian of such person in the privacy of the parent's or guardian's home shall not be prohibited.

(Code 2024, § 4.13.8)

It is unlawful to sell, offer for sale, give away or display tobacco products where the customer can acquire those products through self-service or from a vending machine. The licensee shall display all products from behind a sales or service counter so that no consumer can access the tobacco products without the assistance of an employee of the licensee.

(Code 2024, § 4.13.9)

1. Any person convicted of a violation of this article shall be fined in a sum not less than $75.00 nor more than $500.00.
2. Every act of omission of whatsoever nature, constituting a violation of any of the provisions of this article by any officer, director, manager or other agent or employee of any licensee shall be deemed and held to be the act of such licensee.
3. The village president may suspend or revoke any license issued under the provisions of this article, if he/she determines that the licensee has violated any of the provisions of this article and may levy a fine on the licensee. The fine imposed shall not exceed $500.00 for each violation. Each day on which a violation continues shall constitute a separate violation.
4. However, no such license shall be suspended or revoked and no licensee shall be fined except after a hearing before the village president, with not less than ten days' written notice to the licensee affording the licensee an opportunity to appear before the village president and defend against the charges contained in such notice.
5. Any licensee determined by the village president to have violated any of the provisions of this article shall, in addition to any fine imposed, pay to the village the cost of the hearing before the village president on such violation. The village president shall determine the cost incurred by the village for the hearing, including, but not limited to, court reporter fees, the cost of transcripts or records, attorney fees, the cost of preparing and mailing notices and orders and all other miscellaneous expenses incurred by the village or such lesser sum as the village president may allow.
6. The licensee shall pay the cost to the village within 30 days of notification of the cost by the village. Failure to pay the cost within 30 days is a violation of this article and may be the cause for license suspension or revocation.

(Code 2024, § 4.13.10)