City officials in Belvidere, IL are now considering setting up some sort of business license system, as a way to monitor businesses, after recent search of massage parlors in the city led to 14 arrests.

Mayor Mike Chamberlain said the city doesn’t have a business licensing system because it didn’t want to hinder new operations with expenses and fees. Officials now want to consider no-cost licenses. “That gives the city the ability to pull somebody’s business license,” Chamberlain said.

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The city of Myrtle Beach, SC will be hiring an outside contractor to further regulate its already strict business licenses.

City officials say technology companies, outside contractors and people who rent through VRBO and Air B and B are the ones who are operating without business licenses.

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Would you understand if your child was ordered to pay business license fees & insurance in order to run a lemonade stand?

Anabelle Lockwood, from Fountain Valley, California, started the stand on a ‘hot summer day’ in June after spending the night squeezing lemons. She set up ‘The Loco Lemon’ in her townhouse complex on a cart her dad built for her 10th birthday and was ‘amazed’ by the response from customers…But now she has been told by Orange County health officials to pay up a total of $3,500 and about $500 per year after that if she wants to continue trading.

Local home retail business owner is upset after the city revokes her business license for the second time, feeling as though she’s being targeted. Kingwood, WV City Council has an explanation.

Preston Primitives was instructed several weeks ago to remove their sign because of violation of building permits,” Robertson [City Council meeting Recorder) said at the meeting. “They took down their sign, and through time it was placed up against their house and on weekends they brought it back to where it was. It is our opinion that it is a violation of the building permit, and they were not issued a building permit.

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