Osharmar Williams, 37, owner and operator of Cellular City in Irmo, is accused of continuing to run his business, after the S.C. Department of Revenue revoked his license for failing to pay more than $24,000 in business taxes, according to an agency news release.

They went around and asked, ‘Do you have a license to sell? If you don’t have a license to sell, you have to shut down,'” she said.

The Department of Revenue and Taxation “is trying to make sure everyone who does business on Guam has the appropriate license,” Governor’s Communications Director Oyaol Ngirairikl said Saturday. “This morning’s effort was part of that.”

Sales of recreational marijuana began on Monday, January 1, after Californians voted to legalize the drug in the 2016 election. The market’s debut brings an end to prohibition in the most populous state, which is now also the biggest legal marijuana market in America.

Adults over the age of 21 can now use, carry, and buy up to an ounce of marijuana for non-medical use, and grow as many as six plants at home, without a doctor’s letter.

A bill that passed during the special legislative session is expected to create 11 new liquor licenses in the next four years that will stay in Belgrade.

In fiscal year 2018 the bill is expected to bring in roughly $2.5 million to the state’s general fund, according to a fiscal note attached to the bill.

Phillips said one purpose of the new ordinance is to assure the city knows who is responsible in the event of a fire, windstorm or other incident that damages a business.

In the past, he said, some uninsured structures were destroyed by fire, and the city ended up paying cleanup costs.

“So this is to try and alleviate the taxpayer from having to pick up the tab for somebody who didn’t maintain insurance on their building,” he said.

Growers, processors and provisioning centers can operate out of the same location if it is OK with the municipality and if they have “distinct and identifiable areas” and separate entrances and exits. Visitor logs must be kept, and video surveillance is required inside the businesses.

The city and county of Los Angeles are expected to become the capital of cannabis once the state of California’s regulated adult-use market is up and running. While Denver, Colorado, may have grabbed all of the early attention, California’s market numbers will be hard to top.

The vendor, Beto Matias, told ABC station KGO-TV in San Francisco, “I was in a state of shock when I saw he was taking my money.”

Officer Sean Aranas told KGO that the cash was taken as evidence and that he was acting on orders from a supervisor to issue a citation.

The policy got extra attention when a longtime business owner complained the requirement infringed upon his constitutional rights.

…The village board implemented the ordinance in 2008, after a resident complained about being cheated by a business owner with a criminal record.

Even though hat-wearing is no longer a popular fashion, the city still has an ordinance mandating businesses that wash hats get a license. The ordinance was written for a time when people would drop their expensive hats off at businesses that only cleaned hats, according to Kevin Jones, the manager of the city’s Business License Division. Those businesses no longer exist in Detroit.