Business Licenses and Permits

San Clemente, California is planning to repeal a business license code that charges tattoo shop owners $20 a day.

Currently people who want to open such an establishment face a daily business license fee charge under a regulation that dates back decades, the Orange County Register reported.

However, officials are looking to amend the code to help a tattoo shop that is opening this year.

Susie Floyd will be the first person to open a tattoo store in San Clemente and would thus be the only one ever subjected to the code, designed to discourage such establishments.

While other applicants had claimed that the code was unfair, Ms. Floyd was the first to not back down and city staff have been forced to review the code after a precedent was discovered in Hermosa Beach.

The code also applied to fortune telling businesses, which will now be able to avoid the $20 daily fee as well.

San Clemente is a small town founded in the late 1920s and has grown in popularity over recent years.

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