5.48.020 VETERANS.

(a) Every peddler, solicitor or other person, claiming to be entitled to exemption from the payment of any tax or permit fee provided for in this title upon the ground that he or she is an honorably discharged or released soldier, sailor, or marine of the United States, who is physically unable to obtain a livelihood by manual labor and who is a qualified elector of the state, as provided, or hereafter to be provided, by any law of this state, shall file with the bureau an affidavit giving his or her name, address, and those of his or her employer, if any, stating that applicant is an honorably discharged solider, sailor, or marine, and is physically unable to obtain a livelihood by manual labor and containing such other information as may be required by the license bureau.

(b) Such an applicant, at the time of the filing of the affidavit, shall also file the following:

(1) A certificate of a regularly licensed and practicing physician dated within six months of such application, to the effect that such applicant is physically unable to obtain a livelihood by manual labor, and stating the nature of such incapacitation;

(2) A photograph of applicant taken within sixty days immediately prior to the date of filing such application, and showing head and shoulders of applicant;

(3) A set of applicant's fingerprints;

(4) A certified or photographed copy of such honorable discharge, or similar document entitling applicant to such exemption;

(5) Such other documents as may be required by the license bureau.

(c) A service charge of five dollars shall be made at time of filing such application for expenses in connection therewith, and paid to Tax Collector.

(d) No such applicant shall engage in such a business without payment of a business tax under the provisions of this title, for the business in which such applicant intends to engage, unless a certificate of exemption, under the provisions of this section, has first been issued to the applicant by the Tax Collector.

(e) In the event such certificate has been refused, the applicant may appeal to the Council. The provisions of Chapter 5.18 with reference to the notice, place and time of the hearing, and all procedure in connection therewith shall apply in the event of such appeal.

(f) If, at such hearing, the Council has found that the applicant is an honorably discharged or released soldier, sailor, or marine, is physically unable to obtain a livelihood by manual labor, and is a qualified elector of the state, the Council shall cause a certificate of exemption to be issued. If the Council at hearing has found otherwise, it shall deny the exemption.

(g) All findings of the Council shall be final and conclusive on the applicant.