Course A
- Overview of municipal and county government (1.5 hours)
- The business licensing official: duties and responsibilities and state law authorization (1.5 hours)
- Administration: office procedures, applications and forms, and computer technology (1 hour)
- *Problem areas (2 hours)
Course B
- Business licensing procedures: "Doing business," classifications, rates / fees and
gross income (2 hours) - Freedom of Information Act (1 hour)
- Personal development communication skills (1 hour)
- *Problem areas (2 hours)
Course C
- Enforcement: Income verification, field inspections, assessments, audits, civil suits,
warrants, penalties, revocation of license, payment under protest, tort claims (2 hours) - "Swap Shop:" Open discussion with questions and answers (1 hour)
- Personal development: telephone/listening skills, effective written communications,
time management, etc. (1 hour) - *Problem areas (2 hours)
*Problem areas
Topics addressed during the problem area portions may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Agricultural Products
- Air Express and Transportation
- Alcoholic Beverages
- Automobile Dealers
- Bail Bondsmen
- Buses and Taxicabs
- Coin-Operated Amusement Machines and
- Billiard Tables
- Contractors and Subcontractors
- Credit Unions
- Fireworks
- Fortune Telling
- Fuel Dealers
- Health Maintenance Organizations
- Home Occupations
- Insurance Companies and Agencies
- Interstate Commerce
- Newspapers
- Pawnbrokers
- Peddlers, Hawkers and Itinerants
- Real Estate
- Religious and Charitable Activities
- Telecommunications
- Wholesalers