A local worker in a bar wrote us a message recently worried about new code enforcements being currently rewritten not just for street vendors as we posted about in a recent story, but for a wide range of businesses including bars, restaurants and city event planners.
They pointed us to a City of Reno page called Business License Code Revision, with a planned update to City Council in August, more work on the draft proposal in September, and a presentation to the Council in October.
The city’s website indicates City Council directed staff to pursue a comprehensive rewrite of Reno Municipal Code Title 4 “Business License Code” and Title 5 “Privileged Licenses, Permits and Franchises.”
“They are trying to enforce these new codes which would require employees to have to apply and get a background check and a work permit if you work in those types of industries,” they wrote.
“Also there’s a red line in there that says any bar to be open would require you to have a paying employee scanning IDs every single day of the week you are open. Another clause says that any employee with a misdemeanor or felony within the last five years is unable to apply for this so called work permit… Another clause that says brewers or any sort of distiller is not allowed more then four one ounce samples of alcohol during their shift… The city has pretty much grabbed a bunch of stuff from all these other cities,” they added, not sounding pleased.
Different chapters concern adult cabarets, alcoholic beverages, cannabis establishments, gaming, massage parlors and therapists, non-motorized vehicles for hire, pawnbrokers, lodging, secondhand dealers, sidewalk vendors, solicitors, canvassers, special events, tobacco and vehicle towing among others.
Residents can still send emails to BLCode@reno.gov about this.