Any person desiring a license to sell and dispose of such trees within the city shall make application therefor to the city. Such application shall specifically state and set forth the source of title to the trees to be sold and whether said trees, or any of them, were cut or procured within any public domain of the United States, or of the state of Utah, or from any private lands, either within or without the state of Utah. Applicants shall be required in connection with such application to furnish the city with evidence of ownership of such trees and/or authority to cut and procure the same from the public domain or from the private lands. [Code 2000 § 16-5-3].