If any person who desires to conduct a tenement-house has failed to apply for a license prior to the first day of January, in any year, he may apply for such license at any time during the following year; but the license issued to him shall, nevertheless, expire at the end of the current calendar year, and the charge for the application shall be the same as if the license had been applied for prior to January first.
53 P.S. § 15095