[CC 1984 §8-50; Rev. M.C. 1963 §31.25; Ord. No. 2823 §1, 12-19-1966; Ord. No. 3140 §8-27; Ord.
No. 3767 §1, 12-7-1981; Ord. No. 4235 §1, 9-6-1988; Ord. No. 4952 §1, 9-19-2005]
All merchants as defined in this Chapter, except as may otherwise
be provided by this Code or by ordinance, shall pay to the City as
an annual merchant's license fee, at such times as provided in this
Chapter, one dollar seventy-five cents ($1.75) per one thousand dollars
($1,000.00) or fraction thereof of gross receipts during the license
year, provided however, the minimum fee shall be thirty dollars ($30.00).
[CC 1984 §5-28; Ord. No. 3958 §1, 9-6-1983]
A.
Every
applicant, before being granted a license under this Article, shall
pay the following annual license fee for the privilege of operating
or maintaining for operation each mechanical amusement device, vending
machine or juke box:
[CC 1984 §8-51; Rev. M.C. 1963 §31.26; Ord. No. 2899 §1, 1-6-1968; Ord. No. 3140 §8-36; Ord.
No. 3170 §1, 7-1-1974; Ord. No. 4235 §1, 9-6-1988; Ord. No. 4952 §1, 9-19-2005; Ord. No. 5048 §1, 11-19-2007]
A.
All businesses
and occupations, unless otherwise provided in this Chapter or by ordinance,
shall pay to the City, at the times provided in this Chapter, a minimum
annual license fee of thirty dollars ($30.00).
B.
The following businesses and occupations shall pay an annual license fee computed by and based upon the formula set forth in Section 605.240:
C.
The following
businesses or occupations shall pay a business or occupation license
fee as indicated:
|
|
Business or Occupation
|
License Fee Per Annum
| |
|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Bakery trucks or wagons
|
$25.00 per truck
| |
|
|
Barbershop
|
$5.00 per chair or $30.00 minimum
| |
|
|
Billiard and pool tables
|
$10.00 per table
| |
|
|
Brokers, business done under $22,000.00
|
$30.00 per year
| |
|
|
Brokers, business done in excess of $22,000.00
|
$1.00 per each 1,000 or fraction thereof per year
| |
|
|
Carnivals, circuses, street fairs and exhibition
|
$50.00 for first 24 hours
| |
|
|
for each subsequent day
|
$20.00
| |
|
|
Dances or balls, public, unless given for religious, educational
or fraternal purposes
|
$50.00 per dance
| |
|
|
Delivery vehicles
|
$20.00 per vehicle
| |
|
|
Drays
|
$20.00 per dray
| |
|
|
Exhibitions, boxing, sparring and wrestling
|
$100.00 per day
| |
|
|
Exhibitions, theatrical, other than for charitable, religious
or benevolent purposes
|
$10.00 first day
| |
|
|
for each subsequent day
|
$5.00
| |
|
|
Hotels and motels (based on number of rooms)
|
$10.00 per room
| |
|
|
Laundry vehicles
|
$10.00 per vehicle
| |
|
|
Merry-go-rounds
|
$50.00 per week or fractional part of a week
| |
|
|
Parades by circuses or money-making concern
|
$20.00 per day
| |
|
|
Pool and billiard tables
|
$10.00 per table
| |
[CC 1984 §8-109; Rev. M.C. 1963 §32.04; Ord. No. 3140 §8-59; Ord. No. 4235 §1, 9-6-1988]
A.
Unless
otherwise provided, a manufacturer shall within fifteen (15) days
after the beginning of each license year pay to the City the following
prescribed annual license fees:
1.
Manufacturer
having not more than five (5) employees: $25.00;
2.
Manufacturer
having more than five (5) but not more than fifteen (15) employees:
$75.00;
3.
Manufacturer
having more than fifteen (15) but not more than twenty-five (25) employees:
$125.00;
4.
Manufacturer
having more than twenty-five (25) but not more than fifty (50) employees:
$250.00;
5.
Manufacturer
having more than fifty (50) but not more than seventy-five (75) employees:
$350.00;
6.
Manufacturer
having more than seventy-five (75) but not more than one hundred (100)
employees: $425.00;
7.
Manufacturer
having more than one hundred (100) employees: $500.00.
B.
The fees
shall be due and payable at the time of commencing operations or business
by the manufacturer and thereafter within fifteen (15) days after
the beginning of each license year.
[CC 1984 §8-52; Rev. M.C. 1963 §31.26; Ord. No. 2899 §2, 1-6-1968; Ord. No. 3140 §8-37; Ord.
No. 3423 §2, 7-5-1977; Ord. No. 4952 §1, 9-19-2005; Ord. No. 5048 §§2 — 4, 11-19-2007]
The following businesses and occupations shall pay annual license
fees as indicated, except that any business or occupation for which
a set fee is indicated shall pay at least five dollars ($5.00) for
every person regularly employed or associated in such business during
the preceding license year. The license fee shall be the higher of
the set fee or the computed fee. The license for a new business shall
be based upon an estimate of the number of regular employees or associates
of such business during the license year. A regular employee or associate
shall be one who works in the service of the licensee twenty (20)
hours or more per week during thirty (30) or more weeks per year.
|
Business or Occupation
|
License Fee
Per Annum
| |
|---|---|---|
|
Abstracters
|
$50.00
| |
|
Accounting offices
|
$30.00
| |
|
Addressing business
|
$30.00
| |
|
Adjusters of all kinds
|
$30.00
| |
|
Agency for breweries
|
$30.00
| |
|
Agency for collections
|
$30.00
| |
|
Agency for coffee and tea
|
$30.00
| |
|
Agency for express
|
$30.00
| |
|
Agency for insurance companies
|
$30.00
| |
|
Agency for manufacturers
|
$30.00
| |
|
Agency for mercantile companies
|
$30.00
| |
|
Agency for merchants
|
$30.00
| |
|
Agency for pianos and organs
|
$30.00
| |
|
Agency for ready-made clothing
|
$30.00
| |
|
Agency for real estate
|
$30.00
| |
|
Agency for rental collections
|
$30.00
| |
|
Agency for sewing machines
|
$30.00
| |
|
Agencies for other kinds
|
$30.00
| |
|
Amusement parks
|
$50.00
| |
|
Amusements, not listed under other classes
|
$30.00
| |
|
Architects
|
$30.00
| |
|
Artists
|
$30.00
| |
|
Asphalt and concrete paving contractors
|
$30.00
| |
|
Auctioneers
|
$30.00
| |
|
Automated Teller Machines (ATM)
|
$500.00 per machine
| |
|
Automobile painting shop
|
$30.00
| |
|
Automobile repair shops, mechanical or body
|
$30.00
| |
|
Automobile washing and oiling establishments
|
$50.00
| |
|
Banks and trust companies
|
$500.00
| |
|
Baseball parks
|
$30.00
| |
|
Beauty parlors
|
$30.00
| |
|
Beer depots
|
$1,000.00
| |
|
Blacksmith shops
|
$30.00
| |
|
Blueprint service
|
$30.00
| |
|
Bookbinders
|
$30.00
| |
|
Bottling works
|
$100.00
| |
|
Breweries
|
$1,000.00
| |
|
Brick contractors
|
$30.00
| |
|
Bridge contractors
|
$30.00
| |
|
Builders and building contractors
|
$30.00
| |
|
Building maintenance business
|
$30.00
| |
|
Cement contractors
|
$30.00
| |
|
Cigarette wholesalers
|
$30.00
| |
|
Cleaning and dyeing establishments
|
$30.00
| |
|
Clothes rental
|
$30.00
| |
|
Coin-operated dry cleaners
| ||
|
1--5 units
|
$30.00
| |
|
6--11 units
|
$50.00
| |
|
12 units or more
|
$75.00
| |
|
Collection agency
|
$30.00
| |
|
Construction equipment rental agency
|
$30.00
| |
|
Commission merchants
|
$30.00
| |
|
Correspondence, business, dramatic, modeling or speech schools
or agencies
|
$30.00
| |
|
Credit unions
|
$500.00 per location
| |
|
Dairies
|
$30.00
| |
|
Dance halls
|
$50.00
| |
|
Dancing schools, academies or dancing lessons
|
$30.00
| |
|
Data processing office or facility
|
$50.00
| |
|
Day nurseries
|
$30.00
| |
|
Delivery and messenger service
|
$30.00
| |
|
Diaper and linen rental service
|
$30.00
| |
|
Dry cleaning depot
|
$30.00
| |
|
Elevator and escalator business
|
$30.00
| |
|
Employment offices
|
$50.00
| |
|
Excavating contractors
|
$30.00
| |
|
Express companies
|
$30.00
| |
|
Exterminators and disinfectors
|
$30.00
| |
|
Finance office or company
|
$100.00
| |
|
Flour mills
|
$50.00
| |
|
Foundries
|
$200.00
| |
|
Frozen food lockers or service
|
$30.00
| |
|
Funeral homes or undertakers
|
$30.00
| |
|
Fur storage
|
$30.00
| |
|
Garages, repair
|
$30.00
| |
|
Gaugers and inspectors
|
$30.00
| |
|
Hall, public
|
$30.00
| |
|
Hairdressers and beauty parlors
|
$30.00
| |
|
Health club and schools
|
$50.00
| |
|
Hospitals for profit
|
$1,000.00
| |
|
Ice plants
|
$200.00
| |
|
Inspectors
|
$30.00
| |
|
Insurance agency
|
$30.00
| |
|
Insurance companies
|
$250.00
| |
|
Insurance company branch office
|
$100.00
| |
|
Intelligence officers
|
$40.00
| |
|
Investigators (private)
|
$30.00
| |
|
Junk dealers
|
$500.00
| |
|
Land title business
|
$50.00
| |
|
Laundromats, coin-operated
|
$30.00
| |
|
Laundries
|
$30.00
| |
|
Laundry agents
|
$30.00
| |
|
Loan agents
|
$40.00
| |
|
Loan and finance companies
|
$100.00
| |
|
Locksmith
|
$30.00
| |
|
Lecturers, public
|
$30.00
| |
|
Mail order houses
|
$30.00
| |
|
Masseurs
|
$30.00
| |
|
Menageries
|
$50.00
| |
|
Messenger service
|
$30.00
| |
|
Money brokers
|
$50.00
| |
|
Money changers
|
$50.00
| |
|
Money transportation business
|
$50.00
| |
|
Museums
|
$200.00
| |
|
Newspaper offices
|
$30.00
| |
|
Nurseries
|
$30.00
| |
|
Nursery schools, preschool
|
$30.00
| |
|
Nursery stock agents
|
$30.00
| |
|
Opera houses
|
$50.00
| |
|
Opticians
|
$30.00
| |
|
Painting contractors
|
$30.00
| |
|
Paperhangers, contractors
|
$30.00
| |
|
Pawnbrokers
|
$50.00
| |
|
Photographers
|
$30.00
| |
|
Planning mills
|
$30.00
| |
|
Plumbers and plumbing contractors
|
$30.00
| |
|
Printing plants (not newspapers)
|
$50.00
| |
|
Private parks
|
$30.00
| |
|
Private investigators or detectives
|
$30.00
| |
|
Public grounds
|
$30.00
| |
|
Public halls, not classed as dance halls
|
$30.00
| |
|
Public meetings
|
$30.00
| |
|
Ready-mix concrete business
|
$100.00
| |
|
Real estate business or agency
|
$30.00
| |
|
Record processing office or facility
|
$50.00
| |
|
Reducing and health salons
|
$50.00
| |
|
Rooming houses
|
$200.00
| |
|
Sales and/or service office or store
|
$30.00
| |
|
Sales representatives
|
$30.00
| |
|
Savings and loan companies
|
$50.00
| |
|
Sewer contractors
|
$30.00
| |
|
Sewing machine agents
|
$30.00
| |
|
Sheet metal contractors and tinners
|
$30.00
| |
|
Shoe repair shops and cobblers
|
$30.00
| |
|
Shoe shining parlors
|
$30.00
| |
|
Shooting galleries
|
$30.00
| |
|
Sign painters
|
$30.00
| |
|
Skating rinks
|
$50.00
| |
|
Steamfitters
|
$30.00
| |
|
Stone contractors
|
$30.00
| |
|
Storage warehouse
|
$50.00
| |
|
Swimming pools
|
$50.00
| |
|
Tailor shops
|
$30.00
| |
|
Tinners
|
$30.00
| |
|
Title examiners
|
$30.00
| |
|
Travel agency
|
$30.00
| |
|
Tree trimmer surgeon
|
$30.00
| |
|
Upholsters
|
$30.00
| |
|
Warehouses, also storage houses
|
$50.00
| |
|
Wholesale houses
|
$100.00
| |
|
Wholesale storage places for gasoline
|
$100.00
| |
|
Wholesale storage places for oil
|
$100.00
| |
|
Window cleaning and janitor service
|
$30.00
| |
[Ord. No. 4944 §2, 7-18-2005]
A.
Any person
desiring to provide temporary or seasonal sales or services shall
file an application with the City Manager or his or her designee for
approval. The application shall contain all pertinent information
as required by the City, including the sales tax number of the business,
the nature of the proposed sales or services, and the dates of operation.
Each business required to have a sales tax number must use a cash
register to register all sales therefore.
B.
Such
applications may be approved by the City Manager or his or her designee,
if the applicant complies with the following provisions:
1.
The
proposed temporary or seasonal usage must be in compliance with all
applicable Richmond Heights zoning regulations.
2.
Written
permission of the property owner or property manager for specific
dates and locations must be filed with the application.
3.
Receipt
of a copy of a sales tax license for the use issued by the State of
Missouri.
C.
Upon
approval of the application, the applicant shall pay to the City of
Richmond Heights a business license fee as outlined below:
1.
For
a temporary merchant open for business from one (1) day to seven (7)
days, the license fee shall be sixty-five dollars ($65.00).
2.
For
a temporary merchant open for business from eight (8) to fourteen
(14) days, the license fee shall be seventy dollars ($70.00).
3.
For
a temporary merchant open for business from fifteen (15) to twenty-one
(21) days, the license fee shall be seventy-five dollars ($75.00).
4.
For
a temporary merchant open for business from twenty-two (22) to thirty
(30) days, the license fee shall be eighty dollars ($80.00).
5.
For
a seasonal merchant open for business from thirty-one (31) days to
ninety (90) days, the license fee shall be the greater of the estimated
gross receipts for the time period or two hundred dollars ($200.00).
[CC 1984 §8-53; Rev. M.C. 1963 §31.26; Ord. No. 3140 §8-29; Ord. No. 3423 §1, 7-5-1977; Ord. No. 4235 §1, 9-6-1988; Ord.
No. 4944 §1, 7-18-2005]
A.
No person
shall solicit, canvass or call from house to house except those persons
engaged in solicitations for charitable or eleemosynary purposes who
have first filed an application for such charitable solicitation with
the City Manager or his/her designee and secured approval for such
solicitation from the City Manager.
B.
The application
for such charitable solicitation permit shall be accompanied by a
copy of the permit issued to the applicant from the St. Louis County
Charitable Solicitations Commission.
C.
This
Section shall not apply to any person engaged in the delivery of goods,
wares, merchandise or other articles or things in the regular course
of business to premises of persons having ordered or entitled to receive
the goods.
[CC 1984 §8-54; Rev. M.C. 1963 §31.26; Ord. No. 3140 §8-30; Ord. No. 4235 §1, 9-6-1988]
A.
No person
shall conduct a carnival or circus or any similar activity within
the City without first securing a license.
B.
No license
shall be issued to any person who has not been a resident of the City
for at least two (2) years, nor to any partnership, corporation, association
or organization which has not maintained its principal headquarters
within the City for at least two (2) years.
C.
This
Section does not apply to any carnival or similar activity conducted
exclusively by or for any church or church organization.
D.
Application
for a carnival or circus license shall be made in writing to the City
Manager. The application shall be accompanied by a petition containing
the consent of eighty percent (80%) of the residents within the block
of the proposed site and within all blocks adjoining such block or
within an area bounded by lines drawn parallel to and three hundred
(300) feet distant from the proposed site.
E.
The application
shall be referred by the City Manager to the Plan and Zoning Commission
for their recommendation before action on the application is taken
by the City Manager. In the event that the Plan and Zoning Commission
does not file its recommendation within forty-five (45) days, the
approval of the Commission shall be considered given.
F.
Upon the recommendation of the Planning and Zoning Commission, the City Manager shall issue a license. The license fee shall be as prescribed in Section 605.260.
G.
No license
shall be issued for a period of more than four (4) days nor for operation
on any Sunday.
H.
No carnival,
circus or other activity shall continue in operation after 1:30 A.M.
on weekdays nor after 12:00 Midnight on Saturdays.
[CC 1984 §8-61; Rev. M.C. 1963 §31.26; Ord. No. 3140 §8-32]
A.
As used
in this Section, the term "motor vehicle" shall be
deemed to include but shall not be limited to automobiles, trucks,
motorcycles, motorbikes, motor scooters and all other self-propelled
vehicles not operated exclusively on tracks.
B.
No person
shall engage in the business or occupation of selling or leasing trailers
or motor vehicles of any kind or description without first having
obtained a license from the City.
C.
The license
fee applicable for such business or occupation shall be based on a
volume group determined by the number of trailers or motor vehicles
received annually for sale or lease from a manufacturer, distributor,
agency or individual, as follows:
|
|
Units Received
|
Volume Group
|
Fee Per Year
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
|
1 to 100
|
I
|
$100.00
|
|
101 to 200
|
II
|
$150.00
| |
|
201 to 300
|
III
|
$200.00
| |
|
301 to 400
|
IV
|
$250.00
| |
|
401 to 500
|
V
|
$300.00
| |
|
501 and more
|
VI
|
$500.00
|
[CC 1984 §§8-62 — 8-63; Rev. M.C. 1963 §31.26; Ord. No. 3140 §8-34; Ord. No. 4235 §1, 9-6-1988]
A.
Permit — Application Contents — Plat.
1.
No person
shall operate and maintain a billiard or pool table room in the City
without first obtaining a permit from the City Manager.
2.
Any
person desiring to obtain a permit for the operation and maintenance
of a billiard or pool room shall submit a written application to the
City Manager which shall state:
a.
The
name, home address and proposed business address of the applicant;
b.
A
general description of the building and premises where such operation
shall be maintained;
c.
The
number of billiard and pool tables to be operated and the number of
motor vehicle parking spaces available on the premises which will
be available for off-street parking of the patrons;
d.
The
hours of operation of the proposed billiard or pool room; and
e.
Any
other information the City Manager deems necessary to effectuate the
purpose of this Section.
3.
The
application shall be accompanied by a plat or drawing of the proposed
billiard or pool room showing:
B.
Special Regulations.
1.
The
City Manager may authorize a permit for the operation and maintenance
of a billiard or pool room under the following regulations:
a.
Provide
an unobstructed view of the interior of the room from the outside;
b.
Be
located on the ground floor of the building in which it is located;
c.
Not
permit the sale, use or consumption of any beverage having an alcoholic
content on the premises;
d.
Not
have more than one (1) private and one (1) public coin-operated telephone
serving its premises;
e.
Not
operate nor be open for business between the hours of 1:00 A.M. Sunday
and 1:00 P.M., nor between the hours of 1:00 A.M. and 8:00 A.M. on
all other days of the week; and
f.
Not
permit any person under the age of eighteen (18) years upon or in
the premises after 11:00 P.M., except on Fridays and Saturdays when
the hours shall be 12:00 Midnight.
[CC 1984 §8-64; Rev. M.C. 1963 §31.26; Ord. No. 3140 §8-35]
A.
As used
in this Section, the term "theatre" shall mean any
building especially adapted to dramatic, operatic, moving picture
or spectacular representations.
B.
No person
shall operate a theatre without first procuring a license from the
City. The applicant shall pay an annual fee as follows:
|
|
Seating Capacity
|
License Fee
|
|---|---|---|
|
|
Not more than 500 seats
|
$150.00
|
|
501 to 750 seats
|
$200.00
| |
|
751 to 1000 seats
|
$250.00
| |
|
1001 to 1250 seats
|
$300.00
| |
|
1251 to 1500 seats
|
$350.00
| |
|
1501 to 2000 seats
|
$400.00
| |
|
2001 to 2250 seats
|
$450.00
| |
|
2251 to 2500 seats
|
$500.00
| |
|
2501 seats or more
|
$600.00
|
