[Ord. No. 60 §1, 12-18-1962]
No merchant's (liquor, cab, etc.) license may be issued to any
person who owes delinquent personal or real property taxes, water
bills, or any delinquent obligation to the City of St. Robert.
[Ord. No. 324 §§2, 16, 5-21-1990]
A.
No person, firm, co-partnership, association or corporation shall engage in any of the various businesses, employments, occupations, agencies, amusements, or exhibitions, as own, manage, operate or control any public building, public halls, or any other of the matters and things hereinafter listed unless such person, firm, co-partnership, association, or corporation shall first apply to the City Clerk for a license. If the City Clerk is convinced that the applicant has complied with any and all ordinances governing the issuance of a license to do or engage in the matter of things for which said license is applied for shall issue to said applicant a license upon the payment of the proper license fee as set out in Section 615.150.
B.
A license
shall be required of every business when the same be reasonably within
the intention of the Legislature of this State in the enactment of
Section 94.270, RSMo., and other State Statutes.
[Ord. No. 324 §3, 5-21-1990]
No business license shall be issued pursuant to this Chapter
unless the application for such license is accompanied by a tax receipt
or statement certified by the City Collector showing that the City's
tangible personal property tax and real estate taxes for the preceding
years have been paid by the applicant or that no such taxes were done.
Any unpaid taxes must be paid in full by the applicant before such
fees can be paid and such license issued.
[Ord. No. 324 §4, 5-21-1990]
No business license will be issued pursuant to this Chapter
unless the applicant has obtained a State Sales Tax Number where applicable
and the Sales Tax Number will be recorded on license where applicable.
[Ord. No. 324 §5, 5-21-1990]
All license tax shall be regulated by ordinance, and no license
shall be issued until the amount prescribed therefor shall be paid
to the City Collector, and no license shall in any case be assigned
or transferred. Licenses shall be signed by the Mayor and City Clerk
and counter-signed by the City Collector, and the Clerk shall affix
the Corporate Seal thereto.
[Ord. No. 324 §6, 5-21-1990]
No license granted hereunder shall be transferable and no part
of such fee shall be refunded whether there is a transfer of the business
or not. The fee for licenses issued after January first (1st) for
a new business shall be the full license fee.
[Ord. No. 324 §7, 5-21-1990; Ord. No. 2991 § 3, 12-6-2016]
All licenses herein provided for shall be due and payable on
January 1 hereafter, and shall expire on December 31, following the
date of issuance, and shall be renewed annually. Any business who
has failed to renew their license will after January 15 be charged
an additional license fee of five dollars ($5.00) per day to a maximum
additional license fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00).
[Ord. No. 324 §8, 5-21-1990]
Where there is more than one (1) business within or under the
same roof, general vicinity, or the business is owned by the same
person(s), firm, corporation and association there must be a license
for each separate business or one (1) license with a cost equal to
businesses within.
[Ord. No. 324 §9, 5-21-1990]
No business license will be issued or transferred pursuant to
this Chapter unless the applicant has complied with the St. Robert
Zoning Ordinance and Business Regulation.
[Ord. No. 324 §10, 5-21-1990]
It shall be the duty of the City Collector to collect all monies
for businesses issued under this Chapter and keep an accurate register
of all licenses issued under the provisions of this Chapter in such
a form as will clearly show what licenses are in force, to whom issued,
the businesses for which issued and the amount paid.
[Ord. No. 324 §11, 5-21-1990]
It shall be the duty of the City Collector to provide the Chief
of Police a list of all businesses who have failed to renew licenses
by the last day of January. Upon receipt of the list, the Chief of
Police will cause a summons to be issued.
[Ord. No. 324 §12, 5-21-1990]
It shall be the duty of the City Clerk to check all business
licenses issued against the State Sales Tax Record, and where businesses
are found not reported the City Clerk will ensure that the business
information is sent to the Director of Revenue so the business can
be added where applicable.
[Ord. No. 324 §13, 5-21-1990]
Except as may be provided otherwise by this Chapter no license
shall be required of any person for mere delivery in the City of St.
Robert of any property purchased or acquired in good faith from such
person at his/her regular place of business outside the City.
A.
Hereafter
no person following for a livelihood the profession or calling of
minister of the gospel, duly accredited Christian Science practitioner,
teacher, professor in a college, priest, lawyer, certified public
accountant, dentist, chiropractor, optometrist, chiropodist, or physician
or surgeon in this City, shall be taxed or made liable to pay any
municipal or other corporation tax or license fee of any description
whatever for the privilege of following or carrying on such profession
or calling, any law, ordinance or charter to the contrary notwithstanding.
B.
No
person following for a livelihood the profession of insurance agent
or broker, veterinarian, architect, professional engineer, land surveyor,
auctioneer, or real estate broker or salesman in this City, shall
be taxed or made liable to pay any municipal or other corporation
tax or license fee for the privilege of following or carrying on his/her
profession unless that person maintains a business office within the
City of St. Robert.
[Ord. No. 324 §14, 5-21-1990; Ord. No. 3335, 2-5-2019]
There shall be levied and collected in each year a license fee
in the amount set opposite the designated business of occupation as
follows:
|
Classification
|
Amount of License Per Annum
|
|---|---|
|
Agents (not otherwise defined)
|
$25.00
|
|
Amusement Machines (per company)
|
$25.00
|
|
Amusement Arcades (per unit)
|
$25.00
|
|
Auctioneers
|
$25.00
|
|
Auto, Truck, Implement Dealer, new and/or used (any person or
firm having Missouri auto dealer tags, operation within or living
within City limits)
|
$25.00
|
|
Auto, Truck, implements, repair shop and/or sale of accessories
and/or parts
|
$25.00
|
|
Automobile Tire Dealers
|
$25.00
|
|
Banks
|
$25.00
|
|
Barber Shops
|
$25.00
|
|
Beauty Shops
|
$25.00
|
|
Beer Taverns
|
$25.00
|
|
Blacksmith Shops
|
$25.00
|
|
Books and Stationery
|
$25.00
|
|
Bowling Alley
|
$25.00
|
|
Clothing Stores
|
$25.00
|
|
Coal, Wood, Dealers
|
$25.00
|
|
Drayage (whole company)
|
$25.00
|
|
Drug Stores
|
$25.00
|
|
Dry Cleaning and/or Laundries
|
$25.00
|
|
Electric and/or Gas Appliance Stores and/or repairs
|
$25.00
|
|
Feed and/or Fertilizer Stores and/or Dealers
|
$25.00
|
|
Flea Markets
|
$25.00
|
|
Fur, Wool, Hides
|
$25.00
|
|
Furniture Stores new and/or used
|
$25.00
|
|
General Drygoods Store
|
$25.00
|
|
Grocery Store/Markets (including meats and groceries)
|
$25.00
|
|
Guns and Sporting Goods
|
$25.00
|
|
Hardware Stores (including sale of appliances)
|
$25.00
|
|
Hatcheries
|
$25.00
|
|
Hotels
|
$25.00
|
|
Ice Plants
|
$25.00
|
|
Insurance Agents, Life and/or Fire, Theft, etc.
|
$25.00
|
|
Jewelry Stores and/or Repairs
|
$25.00
|
|
Liquor, Wines (package)
|
$25.00
|
|
Loan Agents
|
$25.00
|
|
Loan Companies
|
$25.00
|
|
Locker Plants (frozen food storage)
|
$25.00
|
|
Lumber Yards
|
$25.00
|
|
Machine Shops
|
$25.00
|
|
Mills (grain, saw, etc.) and/or Factories
|
$25.00
|
|
Motels
|
$25.00
|
|
Newspaper, Weekly
|
$25.00
|
|
Peddlers, Hawkers, Hucksters (excluding the sale of agricultural
products by the producer thereof) per day
|
$25.00
|
|
Photographers
|
$25.00
|
|
Plumbing Supplies
|
$25.00
|
|
Pool Halls and/or Recreation Halls
|
$25.00
|
|
Produce (all operations pertaining to buying/selling any type
of farm produce and/or poultry)
|
$25.00
|
|
Real Estate Agents
|
$25.00
|
|
Real Estate Brokers
|
$25.00
|
|
Restaurants
|
$25.00
|
|
Salvage Yards
|
$25.00
|
|
Savings and Loans
|
$25.00
|
|
Service Stations
|
$25.00
|
|
Service Stations (gas, oil, grease, retail tires and accessories)
|
$25.00
|
|
Self-Service Laundry
|
$25.00
|
|
Self-Service Storage (per unit)
|
$25.00
|
|
Shoe Repair Shops (repairs only)
|
$25.00
|
|
Shoe Stores and/or Repairing
|
$25.00
|
|
Skating Rinks
|
$25.00
|
|
Street Vendors
|
$25.00
|
|
Theaters
|
$25.00
|
|
Tobacco Stores
|
$25.00
|
|
Undertaking Establishments
|
$25.00
|
|
Variety Stores
|
$25.00
|
|
Warehouse, Gas, Oil, Propane, Butane Storage
|
$25.00
|
|
Weighing Scales (public)
|
$25.00
|
|
Wholesale, Gasoline, Oil, Propane, Butane
|
$25.00
|
[Ord. No. 2629 §§1 —
5, 6-17-2013]
A.
SEASONAL MERCHANT
TEMPORARY MERCHANT
The
following definitions are to be utilized in this Section:
Any person doing business in this City who shall make sales,
wholesale or retail, of any goods, wares or merchandise from any store,
stand or place occupied for a period of time not to exceed ninety
(90) days.
Any person doing business in this City who shall make sales,
wholesale or retail, of any goods, wares or merchandise from any store,
stand or place occupied for a period of time not to exceed thirty
(30) days.
B.
Any
person desiring to provide temporary or seasonal sales or services
shall file an application with the City Clerk's office 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.
C.
Such
applications may be approved by the City Administrator or his or her
designee, if the applicant complies with the following regulations:
1.
The proposed temporary or seasonal usage must be in compliance with
all applicable St. Robert zoning regulations.
2.
Written permission of the property owner or property manager for
the 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.
D.
Upon
approval of the application, the applicant shall pay to the City of
St. Robert a business license fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00).
E.
A seasonal
merchant may extend the time that they originally applied for, up
to an additional ninety (90) days, for an added twenty-five dollars
($25.00). They must also provide a letter from the property owner
or property manager for the specific dates and locations.
[Ord. No. 324 §15, 5-21-1990]
Any person violating the terms of this Chapter or refusing or
failing to obtain a license as herein provided for shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined a sum
of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than five hundred
dollars ($500.00) and costs, provided however, that such conviction
shall not relieve such party from being required to obtain and pay
for a license as above required to obtain and pay for a license as
above required, and a continued failure or refusal shall constitute
a new and separate offense for each day party fails to obtain license
for which such party may be prosecuted.
[Ord. No. 324 §19, 5-21-1990]
It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police after January thirty-first
(31st) of each year to cause a check of each business within the City
of St. Robert to insure that a business has obtained a current license
and to issue a summons for those persons failing to comply with this
Chapter.
[Ord. No. 389 §§1 —
5, 1-3-1994]
A.
All
applicants for an occupational, business, or merchants license to
conduct a business in the City of St. Robert, Missouri shall be required
to submit a certificate of insurance for Workers' Compensation coverage,
covering said applicant's liability pursuant to Chapter 287, RSMo.
B.
Any
applicant who fails to comply with this Section shall be denied such
a license until said applicant furnishes a certificate of insurance.
C.
It
shall be unlawful, and a violation of this Section, and punishable
as any and all other violations of ordinances in the City of St. Robert
for any applicant to provide fraudulent information pursuant to this
Section.
D.
Nothing
in this Section shall be construed to create or constitute a liability
to or a cause of action against the City of St. Robert in regard to
the issuance of any license pursuant to this Section.
E.
Any
applicant who claims that the applicant is not required to have Workers'
Compensation coverage pursuant to Chapter 287, RSMo., shall provide
to the City of St. Robert with an Affidavit to that effect prior to
the issuance of any license.
