[Code 1961 §40.01; CC 1983 §16-110; Ord. No. 770 §1, 8-1-1994]
As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have these
prescribed meanings:
A person keeping a set of abstract books, or examining the
records relating to land titles and furnishing an abstract thereof
for pay.
An agency or office, storeroom or place of business kept
and maintained for the purpose of selling, offering or exposing for
sale, any kind of automobile, motor car or similar vehicle.
A place for repairing, welding and straightening automobile
bodies and fenders, and painting automobile bodies and fenders, exclusively.
A person engaged in selling, exposing or offering for sale
any kind of automobile, motor car or similar vehicle.
A person who keeps and maintains any room, building or place
in which automobiles are kept for hire, or in which automobiles belonging
to persons other than the owner or keeper of such room, building or
place where same are kept, stored and cleaned or repaired, and for
such keeping, storing, cleaning or repairing, a charge be made.
A person engaged in the business of maintaining or operating
automatic scale machines, automatic shoe shining machines, nickel
automatic selling machines or devices or other slot machines, or devices,
operated for the purpose of vending merchandise in public places or
in the place of business of others.
A person who, for hire, posts bills or advertisements of
any kind in places exposed to public view.
A wholesale dealer in or manufacturer or bottler of soft
drinks such as soda water and mineral water, or cereal beverages.
A person who manufactures and sells candy or candies in wholesale
quantities for resale.
A person representing or holding himself/herself out as a
collection agency or doing a general collection business for the public.
A person who in pursuit of independent business, solicits,
bids on or contracts to repair, or in any manner alter, remodel, refinish
and decorate buildings or other structures, of any kind or character.
A person who carried on the business of buying or selling,
or buying and selling, either for himself/herself or for another,
lint or cottonseed.
A store, other than a small dry goods store, where two (2)
or more distinct lines of goods, wares and merchandise, men's, women's
and girl's clothing and shoes are sold, and which is advertised by
signs, posters, bills, newspapers or any other means of advertising
as a department store.
A place of business wherein drugs and medicines are sold,
both compounded and uncompounded and unmixed medicinal substances.
A store other than a department store, where a general line
of men's, boy's, women's and girl's clothing and shoes is sold.
An agency or office, storeroom or place of business, kept
and maintained for the purpose of selling, offering or exposing for
sale any kind of farm machinery and implements.
Any place used for the purpose of cleaning or repairing farm
machinery and implements.
A person, other than an auctioneer, who sells or offers for
sale goods, wares or merchandise by public outcry.
A person selling produce, grain, butter, eggs, fowl or vegetables
of any kind or description, except such articles of produce above
described, as are produced or raised by his/her own labor or upon
his/her own premises, by going about from place to place, or by going
upon the public streets with any wagon, cart or vehicle of any description
from which is sold any vegetables, butter, eggs or fowl.
Any fire, life, casualty, accident, plate glass, cyclone,
bond investment security, or any other company that insures to pay
any sum for loss by death, accident or sickness, or at any specified
time.
A person engaged in the selling of any commodity from any
store or room, and who maintains a stock of goods therein, and who
does not conduct such business for a period of one (1) year. A person
who has maintained a residence and conducted and operated a similar
mercantile business or who has purchased a mercantile business which
has been so conducted and operated in the City for at least one (1)
year preceding the opening of such business, shall not be construed
to be an itinerant merchant within the meaning of this Article.
A person engaged in the business of buying, selling or offering
for sale, or dealing in old iron, brass, steel, bones, rags, bottles,
etc.
A person who lends, or offers to lend, or negotiates the
loan of money of another, or advertises money to lend.
A person who is engaged in the production of some article,
thing or object, by skill or labor, out of raw materials and products,
except any ice cream or candy manufacturer, or other manufacturer
specifically mentioned in this Article, and who holds and purchases
personal property for the purpose of adding to the value thereof by
manufacturing, refining or combining different materials to produce
a new and completed product. The term does not apply to any licensed
merchant who may manufacture articles which are exclusively sold at
his/her store, stand or place of business at retail, nor shall it
apply to any painter, shoe maker, carpenter, blacksmith, or other
mechanic, whose finished products are the result of his/her own labor
alone.
A person having a definite place of business, stand or store,
who for himself/herself deals in and sells or offers to sell, goods,
wares and merchandise at retail to the consumer at any place of business,
stand or store occupied for that purpose.
A person who for commission, brokerage or other compensation,
negotiates between the owner and purchaser or their respective agents
for the sale of goods, wares and merchandise, flour, cotton, grain,
provisions, produce or other articles of commerce.
A shop in which labor is employed for the purpose of making
lumber and material in cabinet work, sash, doors, window frames, stairways,
and in which all other house building accessories and fittings are
prepared for the construction of buildings.
A person who sells or offers for sale, ice cream from any
wagon, vehicle, stand or cart.
A person who acts as an agent in the leasing, renting or
selling of any house or real estate, at public or private sale, or
who receives or collects rents for another for a commission or other
compensation, or who advertises or displays any sign or device designating
him/her as agent for renting, collecting rents upon, or leasing or
selling houses or real estate. A real estate agent or broker is one,
who for a commission or other compensation sells or negotiates the
sale of real estate belonging to others.
A place where any kind of firearms or air guns are kept for
public use, practice or sport, and for hire, gain or profit.
A person who buys, sells or offers to buy and sell, stocks
or shares in any corporation, joint stock company or association,
for money or property, or on the weekly, monthly or other payment
plan.
Any motor vehicle performing a bona fide for hire taxicab
service having a capacity of not more than five (5) passengers, exclusive
of the driver, and not operated on a regular route or between fixed
termini.
A person who in the pursuit of independent business, solicits,
bids on, contracts to perform, or performs maintenance work on yards,
including, but not limited to, mowing and maintaining lawns, trimming
trees and hedges, and raking or otherwise removing leaves and other
yard debris.
[Code 1961 §40.02; CC 1983 §16-111; Ord. No. 296A §1, 9-6-1962; Ord. No. 368 §1, 7-7-1969; Ord. No. 461 §1, 6-18-1973; Ord. No. 582 §2, 6-4-1979; Ord.
No. 641 §2, 1-16-1984; Ord. No. 770 §2, 8-1-1994; Ord. No. 787 §1, 7-3-1995]
No person shall carry on or engage in any of the following trades,
vocations, callings, occupations, businesses, or activities without
first having obtained a license therefor and paid for such license
the following annual fee, unless a different period of time is specified,
to-wit:
|
Trades, Vocations, Callings, Occupations, Businesses,
or Activities
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Fee
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|---|---|---|---|
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Abstractors
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$50.00
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Airplane sales and/or repair
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$50.00
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Architects (when maintaining an office in the City)
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$50.00
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Auction of goods or merchandise
|
$100.00
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|
Automobile dealers, including garages, repair or parts
|
$50.00
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Automatic scale machines
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$25.00
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Bait dealers
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$25.00
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Bakers, baking and bakery shops
|
$25.00
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Barber shops
|
$25.00
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Beauty shops
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$25.00
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Bicycle dealers (See Merchants)
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Billiards and pool tables (first table)
|
$20.00
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Each additional table
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$10.00
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Boarding and rooming houses
|
$50.00
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Bottling company
|
$100.00
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Bowling or ten (10) pins
|
$50.00
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Brickyards (manufacture)
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$25.00
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Brokers in soybeans and other produce (not in addition to cotton
ginners)
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$100.00
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Brokers in stocks and bonds, etc
|
$100.00
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Butchers, butcher shops and meat markets
|
$50.00
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Cab company (per car)
|
$50.00
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Cafes and restaurants
|
$50.00
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Candy dealers and manufacturers
|
$50.00
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Carnivals (See Circuses)
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Casualty companies (See Fire and Insurance)
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Cement and lime dealers (concrete block)
|
$50.00
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Circuses, showboats and minstrels, carnivals and other shows
(temporary nature)
|
$100.00
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Coal, coke, wood and fuel (except wholesale and retail gas or
oil dealers)
|
$25.00
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Cold storage houses
|
$25.00
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|
Collection and credit bureau agencies
|
$50.00
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Craft shops
|
$50.00
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Department stores (clothing, hats, shoes, housewares)
|
$100.00
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Drug store and variety sales
|
$50.00
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Dry goods store (piece goods, etc.)
|
$50.00
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Electrical household equipment
|
$50.00
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Electrical machinery (See Merchants)
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Examiners of title (See Abstractors)
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Farm machinery and implement dealers including repairs and parts
|
$50.00
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Firearms, including sales, repair and accessories
|
$50.00
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Florists, floral companies and nurseries
|
$50.00
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Foundry and machine shops
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$100.00
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Freight and trailer trucks
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$25.00
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Fresh fish dealers and merchants
|
$50.00
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Furniture dealers (new and secondhand, See Merchant)
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Furniture store (all types home furnishings)
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$50.00
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Gasoline dealers, retail, including auto accessories
|
$50.00
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Gasoline dealers, wholesale
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$50.00
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Gift shops, cards, etc. (See Variety Stores)
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Grocery stores (Food merchant)
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$50.00
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Hardware stores, general merchandise, including all types appliances
|
$50.00
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Hawkers
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$25.00
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Hotels and motels (large, small or otherwise)
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$50.00
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House movers
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$25.00
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Hucksters
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$100.00
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Insurance company agencies
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$50.00
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Itinerant merchants
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$200.00
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Jewelry and watch, including sales or repairs
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$50.00
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Juke boxes (See Music Boxes, etc.)
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Junk dealers
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$50.00
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Ladies furnishing store or dress shop
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$50.00
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Laundries, self-service
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$25.00
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Laundries, steam and/or agents, pressers, and dry cleaning
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$50.00
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Loan company
|
$50.00
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Machine shops (See Foundries)
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Manufacturers, including rebuilding
|
$100.00
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Meat market (See Butchers)
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Men's furnishings
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$50.00
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Merchants (General, not otherwise designated)
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$50.00
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Minstrel (See Circuses)
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Monument or marble dealers
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$25.00
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Newspapers and job printing plants
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$50.00
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Nursery stock agents
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$25.00
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Pawnbrokers
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$100.00
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Peddlers (per peddler, per day)
|
$5.00
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Photographers
|
$50.00
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Sign painters
|
$25.00
| ||
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Skating rinks
|
$100.00
| ||
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Sound trucks
|
$25.00
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Special photographers (per day)
|
$25.00
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Storage warehouse
|
$25.00
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Street fairs (See Circuses)
| |||
|
Street stand (lunch stands, peanuts, popcorn, ice cream and
similar)
|
$25.00
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Theater or moving picture shows
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$100.00
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Tinners and tin shop, including sheet metal
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$50.00
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Trailer grounds and mobile home parks
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$100.00
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Transient merchants (See Peddlers or Itinerant Merchants)
| |||
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Undertakers
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$50.00
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Warehouses
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$50.00
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Wholesale merchants, wholesale quantities for resale
|
$100.00
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Wood dealers
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$25.00
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Yard service contractor
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$25.00
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Any vocation not otherwise designated herein
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$50.00
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[Code 1961 §40.03; CC 1983 §16-112]
All licenses issued under this Article shall be in the form
prescribed by the Council, and shall be signed by the Mayor, and attested
by the City Clerk, and countersigned by the City Collector. The City
Clerk shall affix the corporate Seal of the City thereto.
[Code 1961 §40.04; CC 1983 §16-113]
No license required by this Article shall be issued until the
fee prescribed therefor has been paid to the City Collector.
[Code 1961 §40.05; CC 1983 §16-114]
A.Â
Licenses
expire on December thirty-first (31st) following their issuance, and
shall be issued for a term of one (1) year or fraction thereof, except
as otherwise provided.
B.Â
When
the date of the application for a license is prior to July first (1st)
of any year, the full license fee for one (1) whole year shall be
paid. When the application for a license is made on or after July
first (1st) in any year, one-half (½) of the regular license
fee shall be paid.
C.Â
Telephone
company licenses expire on May thirty-first (31st).
[Code 1961 §40.06; CC 1983 §16-115]
A licensee shall keep his/her license posted in full view in
a conspicuous place at his/her place of business.
[Code 1961 §40.07; CC 1983 §16-116]
No license issued under this Chapter shall be assigned or transferred,
except when a business is sold. The license to conduct the same may
be transferred to the purchaser thereof by and with the consent of
the majority of the Council.
[Code 1961 §40.08; CC 1983 §16-117]
A license record of licenses issued under this Article shall
be kept by the City Clerk, which shall show the name of the person,
the amount of the license and date of expiration.
[Code 1961 §40.09; CC 1983 §16-118]
A.Â
General Fund. All monies received by the City Collector
as license fees, and all other money collected under this Article
shall be placed to the credit of the General Fund.
B.Â
Undistributed Licenses. The itinerant merchant license fee
collected shall be set aside in an account to be known as undistributed
licenses and shall be held in trust for a period of one (1) year from
the date of receipt. At the end of such period if such merchant shall
still be and shall have been continuously engaged in such mercantile
business for the period of one (1) year, such person shall have a
refund of such license fee of two hundred dollars ($200.00), less
the amount of the regular privilege tax for such business. If such
merchant discontinues his/her business within the period of one (1)
year, the license fee paid by him/her shall be credited to the General
Fund of the City and distributed in like manner as other licenses
are distributed.
[Code 1961 §40.10; CC 1983 §16-119]
Before the end of each calendar year, the Police Department
shall make a survey of all business establishments within the City
and report in detail the type of business which is located therein
and shall obtain the name of the operator thereof and furnish this
data to the City Clerk. The City Clerk shall then deliver the license
in accordance with the data furnished by the Police Department to
the City Collector, taking his/her receipt therefor, and charging
him/her with the full amount on the City books, whereupon the Collector
shall make prompt collection thereof.
[Code 1961 §40.11; CC 1983 §16-120]
A merchant's license shall not authorize a merchant to deal
in the selling of goods, wares and merchandise at more than one (1)
place at the same time.
[Code 1961 §40.13; CC 1983 §16-121]
The owner, lessee, operator, or agent for any public ground
or park may maintain or conduct on or within the enclosed ground,
but at no other place, ball games, operatic shows, drama and vaudeville
shows and other shows, cafes, refreshment stands, skating rinks and
other lawful amusements and amusement devices not herein expressly
prohibited. The sale of intoxicating liquors on such grounds is prohibited.
This Section shall not authorize or permit the exhibition of any circus
on or within such enclosed grounds unless the same shall be entirely
under the management and control of the person operating such amusement
place, and paying a license therefor as provided by this Article.
[Code 1961 §40.14; CC 1983 §16-122]
Every hall kept for rent or use for dances, concerts, lectures
and other entertainments, shall be deemed a public hall and no license
therefor shall be issued for less than one (1) year.
[Code 1961 §40.17; CC 1983 §16-123]
The license fee for insurance companies is levied upon each
insurance company having an agent representing or doing business for
such insurance company in the City, by such agent soliciting for or
distributing any advertising matter bearing the name of such company,
or the name of such agent as its representative, or by writing for
or transmitting to such company any policy or policies of insurance
for issue or approval by such company, or by receiving for or transmitting
any application or applications from any person for insurance with
such insurance company, or by receiving for or transmitting to any
such company premiums or money, or its equivalent, whether the same
is received in behalf of such insurance company, or as the agent for
the person desiring or applying for insurance, or in any other way
representing such insurance company in soliciting or carrying on the
business of insurance in the City.
[Code 1961 §40.18; CC 1983 §16-124]
A.Â
Every
person representing or doing business for any fire, life, accident,
casualty, plate glass, cyclone or other insurance company in the City
shall file with the City Clerk, on or before January tenth (10th)
of each year, and before he/she takes out a license for any insurance
company, an itemized statement of all insurance companies represented
by such agent in the City.
B.Â
Such
statement shall contain the correct name of all such insurance companies
and the place of its home office, and shall be sworn to by such agent
or representative, or some creditable person in behalf of such agent
or representative.
C.Â
In
case a person becomes the agent of any insurance company after the
filing of such statement he/she shall at once make a supplementary
statement, under oath, of any and all such companies represented by
him/her which were not included in the former statement, and the same
shall be at once filed with the City Clerk.
D.Â
The
City Clerk shall file the sworn statement in his/her office, but no
fee shall be charged by the Clerk for filing such statement.
[Code 1961 §40.19; CC 1983 §16-125]
No person shall advertise any business, profession or calling
on the streets by use of a sound truck, except as herein provided.
A license shall be issued to the owner of a sound truck who may advertise
commercially for himself/herself or his/her business, or for a church
or charitable organization, but he/she shall not advertise commercially
for another's business or profession. Such advertising shall be done
only while the truck is moving. A sound truck shall be operated only
between the hours of 10:00 A.M. and 7:00 P.M. on weekdays.
[Ord. No. 754 §§1 —
3, 9-7-1993]
A.Â
No
occupational or business license shall be issued to any person until
such person produces a copy of a certificate of insurance for Workers'
Compensation coverage if the applicant for the license is required
to cover his/her liability under Chapter 287, RSMo. It is further
made a violation of this Section to provide fraudulent information
relative to proof of Workers' Compensation coverage.
B.Â
Nothing
in this Section shall be construed to create or constitute a liability
to or a cause of action against the City in regard to the issuance
or non-issuance of any license for failure to provide evidence of
Workers' Compensation coverage.
C.Â
The
City Clerk is directed to take appropriate actions, including altering
the license application form to require a statement and evidence of
Workers' Compensation insurance.
