[R.O. 2008 §120.150; Ord. No. 529, 12-27-1960]
For the purpose of this Article, the terms, "business", "trade", "occupation" and "service occupation" shall include any business, trading,
pursuit, occupation or enterprise, excluding merchants and manufacturers
as defined under the ordinances of the City of Olivette, and shall
include the selling of goods, wares and merchandise other than from
a store, stand or place of business in the City, dealing in or rendering
services of any and all types to persons or property and activities
for which an admission is charged or consideration is received for
attendance at performances, for participation in contests or games
or for use of facilities or accommodations operated or maintained
in the City of Olivette.
[R.O. 2008 §120.152; Ord. No. 529, 12-27-1960]
It shall be the duty of every person, corporation, co-partnership
or association of persons engaged in any business, trade, occupation
or service occupation, as hereinabove defined, within the City of
Olivette, before doing business, to obtain a license therefor from
the City of Olivette under the provisions of this Article.
A.
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,
and after December 31, 2003, no investment funds service corporation
as defined in Section 143.451, RSMo., may be required to pay any such
license fee in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00)
annually, 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 Olivette.
[R.O. 2008 §120.154; Ord. No. 529, 12-27-1960; Ord. No. 2714, 12-15-2020]
Application for licenses shall be made by the owner, manager
or officer of each business, trade, occupation or service occupation
hereinafter enumerated at the office of the City Clerk of the City
of Olivette on or before April first (1st) of each year and it shall
be the duty of the City Clerk, upon application being made and upon
payment of the annual license fee herein prescribed, to issue such
license. It shall be the duty of the City Clerk to notify each person,
corporation, co-partnership or association of persons subject to the
requirements of this Article, who has not applied for a license on
or before April first (1st), to make application therefor and to notify
such persons that if a license is not obtained by the following May
first (1st), such person shall be liable for the penalties hereinafter
provided.
[R.O. 2008 §120.156; Ord. No. 529, 12-27-1960]
Any person, corporation, co-partnership or association of persons
commencing business after January first (1st) of any year shall pay
the full year's license for such year, but shall receive credit for
the fee on the succeeding year in an amount in proportion to the period
of time during which said business was not operated in the preceding
year or said amount shall be returned to the licensee if said business
has been discontinued.
[R.O. 2008 §120.158; Ord. No. 937, 12-22-1970; Ord. No.
1087, 12-26-1973; Ord. No. 1294, 10-9-1979; Ord. No. 1400, 1-11-1983; Ord. No. 1439, 1-24-1984; Ord. No. 1931, 7-8-1997]
A.
Every
person, corporation, co-partnership or association of persons engaged
in any of the following businesses, trades, occupations or service
occupations shall pay an annual license fee as follows:
|
Name of Business
|
Amount
| |
|---|---|---|
|
Addressing business
|
$100.00
| |
|
Adjusters
|
$100.00
| |
|
Appliance repair
|
$50.00
| |
|
Ambulance company, per vehicle
|
$15.00
| |
|
Auctioneers
|
$25.00
| |
|
Automobile renting or leasing agencies
|
$200.00
| |
|
Banks
|
$4,000.00
| |
|
Barbershop, per chair
|
$15.00
for first chair and $5.00 for each additional chair, minimum
fee of $25.00
| |
|
Beauty shop, per employee (yearly average)
|
$10.00
minimum fee of $25.00
| |
|
Bicycle repair shop
|
$50.00
| |
|
Billiard and pool tables, per table
|
$35.00
| |
|
Bill posters
|
$50.00
| |
|
Blueprints
|
$50.00
| |
|
Bookbinders
|
$50.00
| |
|
Book rental library
|
$50.00
| |
|
Bowling, ten pin alleys, per alley
|
$15.00
| |
|
Bus operators, per bus
|
$15.00
| |
|
Carnivals, circuses and accompanying side shows, per day
|
$100.00
| |
|
Caterer
|
$100.00
| |
|
Chair rental
|
$100.00
| |
|
Cleaners and laundries (no processing)
|
$50.00
| |
|
Cleaners and laundries (processing)
|
$200.00
| |
|
Cleaners and laundries, coin-operated, per machine
|
$3.00
| |
|
Clothes rental
|
$100.00
| |
|
Construction equipment and vehicle rental agency
|
$200.00
| |
|
Contractors, construction and building business
|
$200.00
| |
|
Contractors, electrical, plumbing, roofing
|
$200.00
| |
|
Credit institutions
|
$4,000.00
| |
|
Custom draperies
|
$100.00
| |
|
Express agency
|
$100.00
| |
|
Exterminators and disinfectors
|
$100.00
| |
|
Film exchange
|
$50.00
| |
|
Food lockers
|
$200.00
| |
|
Furniture repair
|
$50.00
| |
|
Fur storage
|
$50.00
| |
|
Golf courses, including miniature golf courses and driving tees
|
$100.00
| |
|
Itinerant vendor, per day
|
$10.00
| |
|
Juke boxes, per box
|
$15.00
| |
|
Locksmith
|
$50.00
| |
|
Messenger service
|
$50.00
| |
|
Metal polishers and platers
|
$50.00
| |
|
Movers, per truck
|
$25.00
| |
|
Newspaper agent
|
$50.00
| |
|
Pawnbrokers
|
$4,000.00
| |
|
Peddlers and hawkers, per truck
|
$25.00
| |
|
Amusement arcade
|
$300.00
| |
|
Photographer
|
$100.00
| |
|
Pin ball machines, per machine
|
$35.00
| |
|
Ping pong tables, per table
|
$10.00
| |
|
Radio and television repair shop
|
$100.00
| |
|
Restaurant, lunch room
|
$1.00
per each $1,000.00 or major fraction thereof of annual gross
sales
| |
|
Sheet metal shop
|
$100.00
| |
|
Shoe repair
|
$25.00
| |
|
Sign painter
|
$25.00
| |
|
Skating rink, ice or roller
|
$200.00
| |
|
Storage or warehouse
|
$0.02
per square foot of total floor area, $100.00 minimum
| |
|
Swimming pool, commercial per number of capacity
|
$1.00
per person, $100.00 minimum
| |
|
Theater, per seat
|
$1.00
$100.00 minimum
| |
|
Tree trimmer, surgeon
|
$50.00
| |
|
Tailor—dressmaker
|
$50.00
| |
|
Tire—recapping and retreading—retail
|
$100.00
| |
|
Taxidermist
|
$50.00
| |
|
Ticket broker
|
$50.00
| |
|
Trust companies
|
$4,000.00
| |
|
Upholster
|
$100.00
| |
|
Video games
|
$35.00
|
B.
Every
person, corporation, co-partnership or association of persons engaged
in any of the following businesses, trades, occupations or service
occupations shall pay an annual license fee as hereinafter set forth,
except that such business, trade, occupation or service occupation
shall pay an additional five dollars ($5.00) for each employee regularly
employed over five (5).
|
Name of Business
|
Amount
| |
|---|---|---|
|
Architects
|
$200.00
| |
|
Advertising companies, including outdoor advertising
|
$200.00
| |
|
Real estate agency
|
$150.00
| |
|
Accountant non-CPA
|
$100.00
| |
|
Correspondence, business or dramatic school
|
$200.00
| |
|
Employment agencies
|
$100.00
| |
|
Insurance agent
|
$100.00
| |
|
Insurance broker
|
$100.00
| |
|
Funeral parlor
|
$300.00
| |
|
Food broker
|
$100.00
| |
|
Insurance company
|
$200.00
| |
|
Laboratory
|
$100.00
| |
|
Mail order house
|
$200.00
| |
|
Manufacturer's agent
|
$100.00
| |
|
Printer
|
$100.00
| |
|
Reducing salon
|
$200.00
| |
|
Restorium—nursing home
|
$200.00
| |
|
Savings and loan association, operating under the provisions
of Chapter 369, RSMo., 1969 and amendments thereto
|
$150.00
| |
|
Surveyor
|
$100.00
| |
|
Travel agency
|
$150.00
| |
|
Window cleaner
|
$50.00
| |
|
All other businesses, trades, occupations and service occupations
not hereinabove specifically described, but excluding service stations
|
$100.00
|
C.
For
the purposes of this Section, the term "regularly employed" shall mean any individual employed by the licensee in the normal
course of business whether full- or part-time, except that a temporary
employee of an employment agency which assigns temporary personnel
to area employers shall not be considered "regularly employed" where
such employee's assignments occur outside the corporate limits of
the City of Olivette at all times during the period of the business
license. Such temporary employees accepting assignments within the
City during the period of the business license shall be deemed "regularly
employed" for purposes of this Section and the payment of the business
license fee provided for hereunder.
[R.O. 2008 §120.160; Ord. No. 529, 12-27-1960]
No license shall be assignable or transferable. Separate licenses
shall be required for each store or place of business carried on by
a licensee; provided however, that any person, firm, association of
persons or a corporation engaged in two (2) or more businesses, trades,
occupations or service occupations herein described at the same or
contiguous place carried on as a single or combined business shall
pay the fee which is the highest as herein listed for any one (1)
of such businesses, trades, occupations or service occupations, but
provided further that said exceptions shall not apply to restaurants,
bowling alleys, juke boxes, pinball machines, ping pong tables, swimming
pools—commercial, theatres, skating rinks—roller or ice,
billiard and pool tables.
[R.O. 2008 §120.162; Ord. No. 724, 10-12-1965; Ord. No. 2714, 12-15-2020]
Any person, corporation, co-partnership or association of persons
engaged in any business or occupation hereunder, the license fee for
which is computed upon annual gross sales, shall during the month
of January of each year furnish to the City Assessor a statement of
the aggregate amount of all sales, whether from the sale of food,
beverage or otherwise, made during the year next preceding the filing
of such statement, which statement shall be made in writing and shall
be signed by such person or some member of the co-partnership or association
of persons or by the manager or an authorized officer of a corporation
that such statement contains a just and true account of the gross
amount of sales made during said preceding year. The license fee herein
provided for such business or occupation shall be paid to the City
on or before the fifteenth (15th) day of May of each year.
[R.O. 2008 §120.164; Ord. No. 724, 10-12-1965]
It shall be the duty of every person, corporation, co-partnership
or association of persons engaged in any business or occupation, the
license fee for which is computed upon the basis of gross sales hereunder,
to keep proper and sufficient records of all sales, which record shall
be open at all reasonable times to the inspection of the City Manager,
City Assessor or his/her duly authorized agents, in order to verify
the statements returned by such business. No statements or returns
made under the terms of this Article shall be made public, nor shall
same be subject to the inspection of any person except the City Manager,
City Assessor or his/her duly authorized agents, the members of the
City Council and the City Attorney.
[R.O. 2008 §120.166; Ord. No. 724, 10-12-1965]
No person, firm, corporation, co-partnership or association
of persons desiring to engage in any business or occupation within
the City of Olivette, for which the license fee is based upon gross
sales, shall commence any such business without having first executed
and delivered a bond to the City, with a corporate surety, conditioned
that he/she, it or they will furnish to the City Assessor during the
following January a verified statement of the aggregate amount of
all sales made between the date of commencement of business and January
first (1st) next succeeding and that he, she, it or they will pay
to the City the fee provided to be paid hereunder. Said bond shall
be in such sum as the City Manager shall deem sufficient to protect
the City's interest and shall be approved by him/her and his/her approval
endorsed thereon. Every such person, corporation, co-partnership or
association of persons who shall fail or neglect to perform or fulfill
the conditions of such bond shall be deemed to have forfeited such
bond and in that event suit thereon may be instituted by the City
against both the principal and the surety.
[R.O. 2008 §120.168; Ord. No. 860, 2-11-1969]
A.
All
fees provided to be paid hereunder shall be deemed delinquent if not
paid on the due date as herein specified and any person, firm, corporation,
co-partnership or association of persons subject to the provisions
hereof who is delinquent in payment of such fees shall be subject
to payment of an additional ten percent (10%) of the amount due for
the first (1st) month or part thereof of such delinquency and one
percent (1%) for each additional month or part thereof that such delinquency
shall continue, in addition to any other penalty herein provided.
B.
Any
person, corporation, co-partnership or association of persons filing
a statement containing false information as to sales, the effect of
which is to reduce the amount of the fee payable hereunder, shall
be subject to payment of the additional amount of the license fee
found to be due, within ten (10) days from the receipt of notice from
the City of the additional fee due, plus a penalty of twenty-five
percent (25%) of such additional amount, plus one percent (1%) per
month or fraction thereof on such additional amount from the date
when the original license fee became due and payable, in addition
to any other penalty herein provided, provided that, except in the
case of a fraudulent return, every notice of additional fee due hereunder
shall be issued by the City within four (4) years from the date the
original license fee was paid or required to be paid, whichever is
later.
C.
In addition to any other penalties, any person, corporation, co-partnership or association of persons violating any provisions of this Article shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation and upon conviction thereof be subject to a fine as set forth in Section 100.180 of this Code. Each day such violation shall occur shall be deemed a separate offense.
