[R.O. 2011 § 605.010]
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 Owensville.
[R.O. 2011 § 605.020; R.O. 2010 § 605.020; CC 1975 § 501.03; 2nd Ser. Ord. No. 44 § 1, 5-5-1975; 2nd Ser. Ord. No. 221 § 2, 6-2-1986]
As used in this Article, the following words shall have the meanings set forth following each word herein defined:
BANKING AND SAVINGS AND LOAN INSTITUTIONS
Any individual, firm, persons or business entity engaged in banking business or the savings and loan business as those terms are now or may hereafter be defined by Federal or State law.
BUSINESS, TRADE, VOCATION, PROFESSION OR OCCUPATION
Every person who shall deal in the selling of any goods, wares, merchandise, or services; or who shall, as a practice in the conduct of such business, trade, vocation, profession or occupation, make or cause to be made, any wholesale or retail sales of goods, wares, merchandise, or services to any person or association of persons, shall be classified as a business, whether said sales be accommodation sales, made from a stock of goods on hand, or by ordering from another source, or by listing, and whether the subject of said sales or services be similar or different than the type, if any, regularly offered or performed by said seller.
EMPLOYEE
For the purpose of this Chapter, the term "employee" shall be deemed to mean each and every individual natural person deriving either wages, tips, commissions, fees, draw accounts, or any combination thereof, from said business, trade, vocation, profession or occupation.
LICENSEE
Includes any person, as hereinafter defined, who shall apply and obtain a license under the terms and/or provisions of this Chapter and in accordance therewith.
MANUFACTURER
Any individual, firm, persons or business entity engaged in the production of articles for use from raw or prepared materials by giving such materials new forms, qualities, properties or combinations, whether by hand labor or machine.
MERCHANT
A person, firm, or corporation, who as a business for valuable consideration buys, sells or otherwise deals in goods, wares and merchandise, and/or furnishes services of all types and kinds, including all types and kinds as listed herein.
PERSON
Natural person, firm, partnership, copartnership, corporation, company, association, joint stock association, and/or their lessees, duly constituted trustees or receivers, heirs, administrators or assigns.
[R.O. 2011 § 605.030; R.O. 2010 § 605.030; CC 1975 § 501.05; 2nd Ser. Ord. No. 44 § 1, 5-5-1975]
A. 
The charges for the five (5) categories of licenses shall be as follows:
1. 
Manufacturer: fifty dollars ($50.00).
2. 
Banking and savings and loans: forty dollars ($40.00).
3. 
Merchant, sales: twenty-five dollars ($25.00).
4. 
Merchant, other; or any business not stated elsewhere: ten dollars ($10.00).
[R.O. 2011 § 605.040; R.O. 2010 § 605.040; CC 1970 C11 § 5; CC 1975 § 501.07; Ord. No. 1206 § 1, 7-6-2015]
A. 
Every person, firm or corporation, who shall, in the City of Owensville, carry on, engage in, or follow any of the several occupations, businesses, trades or avocations named in Section 605.030 of this Article, at any store, stand or place in the City of Owensville, without a license therefor first had and obtained from the City, shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation.
B. 
In addition to any other penalties permitted pursuant to the City's Code of Ordinances or under State and/or Federal law, any failure to comply with, or any violation of, any provision of this Chapter by any licensee shall be cause for revocation of such license by the Board of Aldermen, after notice and a hearing, upon recommendation of the City Administrator. Such revocation shall be in addition to any other penalties prescribed.
[R.O. 2011 § 605.050; R.O. 2010 § 605.050; 2nd Ser. Ord. No. 308 §§ 1 — 2, 5-1-1989]
Every license issued under the provisions of this Article shall be granted for a term of one (1) year and each license shall terminate on the first day of July in each year; but all annual fees may be prorated according to the number of months remaining in the current license year (with any part of the month to be counted as a whole month), provided that no license fee shall be prorated for a term less than six (6) months.
[R.O. 2011 § 605.060; R.O. 2010 § 605.060; CC 1970 C11 § 7; CC 1975 § 501.11]
All licenses authorized to be issued by and under this Article shall be signed by the Mayor and City Clerk, and the City Clerk shall affix the Corporate Seal of the City of Owensville thereto.
[R.O. 2011 § 605.070; R.O. 2010 § 605.090; CC 1970 C11 § 10; CC 1975 § 501.17]
No license issued by authority of this Article shall in any case be assigned or transferred.
[R.O. 2011 § 605.080; R.O. 2010 § 605.110; CC 1970 C11 § 12; CC 1975 § 501.21]
Only the true owner of such business for which a license is desired, may apply for and/or receive said license required for any business, trade or avocation under Section 605.030 and said applicant for any license shall state in said application whether said business is owned by an individual, partnership or corporation, and the kind of ownership shall be set out in said license.
[R.O. 2011 § 605.090; R.O. 2010 § 605.120; 2nd Ser. Ord. No. 221 § 3, 6-2-1986]
No business license provided in this Chapter shall be issued to any individual, firm, person, or business entity who is then delinquent in the payment of any other tax, license, or fee owed to the City of Owensville or in arrears by more than one (1) month in the payment of any utility charge owed to the City of Owensville.