[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:
1. 
Mechanical amusement devices — fifty dollars ($50.00) per machine
2. 
Vending machines, jukeboxes — ten dollars ($10.00) per machine.
[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:
1. 
Auto, truck or trailer leasing or rental agencies.
2. 
Bowling alleys.
3. 
Brokers or agents, food and merchandise.
4. 
Leasing and rental agencies, not specifically listed.
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:
a. 
Its location, size and capacity;
b. 
The location and size of entrances and exits;
c. 
The location and size of parking spaces on the premises; and
d. 
A general drawing of the entire premises if located in a building or structure housing other business or commercial enterprises.
4. 
A license shall be issued by the City Manager to the applicant duly authorized to operate the billiard or pool room after payment of a license fee as prescribed in Section 605.250.
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