Cross Reference — As to enhanced enterprise zone, §135.140.
[Ord. No. 501-02 §1, 12-16-2002]
As used in this Chapter, the following words have the meaning
indicated:
For the purposes of Sections 605.100 to 605.120, includes all persons, both principal and agents, who engage in or conduct in this State, either in one (1) locality or in traveling from place to place, a temporary or transient business of selling goods, wares, merchandise or service with the intention of continuing in such business in any one (1) place for a period of not more than one hundred twenty (120) days, and who, for the purpose of carrying on such business, hire, lease or occupy, either in whole or in part, a room, building or other structure for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares, merchandise or service and do not have a permanent place of business in Missouri.
Every person, corporation, partnership, limited liability
company, limited liability partnership, professional corporation,
sole proprietor, or association of persons who shall deal in the selling
of goods, wares and merchandise at any store, stand or place occupied
for that purpose. Merchants doing business in this State who shall,
as a practice in the conduct of such business, make or cause to be
made any wholesale or retail sales of goods, wares and merchandise
to any person, corporation, co-partnership or association of persons
shall be deemed to be a merchant whether said sales be accommodation
sales, whether they be made from a stock of goods on hand or by ordering
goods from another source, and whether the subject of said sales be
similar or different types of goods than the type, if any, regularly
manufactured, processed or sold by said seller.
[Ord. No. 501-02 §2, 12-16-2002]
A.
No person
shall engage in any of the following occupations, trades, callings,
professions, privileges or any of the following institutions or establishments
without securing a license as set out in this Chapter and paying a
license fee of ten dollars ($10.00).
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Apartment houses having two (2) or more rental units
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Banks
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Hotels and motels
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Merchants or businesses not specifically listed herein
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Manufacturers
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Contractors — including building, electrical, plumbing
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B.
This
Chapter shall not apply to religious, charitable and/or non-profit
organizations.
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 Strafford.
[Ord. No. 501-02 §3, 12-16-2002]
The term of licenses issued pursuant to this Chapter shall be
for one (1) year beginning January first (1st) and ending December
thirty-first (31st) of the same.
[Ord. No. 501-02 §4, 12-16-2002]
All license fees shall be renewed by the first (1st) of March.
If application for renewal is made after March first (1st) of any
year, the amount to be paid will have a five dollar ($5.00) penalty
plus the license fee. Any business that has not renewed their business
license by May first (1st) of any year will be subject to having their
license revoked and establishment closed by the City of Strafford.
[Ord. No. 501-02 §5, 12-16-2002]
A separate license shall be obtained for each place of business
operated by a licensee under this Chapter.
[Ord. No. 501-02 §6, 12-16-2002]
Every person engaged in more than one (1) occupation, where
such occupations are operated as one (1) business under the same management
and at the same location, shall pay an individual license for each
said business.
[Ord. No. 501-02 §12, 12-16-2002]
All licenses issued under this Chapter shall be displayed in
a conspicuous place in the place of business authorized to be conducted
and shall be removed after expiration.
[Ord. No. 501-02 §13, 12-16-2002]
No license issued under this Chapter shall be transferable from
one person to another.
[Ord. No. 501-02 §7, 12-16-2002]
Any person, firm or business that is required to pay sales tax
must show proof to the City of Strafford that all sales taxes due
to the State of Missouri have been paid to the date of the application
prior to being issued a City business license. Any person, firm or
corporation failing to provide proof of payment of such taxes shall
not be issued a City business license until such time as said State
taxes, penalties and interest thereon are fully paid, and the Department
of Revenue for the State of Missouri certifies that same are fully
paid.
[Ord. No. 501-02 §8, 12-16-2002]
No person shall exercise, carry on or engage in selling, exchanging
or trading personal property, goods, wares or merchandise and/or services
without a permanent storefront or from a motor vehicle in the City
without first having obtained a license therefore from the City of
Strafford.
[Ord. No. 501-02 §9, 12-16-2002]
An itinerant merchant, whether principal or agent, shall pay
the sum of twenty dollars ($20.00) for said license fee. The term
of licenses issued pursuant to this Chapter shall be for one hundred
twenty (120) days.
[Ord. No. 501-02 §10, 12-16-2002]
Any itinerant vendor, whether principal or agent, before beginning
business shall show proof of State itinerant vendor license.
[Ord. No. 501-02 §11, 12-16-2002]
Any person violating any part of Sections 605.100 to 605.120 of this Chapter shall have committed a trespass on such property and/or solicitation without a license and shall be prosecuted under general misdemeanor ordinances of the City. The penalty for such violation shall be the same as for any other trespass.
[CC 1983 §8-28(1-6)]
A.
No person
shall advertise, conduct, carry on or permit any garage, patio, yard
sale or other similar sale upon the grounds of or within any dwelling
within the City of Strafford without first obtaining a garage sale
permit from the City Clerk, which permit shall be issued upon submission
of the following to the City Clerk: the name of the person holding
or conducting the sale, the location of the sale, the date or dates
the sale is to be held and upon representation of compliance with
the requirements of this Section.
B.
It shall be unlawful for any person to advertise, conduct, carry on or permit more than two (2) sales of the type required to be registered under Subsection (A) above within any twelve (12) month period.
C.
It shall
be unlawful for any person to advertise, conduct, carry on or permit
any one (1) such sale to be scheduled for more than three (3) consecutive
calendar days in any twelve (12) month period.
D.
It shall
be unlawful for any person to advertise, conduct, carry on or permit
any such sale without displaying openly to the public its garage sale
permit.
E.
It shall be unlawful for any person to advertise, sell or offer for sale at any such sale required to be registered under Subsection (A) above any articles of personal property except such as have normally accumulated in ordinary dwelling usage of the premises where the sale is to be held. Provided however, this Subsection (E) shall not apply to non-profit, educational or charitable-type organizations conducting sales from goods donated to the organization.
F.
This
Section shall not apply to any person complying with the business
license laws of the City of Strafford who is conducting the sale under
a valid business license in a valid business district, except, the
ordinance shall apply when the sale is of clothing, antiques, household
furniture, appliances, decorative items and oddities, when the sale
is conducted as a yard sale or in an unenclosed area; and further,
this Section shall not prevent the sale or offer of sale of single
items of personal property where each item to be sold is separately
set forth and identified with the advertisement of sale.
