[CC 1988 §50.010]
It shall be unlawful for any person, either directly or indirectly,
to conduct any business, trade, location, calling or occupation in
whole or in part for which a license or permit is required until said
license having been first procured and thereafter kept in effect at
all times as required by this Article.
[CC 1988 §50.020]
[CC 1988 §50.030]
The City license officer shall make an initial determination
of whether or not any particular business activity, occupation, solicitation
or service shall be embraced within the provisions of this Article.
Such determination shall be reasonably made based upon the generally
accepted concept of each such activity, occupation, solicitation or
service with regard and the intention of the General Assembly in the
amendment of Section 94.270, RSMo., and other applicable Sections
of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, except as may be provided otherwise
in this Article, such determination by the City license officer shall
be final and binding on all persons affected thereby unless and until
such determination is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction.
[CC 1988 §50.040]
The local agents or other representatives of non-residents who
are doing business or engaged in non-profit enterprises in this City
shall be personally responsible for compliance, of their principal
and of the business and enterprises they represent, with applicable
provisions of this Article.
[CC 1988 §50.050]
Except as may be provided otherwise by this Article, no license
shall be required by any person for mere delivery of any person or
property purchased or acquired from such person at his/her regular
place of business outside the City where no intent by such person
is shown to exist to pervade the provision of this Article.
[CC 1988 §50.060; Ord. No. 931 §1, 3-7-1994]
A.
The
City Clerk shall be the City license officer and shall issue in the
name of the City all licenses and permits required by this Article
to all qualified applicants therefor after all required taxes and
fees have been paid in accordance with the provision of this City
Chapter and a copy of Missouri sales tax license has been provided
to the City Clerk.
B.
Evidence Of Workers' Compensation Insurance Prior To Business License
Issuance. No business license required under the provisions
of this Article shall be issued by the City Clerk to any person doing
business as a construction contractor 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.
[CC 1988 §50.070]
A person engaged in two (2) or more businesses at the same location
shall be required to obtain a separate license for conducting each
of such businesses but when eligible shall be issued one (1) license
which shall specify on its face all of such businesses. The license
fee shall be in addition to any other applicable tax or fee required
by any other Chapter of the City Code.
[CC 1988 §50.080]
When a licensee places himself/herself in a new status, the
City license officer shall issue a supplemental license and such additional
insignia as may be required.
[CC 1988 §50.090]
A duplicate license shall be issued by the City license officer
to replace any license or such permit previously issued and which
has been lost, stolen, defaced or destroyed without any willful conduct
on the part of the applicant upon the filing by him/her of an affidavit
attesting to such fact and upon the payment of a fee of five dollars
($5.00).
[CC 1988 §50.100]
Each licensee under this Article who conducts business on or
from licensed premises shall post and maintain such license upon the
licensed premises in a place where it may be seen at all times.
[CC 1988 §50.110]
Every licensee under this Article who has no licensed business
premises shall carry his/her license on his/her person and shall display
it to the City Officer having authority to enforce this Article and
the persons with whom he/she transacts or seeks to transact business
at their request.
[CC 1988 §50.130]
No license under provision of this Article shall be granted
for a longer or shorter term than the time specified authorizing a
license tax be levied and collected and each license shall terminate
one (1) day, two (2) days or one (1) year, as the case may be, from
the day on which the same is issued, provided that the term for all
annual licenses shall be on the first (1st) day of July in each year.
[CC 1988 §50.140]
No license issued under the provision of this Article shall
be assigned or transferred; no money paid to the City Collector for
any such license shall be refunded by this City or by any office thereof.
[CC 1988 §50.150]
A.
No
license or permit provided for or required under this Article or any
other ordinance of the City shall be issued by the City to any person
until all applicable taxes including real property tax of the applicant
for such license or permit shall have first been paid.
B.
It
shall be the duty of the City Collector to establish and promulgate
rules and regulations relative to an orderly method of checking unpaid
taxes in order to determine the amounts thereof due and owing to the
City by any such applicant.
[CC 1988 §50.155; Ord. No. 695 §1, 7-16-1990]
A.
Business/merchant
licenses shall not be issued without certification from the Building
Inspector that the premises are in compliance with all applicable
Zoning and Building Codes. A certification of inspection shall only
be issued by the City Building Inspector if it is determined that
the proposed use of, and the proposed premises are:
B.
An
application for inspection must be obtained by the applicant seeking
a business/merchant license pursuant to this Article and the City
Building Inspector and his/her authorized agent shall perform an inspection
to determine whether a certification may be issued only if one (1)
or more of the following circumstances exist:
1.
This is the first (1st) time the applicant has filed for a business/merchant
license in the City of Lake Saint Louis;
2.
This is the first (1st) time the applicant has filed on behalf of
the business in which the applicant is involved and for which the
applicant is seeking a business/merchant license;
3.
The location of the business in which the applicant is involved and
for which the applicant is seeking a business/merchant license has
changed since the last business/merchant license application;
4.
The ownership of the business in which the business/merchant license
applicant is engaged is changed since the last business/merchant license;
5.
The ownership of the premises on which the business is located has
changed since the last application for business/merchant license;
or
6.
The nature of the business in which the applicant is involved and
for which the applicant is seeking a business license has changed
since the last application for a business/merchant license.
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It shall be the duty of the City Building Inspector to establish
and to promulgate rules and regulations relating to an orderly method
of conducting the inspections necessary under this Section.
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C.
Change
of ownership for purpose of this Section does not include a change
in stock ownership of a corporation if the corporation continues in
existence and the nature of the business in which the applicant is
involved does not change, nor does it include changes of limited partners
within a partnership if the nature of the business in which the applicant
is involved does not change and the general partners remain the same.
D.
It is the responsibility of the applicant for a business/merchant license to apply for an inspection of the premises from the City Building Inspector and to inform the City license officer if any of the above circumstances set forth in Subsection (B) exist.
E.
The
owner of a premises within the City of Lake Saint Louis shall inform
the City of Lake Saint Louis City Administrator within thirty (30)
days of a change of occupancy of the premises if a business begins
conducting business at the owner's premises.
F.
A fee
of fifty dollars ($50.00) shall hereby be established for said inspection.
G.
Any
person, firm or corporation which violates the provisions of this
Section shall be subject to the same penalties set forth in of the
City Code.
[CC 1988 §50.160; Ord. No. 651 §1, 10-2-1989; Ord. No. 931 §2, 3-7-1994; Ord. No. 1186 §1, 5-5-1997; Ord. No. 1207 §1, 7-21-1997; Ord. No. 1387 §1, 12-21-1998; Ord. No. 2318 §1, 8-21-2006; Ord. No. 3047 §2, 3-5-2012; Ord. No. 3077 §1, 6-18-2012]
There is hereby levied, fixed and ordered collected an annual
license tax, unless a shorter period of time is indicated, upon the
various things, objects, subjects, vocations, callings, persons and
occupations within the City as follows:
Amusement parks. Miniature golf course and
skating rink: $25.00/each.
Arborist, certified. Any owner or operator
of a tree service, arboricultural firm or any business that performs
work on trees greater than twelve (12) inches in diameter on public
or private property and is ISA (International Society of Arboriculture)
certified: $25.00.
Auctioneers. One (1) who sells, or offers to
sell, any goods, wares, merchandise or other personal property or
any real estate or any interest therein at any store, stand or other
place of business within the City at public auction or outcry, whether
the same be exempt from auction duty or not, or shall advertise or
in any manner hold himself/ herself out as an auctioneer for public
patronage and shall receive fees or any other compensation for his/her
services: $20.00/$5.00 per day.
Automobile accessory dealers. Any person who
shall buy, manufacture or assemble and sell or offer for sale any
tires or other fixtures, appliances or accessories to or for automobiles,
trucks or trailers except persons licensed as merchants: $100.00.
Automobile agencies. Any person who sells,
trades or offers to sell or trade automobiles, trucks, trailers or
buses which are not the property of such person, as the employee,
agent or representative of a non-resident manufacturer, owner or dealer:
One (1) to six (6) employees: $100.00.
Seven (7) to twelve (12) employees: $125.00.
Thirteen (13) to twenty-four (24) employees: $200.00.
Over twenty-five (25) employees: $250.00.
Automobile dealers. Any person who shall buy
for the purpose of sale or trade or who shall sell, trade or offer
to sell or trade automobiles or other motor vehicles:
One (1) to six (6) employees: $100.00.
Seven (7) to twelve (12) employees: $125.00.
Thirteen (13) to twenty-four (24) employees: $200.00.
Over twenty-five (25) employees: $250.00.
Automobile garages. Any shop or place where
automobiles or other motor vehicles are kept repaired, cleaned or
oiled or let for hire, except the storage place for automobiles of
the owner at the private residence of such owner: $75.00.
Bakeries. Any shop, stand, store or place where
bread, cakes, cookies, doughnuts, pies, pastries and/or similar products
are manufactured, prepared, sold or offered for sale, except a person
who is licensed to do business as a merchant who sells, but does not
manufacture such products: $50.00.
Banks: $300.00.
Barbers: See hair stylist.
Billiard tables. Each billiard or pool table
set up and used for hire: $15.00.
Books, stationery dealers: $30.00.
Bowling alleys. Every bowling alley or ten
(10) pin alley set up and used for hire: $5.00 per lane.
Brokers: See mercantile agents.
Brokers in merchandise. Each person having
an office or other place of transacting business in the City not carrying
a stock of goods and selling merchandise or goods of any kind for
a commission or other compensation: $30.00.
Brokers in stocks, bonds, etc. Every 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 partial payment plan: $30.00.
Buses: $25.00 per bus.
Car wash or self-service laundry: $30.00.
Casualty companies: See fire insurance companies.
Cleaners and cleaning establishments. Any shop,
stand or place of business where clothing or other articles are washed,
cleaned or renovated: $50.00.
Collection agencies. Every person representing
or holding himself/herself out as a collection agency or doing a general
collection business for the public: $30.00.
Contractors — general. Any person who,
in the capacity of an independent contractor, contracts with any business,
property owner or person to perform a particular job or jobs, whether
the remuneration received for performing the job or jobs is on a cost-plus
basis, a flat sum basis or salary computed at so much per hour: $100.00/each.
Cosmetologists: See hair stylist.
Dance halls. Any place of business open to
the public where dancing takes place and where there is music provided
by an orchestra, band or mechanical means: $30.00.
Entertainments. Any public entertainment not
otherwise taxed under this schedule: $5.00 per day; $30.00 per month.
Florist: See merchant.
Fur dealers: $30.00.
General fire insurance agents. Any person authorized
to write fire, lightning, wind, cyclone, tornado, plate glass, burglary,
casualty, accident and health insurance and to execute fidelity and
security bonds: $25.00.
General life insurance agent. Any persons authorized
to write life, accident and health insurance: $25.00.
Hair stylist. For the shop and one (1) hair
stylist per year: $20.00.
Each additional hair stylist in the shop per year: $5.00.
Hotels or motels. Any place or establishment
of rooms or more engaged in the renting of rooms to transients: $100.00.
Under fifty (50) rooms: $75.00.
Ice cream parlors. Any store, shop or place
where ice cream, ices, sherbets or soft drinks are sold or served
for consumption on the premises: $30.00.
Ice cream wagons. Any vehicle self-propelled,
pushcart or any horse-drawn wagon that sells ice cream, ices, sherbets
or soft drinks for consumption: For a period of one hundred twenty
(120) days from date of issue: $25.00.
Job printing plants. Any person who does miscellaneous
printing for hire: $50.00.
Laundries. Any person who washes or irons or
offers to wash or iron clothing or fabrics for others, except such
person who performs such service in his/her or his/her customer's
private premises, and who operates not more than one (1) washing machine
and two (2) hand irons in doing so: $50.00.
Loan companies. Any person who shall lend or
offer to lend or negotiate the loan of any money belonging to himself/herself
or another and who shall advertise money to lend, or one who purchases
negotiable instruments and collects the same for the interest, including
savings and loan associations: $150.00 per year.
Lumber dealers. Any person who buys, sells
or deals in lumber or wood products. (See merchants): $30.00.
Lunch counters. Any stand or place where sandwiches,
lunches and/or drinks are sold other than regular meals, and where
tables and chairs are not provided for the customers: $30.00.
Machine shop. Any shop, stand or place of business
maintaining or operating machines for making or repairing articles
of wood, metal or equipment for others for a consideration: $100.00.
Manufacturers $1.00 per employee; with a minimum
of: $75.00.
Merchants. A person who buys, sells or deals
in any goods,wares or merchandise at any store, stand or place of
business within the City, and not otherwise specifically taxed by
this Article:
One (1) to three (3) employees: $50.00.
Four (4) to nine (9) employees: $100.00.
Ten (10) to fifteen (15) employees: $150.00.
Sixteen (16) to twenty-four (24) employees: $200.00.
Over twenty-five (25) employees: $250.00.
Mercantile agents and brokers. One who for
a commission, brokerage fee or other compensation negotiates between
owner and the purchaser or their respective agents for the sale of
goods, wares and merchandise or other articles of commerce: $30.00.
Mobile food vendors. See Merchant and/or Transient
Merchant. Additional requirements apply to mobile food vendors.
Nursery stock agent: See merchant.
Opera houses: See theaters.
Opticians. Selling of frames and/or prescription
glasses: See merchant.
Outdoor advertising signs/structure. There
shall be a fee of five hundred dollars ($500.00) for the initial inspection
of an outdoor advertising sign/structure, and an annual fee of two
percent (2%) of the gross annual revenue produced by the outdoor advertising
sign/structure, within the City of Lake Saint Louis: $500.00.
Photographers. Any person, whether resident,
transient or itinerant, engaging in the business of portrait or commercial
photography or in the enlarging, copying, coloring or portrait finishing
of photographs or soliciting or offering for sale any of such goods
or services, directly or indirectly, verbally, by telephone, by mail,
through the use of coupons or tokens of whatever nature, or by means
of printed advertisements of any form, by subterfuge or otherwise,
in the City: $50.00 per year; $5.00 per day.
Picture shows: See theaters.
Plumbers: See contractors and subcontractors.
Pool tables: See billiard tables.
Real estate brokers: $100.00.
Redi-mix concrete dealer: $100.00.
Repair shops: $25.00.
Restaurants. Any inn or establishment engaged
solely or chiefly in the sale and serving of meals or lunches where
tables and chairs are provided for the customer:
One (1) to six (6) employees: $50.00.
Seven (7) to twelve (12) employees: $75.00.
Thirteen (13) to twenty-four (24) employees: $125.00.
Over twenty-five (25) employees: $150.00.
Skating rinks: See amusement park.
Soft drink stand or vendors. Any person who
sells soft drinks or non-alcoholic beverages, or any place where the
same are sold or served: $15.00.
Special events. A person representing one (1)
or more vendors who buys, sells or deals in any goods, wares or merchandise
at any special event within the City, and not otherwise specifically
taxed by this Article:
One (1) to twenty-five (25) vendors: $25.00.
Twenty-five (25) to fifty (50) vendors: $50.00.
More than fifty (50) vendors: $100.00.
Subcontractors. Any person who in the capacity
of an independent contractor contracts with any contractor to perform
a particular trade or job, whether the remuneration received for performing
the job or jobs is on a cost-plus basis, a flat sum basis, or salary
basis computed at so much per hour: $100.00/each.
Taxicabs: $25.00/each.
Theaters. Each public theater or motion picture
show: $100.00.
Transient merchant. One who buys and sells
merchandise, of any nature whatsoever, who is not a permanent merchant
or who intends to continue in business in any one (1) place for a
period of not more than one hundred twenty (120) successive days,
per day: $10.00.
Wholesale gasoline dealers. Any person selling
gasoline, oil and/or other petroleum products at wholesale, which
business is commonly known as a "bulk station": $100.00.
Wholesale houses. Any house, store or establishment
where goods wares and merchandise are kept and sold or offered for
sale to retailers or others for resale by such purchasers: $50.00.
Wholesale merchants. Any person who sells or
offers to sell any goods, wares or merchandise to retailers or to
other persons for resale by such purchasers: $50.00.
If a person or company maintains a business office in accordance
with the existing zoning regulations, in a non-residential zoning
district, within the City limits for the purpose of providing any
type service, trade, or avocation whatsoever, or conducting business
transactions of any type with another party, providing said person
or company is not engaged in interstate commerce or exempt from the
application of a license by reason of a tax exempt status, the fee
for such license shall be: $25.00.
Organizations registered with the State of Missouri as civic
organizations or not-for-profit organizations maintaining a permanent
establishment, open to the general public on a regular basis, or on
occasion, engaged in providing enter- tainment to the general public,
shall file an application for a business license with the City Clerk.
Said application shall state the type organization, location, hours
of operation, number of employees, if applicable, verification of
Workers' Compensation insurance, if applicable, the annual fees shall
be: $25.00.
A.
Hereafter
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, 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 Lake Saint Louis.
[CC 1988 §50.170]
For the purpose of this Article, the term "employee" shall mean a full-time and part-time employee.
[CC 1988 §50.180]
Any license issued for a part of the year, the fee shall be
based on one-half (½) of the annual charge unless otherwise
specified.
[CC 1988 §50.190]
Any canvasser, solicitor or other person who may be exempt from
the application of license, taxes or fees imposed by this Article
by reason of engaging in interstate commerce shall, before engaging
in any canvassing or solicitation in the City, register with the City
license officer on forms provided by such officer.
[CC 1988 §50.200]
Each registrant under the provision of Section 605.200 shall, at the time of making an initial application, the applicant shall pay to the City Clerk ten dollars ($10.00). In the event that the applicant's application to do business in the City of Lake Saint Louis is denied by the City Clerk, the applicant shall be refunded the sum of five dollars ($5.00), the remaining portion to cover the cost of investigation by the City of the proposed applicant. Applicant may appeal from such denial to the Board of Aldermen who should hear such appeal at their next regular meeting.
[CC 1988 §50.210]
The City license officer shall refer each registration under Section 605.200 to the Police Chief who shall cause an investigation of the registration business and moral character of the registrant to be made as he/she deems necessary for the protection of the public.
[CC 1988 §50.220]
Upon approval by the Police Chief the City license officer shall
issue a registration certificate to each registrant to keep on his/her
person at all times and shall upon demand display to Police and other
officers of the City and to any citizen who so requests.
[CC 1988 §50.230]
A.
Any registration certificate issued under the provisions of Section 605.230 may be revoked by the City license officer for any of the following causes:
1.
Fraud, misrepresentation or false statements made by the registrant
on the registration form.
2.
Fraud, misrepresentation or false statement made in the course of
carrying on his/her business as a solicitor or canvasser.
3.
Any violation of this Article.
4.
Conducting the business of solicitation or of canvassing in an unlawful
manner or in such manner as to constitute a breach of the peace or
to constitute a menace to the health, welfare and safety of the community.
