[CC 1987 §935.010; Ord. No. 85 §1, 6-3-1931; Ord.
No. 405 §§1 — 61, 1961; Ord. No. 2008-6 §2, 4-28-2008]
No person, firm or corporation shall directly or indirectly
engage in any business or occupation hereinafter named, in this City,
before taking out a license from said City so to do, paying in advance
one (1) year's license to engage in any business or occupation for
the first (1st) year and thereafter to pay annually, semi-annually
or quarterly as is hereinafter set out and the tax on each license
shall be and is hereby levied as follows:
Payable yearly - $50.25 per year.
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Agents for loan companies defined — A loan agent within
the meaning of this Subsection is any person, firm or corporation
who shall lend, or offer to lend, or negotiate the loan of money of
another, or who shall advertise money to lend.
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Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
Payable daily - $10.25 per day per tent.
Upon a license as a clairvoyant, palmist, astrologer, slatewriter,
medium or fortune-teller by whatever method, payable yearly - $100.00
per week.
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Astrologer — One who tells or pretends
to tell future events by studying the position and location of heavenly
bodies and ascertaining their alleged influence upon human life and
destiny.
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Clairvoyant — One who practices and has
or pretends to have the ability, gift or faculty of seeing or discerning
objects not present to the senses or within the reach of knowledge
of persons under normal conditions.
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Fortuneteller — One who tells or pretends
to tell, by any means or method whatsoever, the events of one's
life.
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Medium — A person who practices and to
whom the actions of another being is claimed to be manifested and
transmitted by animal magnetism, or a person to whom spiritual manifestations
are claimed to be made, especially one who is claimed or who claims
to be capable of holding communication with the spirits of the deceased.
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Palmist — One who practices palmistry
or claims to reveal character or reveal the past, present or future
events by the lines in the palm of the hand.
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Slatewriter — One who conducts seances
at which it is claimed that spirits of deceased persons write on slates,
paper or otherwise.
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Payable yearly - $50.00 per year.
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Auctioneer defined — An auctioneer is
defined to be any person who shall sell or offer to sell any goods,
wares, merchandise or other personal property or real estate or any
interest therein at any store, stand or place within the limits of
the City of Hayti at public auction or outcry for his/her own gain;
or shall advertise or in any other manner hold himself/herself out
as an auctioneer for business patronage.
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Payable yearly - $50.25 per year.
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Automobile agency or dealer defined —
An automobile agency or dealer is an agency or office, storeroom or
place of business, person, firm or corporation engaged in selling,
exposing or offering for sale any kind of automobile, motorcar or
similar vehicle.
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Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
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Automobile garage and repair shop defined —
Any person, firm or corporation who shall keep and maintain any room,
building or place in which automobiles are kept for hire or in which
automobiles belonging to persons other than the owner or keeper of
said room, building or place where same are kept, stored and cleaned
or repaired, and for said keeping, storing, cleaning or repairing
a charge is made, is hereby defined to be a keeper of an automobile
garage.
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Payable yearly - $3.50 per year.
Payable yearly - $25.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $100.25 per year.
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Banks defined — A bank is an institution
which trades in money, an establishment for the deposit, custody and
issue of money and for making loans and discounts and for the transmission
of remittances from one (1) place to another.
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Payable yearly - $5.25 per year for the first (1st) chair
and $2.50 for each additional chair.
Payable yearly - $5.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $10.25 for each table.
Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
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Boarding house defined — A public boarding
house within the meaning of this Subsection is any place where meals
or lodging are served to two (2) or more persons by the week, day,
month, or single meal for pay or compensation, which does not come
within the definition of a hotel as given below.
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Payable yearly - $100.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $50.25 per year.
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Butchers defined — A butcher is a person,
firm or corporation who sells the fresh meat of cattle, hogs or sheep
in any quantity less than one-quarter (1/4) of any animal at any stand,
store or place. Provided, that no license shall be required of any
butcher who is operating a business under a merchant's license,
the tax on which equals or exceeds the tax set out above.
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$5.25 per day or $50.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $200.25 per week.
Payable yearly - $12.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $32.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $12.25 per year.
A contractor is one who contracts or hires out to furnish
supplies or performs work at a certain price or rate.
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Street contractor — Payable yearly -
$25.25 per year.
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Painting contractor — Payable yearly
- $25.25 per year.
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Plastering contractor — Payable yearly
- $25.25 per year.
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Building contractor — Payable yearly
- $50.25 per year.
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Payable yearly - $67.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
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Cotton dealer defined — A cotton dealer
is any person, firm or corporation that carries on the business of
buying or selling, either for himself/herself or for another, lint
or seed cotton.
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Payable yearly - $100.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $25.25 per year. Dealing in dairy products.
Payable yearly - $24.25 per year. To deal in fresh fish exclusively.
Payable yearly - $24.25 per year. Wherein meals are served
to the general public.
Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $50.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
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Filling station defined — A filling station
is a place of business where lubricating oil, gasoline and grease
are sold to the retail trade.
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Payable yearly - $25.25 per year for each agent or agency
doing a fire insurance business in the City of Hayti.
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Fire insurance companies defined — This
license tax to levy upon each insurance company having an agent representing
or doing business for such insurance company in this City, by such
agent soliciting for or distributing any advertising matter bearing
the name of such company, or the name of such agent as its representative,
or by writing for or transmitting to such company any policy or policies
of insurance for issue or approval by such company, or by receiving
or transmitting any application from any person, firm or corporation
for insurance with such insurance company, or by receiving for or
transmitting to any such company premiums or money or its equivalent,
whether the same is received in behalf of such insurance company,
or as the agent for the person or persons, firm or corporation desiring
or applying for insurance, or in any other way representing such insurance
company in soliciting or carrying on the business of insurance in
said City.
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Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
See Ordinance No. 323.
Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $48.25 per year.
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Hotel defined — Any person, firm or corporation
who keeps a house open for the reception and accommodation of transient
guests, whether meals are served or not and charges daily rates, is
hereby declared to be a hotel keeper.
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Payable yearly - $18.25 per year. No person, firm or corporation
shall move any house, structure or building of any kind or character
whatsoever across any street, avenue, alley or public thoroughfare
in the City of Hayti, Missouri, without taking out a license so to
do.
Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
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Hucksters defined — Any person selling
fruits, produce, grain, butter, eggs, fowls or vegetables of any kind
or description, except such articles of produce above described as
are produced or raised by his/her own labor or upon his/her own premises,
by going about from place to place or by going upon the public streets
with any wagon, cart or vehicle of any description from which is sold
any fruits, produce, grain, butter, eggs, fowls or vegetables shall
be deemed a huckster within the meaning of this Section and shall
take out a license for each wagon, cart or vehicle of any description
used in such business.
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Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
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Installment merchants defined — Any person,
firm or corporation that sells goods, wares or merchandise by sample
for delivery at some future date, where said goods are sold on installment
or to be paid for at a specified time, shall be deemed an installment
merchant.
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Payable yearly - $34.25 per year.
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Insurance agents defined — An insurance agent within the
meaning of this Chapter is any person, firm or corporation representing
any life, accident, health or casualty insurance company.
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Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
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Junk dealer defined — A junk dealer is
any person, firm or corporation who buys, sells or offers to buy or
sell any old iron, brass, steel, bones, rags, bottles, etc.
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Payable yearly - $18.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $50.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $50.25 per year.
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Loan company defined — A loan company
is any person, firm or corporation who buys, sells or offers to buy
or sell any stock or shares in any corporation, bonds, notes, judgment
or other securities, or making money loans for profits; provided that
this Subsection shall not apply to any person, firm or corporation
having a license for and doing business as a banking institution.
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Payable yearly - $67.25 per year.
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Manufacturer defined — A manufacturer
is any person, company, firm or corporation who shall hold or purchase
personal property for the purpose of adding to the value thereof by
any means of manufacturing, refining or by the combination of different
materials and shall include all persons engaged in the manufacturing
within the City of coats, shoes, saddlery, harness, saddle trees,
agricultural implements, wagons, carriages or buggies, clothing, bricks,
gas, ice, flour, fermented wines, soda or mineral waters, spirituous
liquors, hoops, lathes, staves, and lumber, egg cases, and all other
articles made or produced by a manufacturer as above defined; provided
that this definition of a manufacturer shall not apply to a licensed
merchant who may manufacture articles which are exclusively sold at
his/her store, stand or place of business, nor shall it apply to any
shoemaker, printer, carpenter, blacksmith or other mechanic whose
finished product is the result of his/her own labor.
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Any person, firm or entity engaged in the selling or exposing for sale of any fireworks within the City as may be permitted by Section 205.020 of this code shall acquire a seasonal fireworks merchant license prior to selling or exposing any fireworks for sale. As a prerequisite to the issuance of such license, any such merchant shall provide the City Collector with a copy of its fireworks license issued by the State of Missouri, together with a copy of its State of Missouri retail sales license. The fee for each such City seasonal fireworks merchant license shall be two hundred dollars ($200.00) per season.
Payable yearly - With assessed valuation not to exceed $500.00
- $24.25 per year. With assessed valuation over $500.00 and not to
exceed $1,000.00 - $36.25 per year. With assessed valuation over $1,000.00
and not to exceed $2,500.00 - $48.25 per year. With assessed valuation
over $2,500.00 and not to exceed $5,000.00 - $60.25 per year. With
assessed valuation over $5,000.00 - $80.25 per year.
Payable semi-annually - $12.00 per year.
Payable yearly - $67.25.
Payable yearly - $15.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $25.25 per year.
Peddlers of fresh meat. Payable yearly - $24.25
per year.
Peddlers of ice cream. Payable yearly - $24.25
per year.
Peddlers of fish. Payable yearly - $24.25 per
year.
Peddlers of hot tamales. Payable yearly - $24.15
per year.
Peddlers of popcorn. Payable yearly - $24.25
per year.
Peddlers of medicine upon the streets of this City. Payable daily - $15.25 per day.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to
peddle, sell or offer to sale by public outcry or to set up or establish,
keep or maintain for the purpose of selling or offering for sale any
medicine, remedies or substances designed or contrived to cure or
relieve any disease or sickness whatever or to relieve any pain or
other ailment or illness in or upon the public streets, alleys, avenues
or any other public place in the City of Hayti or shall give or offer
to give any such remedy or medicine free, provided the recipient shall
purchase some other article, without taking out and then and there
having a license so to do.
Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
Payable daily - $5.25 per day.
Payable yearly - $64.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
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Shooting galleries defined — A shooting
gallery is any room or place where any kind of firearms or air guns
are kept for public use, practice or sport and for hire, gain or profit.
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Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
See Special Ordinance.
Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
See Special Ordinance.
Payable yearly - $24.25 per year.
Payable daily - $3.00 per day.
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
Hayti.
[CC 1987 §935.020; Ord. No. 405 §62, 1961]
Every license issued buy virtue of any requirements or provision
of this Chapter or any Section thereof shall be signed by the Mayor
and the City Clerk of the City of Hayti and countersigned by the City
Collector, and the City Clerk shall affix the corporate Seal of the
City thereon. No license shall be issued to any person until the amount
prescribed therefor shall have been paid to the Collector and no license
shall in any case be assigned or transferred.
[CC 1987 §935.030; Ord. No. 405 §63, 1961]
It is hereby made the duty of every person, firm or company
or corporation receiving and having a license in this City for any
business, occupation, trade or vocation of whatever kind or character
to keep said license at all times posted up in full view in a conspicuous
place at his/her, their or its place of business.
[CC 1987 §920.010; Ord. No. 621 §1, 4-3-1985]
All business licenses and permits issued in the City of Hayti
for which a fee is charged shall be issued for one (1) year from July
first (1st) through June thirtieth (30th).
[CC 1987 §920.020; Ord. No. 621 §2, 4-3-1985]
All fees for licenses and permits shall be prorated to the nearest
quarter (¼) of the calendar year.
[CC 1987 §935.050; Ord. No. 405 §65, 1961]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall engage in or carry
on any trade, business, vocation or calling, or own or operate anything
subject to be licensed by this Article without first having obtained
and paid for said license as required and provided for by this Article
or any other ordinance of the City shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Each and every day upon which any person, firm or corporation shall
fail to be provided with any license required by this Article shall
be deemed a separate offense.
[CC 1987 §935.060; Ord. No. 405 §66, 1961]
The City Attorney, or in his/her absence, the City Clerk shall
have authority to classify any occupation or any application for any
license of any kind or character not specifically mentioned in this
Chapter.
