[R.O. 2011 §53.010; Ord. No. 1956 §1, 3-15-1999; Ord. No. 2767, 5-20-2019]
A. 
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this Chapter for any person or entity, either directly or indirectly, to engage in or conduct any kind of business, trade, occupation, vocation, activity or profession, or to use in connection therewith any vehicle, premises, structure, machine or device licensed under this Chapter without first obtaining a license therefor as prescribed herein and thereafter kept in effect at all times as required by this Chapter.
B. 
Each applicant for a business license under this Chapter shall submit a statement from the Missouri Department of Revenue pursuant to Section 144.083.4, RSMo., stating no tax is due, which statement is a prerequisite to the issuance or renewal of a City business license. The statement required by this Section shall be dated within ninety (90) days of submission of the business license application or renewal application
C. 
Each applicant for a business license under this Chapter having five (5) employees or more shall submit proof of their certificate of insurance for workers compensation. This certificate is a prerequisite to the issuance or renewal of a City business license.
D. 
Each applicant for a business license under this Chapter shall submit proof of their certificate of insurance showing General Liability coverage. This certificate is a prerequisite to the issuance or renewal of a City business license.
[R.O. 2011 §53.020; Ord. No. 1956 §1, 3-15-1999]
Except as may be otherwise provided in this Chapter, a person or entity shall be deemed to be engaged in a business, trade, occupation, vocation, activity or profession within the meaning of this Chapter, when the person or entity engages in selling any goods or service, soliciting business or offering goods or service for sale or hire, or using any vehicle, premises, or structure within the City limits for such business purposes.
[R.O. 2011 §53.030; Ord. No. 1956 §1, 3-15-1999]
A. 
For each business, occupation, trade, vocation, activity or profession required by this Chapter to be licensed, a separate license shall be obtained. A person or entity engaged in more than one (1) business at the same location shall not be required to obtain a separate license for each business but, when eligible, shall be issued one (1) license, which shall specify on its face all businesses so licensed.
B. 
When any person or entity engages in more than one (1) business, occupation, trade, vocation, activity or profession at the same location under one (1) license, the license fee shall be equal to the sum of all the fees for each business, occupation, trade or profession so licensed.
[R.O. 2011 §53.040; Ord. No. 1956 §1, 3-15-1999]
The operation of any business, occupation, trade, vocation, activity or profession which includes sales of merchandise and the service, maintenance and upkeep of such merchandise and like items at the same location shall not be considered as more than one (1) business. The operation of any business, occupation, trade, vocation, activity or profession consisting primarily of personal services shall not be considered as more than one (1) business even though said person or entity operating said business may be engaged in more than one (1) activity, unless one (1) or more of the said activities includes, or is connected with, a mercantile business. No person or entity operating automobile service stations shall be required to obtain more than one (1) license for any one (1) automobile service station premises provided that the activities engaged in at said premises have a direct relationship to the care, maintenance, and upkeep of motor vehicles.
[R.O. 2011 §53.050; Ord. No. 1956 §1, 3-15-1999]
The City License Officer shall make the initial determination whether any particular business, trade, occupation, vocation, activity or profession shall be covered within the provision of this Chapter. Such determination shall be reasonably made, based upon the generally accepted concept of each such business, and with regard to compliance with Section 94.270, RSMo. Such determination by the City License Officer shall be final and binding on persons affected thereby.
[R.O. 2011 §53.060; Ord. No. 1956 §1, 3-15-1999]
The local agent or representative of non-resident person(s) or entity(s) engaged in any business, trade, occupation, vocation, activity or profession in this City shall be personally responsible for compliance with all Sections of this Chapter for his/her principal and for the business, trade, occupation, vocation, activity or profession he/she represents or on whose behalf he/she acts.
[R.O. 2011 §53.070; Ord. No. 1956 §1, 3-15-1999]
Except as may otherwise be provided by this Chapter, no license shall be required of any person or entity for any delivery within the City of any property purchased or acquired from a business operating outside the City limits where such business exhibits no intent or indication to evade the provisions of this Chapter.
[R.O. 2011 §53.080; Ord. No. 1956 §1, 3-15-1999]
Any general or special license fees for any kind of vehicle for the privilege of operating such vehicle upon the public highways shall be in addition to any other license, permits, insignias or fees for such vehicles otherwise required by Federal, State or local law.
[Ord. No. 2100 §1, 6-3-2002]
A. 
No person shall place or cause to be placed or displayed merchandise or any vending machine on any public sidewalk or parkway, except during a sanctioned sidewalk sale or other event for which a permit shall be issued by the Board of Aldermen. Said permit, when granted, shall be authorized for no more than three (3) consecutive days and no more than three (3) permits shall be issued during a calendar year.
B. 
Permit Restrictions.
1. 
No more than half of the width of the sidewalk may be obstructed.
2. 
No merchandise may be left on the sidewalk overnight.
[R.O. 2011 §53.090; Ord. No. 1956 §1, 3-15-1999]
Businesses, trades, professions, occupations, vocations or activities including, but not limited to, the following shall not be operated, practiced, engaged in or otherwise conducted in the City unless and until the owner, operator, manager, proprietor or practitioner thereof shall have applied for and obtained a license to operate, practice, engage in or otherwise conduct same from the City License Officer and shall have paid to the City the license tax hereinafter set forth, such license and tax thereafter to be issued and paid on an annual basis as set forth in this Chapter, except where otherwise herein specifically provided:
Agent
Appliance sales
Appliance service
Art shop
Artist
Auctioneers
Auto wrecking shop
Automobile agencies and dealers
Automobile repair shops and accessories
Banks
Barbershop
Beauty shop
Beer (intoxicating) sold by package/drink
Bill posters
Billiard and pool tables and other tables
Bowling alleys
Broker
Butcher and butcher shops
Car wash
Coal dealer
Concerts
Confectioners/baker
Clinics (private)
Clothier
Dairy or dairy products (sale of)
Dance studio
Day care
Delivery service
Druggist
Dry cleaners
Express companies
Farm machinery and implements
Farm supply
Fertilizer or phosphate (sale of)
Florist
Funeral home
Furniture or cabinet maker
Furniture (sale of)
Gasoline filling stations
Gauger
Grain (sale of)
Graphic designer/artist
Grocery
Grocers
Gymnasium and/or physical fitness center
Hardware
Horse, hog, poultry or cattle dealer
Hospital (private)
Hotel or motel
Ice dealer
Insurance agent
Insurance companies
Intelligence agencies and/or investigators
Jeweler
Junk dealer
Landscaper
Laundry
Lawn mower (sale of or repair)
Light, power, water and gas companies
Loan agent
Loan companies
Locker plant
Lumber dealer
Manufacturing and other corporations and institutions
Mercantile agent
Merchants of all kinds
Money changer
Money broker
Moving picture shows
Newspaper
Nursery
Nursing home
Omnibuses
Opera houses
Optician
Package liquor
Patent right dealer
Pawnbrokers
Pharmacy and sundries
Photographers
Plumber and all other business, trades
Porter
Printer
Produce (sale of)
Public boarding houses
Public buildings
Public garages
Public halls
Public lecturers
Restaurants
Real estate agents
Rehabilitation facility (private)
Radio repair
Restaurant/food and drink service
Savings and loan
Shoes (sale of)
Shoe repair
Stockyards
Storage facility
Taverns
Taxi
Taxidermist
Telephone companies
Television repair
Theatre
Tobacco (sale of)
Transfer and other vehicles
Traveling and auction store
Tree trimmer
Upholsterer
Vehicle for hire and/or rent
Warehouse
Watch repair
Wood crafter
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 Savannah.
[R.O. 2011 §53.100; Ord. No. 1956 §1, 3-15-1999]
The City Clerk/Treasurer shall be the City License Officer and shall issue, in the name of the City, all licenses and permits required by this Chapter to all qualifying applicants therefore when any and all required taxes and fees have been paid in full in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter.
[R.O. 2011 §53.110; Ord. No. 1956 §1, 3-15-1999]
The amount of the fee under this Chapter shall be fifteen dollars ($15.00) per year, payable in advance, and shall accompany the application for license. The amount of fee for partial or fractional parts of a year shall be determined as set forth in Section 605.120 of this Chapter.
[R.O. 2011 §53.120; Ord. No. 1956 §1, 3-15-1999]
All licenses issued under and by virtue of this Chapter shall be for a period of one (1) year, provided however, that at the option of the applicant the same may be issued for a period of six (6) months, or a fraction thereof, to expire on the next succeeding first (1st) day of July or first (1st) day of January as the case may be. No license shall be for periods expiring other than on the aforementioned dates and when the same are for a period in excess of six (6) months, the fee shall be equivalent to that for a full year. Where the period is six (6) months or less, one-half (½) of the fee applicable to a full year shall be paid.
[R.O. 2011 §53.130; Ord. No. 1956 §1, 3-15-1999]
The City License Officer shall adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations as he/she may deem necessary for the administration of this Chapter, provided however, that such rules and regulations shall be approved by the Mayor. When approved by the Mayor, such rules and regulations shall be placed on file in the office of the City License Officer for inspection and use by the public, and the provisions thereof shall be enforced by the City License Officer.
[R.O. 2011 §53.180; Ord. No. 1956 §1, 3-15-1999]
Upon disapproving any application under this Chapter, the City License Officer shall direct the City Collector to refund all money paid in advance by or on behalf of the applicant, provided however, that the applicant is not otherwise indebted to the City. When the issuance of a license under this Chapter is denied and any action or proceeding is pursued by the applicant to compel its issuance, such applicant and/or applicant's agent or representative shall not engage in the business for which the license was refused.
[R.O. 2011 §53.190; Ord. No. 1956 §1, 3-15-1999]
The City License Officer and all other City Officers and officials who may be concerned with administering and enforcing this Chapter shall keep all information furnished or secured under the authority of this Chapter in strict confidence. Such information shall not be subject to public inspection, and shall be kept so that the contents thereof shall not become known, except to the persons charged with the administration of this Chapter; provided that this Section shall not prohibit any City Officer from testifying as to such information in compliance with a subpoena issued from a court of competent jurisdiction or from the Board of Aldermen in any preceding before it.
[R.O. 2011 §53.200; Ord. No. 1956 §1(53.200), 3-15-1999]
Each business, trade, occupation, profession, activity or vocation shall refrain from operating such business after expiration of its license and during any period said license is revoked or suspended, and it shall be a violation of this Chapter to continue operation after the expiration or revocation of said license.
[R.O. 2011 §53.210; Ord. No. 1956 §1(53.210), 3-15-1999]
Every licensee under this Chapter shall post and maintain the license issued hereunder upon the premises of such business, trade, occupation, activity or vocation in a place where it may be seen at all times. Every licensee under this Chapter who does not have a business premises shall carry said license on his/her person and shall display it to City Officers having authority to enforce this Chapter and to persons with whom he/she transacts business upon request.
[R.O. 2011 §53.220; Ord. No. 1956 §1(53.220), 3-15-1999]
For purposes of enforcing this Chapter, the City License Officer and the City Police shall have authority to inspect and examine any business, trade, occupation, vocation, activity or profession. Such persons authorized to inspect to enforce compliance under this Chapter shall have the authority to enter, with or without a search warrant, any business, trade, occupation, vocation, activity or profession premises at all reasonable times.
[R.O. 2011 §53.230; Ord. No. 1956 §1(53.230), 3-15-1999]
Any person or entity who shall fail to comply with any provision of this Chapter or who shall violate the same shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each separate offense, and a separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which such failure to comply or violation is permitted to exist. In addition thereto, the City shall have the right to pursue any legal action to its full extent as allowed under law for the collection and enforcement of the terms of this Chapter.
[R.O. 2011 §53.240; Ord. No. 1956 §1(53.240), 3-15-1999]
No license issued hereunder shall be assigned or transferred to any other person or entity.
[R.O. 2011 §53.250; Ord. No. 1956 §1(53.250), 3-15-1999]
Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to create or constitute a liability to or a cause of action against the City in regard to the issuance or non-issuance of any license for failure to provide evidence of Workers' Compensation insurance coverage.