Every
person or persons, partnerships or corporation who shall within the
City of Marshfield engage in, conduct, or operate any of the businesses,
endeavors, establishments, or professions enumerated below shall pay
to the City as a license tax therefor the sum of twenty-five dollars
($25.00) for each year. Each year licenses shall expire on December
thirty-first (31st).
The Board of Aldermen shall have power and authority to levy
and collect a license tax on wholesale company, auctioneers, architects,
pharmacy, grocers, banks, brokers, wholesale merchants, merchants
of all kinds, confectioners, delivery trucks, cigar and tobacco stores,
firewood dealers, lumber dealers, real estate agents, loan companies,
abstracters, abstract agencies, loan agents, collection agencies,
undertakers, landscaper, photographers, artists, patent right dealers,
automobile agents and dealers, automobile accessory dealers, auto-related
repair service providers, car washes, insurance companies, insurance
agents, bars, hotels, boardinghouses, health clinics, telephone companies,
street contractors, paper hanger contractors, painting contractors,
plastering contractors, and all subcontractors, flour mills, feed
mills, express company agencies, barbershops, hairdressing shops,
whether conducted in connection with other business or separate beauty
parlors, tattoo parlors, pet groomers, pest control services, tax
preparation/booking services, burglar alarm/security service providers,
IT providers, computer sales/service/repair providers, cell phones
sales and service providers, tailors, florists, nursery stock agents,
book binders, monument dealers and agencies, manufacturing agents,
shoe cobbler shops, storage warehouses, shoe shining parlors, newspaper
offices, job printing plants, ready-to-wear clothing agencies, tailor-made
clothing agencies, sewing machine agents, piano and organ dealers
and agents, coffee and tea dealers and agents, service providers of
all kinds and all other vocations whatsoever; and to levy and collect
a license tax and regulate peddlers, pawnbrokers, restaurants, butchers,
wholesale butchers, masseurs, food trucks, lunch counters, soft drink
and ice cream stands and vendors, ice cream parlors, peanut and popcorn
stands, and stands of every kind, outdoor advertising, horse and cattle
dealers, oil stations, wholesale and retail, inspectors, mercantile
agents, manufacturing and other corporations, or institutions, medical/dental
equipment manufacturing/repair providers, machine shops, sewer contractors,
building contractors, stone contractors, plumbing contractors, brick
contractors, cement contractors, sidewalk contractors, bridge contractors,
and all subcontractors, laundries, laundry agencies, traveling and
auction stores, plumbers, pressing establishments, produce and poultry
dealers, bakers and bakeries, bakery delivery trucks, and delivery
autos, bottling works, dye works, cleaning establishments, janitorial
services, jeweler, engineers, land surveyors, doctors, taxicabs, buses,
within the limits of the City, and all others pursuing like occupations;
and to levy and collect a license tax, regulate, restrain, prohibit
and suppress ordinaries, money brokers, money changers, intelligence
and employment offices and agencies, dance studios, fitness centers,
martial arts studios, recreation complexes, counseling services, fortune
tellers, shooting galleries, gun shops, palmists, museums, zoos, equestrian
performances, radiology techs, movie theaters, telescopic views, bowling
alleys, billiard tables, pool and other tables, miniature golf courses,
theatrical or other exhibitions, boxing and sparring exhibitions,
shows and amusements, amusement parks, and the sales of unclaimed
goods by express companies or common carriers, solid waste haulers,
auto wrecking shops, bill posters, junk dealers, carnival and street
fairs, circuses and shows, for parade and exhibition, or both, skating
rinks, and all other vocations and businesses whatsoever, and all
others pursuing like occupations.