[CC 1990 §5-2; CC 1978 §501.003]
A license is hereby authorized to be issued to and a license tax is hereby levied and the same shall be collected from the various agents, amusements, avocations, manufacturing businesses, merchants, occupations, trades, vehicles and other sundry businesses named in Section
605.020.
[CC 1990 §5-3; CC 1978 §501.005; Ord. No. 561, 4-8-2014]
A. A license is hereby authorized to be issued to and a license tax is hereby levied and the same shall be collected from the various agents, amusements, avocations, manufacturing businesses, merchants, occupations, trades, vehicles and other sundry businesses named in Section
605.020.
B. Every
person, firm, association or corporation, prior to engaging in or
carrying on in the City of Belle any of the avocations, businesses,
occupations, or trades named in this Section are hereby required to
take out a license therefor and are hereby required to pay to the
City of Belle the following sums of license tax for the time and in
the manner herein prescribed:
1. Manufacturer: fifty dollars ($50.00).
2. Banking and savings and loan: forty dollars ($40.00).
3. Merchant, sales: twenty-five dollars ($25.00).
4. Merchant, other: twenty-five dollars ($25.00).
[CC 1990 §5-4; CC 1978 §501.009]
No farmer, producer or producers shall be subject to any tax,
license or fees for the sale of produce raised by him/her or them
when sold from his/her or their wagon, cart or vehicle, or by any
person or persons in the employ of such farmer or producer.
[CC 1990 §5-12; CC 1978 §501.025]
No license issued under the provisions of this Chapter shall
be granted for a longer or shorter term than the time specified in
this Chapter, and each license shall terminate one (1) day, one (1)
month, or one (1) year, as the case may be, from the day on which
the same is issued; provided further, that hereafter the termination
of all annual licenses authorized to be issued under this Chapter
shall be on the first (1st) day of July in each year, and all annual
licenses authorized to be issued under this Chapter before or after
that day in any one (1) year shall be paid for in proportion to the
amount of the annual license tax levied upon the business, occupation
or avocation in which he/she or they propose to engage in or follow,
and provided further, that no annual license so prorated shall be
issued for a term less than three (3) months.
[CC 1990 §5-14; CC 1978 §501.029]
It shall be the duty of the Collector of Revenue of the City
of Belle to deliver the proper license upon receipt of the same from
the City Clerk, to the proper person first having applied therefor
and complied with all Sections of this Chapter, upon the payment to
said Collector of the proper sum of license tax levied on such license;
every person, firm or corporation liable for the payment of a license
tax under this Chapter is hereby required to procure the proper license
and to pay the proper sum of license tax due thereon at the time he/she,
they, or it so become liable for the payment therefor under this Chapter.
[CC 1990 §5-15; CC 1978 §501.031]
No license issued by authority of this Chapter shall be in any
case assigned or transferred.
[CC 1990 §5-16; CC 1978 §501.033]
Only the true owner of such business for which a license is desired may apply for and/or receive said license required for any business, trade or avocation under Section
605.010, and said applicant for any license shall state in said application whether said business is owned by an individual, partnership or corporation, and the kind of ownership shall be set out in said license, and any person, firm or corporation violating this Section shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation.