[CC 2000 §3-1-1; CC 1974 §9-6]
The provisions of this Article are to be read and interpreted in harmony with the provisions of Article II of this Chapter relating all other provisions of this Chapter to licensing of businesses and occupations. It is hereby declared to be the intent of this Article to make provisions for the issuance of licenses in cases where it is impossible to apply other licensing provisions of this Code.
[CC 2000 §3-1-2; CC 1974 §§9-7, 9-10; Ord. No. 919, 2-20-1996; Ord. No. 1064 §§1 — 4, 10-20-2003]
A. 
Permitted Businesses. The City Collector shall submit to the Board of Aldermen for determination whether any particular business, activity, occupation, vocation or service shall be covered within the provisions of this Chapter. Such determination shall be reasonably made, based upon the generally accepted concept of each activity, occupation, vocation or service and with regard for the intention of the legislature in the enactment of Section 94.270, RSMo., and other applicable Sections of the Revised Statutes of Missouri. Such determination by the Board of Aldermen shall be final and binding on persons affected thereby unless and until such determination is held to be unreasonable or invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction.
B. 
Prohibited Businesses.
1. 
Massage parlors, health studios, steam baths and outcall massage service. The following businesses and employments are hereby declared to be unlawful and no license shall be granted for the operation thereof, such businesses and employments being hereby declared against the public interest, welfare and morality of the City: massage parlors, health studios, steam baths and outcall massage service.
2. 
Pawnbrokers and check-cashing businesses.
a. 
Definitions. As used in this Subsection, the following terms shall have these prescribed meanings:
CHECK CASHING BUSINESS
Any person, firm or corporation who cashes a third (3rd) party check for a fee and who is not licensed as a bank, credit union or savings and loan under Federal and State laws.
PAWNBROKER
Any person engaged in the business of lending money on the security of pledged goods or engaged in the business of purchasing tangible personal property on condition that it may be redeemed or repurchased by the seller for a fixed price within a fixed period of time
b. 
Businesses prohibited. No person shall be authorized to do business in the City as a pawnbroker or check-cashing business.
C. 
New Or Used Automobile Sales.
1. 
No business which is required to be licensed in the City of Vinita Park, including any individuals, partnerships, corporations and associations, shall be authorized to sell, transfer, exchange or barter new or used automobiles within the City of Vinita Park.
2. 
This Subsection shall not apply to any resident of the City of Vinita Park who sells no more than three (3) vehicles a year as a resident and whose vehicles are owned by and licensed to that resident.
3. 
This Subsection shall not apply to any business that presently has a license authorizing the sale of vehicles. For purposes of this Subsection, such businesses will be grandfathered in, but will be limited to the number of vehicles they are currently authorized to display and have for sale in the City of Vinita Park.
[CC 2000 §3-1-3; CC 1974 §9-7]
No person shall engage in any of the various businesses, employments, agencies, amusements or exhibitions or own, manage, operate or control, directly or indirectly, any matters or things, as set forth and described in this Chapter, unless such person first applies to and obtains from the City Collector a license to do so. If the City Collector is convinced that the applicant has complied with all ordinances of the City applicable to such licenses, he/she shall issue to such applicant a license upon payment of the license fee as prescribed in Section 605.040 of this Chapter.
[CC 2000 §3-1-4; CC 1974 §9-11.2]
The City Collector shall adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations as he/she may consider necessary for the administration of this Chapter. The City Collector shall also draft and provide forms for the application for and renewal of licenses and the license itself. Upon approval by the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen, such rules and regulations and forms shall be placed on file for inspection and use by the public and the provisions thereof shall be enforceable by the City Collector.
[CC 2000 §3-1-5; CC 1974 §9-11.3]
A. 
Rejection Of Application. Upon finding that the applicant has not complied with the provisions of this Chapter or that the activities or nature of the business would be in violation of the City ordinances or State or Federal law, the City Collector shall reject the application and so notify the applicant, in writing, stating the reasons therefor and further stating that an appeal of the Collector's determination to the Board of Aldermen can be taken notifying the City Clerk within ten (10) days, in writing, and that otherwise, the rejection becomes final.
B. 
Appeals.
1. 
Any person aggrieved by the action of the City Collector shall have the right of appeal to the Board of Aldermen. Such appeal shall be taken by filing with the City Clerk, within ten (10) days after the notice of the action complained of has been mailed to such person's last known address, a written statement setting forth fully the grounds for the appeal. Notice of such hearing shall be given to the appellant by being mailed, post paid, to his/her permanent address at least ten (10) days prior to the date set for hearing. At the hearing, the applicant and his/her attorney may present evidence and the Board of Aldermen shall decide whether a license should be granted.
2. 
Any appeal from the decision of the Board of Aldermen shall be made pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act of the State and the review from the decision shall be had to the Circuit Court of the County on the record.
[CC 2000 §3-1-6; CC 1974 §9-8]
Any person that makes an application to conduct business in the City is required to report the aggregate amount of all sales or gross receipts of a service occupation in the previous year. Such license fee will be based on such report and prorated on a monthly basis. The minimum amount of such fee will be fifty dollars ($50.00).
[CC 2000 §3-1-7; Ord. No. 835, 8-16-1993]
A. 
Insurance Required. No license required under the provisions of this Chapter shall be issued by the Collector to any person 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. It is further made a violation of this Chapter to provide fraudulent information to the Collector.
B. 
Non-Liability Of City. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to create or constitute a liability to or a cause of action against the City or the Collector in regard to the issuance or non-issuance of any license for failure to provide evidence of Workers' Compensation coverage.
[CC 2000 §3-1-8; Ord. No. 923, 5-20-1996; Ord. No. 1043, 12-16-2002; Ord. No. 1048 §2, 4-21-2003]
License fees on all businesses listed below shall be subject to the annual fees as shown plus a fee based on the aggregate amount of all sales or gross receipts.
Abstractors
$175.00
Advertising (signs, etc.)
$50.00
Aerosol
$50.00
Air-conditioning sales and service
$50.00
Architects
$50.00
Art classes (studio)
$50.00
Artists
$50.00
Auctioneers
$50.00 per day
Auto and window glass
$50.00
Automatic laundries and dry cleaning plants
Minimum
$85.00
Per machine
$3.50
Automobile body rebuilders
$50.00
Automobile sales (new cars)
$700.00
Bakeries (retail/wholesale bakers)
$50.00
Balls or dances, public and theatrical exhibitions, for each day except for educational or charitable purposes (requires Board approval)
$50.00
Barbershops
$50.00 per chair
Beauty salons or shops
$50.00 per operator
Bookbinders
$50.00
Brokers
Insurance
$50.00
Stocks and bonds
$175.00
Business services
$50.00
Carpet sales and/or service
$50.00
Caterers
$50.00
Ceramic studios
$50.00
Circuses, street fairs and carnivals, parades for profit, not for educational or charitable purposes
First day
$85.00
Each additional day
$50.00
Cleaning agencies
$50.00
Cleaning plants
$50.00
Cobblers, shoe repair and shoe shining shops
$50.00
Contractors, general or sub
$50.00 plus
Gross receipts on labor charges
$1.00/1,000.00
Costume making, including home occupied
$50.00
Craft fairs/concessions
$350.00
Day nurseries
$70.00
Dental laboratories
$50.00
Detective services
$50.00
Diversified sales
$50.00
Drafting companies
$50.00
Drapery sales and service
$50.00
Drayage
$50.00
Drays, per vehicle
$50.00
Dressmaking
$50.00
Electrical
$50.00
Electronic service and/or sales
$50.00
Employment offices
$50.00
Express offices
$50.00
Fasteners (all types)
$50.00
Food processors (eggs, etc.)
$435.00
Food sales, wholesale and retail
$50.00
Funeral homes or undertakers
$175.00
Furniture stripping (paint)
$50.00
Garages, repair of autos and trucks only
$50.00
Golf shop repairs and sales
$50.00
Gunsmiths, including shell or cartridge reloading (requires Board approval)
$50.00
Halls, public (requires Board approval)
$50.00
Home occupations
Base fee
$50.00 plus
Per $1,000.00 of gross revenue
$1.00
House moving, contractors
$50.00
Ice cream novelty vendors
$50.00
Industrial services
$50.00
Insurance companies
$435.00
Janitor service or supplies
$50.00
Knit shop sales and service
$50.00
Landscapers
$50.00
Leasing or rental businesses
$50.00
Liquor licenses (see Section 600.040 of this Title) Loan companies (requires board approval)
$350.00
Locksmiths, key makers
$50.00
Machining and threading pipe, etc.
$50.00
Manufacturers
$50.00
Manufacturers' agents
$50.00
Merchants (see Section 605.140 of this Chapter) Merry-go-rounds
$50.00 per day
Money handling systems sales and service
$50.00
Moving and storage companies with warehouse
$350.00
Moving companies (offices only)
$175.00
Music studios (lessons only)
$50.00
Musical instruments sales and service
$50.00
Office buildings, applicable only on flat fee basis as in conjunction with warehouse
Base fee
$50.00 plus
Each employee over 10
$5.00
Maximum
$500.00
Oil refinery or storage
$175.00
Paint sales
$50.00
Paper products
$50.00
Patent right dealers
$50.00
Pet grooming
$50.00
Pharmaceutical processors
$50.00
Photographers
$50.00
Piping systems sales or service
$50.00
Warehouse
$350.00
Printing companies and lithographers
$50.00
Processors (all types not specified)
$435.00
Produce (fruit and vegetables, etc.)
$50.00
Psychological consultants
$50.00
Radio or TV sales and service
$50.00
Real estate agents
$50.00
Real estate brokers
$120.00
Recorder equipment (time) sales and service
$50.00
Resale shops
$50.00
Restaurant and office furniture and supplies
$50.00
Rubber products
$50.00
Service stations (gasoline, oil, etc.)
$50.00
Sewing machines sales and service
$50.00
Shoe supplies (nails, eyelets)
$50.00
Sign painters
$50.00
Soda products (drinks)
$50.00
Storage of raw materials, finished products, equipment and other materials or products in storage yards located in the City adjacent to and a part of a business located in a municipality adjoining the City
$175.00
Storage yards
$175.00
Storage yards, bus vehicle
$50.00
Swimming pools sales and service
$50.00
Tailor-made clothing
$50.00
Tax consultants
$50.00
Telegraph companies
$85.00
Tool grinding
$50.00
Upholstering and repairs
$50.00
Vending companies (all types or commodities), businesses located in the City
$175.00
Vending machines
$50.00
Warehouse operated as a separate operation other than business for which license is obtained:
0 to 100,000 square feet
$350.00
100,001 to 200,000 square feet
$280.00 additional
200,001 to 300,000 square feet
$140.00 additional
300,001 to 400,000 square feet
$70.00 additional
Watchmaker
$50.00
Welding shops
$50.00
Wire screen products
$50.00
Woodworking and pattern shops
$50.00
All other businesses or avocations, licenses to be approved by Board of Aldermen
$50.00
[CC 2000 §3-1-9; Ord. No. 910, 9-18-1995; Ord. No. 923, 5-20-1996]
A. 
Generally. All licenses and taxes shall be assessed as of January first (1st) of each calendar year and same shall be due and payable on or before March fifteenth (15th) of the said calendar year.
B. 
Vending Machine Licenses. The vending machine licenses for the City shall be due as of October thirty-first (31st) of each year.
No license issued under the provisions of this Chapter shall be assignable or transferable but shall apply only to the person to whom same is issued. In the event any licensee, as provided for herein, shall move his/her place of business from one location to another location within the City, said licensee shall submit a statement of the fact of such change to the City Clerk who may transfer such license as to location only. In no event, however, shall such license be transferred from one person to another or from the kind of business or occupation originally licensed to another type of business or occupation.
Each license issued by the City under the provisions of this Chapter shall be carefully preserved and shall be displayed in a conspicuous place in the place of business authorized to be conducted by said license. If there is no place of business, said license shall be carried on the licensee's person.
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 Vinita Park.
[CC 2000 §3-1-11; Ord. No. 923, 5-20-1996]
Every license issued under this Title is subject to the City's right to suspend or revoke such license upon a finding, after hearing by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, that the licensee has failed to comply with all of the provisions hereof, or that the licensee has made oral or written misrepresentation to the City concerning the licensed business, or that activity occurring in connection with or on the premises of the business is in violation of City Ordinances or State or Federal law. The City Collector shall notify the licensee, in writing, to such licensee's last known address, postage paid, return receipt requested, of the specific charges against him/her and of the date set for hearing, but allowing ten (10) days' notice of the hearing date. At the hearing, the licensee and his/her attorney may present evidence and witnesses in his/her defense.