[R.O. 2009 §12-1; Code 1969 §20-22]
The provisions of this Chapter shall not be applicable to any
non-profit organization, association or establishment nor to any business,
occupation, pursuit, profession or trade which the City may be prohibited
by law from licensing or regulating.
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 Brentwood.
[R.O. 2009 §12-3; Code 1969 §20-21]
Any act or duty required or authorized to be performed under
the provisions of this Chapter by any officer or agency of the City
may be performed by any duly authorized agent or deputy of such officer
or agency. Any act or duty required to be performed under the provisions
of this Chapter by any corporation shall, in addition, be the responsibility
of the president of such corporation and of any other person duly
authorized by such corporation to perform such act or duty and such
president or other authorized person shall be personally subject to
all penalties provided for violation of such applicable provisions
of this Chapter as may relate to such acts or duties.
[R.O. 2009 §12-4; Code 1969 §20-1]
It shall be unlawful for any person to directly or indirectly
solicit contributions for any purpose by misrepresentation of his/her
name, occupation, business, financial condition, social condition
or residence and no person shall make or perpetrate any other misstatement,
deception or fraud in connection with any solicitation of any contribution
for any purpose or in the conduct of his/her business, occupation,
pursuit, profession, trade or activity to be conducted for the purpose
of perpetrating any fraud or deception upon any person or which shall
be detrimental to the general physical or mental health or general
welfare of any person and no license may be issued under this Chapter
to any such business, occupation, pursuit, profession, trade or activity.
