[R.O. 2009 §600.010; Ord. No. 202 §§1 — 2, 9-13-1976]
A. All
merchants within the City of Pasadena Hills shall be required to obtain
an annual license authorizing them to do business within the City
of Pasadena Hills by January first (1st) of each year. No business
shall be licensed for the operation of any business contrary to the
Zoning Code of the City or the trust indenture of the Subdivision
of Pasadena Hills.
B. A minimum
license fee shall be paid for each business, which fee shall be in
the amount of fifty dollars ($50.00); said license fee shall be computed,
however, upon the basis of the volume of the previous calendar year's
business, as reported at the end of that year, at the rate of one
dollar fifty cents ($1.50) per one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) of
sales volume. The merchant's license for the first (1st) year or fraction
thereof, of business, shall be seventy-five dollars ($75.00).
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.
The term of the licenses issued pursuant to the provisions of
this Chapter shall be from January first (1st) to December thirty-first
(31st) of the same year. In the event any licensee hereunder shall
commence business on or after July first (1st), the City Clerk shall
issue such license at the rate of one-half (½) of the license
fee for such six (6) month period of July first (1st) to December
thirty-first (31st) or fraction thereof.
All applications for renewal of a license provided for herein
shall be filed no later than December first (1st) of each year.
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.
Any person, firm or corporation or co-partnership who shall violate any provision of this Chapter, or who shall exercise or attempt to exercise any of the occupations, trades or avocations, or who shall carry on or engage in or attempt to carry on or engage in any of the businesses for which a license is required in this Chapter in the City of Pasadena Hills without first paying the tax herein levied and obtaining a license therefor shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation and shall be punished by a fine as specified in Section
100.220 of this Code.
[Ord. No. 474A §§1 —
3, 10-10-1995; Ord. No.
694 §2, 10-14-2003]
A. For
any month when there is a change of user of residential (rate 001)
or non-residential (rate 043) electric service within the City, AmerenUE
shall notify the Building Commissioner (or other appropriate official)
of the City in writing within seven (7) days after the end of the
month of said changes, indicating the address and apartment or unit
number, and the name(s) of electric user(s) per service and address
and apartment or unit number in whose name service is connected or
billed.
B. Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions of this Section shall upon conviction thereof, be subject to the penalty provided in Section
100.220 of this Code.
C. AmerenUE
shall submit annually to the City an invoice for its cost associated
with this Section. The initial cost of this service shall not exceed
one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00). Future price increases, if any,
will only reflect the actual cost incurred by AmerenUE to provide
this service. The City shall pay to AmerenUE the amount of the invoice
within thirty (30) days of receipt.