[R.O. 2013 § 625.010; Ord. No.
169 § 2]
No person shall carry on, conduct or engage in the business
of supplying telephone service, for compensation, in the City, without
first having obtained a license to do so.
[R.O. 2013 § 625.020; Ord. No.
169 § 3]
Every person who shall carry on, conduct or engage in the business
of supplying telephone service, for compensation, in the City shall
pay to the City, as a license tax, the sum of three thousand five
hundred dollars ($3,500.00) for each calendar year.
[R.O. 2013 § 625.030; Ord. No.
169 § 4]
Every person carrying on, conducting or engaging in the business
of supplying telephone service, for compensation, in the City shall,
on or before the date upon which said person first engages in any
such business in the City, and on or before the first day of January
of each year thereafter, file with the City an application, in writing,
for a license to conduct such business in the City for a period ending
on the first day of January, next following. Such application shall
be in words and figures as follows:
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"Comes now ______________________, a ______________________________
(individual, partnership or corporation) and hereby makes application
to the Board of Aldermen of the City of Fredericktown, Madison County,
Missouri, for a license to carry on, conduct or engage in the business
of supplying telephone service in said City for that period of time,
from January 1, _____ to January 1, __________, for compensation,
and agrees to pay to the City of Fredericktown the sum of three thousand
five hundred dollars ($3,500.00), which the said __________, applicant,
hereby tenders with this application. The applicant further does hereby
agree that it will abide by all ordinances, regulations and provisions
enacted by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Fredericktown, now
in existence or hereafter enacted concerning the operation of the
business of supplying telephone service within said City for compensation."
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[R.O. 2013 § 625.040; Ord. No.
169 § 9]
The tax levied by this Chapter shall be in lieu of any other
occupational tax of any person engaged in the business described herein,
but nothing contained in this Chapter shall be construed to exempt
any such person from the payment to the City of any tax which the
City may levy upon the real estate or personal property belonging
to such persons, nor any tax levied upon anything other than telephone
service, nor shall the payment of the tax herein levied exempt any
such person from the payment of any other tax that may lawfully be
levied, other than the occupational tax on any of the businesses described
in this Chapter.
[R.O. 2013 § 625.050; Ord. No.
169 § 5]
The City Clerk, or any other person authorized by the Board
of Aldermen, shall have free access at all reasonable times to the
books and records of any person carrying on, conducting or engaging
in any business described in this Chapter, for the purpose of verifying
the correctness and accuracy of the gross income of any person furnishing
telephone service within the City, for compensation.
[R.O. 2013 § 625.060; Ord. No.
169 § 6]
Nothing contained in this Chapter or the application provided
for shall be construed as giving to the company furnishing telephone
service any exclusive privileges, nor shall it affect any prior or
existing rights of the telephone company to maintain a telephone system
within the City.
[R.O. 2013 § 625.070; Ord. No.
169 § 7]
Any person who shall fail, neglect or refuse to apply for a
license, or who shall fail, neglect or refuse to pay the license fee
as provided for in this Chapter, or who shall fail, neglect or refuse
to file the application herein provided for, or who shall make any
false or fraudulent statements under the provisions of this Chapter,
or who shall interfere with the City Clerk or other person delegated
by the Board of Aldermen in the performance of any of the duties herein
provided for, shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation.
[R.O. 2013 § 625.080; Ord. No.
169 § 8]
In addition to the penalties provided in Section 100.220 for violations of this Code, the license of any person who shall have been convicted of violating any provision of this Chapter may, at the option of the Board of Aldermen, be revoked by the Board of Aldermen without notice.
