[CC 1985 § 6-1; Ord. No. 279 §§ 3, 4, 6, 12-5-1966]
As used in this Chapter, the following
terms shall have the meanings indicated:
Creamery or drive-in type business.
Whoever shall sell any goods, wares or merchandise, or patent
medicine, or other valuable things in this City, and as an inducement
to such sale shall offer to give anything other than the article sold
or offered to be sold, shall be deemed the keeper of a gift enterprise,
and shall take out a license as provided by this Chapter.
One who engages in the selling of goods, wares, and merchandise
from a motor vehicle moving or parked or who otherwise carries their
goods from door to door.
[CC 1985 § 6-2; Ord. No. 279 §§ 1 — 2, 12-5-1966]
A.
No person, copartnership, firm or corporation,
shall hereafter for themselves or itself, engage in or carry on in
person or by agent, any of the following named occupations, professions,
business or trade, without first procuring a license from the proper
authority in the City of St. James, Missouri, to wit:
1.
Menagerie, circus, carnival, theatrical, operatic, minstrel, musical
performance, concert lectures, street exhibitions, puppet shows, legerdemain,
rope or wire walking, all-night sings, peddlers or transient merchants,
bowling or ten pin alley, butcher shops, locker plants, slaughterhouses,
wood or coal yards, billiard tables, bagatelle tables, pigeon hole
tables, pool tables, jenny lind tables, or other game tables, gift
enterprise, auction houses or stores, druggist or drug dispenser,
vehicles operated in hauling goods and wares, general merchandise
stores, furniture dealers, appliance dealers, contractors and builders,
undertakers, embalmers, barber shops, hair dressers, printing presses,
feed grinders, exchange mills, and grain elevators, clock or watch
repair, jewelry repair, gunsmiths, express companies offices, pawn
brokers, public halls, brokers, express agents, fortune tellers, horoscopic
views, real estate agents or dealers, motels, hotels, boardinghouses,
nursing homes, restaurants, bakery, scales, photographists or photographers,
patent right dealers, confectioner, loan agents, insurance agents,
banks, implement dealers, hardware, lumber yards, commission merchants
or produce dealers, dry cleaning or tailoring, service stations, electric,
radio, and/or TV repair, welding, generator shops, plumbers, electricians,
fish bait dealers, used car dealers, laundromats, landscape gardeners
and dealers, wholesale merchants, tin shop, garages, auctioneers,
package store, sign painters, opticians or optometrist, and warehouses,
trailer parks, ready-mix concrete blocks, and telephone exchanges.
B.
Every person, copartnership of persons,
or corporation who shall deal in the selling of goods, wares or merchandise
at any store, stand or place occupied for that purpose within this
City is declared to be a merchant, and shall pay a license tax hereinafter
specified, together with all ad valorem tax not exceeding the amount
levied on real estate on the highest amount of all goods, wares, and
merchandise which they may have in their possession or under their
control, whether owned or consigned to them for sale at any time between
the first Monday in March and the first Monday in June of each year,
provided that no commission merchant shall be required to pay any
tax on any unmanufactured article, the growth or product of this or
any other state, which may have been consigned to them for sale, and
on which he/she or they have no ownership or interest other than his/her
or their commission.
[CC 1985 § 6-3; Ord. No. 279, 12-5-1966; Ord. No. 913, 3-3-2008]
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Type Of Business
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Daily/Annual Fee
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Fee
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Appliance dealer
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See "furniture dealer"
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Auction houses and stores
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Annual
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$35.00
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Auctioneers
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Annual
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$35.00
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Automobile, used
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Annual
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$35.00
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Bait dealers
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Annual
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$35.00
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Bakery
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See "restaurant"
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Banks
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Annual
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$35.00
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Barbershops and hair dresser (1 chair)
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Annual
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$35.00
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Additional chairs
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$5.00 per chair
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Billiard tables, bagatelle table,
pigeon hole table, jenny lind table, other tables for gain or hire
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Annual
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$35.00
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Boardinghouses and nursing homes
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Annual
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$35.00
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Bowling alley or ten pin alley
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Annual
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$35.00
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Brokers
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Annual
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$35.00
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Builders
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See "contractors"
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Butcher shops, locker plants, and
slaughterhouses
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Annual
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$35.00
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Car dealer, used
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See "automobile, used"
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Carnival
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See "menagerie," "show"
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Child care* — Category 1 (1
to 6 children)
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Annual
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$35.00
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Child care* — Category 1 (6
to 10 children, zoning restrictions apply)
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Annual
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$35.00
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Child care* — Category 2 —
group child care home (11 to 20 children)
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Annual
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$35.00
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Child care* — Category 3 —
child care center (quantity of children per Director's State qualifications)
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Annual
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$35.00
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Child care — nursery school
(see State definition)
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Annual
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$35.00
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Circus
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See "menagerie," "show"
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$35.00
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Clinic, medical facility, etc.
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Annual
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$35.00
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Clock and watch repairs
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Annual
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$35.00
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Coal yard
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See "wood yard"
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Commission merchants
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Annual
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$35.00
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Computer sales, services, electronics,
web services
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Annual
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$35.00
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Concerts, lectures, street, exhibitions,
puppet shows, legerdemain, rope or wire walking, all-night sings
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Annual
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$35.00
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Concrete ready-mix and block dealer
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Annual
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$35.00
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Confectioners (ice cream stores)
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Annual
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$35.00
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Contractors (provided no license
tax shall be levied on day laborer)
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Annual
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$35.00
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Daycare provider
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See "child care"
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Dental, medical facility, etc.
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Annual
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$35.00
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Drug dispensing establishment
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Annual
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$35.00
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Druggist
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Annual
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$35.00
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Dry cleaning
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Annual
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$35.00
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Electrician
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See "plumber"
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Electric shop
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Annual
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$35.00
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Embalmer
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See "undertaker"
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Exchange mill
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See "feed grinder"
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Exhibitions
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See "concerts," "menagerie," "show"
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Express agents
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Annual
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$35.00
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Express companies
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Annual
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$35.00
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Feed grinders, exchange mills, grain
elevators
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Annual
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$35.00
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Fortune tellers
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Annual
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$35.00
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Furniture dealers and/or appliance
dealers
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Annual
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$35.00
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Garage
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Annual
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$35.00
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Gardeners, nursery, pest control
agents
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Annual
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$35.00
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General merchandise stores
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Annual
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$35.00
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Generator shop
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See "welding"
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Gift enterprise
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Annual
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$35.00
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Grain elevator
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See "feed grinder"
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Gunsmith
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See "clock and watch repair"
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Hair dresser
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See "barber shops"
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Hardware dealers
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Annual
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$35.00
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Horoscopic views
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Annual
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$35.00
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Hotel
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Annual plus $5.00 per room
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$35.00
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Ice manufacturers and dealers
|
Annual
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$35.00
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Implement dealers
|
Annual
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$35.00
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Insurance agents
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Annual
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$35.00
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Insurance companies
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Annual
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$35.00
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Jewelry repair
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See "clock and watch repair"
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Jukebox (electrical musical machine
operated as a musical amusement device)
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Annual
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$35.00
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Junkyard
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Annual
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$35.00
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Laundromat
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Annual
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$35.00
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Loan agents or companies
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Annual
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$35.00
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Locker plant
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See "butcher shops"
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Lumber dealer or yard
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Annual
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$35.00
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Marble manufacture and dealers
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Annual
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$35.00
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Message services
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Annual
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$35.00
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Medical facilities, services
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Annual
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$35.00
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Menagerie, carnival, circus
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Annual
|
$35.00
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Motel
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Annual plus $5.00 per room
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$35.00
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Movie house
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Annual
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$35.00
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Nursery
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See "gardener"
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Nursing school
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See "child care"
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Nursing home
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See "boardinghouse"
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Optician and optometrist
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Annual
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$35.00
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Package store
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Annual
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$35.00
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Patent right dealer
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Annual
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$35.00
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Pawnbroker
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Annual
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$35.00
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Peddler, transient merchant, solicitor
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Annual
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$35.00
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Pest control agent
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See "gardener"
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Photographist and photographers
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Annual
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$35.00
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Pinball machine
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Annual/per machine
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$35.00
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Plumber, electrician (persons or
person doing business as plumbers and electricians who sell materials
connected with their trade)
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Annual
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$35.00
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Printing (all printing and job printing
presses of all kinds kept in the same room and under one management)
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Annual
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$35.00
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Produce dealers
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See "commission merchants"
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Public halls
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Annual
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$35.00
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Real estate agent or dealers
|
Annual
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$35.00
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Restaurants, bakeries
|
Annual
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$35.00
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Scales
|
Annual
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$35.00
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Self storage warehouses
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Annual
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$35.00
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Service station
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Annual
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$35.00
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Show (other than a menagerie or circus)
— all shows, menageries or circuses where the exhibitions shows
under more than 2 tents (see also "theatrical performances")
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Annual
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$35.00
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Sign painter
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Annual
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$35.00
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Slaughterhouse
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See "butcher shop"
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Tailoring
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See "dry cleaning"
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Tattoo services
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Annual
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$35.00
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Telephone exchange — all exchanges
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Annual
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$35.00
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Taxicab business, public (3 public taxicabs)
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Annual
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$10.00
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Additional public taxicabs
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$35.00 per taxicab
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Theatrical performances, etc. (any
theatrical, operatic, minstrel, musical performance or exhibition)
(see also "shows")
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Annual
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$35.00
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Tin shop or tin repairer
|
Annual
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$35.00
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Trailer park
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Annual plus $5.00 per trailer
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$35.00
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Transient merchant
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See "peddler"
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Undertaker and embalmers
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Annual
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$35.00
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Vehicles (upon a license tax on each
vehicle used and operated in this City for the purpose of hauling
goods, wares, and merchandise for parties other than themselves) —
but this Section shall not apply to merchants or other persons who
use their own vehicles to deliver their goods, nor persons working
for the City when in City employ
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Annual
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$35.00
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Warehouse
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Annual
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$35.00
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Welding or generator shop
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Annual
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$35.00
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Wholesale merchants (supplying merchants
selling at retail)
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Annual
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$35.00
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Wood yard and coal yards
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Annual
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$35.00
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*Must be State registered/licensed
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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 St. James.
[CC 1985 § 6-4; Ord. No. 279 § 5, 12-5-1966]
All licenses, except as otherwise
provided, shall extend for the period of one (1) year from the date
of purchase or from the date of purchase to the closest first of the
month, then one (1) year so that all licenses shall expire at the
first of each month. The rate fixed for one (1) year's license and
no license to be transferred.
[CC 1985 § 6-5; Ord. No. 209 § 1, 1-5-1962]
Hereafter, no merchant's license
shall be issued or renewed to any person, firm or corporation who
shall, at the time of making application for such license or its renewal,
be indebted to the City for taxes therefor duly assessed against such
applicant remaining unpaid.
[CC 1985 § 6-6; 1977 Code; Ord. No. 279 § 8, 12-5-1966]
Any person, firm association or corporation engaging in any occupation, trade or business set forth in this Chapter in which a license is required without first having procured a license shall be adjudged guilty of an offense against the City. (For penalty, see Section 100.220.)
[CC 1985 § 6-7; 1977 Code; Ord. No. 29 § 3, 11-17-1937; Ord. No. 210 § 3, 1-5-1962]
A.
Sales. If any person shall sell or expose for sale at public outcry or auction on any of the sidewalks or streets in the frequented parts of the City any goods, wares, merchandise, or any property or thing of any description, he/she shall be deemed guilty of an offense. (For penalty, see Section 100.220.)
B.
Storage. Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to use any street or alley or any part of any street or alley of the City of St. James, Missouri, for the purpose of storing or the displaying of any machinery of any kind or character or any other goods, wares or merchandise. (For penalty, see Section 100.220.)
[CC 1985 § 6-8; Ord. No. 489 § 1 — 3, 6-5-1989; Ord. No. 803, 5-3-2004]
A.
Individuals who have rummage, garage, or
yard sales on their property or rented property will be limited to
six (6) sales per year, and each sale shall not exceed a three-day
duration period.
B.
Individuals who exceed the limitations
of this Chapter to continue the sales will be required to purchase
a business license and locate the sales in a properly zoned commercial
area.
C.
This Chapter does not apply to churches,
church-affiliated organizations, schools, and school-affiliated organizations.
D.
A no-cost permit for temporary rummage,
garage or yard sale signs will be issued by the Police Department
upon proper application by phone or in person. The applicant shall
provide name, address and dates of the sale. In return, the Police
Department will issue a permit number. This permit number shall be
on any sign on a City street and road right-of-way in two-inch or
greater font. Signs must be stand-alone and cannot be attached to
any permanent tree, bush, pole, post or structure.
E.
Signs may not be placed before dawn on
the first day of the sale and must be removed by 9:00 P.M. on the
last day of the sale.
F.
Any person failing, neglecting, or refusing
to comply with the provisions of this Section shall be deemed guilty
of an ordinance violation with a fine of not more than five hundred
dollars ($500.00) and/or up to thirty (30) days in jail.
[CC 1985 § 6-9; Ord. No. 770, 4-7-2003]
A.
The possession of a retail sales license
shall be a prerequisite to the issuance of any City or County occupation
license or any State license which is required for conducting any
business where goods are sold at retail. The revocation of a retailer's
license by the Director shall render the occupational license or the
State license null and void.
B.
Each applicant for a business license under this Chapter shall submit
a statement from the Missouri Department of Revenue pursuant to Section
144.083.4, RSMo., stating no tax is due, which statement is a prerequisite
to the issuance or renewal of a City business license. The statement
required by this Section shall be dated within ninety (90) days of
submission of the business license application or renewal application.
C.
A copy of the retail sales license issued
by the State showing the City of St. James as the address for business
must accompany the properly completed application before a merchant's
license will be issued.
[CC 1985 § 6-10; Ord. No. 900, 11-5-2007]
A.
Any business license having been issued,
or issued and thereafter renewed by the City of St. James, Missouri,
under the provision of this Chapter may be suspended or revoked by
the action of the City Council for violation, by the licensee, of
any applicable provision of State Statute, State law, rule, regulation,
this Code or City ordinances.
B.
Written notice of any violation as described
in this Section shall be given to the licensee by personal service
or certified mail deliverable to addressee only advising the licensee
that licensee's business license may be suspended or revoked unless
the violation is corrected and abated. The written notice shall also
advise the licensee of the right to a public hearing before the City
Council prior to any suspension or revocation.
C.
Following a public hearing and a finding
by the City Council of substantial evidence that a violation has occurred,
is continuing and has not been corrected or abated, the license shall
be suspended for a period not exceeding one (1) year or shall be revoked.
D.
Following suspension of a business license
and prior to its reinstatement, the City shall require an inspection
of licensee's business to determine whether the violation has been
corrected, and for each such inspection a fee of one hundred dollars
($100.00) shall be charged.
E.
Any City employee so designated by the
Mayor shall be a "Business License Compliance Officer" within the
meaning of this Chapter.
