[R.O. 2003 § 605.010; Ord. No. 908-98 § 54.010, 4-27-1998]
A. No person shall carry on any occupation,
trade, business or cottage industry within the City of Gallatin, Missouri,
as hereafter in this Chapter enumerated or defined in subsequent Sections
herein without first procuring therefor a license so to do from the
City of Gallatin, Missouri.
B. All occupation, trade, business or cottage
industry within the City limits of Gallatin, Missouri, must fill out
an application to obtain a City license. On the application, they
must place their business State tax number. All City taxes must be
current.
C. Workers' Compensation Insurance Required
Prior To Issuance Of License.
1.
No license shall be issued for a
contractor in the construction industry as required under the provisions
of this Article or pursuant to any other ordinance or Code provision
of the City of Gallatin, Missouri, by the City of Gallatin, Missouri,
to any person or persons, firm, association, organization, partnership
or corporation until such person or entity produces a valid copy of
a valid certificate of insurance for workers' compensation coverage
if the applicant for the license is required to cover his/her or its
liability for workers' compensation.
2.
Nothing in this Section shall be
construed to create or constitute a liability to or cause of action
against the City of Gallatin, Missouri, in regard to the issuance
or non-issuance of any such license or failure to provide evidence
of workers' compensation coverage.
3.
The City Clerk is directed to take
appropriate action, including altering the license application form
to require a statement of evidence of workers' compensation insurance.
4.
It is a violation of this Section
to provide fraudulent information relative to workers' compensation
insurance in order to obtain or induce the issuance of a license thereunder.
Any person who violates any provision of this Section shall be deemed
guilty of an ordinance violation and, upon conviction thereof, shall
be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00)
or by imprisonment in the City Jail for not more than three (3) months,
or by both such fine and imprisonment.
D. 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.
[R.O. 2003 § 605.020; Ord. No. 908-98 § 54.020, 4-27-1998]
A. Any person, before engaging in any of the
following occupations, trades, business or cottage industry within
the City of Gallatin, Missouri, shall first procure from said City
a license authorizing such person to carry on such occupation, trade
or business. Such license fee or tax shall be paid to the City Clerk
of the City of Gallatin, Missouri, and that the charge therefor for
the various occupation, trade or business is as follows:
1.
Annual License Fees.
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Business
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Annual License Fees
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Abstract agencies
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$10.00 per year
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Agents
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$10.00 per year
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Air-conditioning dealers
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$10.00 per year
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Aircraft dealers
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$10.00 per year
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Amusement parks
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$50.00 per year
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Antique shops
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$10.00 per year
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Army and Navy stores
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$10.00 per year
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Artists
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$10.00 per year
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Astrologists
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$500.00 per year
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Auctioneers
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$10.00 per year
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Auto parking lots
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$10.00 per year
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Auto wrecking shops
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$10.00 per year
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Auto yards
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$10.00 per year
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Automobile accessory dealers
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$10.00 per year
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Automobile agents and dealers
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$10.00 per year
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Automobile rental company
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$10.00 per year
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Automobile repair shops
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$10.00 per year
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Baby shop
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$10.00 per year
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Bakers and baker's products
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$10.00 per year
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Banks
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$10.00 per year
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Bankrupt stock
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$10.00 per year
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Barbershop
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$10.00 per year
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Battery sales and repair shop
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$10.00 per year
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Beauty parlor
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$10.00 per year
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Blacksmith shop
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$10.00 per year
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Book shop
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$10.00 per year
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Boot and shoe store
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$10.00 per year
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Bottle gas dealers and distributors
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$10.00 per year
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Bottling works
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$10.00 per year
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Bowling alleys
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$12.50 per alley per year
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Brokers:
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Curbstone or street broker
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$10.00 per year
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In general
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$10.00 per year
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Insurance
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$10.00 per year
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Real estate
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$10.00 per year
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Stock
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$10.00 per year
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Burial vault manufacturers or dealers
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$10.00 per year
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Bus depot
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$10.00 per year
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Cafes, restaurants and cafeterias
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$10.00 per year
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Camera shops
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$10.00 per year
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Canvassers
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$10.00 per day
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$50.00 per year
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Carnival or street fairs
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$25.00 per day
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Cigar and tobacco stands
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$10.00 per year
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Clairvoyants
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$500.00 per year
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Cleaning establishments
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$10.00 per year
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Cleaning agents
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$10.00 per year
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Cold storage plants
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$10.00 per year
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Clothing stores: all kinds
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$10.00 per year
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Coal dealers
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$10.00 per year
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Coffee and tea dealers and agents
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$10.00 per year
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Collection agencies
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$10.00 per year
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Concrete products and manufacturers
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$10.00 per year
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Confectioners
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$10.00 per year
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Contractors
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$10.00 per year
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Creameries
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$10.00 per year
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Creamery agent
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$10.00 per year
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Credit association
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$10.00 per year
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Credit bureaus and reporting bureaus
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$10.00 per year
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Curio shops
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$10.00 per year
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Custom slaughtering
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$10.00 per year
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Dairies and dairy products
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$10.00 per year
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Demonstrators
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$10.00 per year
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Department stores
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$10.00 per year
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Dog kennels and hospitals
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$10.00 per year
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Dress shop
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$10.00 per year
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Drug stores
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$10.00 per year
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Electrical appliance shop
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$10.00 per year
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Farm equipment dealers
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$10.00 per year
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Farmers exchange company
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$10.00 per year
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Feed stores and dealers
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$10.00 per year
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Filling stations
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$10.00 per year
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Fix-it shops
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$10.00 per year
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Flour dealers
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$10.00 per year
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Flower shops and florists
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$10.00 per year
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Fortune-tellers
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$500.00 per year
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Fuel oil dealers
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$10.00 per year
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Funeral homes
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$10.00 per year
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Furnace company
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$10.00 per year
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Furniture repairers
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$10.00 per year
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Furniture stores
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$10.00 per year
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Garages
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$10.00 per year
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General stores
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$10.00 per year
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Gift shops
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$10.00 per year
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Grain elevators
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$10.00 per year
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Grain or hay dealers
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$10.00 per year
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Greenhouses
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$10.00 per year
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Grocers or grocery stores
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$10.00 per year
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Gun shops and gunsmiths
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$10.00 per year
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Hardware stores
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$10.00 per year
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Harness makers and shops
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$10.00 per year
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Hide dealer
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$10.00 per year
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Home furnishing company
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$10.00 per year
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Horse, hog and cattle dealers
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$10.00 per year
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Hotels/motels
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$10.00 per year
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Ice cream dealers and parlors
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$10.00 per year
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Insurance agents
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$10.00 per year
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Itinerant merchants
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$2.00 a day; $25.00 3 months; $50.00
per year
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Jewelers or jewelry store
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$10.00 per year
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Job printing plants
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$10.00 per year
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Junk dealers
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$10.00 per year
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Laundries and laundry agencies
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$10.00 per year
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Leather goods store
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$10.00 per year
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Liquefied petroleum dealers and distribution
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$10.00 per year
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Loan agents
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$10.00 per year
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Locker plants
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$10.00 per year
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Lumberyards or dealers
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$10.00 per year
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Lunch counters and stands
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$10.00 per year
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Machine shops
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$10.00 per year
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Magazine agencies and newsstand
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$10.00 per year
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Magicians
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$200.00 per year
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Manufacturing companies or corporations
(not elsewhere included herein)
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$10.00 per year
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Masseurs
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$10.00 per year
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Meat markets
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$10.00 per year
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Merchants (not elsewhere included
herein)
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$10.00 per year
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Millinery shop
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$10.00 per year
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Monument agents or dealers
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$10.00 per year
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Mortuary
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$10.00 per year
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Movers
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$10.00 per year
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Moving-picture theaters:
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Operating every day during the week
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$25.00 per year
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Operating 3 days or less per week
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$12.50 per year
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Muscle developer
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$10.00 per year
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Newspaper plants or publishers
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$10.00 per year
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Nurseries
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$10.00 per year
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Nursery stock agents
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$10.00 per year
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Oil dealer
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$10.00 per year
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Packing house
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$50.00 per year
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Paint stores
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$10.00 per year
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Palmists
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$500.00 per year
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Parades and exhibitions
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$10.00 per year
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Pawnbrokers
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$100.00 per year
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Peanut or popcorn stands
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$10.00 per year
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Pest controllers or exterminators
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$10.00 per day; $100.00 per year
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Pet shops
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$10.00 per day
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Photographers, itinerant
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$15.00 per day
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Photographers, street
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$15.00 per day
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Photographers, studio
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$10.00 per year
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Piano and organ dealers and agents
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$10.00 per year
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Pistol galleries
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$50.00 per year
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Plumbers and plumber shops
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$10.00 per year
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Printing plant
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$10.00 per year
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Produce and poultry dealers
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$10.00 per year
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Public scales
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$10.00 per year
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Radio shops
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$10.00 per year
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Real estate agents
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$10.00 per year
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Refrigeration dealers
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$10.00 per year
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Restaurants
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$10.00 per year
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Sales barns, livestock
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$10.00 per year
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Sales pavilions
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$25.00 per year
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Sawmill
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$10.00 per year
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Secondhand stores
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$10.00 per year
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Service stations
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$10.00 per year
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Sewing machine agencies
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$10.00 per year
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Sheet metal works
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$10.00 per year
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Shoe shining parlors
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$10.00 per year
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Shoe shops
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$10.00 per year
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Shoe store
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$10.00 per year
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Shooting galleries
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$50.00 per year
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Shows and amusements (not elsewhere
covered herein)
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$100.00 per year
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Sign makers
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$10.00 per year
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Skating rinks
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$6.00 per month
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Skeet shooting
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$10.00 per year
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Slaughterhouses
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$50.00 per year
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Stands of every kind (not elsewhere
covered herein)
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$10.00 per year
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Street exhibitions
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$10.00 per day
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Soda fountains
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$10.00 per year
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Soft drink stands
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$10.00 per year
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Spiritualists
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$500.00 per year
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Sporting goods stores
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$10.00 per year
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Stationery store
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$10.00 per year
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Stockyards
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$10.00 per year
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Storage companies
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$10.00 per year
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Tailor-made clothing agencies
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$10.00 per year
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Taverns
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$10.00 per year
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Taxicabs
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$15.00 per year
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For each additional cab per year
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$10.00 per year
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Tree surgeons
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$10.00 per day; $100.00 per year
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Tourist cabins and camps
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$10.00 per year
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Tractor and implement sales and services
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$10.00 per year
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Undertaking and mortuary establishment
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$10.00 per year
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Upholstering shop
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$10.00 per year
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Wallpaper stores
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$10.00 per year
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Watch repair shop
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$10.00 per year
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Welding shop
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$10.00 per year
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Wholesale butchers
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$10.00 per year
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Wholesale groceries
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$10.00 per year
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Wholesale merchants (not elsewhere
covered herein)
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$10.00 per year
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Wholesale produce
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$10.00 per year
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Wholesale soda water distributors
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$10.00 per year
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Wool, fur, hide dealer
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$10.00 per year
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Wrecking company
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$10.00 per year
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2.
Electricians.
a.
It shall be unlawful for any person,
firm, company or corporation to carry on and build in the City of
Gallatin, Missouri, or to install electrical wiring in any building
for new service or to change any electrical voltage service in any
building, or the occupation of electrician in installing electrical
wiring in any building within the corporate limits of the City of
Gallatin, Missouri, without first procuring from said City a license
authorizing such person, firm, company or corporation to carry on
the business or trade as such an electrician.
b.
Any person or firms so securing a license from the City of Gallatin, Missouri, to carry on the business of an electrician in performing the services set forth in Subsection
(A)(2)(a) hereof shall pay an annual license fee to the City Clerk of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per year in the same manner and at the same times as provided for the payment of other licenses required of other trades and occupations within the City of Gallatin, Missouri. Provided, however, that such an annual license fee shall cover all employees of any person, firm, company or corporation performing said services as an electrician in the City of Gallatin.
3.
Hawker Or Huckster. Any person selling,
attempting to sell or expose for sale on the streets of Gallatin,
Missouri, either from a vehicle, pack or by any other means any goods,
wares and merchandise of any kind, including, but not confined to,
produce, fish, meats, fruits, berries, melons, eggs, butter and other
agricultural produce shall pay to the City Clerk of Gallatin, Missouri,
a fee of ten dollars ($10.00) per day for each and every day such
applicant shall sell or attempt to sell or expose for sale any of
the goods, wares and merchandise herein described. No person described
in this Subsection shall sell or offer to sell or hawk or peddle any
article or thing on any street comprising the square of the City of
Gallatin, Missouri, or within one (1) block from said square, except
in the City parking lot and at such other places as may, from time
to time, be set aside by the Board of Aldermen. Nothing herein shall
apply to any farmer, gardener or fruit or vine grower engaged in selling
the produce of his/her farm, garden, orchard or vineyard or to any
merchant or dealer having an established place of business or storehouse
in the City of Gallatin, Missouri.
[R.O. 2003 § 605.030; Ord. No. 908-98 § 54.030, 4-27-1998]
A. Definition. As used in this Section, "itinerant
merchant" includes all persons who engage in or conduct within the
City a temporary or transient business of selling merchandise for
a period of not more than one hundred twenty (120) days, but shall
not include salesmen selling merchandise to businesses licensed under
preceding Sections of this Chapter.
B. License; Fee; Term.
1.
Before beginning business, each itinerant
merchant shall apply to and receive from the City Clerk a license
for doing business as such and shall, before receiving such license,
pay a license fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00), unless exempt from
licensure. Such license shall entitle the holder thereof to conduct
the business stated therein for a period of three (3) months from
the date of issuance. Such license shall not be transferable or assignable.
No license shall be issued for conduct of more than one (1) business
or of business at more than one (1) location. All licenses issued
thereunder shall state particularly the merchandise to be sold, the
location of the business, the full name and permanent address of the
merchant and of all persons working for him/her, and the driver's
license and tax identification numbers of the merchant.
2.
The City Clerk is authorized to issue,
in lieu of the three-month license, an itinerant merchant one-day
license upon receipt of a fee of two dollars ($2.00), and such license
shall be valid only for the date stated thereon.
C. State Or Federal License Or Proof Of Exemption
Necessary. No license shall be issued to an itinerant merchant until
his/her State or Federal tax or other license for conducting business
as a seller of goods for at least the same times and goods as applied
for to the City has been presented to the Clerk who shall inspect
and photocopy same and attach the copy to the City license application.
The City Clerk shall issue a license without requiring payment of
any fee upon the applicant's status as exempt under State or Federal
law from all local license fee requirements. Notwithstanding any claim
of exemption, it shall be unlawful for any itinerant merchant to engage
in or conduct any business in the City without a license therefor.
[R.O. 2003 § 605.040; Ord. No. 908-98 § 54.040, 4-27-1998]
Where any person engages in more than one (1) form of occupation, trade or business, as provided in Section
605.020, Schedule of Licenses, set out herein, at a single location, under the same ownership, same management, same building and roof for which a license is required, such person shall pay for a license only for the occupation, trade, business or cottage industry requiring the highest tax.
[R.O. 2003 § 605.050; Ord. No. 908-98 § 54.050, 4-27-1998]
The various occupations, trades, business or cottage industry listed in Section
605.020, Schedule of Licenses, of this Article shall be construed in their broadest sense; in all cases of doubt, such occupation, trade, business or cottage industry listed in the Schedule of Licenses shall be presumed to be applicable to the prospective licensee.
[R.O. 2003 § 605.060; Ord. No. 908-98 § 54.060, 4-27-1998]
A license shall be required before
any person may engage in any of the occupations, trades, business
or cottage industry as may be required by this Chapter, and when such
licenses have been established on an annual or yearly basis, it shall
be effective and in force from July 1 until the 30th day of June.
Licenses provided for in this Chapter on a daily or weekly basis shall
state the time and dates for which the license is issued.
[R.O. 2003 § 605.070; Ord. No. 908-98 § 54.070, 4-27-1998]
All applicants for license under
the provisions of this Chapter shall apply in person or by agent at
the office of the City Clerk in the City of Gallatin, Missouri, and
shall pay to such City Clerk the amount of license tax levied on such
trade, business, occupation or cottage industry as herein provided
for and required. If, upon examination, the City Clerk determines
that all of the provisions and requirements of this Chapter have been
complied with and that the applicant is entitled to a license, such
Clerk shall issue a license to such person which license shall also
be signed by the Mayor and/or City Clerk of Gallatin, Missouri, with
the Seal of the City thereto affixed.
[R.O. 2003 § 605.080; Ord. No. 908-98 § 54.080, 4-27-1998]
Every person licensed in any occupation,
trade or business under the provisions of this Chapter shall post
in a conspicuous place in his/her place of business the license herein
provided where such person occupies a place of business; in the event
the licensee does not occupy a permanent place of business, such person
shall carry such license on his/her person at all times when engaged
in the occupation, trade, business or cottage industry for which the
license was issued, and every licensee shall exhibit said license
so issued on demand by any officer of the City of Gallatin, Missouri,
or of any prospective customer.
[R.O. 2003 § 605.090; Ord. No. 908-98 § 54.090, 4-27-1998]
Each merchant shall renew their license
each year on July 1.
[R.O. 2003 § 605.100; Ord. No. 908-98 § 54.100, 4-27-1998]
Any business operating an establishment within the City limits of Gallatin, Missouri, without a City license is subject to a fine as stated in Section
100.220 of this Code.
[R.O. 2003 § 605.130; Ord. No. 908-98 § 54.102, 4-27-1998]
The City Clerk shall keep a book
in which he/she shall register all licenses granted, showing the date,
commencement and termination of each license, to whom granted, for
what trade, business, occupation or cottage industry, the location
thereof, and the amount of the license tax paid.