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City of Waverly, MO
Lafayette County
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[Ord. No. 1921, 10-6-1987]
A license is hereby required and the fee is hereby set at thirty dollars ($30.00) per year for a mercantile agent. The term "mercantile agent" as herein used shall be deemed to include any person having a place of business outside the City of Waverly, Missouri, or having a business for orders for sale and delivery of merchandise, goods, magazines, electronic tapes, for sale and delivery of said merchandise which are taken within the City of Waverly, Missouri, for a delivery of a later date, or immediate delivery and from persons who shall go from place to place in the City and shall take orders for sale of goods, merchandise, magazines and electronic type of equipment for future delivering either by himself/herself or by some other means of delivery. (This Article does not apply to mail order merchants.)
[Ord. No. 1921, 10-6-1987]
The practice of being in and upon private residence in the City of Waverly by solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant merchants, and transient vendors of merchandise without a permit, for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares and merchandise, and for the electronic type of goods and for the purpose of disposing of or peddling or hawking the same, is hereby declared to be a nuisance, and punishable as such nuisance as a misdemeanor.
[Ord. No. 1921, 10-6-1987]
Any person who desires to sell merchandise who has a business outside the City of Waverly is declared to be a mercantile agent, and shall procure a license from the Clerk of this City prior to the sale of any merchandise of any nature, type or description within the corporate limits of the City of Waverly, Missouri.
[Ord. No. 1921, 10-6-1987]
A. 
Any person who is a mercantile agent shall give the following information to the Clerk of this City:
1. 
Name and address of the corporation; if no corporation, then the name and address of the partnership.
2. 
Name and address of all employees who shall be working for said mercantile agent, together with their social security numbers.
3. 
A Missouri sales tax number.
4. 
Name and address of the registered agent in the State of Missouri authorized by the Secretary of State to do business in the State of Missouri.
B. 
For each and every person who is selling merchandise for the mercantile agent, as above-described, there shall be an additional fee of ten dollars ($10.00) per year.
[Ord. No. 1921, 10-6-1987]
Any person convicted or perpetrating a nuisance, as described and prohibited in Section 605.020 of this Article, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined a sum of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00) together with the cost of proceedings, which said fine may be satisfied if not paid in cash, by execution against a person of anyone convicted of committing the misdemeanor as wherein described and prohibited. Any person, firm or corporation who fails to obtain a license shall upon conviction be fined a sum of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) and no more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) together with the costs thereof.
[Ord. No. 135, 6-5-1939]
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation maintaining or carrying on any public dance or any public dance hall, or having charge or control thereof, or for any female person under eighteen (18) years of age unless accompanied by her parent or guardian, or any person under the influence of intoxicating liquor, or any boisterous or disorderly person to enter, be, or remain, or dance at such public dance or in such public hall, or to suffer or permit any person or persons at such dance or in such dance hall to engage in any undue familiarity, or immoral or suggestive conduct; and it shall be the duty of the person maintaining, conducting, or having in charge or control of such hall, to eject any person engaging in such prohibited conduct.
B. 
It shall be unlawful for any person maintaining, conducting, or having in charge or control of any dance hall to allow or permit any person to enter, be, remain, or dance, or any music to be played at any public dance or in any public dance hall where beer or liquor is sold after 12:00 Midnight on any day of the week; and it shall be unlawful for any person to enter, be, remain, or dance, play music, or cause music to be played at or for any public dance or in any public dance hall after the hour of 12:00 Midnight, on any day of the week or at any time on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, which is hereby declared to begin at 12:00 Midnight, Saturday night.
C. 
For the purposes of this Section, all places open to the public or a part of the public where dancing is charged for or permitted without charge is declared to be a public dance hall and if any person or persons dance at such place, it is hereby declared to be a public dance.
D. 
Any person violating any of the provisions of this Section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, which upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00).
E. 
This Section shall be in full force and effect after 12:00 Midnight on June 5, 1939.
[Ord. No. 1075, 6-2-1952]
Neither the City of Waverly nor any of its officers will authorise the granting of a permit or license to any person, firm or corporation for any show, carnival, merry-go-round or other kind of amusement to set up or operate on any street or road in the City of Waverly or any other place under the control of the City nor allow any truck or trailer used as living quarters to park in the City for such purpose unless sanitary facilities are available; provided, however, that the Board of Aldermen may rent or lease all or part of the property known as the "City Park" for such purposes to any person, firm or corporation having legitimate shows, carnivals and other amusements.
[Ord. No. 1570, 11-10-1973]
A. 
That it is deemed in the public welfare and for the safety and protection of the residents of the City of Waverly, Missouri, that regulations be adopted by the Board of Aldermen concerning existing gasoline storage and new gasoline storage in the excess of one thousand (1,000) gallons within the City of Waverly.
B. 
It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, firms, partnerships or corporations to install or construct gasoline storage facilities with the capacity of more than one thousand (1,000) gallons unless said construction or installation shall be in conformity with the following provisions:
1. 
Any person, persons, firms, partnerships or corporations desiring to construct or install gasoline storage facilities in excess of one thousand (1,000) gallons within the City of Waverly shall install or construct said facility underground. The installation or construction must be approved by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Waverly. Prior to the construction or installation of said facility, an application must be presented to the Board of Aldermen giving the location, depth and capacity of said proposed gasoline storage, which application must be presented at a regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen. Approval or disapproval of said application by the Board of Aldermen shall be made a part of the minutes of said meeting.
C. 
It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, firms, partnerships or corporations to maintain existing gasoline storage facilities in excess of one thousand (1,000) gallons in the City of Waverly unless there is constructed around said gasoline storage facility a retaining wall sufficient to contain and retain within its confines the capacity of the largest tank plus ten percent (10%) of the remaining gasoline storage lying within said retaining wall. Said retaining wall shall meet the following requirements:
1. 
The top of said retaining wall shall not be less than six (6) feet from the closest point of the gasoline storage facility.
2. 
The top of said retaining wall shall not be less than eight (8) inches in width and may be of earth or concrete construction.
3. 
Earth Construction. The side slopes of said retaining wall shall not be less than a three to one (3:1) slope, that is, for every foot of vertical distance, there shall be three (3) feet of horizontal distance. Said slopes shall be maintained and kept free of foreign material.
4. 
Concrete Construction. The retaining wall, if constructed of concrete, can be eight (8) inches in width from top to bottom.
5. 
Any gasoline storage facilities either present or those constructed or installed which do not conform to the provisions of this Section shall be deemed a nuisance and a threat to the public health and safety of the residents of this City.
D. 
Any person, persons, firms, partnerships or corporations found to be violating any provision of this Section shall be fined in the amount of not less than one dollar ($1.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00). Each day in which any such violation shall continue shall be deemed a separate offense.
E. 
Any person, persons, firms, partnerships or corporations who are in the process of constructing said retaining wall or showing good faith in attempting to comply with said Section, shall not be considered in violation of said Section.
[Ord. No. 2331, 10-7-2008]
All businesses located within the City limits of Waverly, Missouri, that sell gasoline and/or diesel fuel shall be required to have a pre-pay or pre-approval fuel dispersing system which will require all customers to pay or be approved prior to the act of pumping any fuel into any motor vehicle and/or any approved fuel holding container.