[R.O. 1998 § 605.010; CC 1980 § 54.010; Ord. No. 89-10 § 54.010, 8-3-1989]
No person, firm, co-partnership, association or corporation except vendors and peddlers, shall engage in any of the various businesses, employments, occupations, agencies, amusements or exhibitions or own, manage, operate, or control any public building, vehicle, or any other of the matters and things hereinafter listed unless said person, firm, co-partnership, association, or corporation shall first fill out an application for a business license, have a State sales tax number if required by the State of Missouri and have a Police check. The completed application will be presented to the Board of Aldermen for approval. After approval by the Board of Aldermen and if the City Collector is convinced that the applicant has complied with any and all ordinances of this City governing the issuance of a license to do or engage in the matters of things for which said license is applied for, the Collector shall issue to said applicant a license upon the payment of the proper license tax as set forth in the next succeeding Sections.
[R.O. 1998 § 605.020; CC 1980 § 54.020; Ord. No. 23-02, 2-16-2023]
A. 
The annual rate of license tax or occupational tax mentioned in the preceding Section shall be twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for all businesses, including the following, unless otherwise specified in Subsection (B), below.
1. 
Laundry mat;
2. 
Restaurants;
3. 
Food trucks;
4. 
Funeral home;
5. 
Warehouse;
6. 
Septic;
7. 
Bar and grill;
8. 
Automobile dealer;
9. 
Grocery retail;
10. 
Merchant retail;
11. 
Gas station/convenience store;
12. 
Resale shop;
13. 
Barber/beautician;
14. 
Realtor;
15. 
Medical, dental, doctor, chiropractor;
16. 
Pharmacy;
17. 
Industrial/manufacturing;
18. 
Construction, roofing, excavating;
19. 
Mechanic, auto detail;
20. 
Horticulture.
B. 
The following businesses will have an annual rate of license tax or occupational tax as follows:
1. 
Bank and trust companies: One hundred dollars ($100.00).
2. 
Building and loan or savings and loan associations, associations having gross assets in excess of one million dollars ($1,000,000.00): One hundred dollars ($100.00).
3. 
Circuses shall pay a license tax of forty dollars ($40.00) for the first twenty-four (24) hours and twenty dollars ($20.00) for each subsequent day.
4. 
Pawnbrokers: Fifty dollars ($50.00).
5. 
Street fairs and carnivals: One hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) per day.
[R.O. 1998 § 605.030; CC 1980 § 54.030]
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to erect any billboard or place for posting advertisements in the City of Bismarck, Missouri, unless a permit shall be first had and obtained from the City. Before granting any such permit, it shall be the City Clerk's duty to secure and have endorsed on such permit the approval of the Mayor and majority of the Board of Aldermen.
[R.O. 1998 § 605.040; CC 1980 § 54.040]
Any person, firm, co-partnership, association or corporation or vocation that shall within this City operate such business hereinbefore mentioned in this Chapter, without first taking out and paying for a license as provided in this Chapter, shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation and upon conviction shall be fined as set forth in Chapter 100, Article III, of this Code, and each day that he/she, they or it shall do or engage in said business, occupation or vocation, after notice to take out a license shall be deemed a separate offense.
[R.O. 1998 § 605.070; CC 1980 § 54.080]
A. 
Any person, firm or corporation in any kind of business, requiring a license in the City of Bismarck, Missouri, who shall be in arrears for any real estate, personal or business taxes shall be refused a license.
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.
[R.O. 1998 § 605.080; CC 1980 § 54.090]
It shall be the duty of the City Clerk to issue as many blank licenses, under the Seal of the City, as from time to time may be required by virtue of the provisions of this Chapter. All licenses so issued shall be delivered to the City Collector, who shall receipt for the same, and thereupon the Clerk shall make a record of the number so delivered and receipted for, and the date of their delivery.
[R.O. 1998 § 605.090; CC 1980 § 54.100]
A. 
All licenses authorized by this Chapter or any other Chapter in this Code of this City shall be delivered to the City Collector in blank and shall be signed by the Mayor and Clerk and countersigned by the City Collector and the Clerk shall affix thereto the corporate Seal of the City. Such license form shall be held on file in the City Clerk's office.
B. 
When any license granted under the provisions of this Chapter or any other ordinance of the City shall be issued to the person applying therefor, it shall be the duty of the Collector to fill in the blanks, dates, names, and amount paid; and no license shall authorize any person, firm or corporation to carry on any business in more than one (1) place in the City at the same time.
[R.O. 1998 § 605.110; CC 1980 § 54.120]
All licenses issued under the provisions of this Chapter or any other ordinances of this City shall be granted for the time specified in the ordinance authorizing the same to be issued, and no license shall be issued for a shorter period of time, except licenses now in effect.
[R.O. 1998 § 605.120; CC 1980 § 54.130]
No license tax or fee shall be levied upon or collected from a farmer or producer(s) for the sale of produce raised by him/her or them when sold from his/her or their wagon, cart or vehicle, or from any person or persons in the employment of such farmer or producer in this City.
[R.O. 1998 § 605.130; CC 1980 § 54.140]
A. 
Every person, company or corporation who shall hold or purchase personal property for the purpose of adding to the value thereof by any process of manufacturing, refining, or by the combination of different materials shall be held to be a manufacturer for the purpose of this Chapter, except as is or may be otherwise provided by ordinance, and whoever shall deal in the selling of any goods, wares or merchandise at any store, stand or place occupied for that purpose within the City of Bismarck, Missouri, is hereby declared to be a merchant, except as is or may be otherwise provided by ordinance.
B. 
Every person defined to be a merchant or manufacturer by Subsection (A) shall pay to said City, as a license fee, each year hereafter, the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per year.
C. 
No license shall be assignable or transferable.
[R.O. 1998 § 605.140; CC 1980 § 54.150]
All licenses herein mentioned, including merchant's and manufacturer's license tax, shall be due and payable on the first day of August of each year. Any license tax or occupational tax of the City of Bismarck now in effect shall expire on July 31. Any license tax or occupational tax procured after the above date shall be prorated from the date of issue until the following July 31. All licenses of this City shall be due and payable on or before the first day of August in each year.
[R.O. 1998 § 605.150; CC 1980 § 59.140]
In the event of revocation or forfeiture of any license issued pursuant to this Chapter, for cause or otherwise, the City shall not return any part of the license fee paid for said license.
[Ord. No. 06-01, 1-12-2006]
All new applicants, for business license request, shall be charged a five-dollar ($5.00) application fee. Said fee shall be paid to the Bismarck City Collector prior to the initiation of the required background check. This fee shall be separate from, and in addition to, the license charge due at time of issuance.