[Ord. No. 434, 2-9-2026]
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to engage in any business or occupation in the City of Kimmswick without having first applied for and obtained a license to conduct such business or occupation from the City Clerk and without paying the license fee therefor, all as provided for in this Chapter. Where more than one (1) business shall be conducted on the same premises, each such business shall be licensed.
[Ord. No. 236, 5-8-1990]
A. 
For the purposes of Sections 2 and 5 of Ord. No. 221 and Section 2 of Ord. No. 225, the following classes of persons and organizations who shall profit from the sale of goods, wares, merchandise or services are hereby defined to be merchants and are required to acquire a merchant's license and pay a license fee set out in Section 605.040 of this Chapter:
Auctioners, druggists, hawkers, peddlers, banks, brokers, pawnbrokers, merchants of all kinds, grocers, confectioners, restaurants, butchers, taverns, hotels, public boardinghouses, billiard and pool tables and other tables, bowling alleys, lumber dealers, real estate agents, loan companies, loan agents, public buildings, public halls, opera houses, concerts, photographers, bill posters, artists, agents, porters, public lecturers, public meetings, circuses and shows, for parades and exhibitions, moving picture shows, horse and cattle dealers, patent right dealers, stockyards, inspectors, gaugers, mercantile agents, gas companies, insurance companies, insurance agents, express companies, and express agents, telegraph companies, light, power and water companies, telephone companies, manufacturing and other corporations on institutions, automobile agencies, and dealers, public garages, automobile repair shops or both combined, dealers in automobile accessories, gasoline filling stations, soft drink stands, ice cream stands, ice cream and soft drink stands combined, soda fountains, street railroad cars, omnibuses, drays, transfer and all other vehicles, traveling and auction stores, plumbers, and all other business, trades and avocations whatsoever, ordinaries, money brokers, money changers, intelligence and employment offices and agencies, public masquerades, balls, street exhibitors, dance houses, fortune tellers, pistol galleries, corn doctors, private venereal hospitals, museums, menageries, equestrian performances, horoscopic views, telescopic views, lung testers, muscle developers, magnifying glasses, ten pin alleys, ball alleys, theatrical and other exhibitions, boxing and sparring exhibitions, shows and amusements, tippling houses, and sales of unclaimed goods by express companies on common carriers, auto wrecking shops and junk dealers, hackmen, draymen, omnibus drivers, porters and all others pursuing like occupations, with or without vehicles, runners for steamboats, cars, and public houses, ferries, auto liveries, auto drays and jitneys.
B. 
Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
PROFIT
As set forth in Subsection (A) of this Section, is hereby defined to mean the realization or receipt of an advantage, benefit or pecuniary gain from the sale of merchandise, goods, wares or services.
C. 
Interpretation Of Subsection (A). Nothing contained in this Chapter shall be interpreted as requiring the City of Kimmswick to issue a merchant's license to a person or organization listed in Subsection (A) hereof when the activity to be carried on by such person or organization is otherwise prohibited by another City ordinance or by State or Federal law.
A. 
All applications for the licenses required herein shall be made to the City Clerk on appropriate forms provided for that purpose by the City. All licenses issued by the City Clerk shall be in such form as is provided by the Board of Aldermen; provided however, that such license shall bear the signature of the Mayor of the Board of Aldermen and the City Clerk, the date of issuance thereof and the date of expiration, as well as any additional information that may be required by the Board of Aldermen.
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. 
Any applicant for a business license shall be required to be properly licensed and inspected before opening and conducting business.
[Ord. No. 269, 1-16-1996; Ord. No. 433, 1-12-2026]
Merchant’s license fee shall be one hundred dollars ($100.00) per year.
No license issued under the provisions of this Chapter shall be assignable or transferable but shall apply only to the person to whom same is issued. In the event any licensee, as provided for herein, shall move his/her place of business from one location to another location within the City, said licensee shall submit a statement of the fact of such change to the City Clerk who may transfer such license as to location only. In no event, however, shall such license be transferred from one person to another or from the kind of business or occupation originally licensed to another type of business or occupation.
[Ord. No. 269A, 1-16-1996]
A. 
As provided by ordinance, it is necessary for each merchant to purchase a yearly license. The City does hereby declare each such license renewal due and payable by July 1 of each year.
B. 
Any merchant that does not renew their license by this date is subject to a penalty fee as follows:
1. 
Renewal from July 15 – August 15: twenty-five dollars ($25.00) penalty.
2. 
Renewal from August 16 – September 15: fifty dollars ($50.00) penalty.
3. 
Renewal after September 16: seventy-five dollars ($75.00) penalty.
C. 
The penalty fee shall be in addition to the regular renewal fee of each license and shall be at the discretion of the Board. Any merchant having more than one license shall be subject to a penalty fee on each late renewal.
Each license issued by the City under the provisions of this Chapter shall be carefully preserved and shall be displayed in a conspicuous place in the place of business authorized to be conducted by said license. If there is no place of business, said license shall be carried on the licensee's person.
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 Kimmswick.
A. 
Any license issued by the City pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter may be revoked by the Board of Aldermen for any of the following reasons, as well as for any other reasons specified in this Chapter:
1. 
Any failure to comply with or any violation of any provisions of this Chapter, or any other ordinance of the City regulating the business, occupation or activity licensed, or the Statutes of the State of Missouri by any licensee; or
2. 
Violation of the terms and conditions upon which the license was issued; or
3. 
Failure of the licensee to pay any tax or obligation due to the City; or
4. 
Any misrepresentation or false statement in the application for a license required herein; or
5. 
Failure to display the license required herein.
B. 
Revocation of any license shall be in addition to any other penalty or penalties which may be imposed pursuant to these provisions.
A. 
In any case in which a complaint has been made to the Board of Aldermen, or in which the Board of Aldermen has on its own determined that cause may exist for the revocation of a license under the provisions of this Chapter, the following procedures shall be followed:
1. 
The Board of Aldermen shall set a date for a hearing to consider the question of revocation.
2. 
At least ten (10) days prior to said hearing, written notice shall be mailed to the licensee, by registered mail, return receipt requested, to his/her last known address as shown in the records of the City Clerk advising the licensee of the time, date and place of hearing and of the reason for considering the revocation of his/her license.
3. 
During the pendency of this hearing before the Board of Aldermen, the licensee shall be permitted to continue the operation of his/her business.
4. 
At the hearing set by the Board of Aldermen, the Board of Aldermen shall hear all relevant and material evidence justifying the retention of the license.
5. 
The licensee may be present in person and/or by his/her attorney and may present evidence.
6. 
After hearing the evidence presented, the Board of Aldermen shall vote on the issue of whether the subject license shall be revoked.
7. 
The affirmative vote of a majority of the Board of Aldermen shall be necessary to revoke any license.
A. 
All license fees not paid to the City by the person required to remit the same on the date when the same becomes due and payable to the Director of Revenue shall bear interest at the rate determined by Section 32.065, RSMo., from and after such date until paid.
B. 
In case of failure to apply for any license fee required by this Chapter on or before the date prescribed therefor, determined with regard to any extension of time for making an application, unless it is shown that such failure is due to reasonable cause and not the result of willful neglect, evasion or fraudulent intent, there shall be added to the amount required to be shown as tax on such return five percent (5%) of the amount of such tax if the failure is not for more than one (1) month, with an additional five percent (5%) for each additional month or fraction thereof during which such failure continues, not exceeding twenty-five percent (25%) in the aggregate.
C. 
In case of failure to pay the full amount of any license fee due hereunder on or before the date prescribed therefor, determined with regard to any extension of time for payment, unless it is shown, by the applicant, that such failure is due to reasonable cause and not the result of willful neglect, evasion or fraudulent intent, there shall be added to the tax an amount equal to five percent (5%) of the deficiency. The City shall, upon request by a taxpayer, apprise the taxpayer of the factual basis for the finding of negligence, or the specific rules or regulations disregarded if the City assesses a penalty under this Subsection.
[Ord. No. 393, 12-12-2016]
A. 
The Board of Aldermen does hereby levy a business license fee payable by for profit museums in the amount of three percent (3%) of all gross receipts derived from the collection of admission fees and bookings taken for tours, exhibitions and other uses ancillary to the operation of a for profit museum, effective January 1, 2017.
B. 
Said business license fees shall be paid to, and collected by, the City consistent with other business license fees payable to the City of Kimmswick.
[Ord. No. 393, 12-12-2016]
A. 
The Board of Aldermen does hereby levy a temporary business license fee in the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00), effective January 1, 2017.
B. 
Said temporary business license fees shall be paid to, and collected by, the City in the same manner that such fees have been collected prior to the enactment of this Article.