For the purposes of this title unless it is plainly evident from the context that a different meaning is intended, the words and phrases used in Chapters
3.40 through
3.96 shall have the following meanings.
(Prior code § 2101; Ord. 908 § 2, 1971)
"Business" includes professions, trades, and occupations and
all and every kind of calling whether or not carried on for profit.
(Prior code § 2101(a); Ord. 908 § 2, 1971)
"Business license" constitutes evidence that license tax obligations prescribed in Chapters
3.40 through
3.96 have been satisfied.
(Prior code § 2101(b); Ord. 908 § 2, 1971)
"City" means the city of Palm Springs, a municipal corporation
of the state of California, in its present incorporated form or in
any later reorganized, consolidated, enlarged or reincorporated form.
(Prior code § 2101(c); Ord. 908 § 2, 1971)
"Collector" means the city manager, or his or her authorized
designee or representative charged with the administration of the
business license tax and regulatory program.
(Prior code § 2101(d); Ord. 908 § 2, 1971; Ord. 2026 § 11, 2020)
"Conduct" or "carry on" means and includes engaging in, carrying
on, owning, maintaining, managing or operating any business, trade,
art profession, calling, employment, occupation or any commercial,
industrial or professional pursuit, vocation or enterprise in this
city.
(Prior code § 2101(e); Ord. 908 § 2, 1971)
"Employee" means any individual engaged in the operation or
conduct of any business, or related activity, whether as owner, member
of owner's family, partner, agent, manager, solicitor, and any or
all other persons employed or working in said business.
(Prior code § 2101(g); Ord. 908 § 2, 1971)
"Fixed place of business" means and includes the place at which
the principal tools, equipment or machinery used by any person are
customarily stored or located or at which are maintained the principal
stock of materials or supplies and the books and records used by any
person in his work in this city.
(Prior code § 2101(f); Ord. 908 § 2, 1971)
"Out-of-town" includes every person conducting or carrying on
a business within this city but not having a fixed place of business
within this city.
(Prior code § 2101 (h); Ord. 908 § 2, 1971)
"Permit" means a written authorization, or permission, to conduct,
manage, or carry on a business activity within this city. A business
license does not constitute a "permit."
(Prior code § 2101(i); Ord. 908 § 2, 1971)
"Person" includes all domestic and foreign corporations, associations,
syndicates, joint stock corporations, partnerships of every kind,
clubs, business, or common law trusts, societies, and individuals
transacting and carrying on any business in the city, other than as
an employee.
(Prior code § 2101(j); Ord. 908 § 2 (part) , 1971)
"Premises" includes all lands, structures, places, and also
the equipment and appurtenances connected or used therewith in any
business, and also any personal property which is either affixed to,
or is otherwise used in connection with any such business conducted
on such premises.
(Prior code § 2101(k); Ord. 908 § 2, 1971)
"Solicitor" means and includes any person who travels or goes
from house to house within this city and peddles, hawks, vends or
sells any goods, wares, medicines or merchandise carried or caused
to be carried or conveyed by the person peddling, hawking, vending
or selling the same, or who solicits or takes orders at retail for
any services, goods, wares or merchandise for future performance or
delivery. Solicitor includes and means "peddler."
(Prior code § 2101(l); Ord. 908 § 2, 1971)
"Sworn statement" means an affidavit sworn to before a person
authorized to take oaths, or a declaration or certification made under
penalty of perjury.
(Prior code § 2101(m); Ord. 908 § 2, 1971)