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City of Escondido, CA chevron_right chevron_right Code of Ordinances chevron_right Chapter 16 Licenses and Business Regulations Generally chevron_right Article 2 LICENSES GENERALLY
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Article 2 LICENSES GENERALLY

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Ord. 2026-04R  pdf
2026-04-01
Licenses and Business Regulations Generally: Safe Sidewalk Vending Act; Amends Community Services Department: Use and Conduct; Amends Streets and Sidewalks: In General
Ch 16, Art 18-4, Art 23-1
Division 1 Administration
§ 16-16 Responsibility.
§ 16-17 License required.
§ 16-18 Misrepresentation of material facts prohibited.
§ 16-19 To whom license application made; when to apply or renew.
§ 16-20 Certified statement to be filed when applying for or renewing license; form; contents.
§ 16-21 Application processing fee.
§ 16-22 Issuance of license; contents of license.
§ 16-23 Separate license for branch establishments, locations; license to designate business location.
§ 16-24 Duplicate license.
§ 16-25 Nontransferable; change of name or location.
§ 16-26 Posting, affixing, carrying license required.
§ 16-27 No use of license by unlicensed person.
§ 16-28 Temporary business permit.
§ 16-29 Application; issuance; content of permit.
§ 16-30 Fees imposed.
§ 16-31 Evidence of doing business.
§ 16-32 through § 16-42. (Reserved)
Division 2 Exemptions from License Tax
§ 16-43 Statutory.
§ 16-44 Trustee's sale.
§ 16-45 Charitable, nonprofit organizations; institutions generally.
§ 16-46 Claim; statement of basis of claim for exemption to be filed.
§ 16-47 Contents of statement claiming exemptions because engaged in interstate commerce.
§ 16-48 Issuance of free license.
§ 16-49 Revocation of free license.
§ 16-50 Free license/temporary business permit.
§ 16-51 through § 16-59. (Reserved)
Division 3 License Taxes
§ 16-60 Rates for gross receipts taxes generally.
§ 16-61 Rates on gross receipts of wholesalers, jobbers, manufacturers.
§ 16-62 Flat amount when business at fixed place.
§ 16-63 Flat amount when business not at fixed place.
§ 16-64 First year business tax.
§ 16-65 When statement to include gross receipts, number of vehicles used.
§ 16-66 Filing of statement, making payment prerequisite to issuance of other licenses.
§ 16-67 Effect of failure to file statement.
§ 16-68 Notice of assessment upon failure to file statements.
§ 16-69 When license taxes due and payable.
§ 16-70 License a receipt.
§ 16-71 Statements subject to audit, verification; authority to audit, verify.
§ 16-72 Duty to permit audit.
§ 16-73 Payment not to relieve licensee of compliance with other regulations or to waive violations.
§ 16-74 Liabilities to the city.
§ 16-75 Effect of failure to comply with building, zoning or other codes.
§ 16-76 Effect of conviction, imprisonment on taxes due; payment of taxes not to prevent prosecution.
§ 16-77 Disposition of moneys collected.
§ 16-78 through § 16-85. (Reserved)
Division 4 Wheel Tax
§ 16-86 Interpretation of "each vehicle"; collection of tax to be on average number of vehicles.
§ 16-87 Nature of tax.
§ 16-88 Payment required.
§ 16-89 Rates generally.
§ 16-90 through § 16-92. (Reserved)
Division 5 Advertising Generally
§ 16-93 Applicability.
§ 16-94 Licensees to receive approval prior to erecting billboards.
§ 16-95 Fee for distribution of circulars, dodgers, posters, etc.
§ 16-96 Manner of distributing handbills.
§ 16-97 Tax when advertising own business.
§ 16-98 Prohibiting distribution where properly posted.
§ 16-99 Handbills which incite riot or public disorder, etc., prohibited.
Division 6 Distress and Fake Sales
§ 16-100 Persons not affected by chapter.
§ 16-101 License required.
§ 16-102 Eligible to apply for license.
§ 16-103 Application for license; required, where filed; contents.
§ 16-104 Denial of license required when interval between sales too short.
§ 16-105 Surrender of general license upon issuance of going-out-of-business license.
§ 16-106 License to limit duration of sale.
§ 16-107 License fees.
§ 16-108 Renewal of license.
§ 16-109 License authorizes sale of inventoried goods only.
§ 16-110 License authorizes type and location of sale.
§ 16-111 License to apply to one location; activities at other locations prohibited.
§ 16-112 Assignability, transferability of license.
§ 16-113 Duties of licensee.
§ 16-114 Fake sales prohibited.
Division 7 Garage and Yard Sales
§ 16-115 Regulation.
§ 16-116 When and where permitted; hours; length of sale; frequency.
§ 16-117 Property offered for sale or display.
§ 16-118 Location of display; manner.
§ 16-119 Announcements of sale.
§ 16-120 Inspection of site and property.
§ 16-121 (Reserved)
Division 8 Miscellaneous
§ 16-122 Renting or maintaining amusement machines on public property prohibited.
§ 16-123 Vending machines, devices.
§ 16-124 Regulation of tobacco vending machines.
§ 16-125 Ice cream trucks.
§ 16-126 Vehicle identification sticker.
§ 16-127 through § 16-129. (Reserved)
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