No person charged with the enforcement of any of the provisions of this chapter or Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16,
5.20 or 5.68, shall knowingly accept or receive any sum for any license which is less than or greater than the amount actually to be paid under the provisions of this chapter or Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16, 5.20 or 5.68. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the city clerk, in the exercise of discretionary powers, may within the limits and the terms of the provisions of this chapter and Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16, 5.20 and 5.68, set the amount of the license fee to be paid based upon the facts before him pursuant to application or investigation and in accordance with the terms and provisions of this chapter and Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16, 5.20 and 5.68.
(Prior code § 8-14)
The fee for any license required by this chapter or Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16, 5.20 or 5.68, shall be that set forth in this chapter for the particular business involved. The fee and the duration of the license shall be annual, unless specifically designated otherwise.
(Prior code § 8-16)
All license fees shall be paid in advance to the city clerk in lawful money of the United States. The amount to be paid shall be determined in the discretion of the city clerk and in accordance with the terms and provisions of this chapter and Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16, 5.20 and 5.68.
(Prior code § 8-17)
The license fee required under this chapter and Chapters 5.12, 5.16, 5.20 and 5.68 shall be in the amount established in this chapter and Chapters 5.12, 5.16, 5.20 and 5.68 and upon the information supplied to the city clerk by the applicant, as well as in accordance with any information supplied to the city clerk by any other city officer or enforcement agency. In addition, in computing the license fee the city clerk shall be governed by the following rules:
A. 
Where the license fee is based in whole or in part upon the number of persons employed, the average number of employees shall be used for the computation of the license fee as follows:
The average number of employees shall be computed at the rate of one employee for each two hundred sixty days of work or fractions thereof performed by the employees or agents of the business, profession, trade or occupation within the city. Proprietors shall be counted as employees. Working days or fractions thereof shall mean those performed within the city. In computing the average number of employees, the city clerk shall take the total working days or fractions thereof performed by all employees or agents of the applicant who are performing work within the city, and divide the same by two hundred sixty. The result is the average number of employees which shall be used for business license computation.
B. 
In all cases where the amount of the license fee to be paid by any person is based upon the average number of employees or any other variable basis, such persons, before obtaining a license, shall submit to the city clerk, upon such form or in such manner as directed by the city clerk, a written statement sworn to before an officer authorized to administer oath, or certified to under penalty of perjury, showing a schedule of license fee required to be paid in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16, 5.20 and 5.68, and setting forth in concise fashion and in the manner requested by the city clerk the basis for determining the number of average employees or other variable factor. The city clerk shall not be bound by this statement and may investigate, audit or approve or disapprove the estimation therein contained. In the case of dispute, the decision of the city clerk shall be final. The city clerk shall, on the basis of such sworn or certified statement or on the basis of any investigation or audit of the city clerk, set the license fee in accordance with this chapter and Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16, 5.20 and 5.68.
Any license fee so estimated shall be subject to review and reassessment by the city clerk upon prior notice to the license holder where the city clerk has obtained new and additional evidence clearly showing that the computation of license fee was in error.
(Prior code § 8-18)
Any person required to have a business license under the terms and provisions of this chapter and Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16, 5.20 and 5.68, who fails to pay any sum therein required of such person to the city when due and owing, shall be deemed indebted to the city and shall be liable in an action by and in the name of the city in any court of competent jurisdiction for the recovery of such amount plus penalties as set forth in this chapter and Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16, 5.20 and 5.68.
(Prior code § 8-19)
A. 
Business, professions, trades and occupations, unless specifically provided otherwise in this chapter or Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16, 5.20 or 5.68, whether they have a fixed place of business within the city or otherwise, shall procure a business license and pay a fee annually as follows:
Seventy dollars for the first employee and five dollars and fifty cents each for each additional employee. Beginning on July 1, 1992 said rate shall be increased to eighty dollars for the first employee and six dollars for each additional employee and, commencing on July 1, 1993 said rate shall be increased to ninety dollars for the first employee and six dollars and fifty cents for each additional employee. Commencing on July 1, 1994 and on July 1st of each succeeding year, the basic fee in this paragraph and in Section 5.24.070 shall be increased by an amount equal to the increase in the Consumer Price Index for the period extending from April 1st of the previous year through March 31st of the current year.
B. 
Where a business comes within the license provisions of this chapter and Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16 and 5.68, and is not otherwise specifically provided for, the business license fee set forth in this section shall apply to each separate and independent business location or situs within the city. "Independent" means an independent operating business, although branch businesses or businesses under the same management and ownership may have overlapping services, management, personnel or equipment. Notwithstanding the preceding or any other provision of this chapter and Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16, 5.20 and 5.68, the fee for any business, profession, trade or occupation which has a gross annual income from such business, profession, trade or occupation not in excess of one thousand dollars, shall pay an annual fee of sixty dollars.
(Prior code § 8-20; Ord. 340 § 1, 1971; Ord. 636 § 1, 1978; Ord. 956 § 2, 1991; Ord. 994 § 3, 1993)
The following businesses, professions, trades and occupations, because of their nature and circumstances, shall have a different license fee than that set forth in Section 5.24.060, which shall be in the amount set forth as follows:
A. 
Billiard Halls and Pool Halls. For billiard halls and pool halls, the license fee shall be forty-five dollars for the first table, plus six dollars for each additional table effective July 1, 1991; and these amounts shall be increased to fifty-five dollars and seven dollars effective July 1, 1992; and to sixty-five dollars and to eight dollars effective July 1, 1993.
B. 
Apartment Houses and Rental Units. Every person conducting an apartment house, bungalow court or any other building or group of contiguous buildings containing three or more rental units shall pay a license fee of seventy dollars, plus six dollars for each rental unit over two, effective July 1, 1991; and eighty dollars, plus seven dollars for each rental unit over two effective July 1, 1992; and ninety dollars plus eight dollars for every rental unit over two effective July 1, 1993; except that businesses which utilize buildings solely for storage shall pay a business license computed on the basis of one dollar and twenty cents for each one hundred square feet of storage area effective July 1, 1991; one dollar and forty cents for each one hundred square feet of storage space effective July 1, 1992; and one dollar and sixty cents for each one hundred square feet of storage space effective July 1, 1993. Properties which are used for the storage of recreational vehicles shall pay an additional business license fee of two dollars for each space designated for recreational vehicle parking effective July 1, 1991; increasing to three dollars effective July 1, 1992; and to four dollars effective July 1, 1993.
C. 
Bowling Alleys. The license fee for bowling alleys shall be seventy dollars for the first five alleys and eleven dollars for each additional alley, effective July 1, 1991; increasing to eighty dollars for the first five alleys and twelve dollars for each additional alley effective July 1, 1992; increasing to ninety dollars for the first five alleys and thirteen dollars for each additional alley effective July 1, 1993.
D. 
Carnival, Circus or Rodeo. The license fee for a carnival, circus or rodeo shall be two hundred dollars per day.
E. 
Cocktail Lounges and Bars. The license fee for bars and cocktail lounges shall be one hundred sixty dollars effective July 1, 1991; increasing to one hundred seventy dollars effective July 1, 1992; and increasing to one hundred eighty dollars effective July 1, 1993.
F. 
Contractors. The license fee for contractors shall be seventy-five dollars per year effective July 1, 1991; increasing to eighty-five dollars effective July 1, 1992; and increasing to ninety-five dollars effective July 1, 1993.
G. 
Dance Halls and Entertainment Business. Any person in the business of maintaining or operating a public dance hall or entertainment business shall pay a license fee of one hundred sixty dollars per year effective July 1, 1991; increasing to one hundred seventy dollars effective July 1, 1992; and increasing to one hundred eighty dollars effective July 1, 1993.
H. 
Deliveries.
1. 
Every person engaged in the business of delivering by vehicles in the city shall pay an annual license of fifty-five dollars effective July 1, 1991; increasing to sixty-five dollars effective July 1, 1992; and increasing to seventy-five dollars effective July 1, 1993.
2. 
This subsection shall not apply to any person having a fixed place of business within the city which has been licensed under this chapter or Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16, 5.20 or 5.68 and in the usual course of business used a wheeled vehicle for the delivery of personal property which has been sold from such place of business.
I. 
Rubbish, Waste or Garbage Collection. The license fee for rubbish, waste and garbage collectors shall be one hundred dollars per truck collection or transportation.
J. 
Secondhand Business. The license fee for secondhand businesses shall be as follows:
Auto wreckers
$200.00
Pawnbrokers
200.00
Secondhand dealers
100.00
Junk dealers
200.00
Junk collectors
100.00
 
Plus fifty dollars per wagon or vehicle, plus three dollars per each employee over one.
K. 
Solicitors. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16, 5.20 or 5.68, the city clerk or an authorized deputy may issue a principal solicitor's license to every person either employing or contracting with one or more individuals for solicitors' services. If a principal solicitor should elect to use the provisions of this section, no principal solicitor's license shall be issued until the applicant files with the city clerk or an authorized deputy a list of all solicitors employed or retained by the applicant or with whom the applicant has a contract, and unless the applicant executes an agreement that he will within five days thereafter notify the city clerk, in writing, of every change in personnel of those so soliciting for him. In addition, no principal solicitor's license shall be issued until all regulatory provisions of this title have been complied with. In such an event the application fee for a solicitor's permit shall be included within the principal solicitor's license fee, but each individual solicitor shall obtain a permit in accordance with the terms and provisions of this title. Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to grant to a principal solicitor the privilege of soliciting unless there is maintained in full force and effect for each individual solicitor a permit in accordance with the terms and provisions of this title. The license fee for a principal solicitor's license shall be one hundred fifty dollars annually, plus one hundred dollars for each solicitor to whom a permit is issued.
L. 
Theaters. The license fee for a theater shall be two hundred dollars.
M. 
Trailer Parks. The license fee for a trailer park shall be seven dollars and fifty cents per space.
N. 
Vending and Arcade Machines. Every person operating one or more vending or arcade machine(s) shall pay a license tax based on the entire gross receipts from all of such machines operated within the corporate limits of the city, in accordance with the schedule set forth for gross receipts in Section 5.24.080.
O. 
Movie Filming. The license fee for the commercial filming of motion pictures shall be set by resolution. In addition, a deposit shall be made sufficient to defray the costs of extra police protection and other expenses of the city. The amount of the deposit shall be determined by the city clerk.
P. 
Hotels, Motels, Retirement Homes, Hospitals, Boarding Houses and Boarding Schools. The license fee for hotels, motels, retirement homes, hospitals, boarding houses and boarding schools shall be sixty dollars, plus five dollars for each bed.
Q. 
Recreational Vehicle Parks. The license fee for a recreational vehicle park shall be four dollars per space per year effective July 1, 1991; increasing to five dollars effective July 1, 1992; and increasing to six dollars effective July 1, 1993. For purposes of this section, a recreational vehicle park, as distinguished from a trailer park or vehicle storage facility, is defined as a park in which the average visit per vehicle is less than thirty days.
R. 
Fortunetelling. Every person engaged in the business of fortunetelling shall pay an annual license fee of two hundred dollars.
S. 
Consignment Business. The license fee for a consignment business shall be two hundred dollars.
T. 
Public Marketplaces and Fairs. The license fee for a public marketplace or fair shall be forty dollars per space.
(Prior code § 8-21; Ord. 340 §§ 2, 3, 1971; Ord. 386 § 1, 1972; Ord. 550 § 1, 1976; Ord. 588 §§ 1, 2, 1977; Ord. 605 § 1, 1978; Ord. 636 § 1, 1978; Ord. 856 § 2, 1987; Ord. 911 § 1, 1990; Ord. 956 § 3, 1991; Ord. 994 § 2, 1993; Ord. 1052 § 2, 1996; Ord. 1299 § 1, 2023)
A. 
Every person who engages in retail or wholesale business, manufacturing, or processing businesses, or any other occupation, trade, calling or activity, and every person who engages in the practice of a profession or semiprofessional calling within the city, or in any other activity not otherwise classified in this chapter and Chapters 5.04, 5.12, 5.16, 5.20 and 5.68, who is required to pay a license tax based on gross receipts, shall pay a license tax based upon gross annual receipts as follows:
Gross Annual Receipts
Fee Per Year
$ 0—15,999
$ 60.00
16,000—30,999
70.00
31,000—50,999
80.00
51,000—75,999
90.00
76,000—100,999
100.00
101,000—200,999
110.00
201,000—300,999
120.00
301,000—400,999
130.00
401,000—500,999
140.00
501,000—600,999
150.00
B. 
Where the gross receipts are in excess of six hundred thousand dollars, a license fee in the sum of one hundred sixty dollars per year, plus ten dollars for each one hundred thousand dollars thereof in excess of six hundred thousand nine hundred ninety-nine dollars is hereby imposed.
(Prior code § 8-22; Ord. 386 § 2, 1972; Ord. 636 § 1, 1978)