The following license fees, set out in this chapter, are levied for the purpose of revenue and not for regulation. The fee for any license required by the Business License Law shall be as specified in Section
5.12.020 unless a different fee is otherwise specifically hereinafter required. The fee and the duration of the license shall be annual unless specifically designated otherwise.
(Prior code § 6600)
A. Businesses, professions, trades and occupations, as defined in Section
5.12.040 of the Business License Law unless specifically provided otherwise in this chapter, shall procure a business license and pay a fee annually as follows:
Categories
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Base Rate
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Gross Receipts Tax Rate
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Contractor
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$25 Flat Rate per Business (first $25,000 in Gross)
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0.002 X Gross
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General Commerce/Retail
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0.001 X Gross
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Rental (Commercial & Residential)
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0.003 X Gross
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Service
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0.001 X Gross
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Professional
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0.003 X Gross
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Business Type
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Base Rate $25 per Business
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Est. Industrial Business Square Feet
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Rate per Square Foot
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Industrial
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$4,600
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10,630,926
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$0.35
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B. The words "gross receipts," as used in this section, mean gross receipts as defined in Section
5.04.280 of this title.
C. Where a business comes within the license provisions of this Section
5.12.020 and is not otherwise specifically provided for, the business license fee hereinbefore set forth shall apply to each separate and independent business location or situs within the city. "Independent," as used in this section, means an independent operating business, although branch businesses or businesses under the same management and ownership may have overlapping services, management or personnel or equipment.
(Prior code § 6601; Ord. 1164 § 2, 2022)
The following businesses, professions, trades and/or occupations, set out in Sections
5.12.050 through
5.12.210 of this chapter, because of their nature and circumstances, shall have a different license fee than that set forth in Section
5.12.020, which shall be in the amount hereinafter set forth in this chapter.
(Prior code § 6602)
The fee for amusement games, rides and booths shall be fifty
dollars per game or booth, and fifteen dollars per ride.
(Prior code § 6602.1a)
The fees for antique dealers, stamp dealers and coin dealers
shall be as follows:
A. Antique Dealers. Fifty dollars, plus fifty cents per one thousand dollars on the first five hundred thousand dollars of gross receipts. Gross receipts over five hundred thousand dollars will be taxed at the rates specified in Section
5.12.020.
B. Stamp Dealers. Fifty dollars, plus fifty cents per one thousand dollars on the first five hundred thousand dollars of gross receipts. Gross receipts over five hundred thousand dollars will be taxed at the rates specified in Section
5.12.020.
C. Coin Dealers. Fifty dollars, plus fifty cents per one thousand dollars on the first five hundred thousand dollars of gross receipts. Gross receipts over five hundred thousand dollars will be taxed at the rates specified in Section
5.12.020.
(Prior code § 6602.13)
The fee for billiard or pool halls shall be one hundred dollars
for the first table and five dollars for each additional table.
(Prior code § 6602.1)
The fee for organizations authorized to conduct bingo games
shall be fifty dollars. If an application for a license is denied,
one-half of any license fee paid shall be refunded to the applicant.
(Prior code § 6602.14)
Every person conducting an apartment house, as defined in Section
15003 of the
Health and Safety Code, a hotel as defined in Section
15020 of the
Health and Safety Code, a bungalow court, a boardinghouse,
or any other building or group of contiguous buildings containing
three or more rental units shall pay a license fee as follows: Three
to ten rental units, seventy-five dollars, plus five dollars for each
rental unit over ten.
(Prior code § 6602.2)
The fee for bowling alleys shall be fifty dollars for the first
alley, plus twelve dollars for each additional alley.
(Prior code § 6602.3)
The fee for carnivals, circuses and rodeos shall be one hundred
fifty dollars per day.
(Prior code § 6602.4)
A. Any
person conducting an adult business, as defined in this title, shall
pay a single license fee of five hundred dollars per year.
B. Any
person employed, hired, engaged, or otherwise retained in an adult
business to participate in or give any live performance displaying
"specified anatomical areas" or "specified sexual activities," as
defined in this title, shall pay a single license fee of five hundred
dollars per year.
(Prior code § 6602.5; Ord. 980 § 2, 2002; Ord. 1104 § 5, 2017)
The fee for drive-in restaurants, take-out restaurants and beer
bars shall be one hundred dollars for the first twenty-four thousand
dollars of gross receipts, plus fifty cents for each one thousand
dollars of gross receipts exceeding twenty-four thousand dollars.
(Prior code § 6602.12)
Every person engaged in the business of fortunetelling shall
pay an annual license tax of five hundred dollars.
(Prior code § 6602.6a; Ord. 703 § 4, 1985)
The fee for handbill distribution is five dollars per applicant
that is issued a business license pursuant to this chapter.
(Prior code § 6602.15)
The fee for rubbish, waste or garbage collection or transportation
shall be four hundred dollars, plus fifty dollars per vehicle.
(Prior code § 6602.7)
The fee for street vendors and solicitors (other than principal
solicitors and mobile vendors) shall be as follows:
A. Daily
fee, twenty dollars per vendor;
B. Yearly
fee, one hundred sixty dollars per vendor.
(Prior code § 6602.16)
The fee for trailer parks shall be seventy-five dollars for
the first five spaces, plus eight dollars for each additional space.
(Prior code § 6602.17)
Every person engaged in the business of operating, maintaining
or letting the use of any mechanical device within the city which
dispenses or vends an article of value, the operation of which depends
upon the insertion of a coin or other thing representative of value,
shall pay an annual license fee in the following amounts:
A. One
dollar per year per machine, for each machine located within the city
which is operated by the insertion of a coin or thing of value in
the denomination of four cents or less;
B. An amount
based on one percent of gross receipts derived within the city directly
attributable to the vending machines located within the city, which
machines are operated by the insertion of a coin or thing of value
in the denomination of five cents or more.
(Prior code § 6602.11)