For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases
shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
means the average number of full-time equivalent positions
employed in the applicant's business, within the city in the previous
year (or anticipated in the current year, if first-time application),
rounded up to the nearest whole number. In determining the average
number of employees, working proprietors shall be counted as one full-time
equivalent position each.
means professions, trades, occupations and all and every
kind of calling carried on for a profit or livelihood.
means all persons engaged in the operation or conduct of
any business, whether as owner, any member of the owner's family,
partner, agent, manager, solicitor and any and all other persons employed
or working in such business.
means a place of business in the city regularly kept open
for the transaction of the particular business engaged in during the
hours customary to transacting such business.
means every business conducted for the purpose of selling,
or offering to sell, any goods, wares or merchandise, other than as
part of "wholesale business" as defined in this section.
means and includes every device in, upon, or by which any
person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public
street or highway except devices moved by human power or used exclusively
upon stationary rails or tracks.
means every business conducted solely for the purpose of
selling goods, wares or merchandise in wholesale lots to retail merchants
for resale at retail to the trade by such retail merchant.
(Prior code § 9-101; Ord. 590, 1983)
Chapters 5.04 through 5.20 are enacted solely to raise revenue for municipal purposes and are not intended for regulation.
(Prior code § 9-102; Ord. 590, 1983)
Persons required to pay a license tax for transacting and carrying on any business under Chapters 5.04 through 5.20 shall not be relieved from the payment of any license tax for the privilege of doing such business required under any other provision of this code or ordinance of the city, and shall remain subject to the regulatory provisions of other ordinances.
(Prior code § 9-103; Ord. 590, 1983)
Neither the adoption of the ordinance codified in Chapters 5.04 through 5.20 nor its superseding of any portion of any other ordinance of the city shall in any manner be construed to affect the prosecution for violation of any other provision of this code or ordinance committed prior to the effective date of the ordinance codified in Chapters 5.04 through 5.20, nor be construed as a waiver of any license or any penal provision applicable to any such violation, nor be construed to affect the validity of any bond, or cash deposit required by any ordinance to be posted, filed or deposited, and all rights and obligations thereunto appertaining shall continue in full force and effect.
(Prior code § 9-104; Ord. 590, 1983)
