A. Fees: The following business license fees shall be applied to all businesses within the city as follows:
Type Of Business
| Annual Fee
| ||
Type Of Business
| Annual Fee
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Banks, banking firms, banking corporations or banking associations | $100.00 | ||
Cable television: Any party or legal entity providing cable television services to the residents of the city | 100.00 | ||
Carnival, circus: Any persons or legal entities operating a carnival, circus, menagerie, street fair, tent show, or the like within the city | 50.00 | (daily) | |
For each additional show, game, concession, or miscellaneous riding device | 25.00 | (daily) | |
Dairy | 50.00 | ||
Fortune teller, clairvoyant, hypnotist: Any person or entity rendering services as a fortune teller, astrologer, clairvoyant, horoscopist, palmist, phrenologist, hypnotist, medium, reader of the past or future, by whatever other name so called | 150.00 | ||
Funeral homes and undertakers | 50.00 | ||
Gas or electric service: Every person and legal entity providing gas and electric services to the residents of the city | 100.00 | ||
Grain brokers dealing in stocks and grain and buying and selling upon orders and earning commissions thereon | 50.00 | ||
Grain dealers operating grain elevators, warehouses and other places for storing grain or other merchandise | 50.00 | ||
Home occupation: A person who operates a business as a sole proprietor, or on behalf of a partnership or a corporation or any other legal entity from a residence within the city limits in compliance with the zoning ordinance | 50.00 | ||
Hotels, motels, tourist courts, lodging houses, rooming houses | 50.00 | ||
Itinerant vendor: A person acting in the business of retailing to consumers by going from consumer to consumer, either on the streets or to their places of residence or employment, and there soliciting, selling, or offering to sell, or exhibiting for sale, by sample, by catalog, or otherwise, or taking orders for future delivery of any goods, wares, or merchandise, or for services to be performed in the future is within the meaning of this chapter an "itinerant vendor" | 150.00 | ||
Livestock merchant who receives commissions for the sale of livestock or any other manner of fee | 50.00 | ||
Manufacturing establishments and service establishments engaged in manufacturing, cleaning, repairing, painting, fabricating, woodworking, lumber, filling stations, printers, dry cleaning, laundromats, shoe repair, painter's shop, photographers and automobile repair stations | 50.00 | ||
Merchants dealing in goods, wares and merchandise having a permanent place of business | 50.00 | ||
Nonprofit organizations: The Belgrade city manager is authorized to waive business license fees for nonprofit organizations at the time of license approval | - | ||
Packing houses and slaughterhouses | 50.00 | ||
Pawnbroker | 50.00 | ||
Plumber: A person or legal entity operating or doing or attempting to do mechanical work commonly known as plumbing, or any person performing service to the city sewer system, or underground plumbing which ultimately connects with the city sewer system, or underground excavating within the city; provided, however, before the city shall be responsible to issue a license, the applicant shall be responsible to give proof of the following: | 100.00 | ||
1. Liability Insurance; Bond: Proof of liability insurance in the sum of $300,000.00, or a bond in the sum of $300,000.00 of at least 2 sureties that all work will be performed in the city in a skillful, workmanlike and sanitary manner and guaranteeing that any and all damages which may result to any person from such negligent or unskillful or unsanitary work being done by such person, or by reason of any person or property being injured as a result of any work done or caused to be done by said plumber to which the city may become liable by reason of the work of said plumber or underground excavator. | |||
2. Failure To Comply; Penalty: Failure of any person to carry out the trade of plumbing or any of the activities described herein within the city without adhering to the terms above shall be punishable as provided in section 1-4-1 of this code. Upon conviction of a second offense of this subsection, the court shall revoke the business license of the guilty party. | |||
Professional services: Persons or business entities which deliver professional services or professional work, excluding those professions specifically exempted from licensing by state law | 50.00 | ||
Public auctioneer | 50.00 | ||
Railroad: Any legal entity operating a railroad within the city or upon rights of way within the city | 100.00 | ||
Restaurants and cafes | 50.00 | ||
Taxicabs and buses or any other parties engaged in providing intracity or intercity transportation to persons | 50.00 | ||
Telephone system: Every person and legal entity operating a telephone system within the city | 100.00 | ||
Theaters providing amusement and entertainment including moving pictures | 50.00 | ||
Transient retail merchant: A person who brings into temporary premises within the city a stock of goods, wares, or articles of merchandise, or articles of trade, and who solicits, sells or offers to sell, or exhibits for sale such stock of goods, wares, or articles of merchandise, or other articles of trade at retail is within the meaning of this chapter a "transient retail merchant" | 150.00 | ||
Transient wholesale merchant: Every person who shall bring into the city any goods, wares, articles of merchandise, natural products of the farm, natural products of the orchard, vineyard, or garden by use of an automobile or truck for purposes of sale of said goods within the city is within the meaning of this chapter a "transient wholesale merchant" | 150.00 | ||
Trucking business having a principal place of business within the city limits | 50.00 | ||
Every person and legal entity not otherwise listed herein | 50.00 | ||
(1983 Code § 5.02.050; amd. Ord. 685, 12-19-1983; Ord. 685, 12-1-1986; Ord. 2005-18, 12-5-2005; Res. 2008-5, 6-2-2008)
B. Modification Of Fees: The city council is hereby authorized to modify the amount of the business license fees set forth in subsection A of this section by resolution. (Ord. 2005-18, 12-5-2005)