(A) The businesses for which a fee is required under the provisions of this subchapter and the annual fee thereof are:
Business | Fee |
Business | Fee |
Auto parts
|
$125
|
Auto repairs
|
125
|
Auto wash
|
125
|
Bakery, wholesale
|
125
|
Banks, financial institutions
|
250
|
Barber shop/beauty and nail salons
|
125
|
Commercial/home solicitors
| |
Per day
|
40
|
Per week
|
175
|
Contractors (electrical, heating, air conditioning, refrigeration, masonry, concrete, cement, roofing, excavators, paving, plasterers, dry wall, tuck pointers, house movers) N.C. Bonding requirements under building code must also be met, where applicable
|
175
|
Drugstore
|
150
|
Dry cleaner
|
125
|
Exterminator
|
125
|
Food and beverage delivery, sale route
|
100
|
Food take-out (cooked food)
|
125
|
Fuel dispensing nozzles
|
45
|
Business | Fee |
Business | Fee |
Furniture repair, upholstery
|
$125
|
Gasoline stations
|
175
|
Per nozzle
|
45
|
Grocery, delicatessen or combination meat market
|
125
|
Hardware store
|
125
|
Ice cream truck
|
350
|
Each additional truck
|
150
|
Jewelry store
|
125
|
Juke box
|
150
|
Laundromat
|
125
|
Washers and dryers
|
75
|
Manufacturing (includes light through heavy handling)
| |
Up to 5,000 square feet
|
200
|
Up to 15,000 square feet
|
350
|
Up to 25,000 square feet
|
600
|
25,000 square feet and over
|
900
|
Mobile food service establishment | |
First truck | 350 |
Each additional truck | 150 |
Panhandlers, peddlers, hawkers, per day
|
40
|
Pool tables, darts, bowling, per game/table
|
150
|
Public halls (special events)
|
125
|
Printer or publisher - see Manufacturing
| |
Restaurant
| |
Seating capacity:
| |
1 - 99
|
125
|
99 and over
|
225
|
Scavenger, route scavengers
|
650
|
Second-hand dealers
|
350
|
Business | Fee |
Business | Fee |
Supermarkets (over 10,00 square feet)
|
250
|
Tobacco sales over the counter
|
200
|
Undertaker/funeral services
|
150
|
Vending machines
|
75
|
Warehouse (*see definition of Floor Area below)
| |
1 - 5M square feet
|
250
|
Up to 15M square feet
|
400
|
15M square feet and over
|
800
|
All business licenses not otherwise listed
| |
For square feet less than 10,000 square feet
|
125
|
For square feet over 10,000 square feet
|
300
|
(B) Definition. FLOOR AREA shall be calculated as herein defined. Total floor area applicable for the determination of the yearly license fee shall include the sum total of all the floor area in use or reserved for or retained for the use of the commercial establishment and industrial, including but not restricted to, principal and accessory floor area, cellars and basements, even though any such floor area may be temporarily vacant or not in use.
(C) All such licenses shall be due May 1 each year and shall expire April 30 following the date of issuance.
(D) Any business requiring an additional inspection fee from an outside service or agency for the operation of the business in question said fee shall be charged to the licensee as part of the annual business license fee.
(`95 Code, § 110.31) (Am. Ord. 82-4, passed 2-24-82; Am. Ord. 85-17, passed 10-23-85; Am. Ord. 06-35, passed 3-22-06; Am. Ord. 12-6, passed 2-15-12; Am. Ord. 23-12, passed 9-20-23) Penalty, see § 110.99