It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in or carry on any business, occupation or pursuit hereinafter mentioned, within the limits of the city, without first having obtained a license therefor, in the manner heretofore provided; and there shall be taxed and collected for issuing and registering each license, payable strictly in advance, the following license fees. Application shall be in writing, upon forms provided by the city and verified by the applicant.
Baby racks or stands, spindle wheels, cane, knife or pin racks, paddle games or any similar devices or means whereby articles are sold by means of numbers, characters or the like, the specific articles being unknown to the purchaser, when not engaged in as incident to a regularly established business in some building | $10.00 per day | |
Canvassers of books, maps or other publications or articles | $25.00 per month; $10.00 per day | |
Circus parades on the public streets | $25.00 per day; and the person seeking said license shall furnish a good and sufficient bond to the city, in the sum of $500.00, conditioned that said licensee shall be fully responsible for and shall repair any and all damage occasioned by said parade to any street, crossing, walk or any other public or private property in the city | |
Pawnbrokers | $50.00 per month | |
Public scales | $10.00 per annum | |
Shooting galleries | $5.00 per day; $25.00 per month; $100.00 per annum; provided, no license for the conducting of any shooting gallery or place for target shooting shall authorize the firing of any gun or firearm within the city in contravention of any provision of this code, nor shall any license issue for the establishment of any such shooting gallery in any alley of the city or in or under any place not being within a substantial building, nor under any circumstances when it shall appear to the mayor that due safeguards and precautions have not been taken for the safety and protection of life and property | |
Vendors of any patent invention or any article or invention of any kind sold on the streets or in public places | $25.00 per day | |
Vendors of patent medicines, sold on the streets or in public places | $50.00 per day | |
(Ord. 966, 3-1-1983; amd. Ord. 4296, 8-2-2022)