No business license (either application or fee) shall be required of or for:
(a) Places of worship to the extent used for the exercise of religion (not including schools, housing, or businesses);
(b) Occasional garage sales, including, but not limited to, yard, lawn, attic, patio, moving or rummage sales held to sell, exchange, trade or dispose of surplus household or personal goods belonging to those conducting the garage sale on their own residential premises, which sales may not be conducted for more than three 48-hour periods per calendar year;
(c) Occasional, seasonal, or sporadic temporary bazaars, carnivals or other sales conducted by charitable or public service organizations (IRC Section 501(c)(3), (4) or (6), or California nonprofit public benefit corporations or similar unincorporated associations) for fund raising purposes were conducted with a temporary use permit or where no temporary use permit is required;
(d) Minors selling goods to raise funds for schools or for established non-profit public service organizations such as Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Camp Fire Girls and so forth;
(e) Group homes of six persons or fewer or similar facilities exempt under State or Federal law;
(f) Churches when engaging in religious activities (not including operation of a school);
(g) Domestic household help in the employ of an individual homeowner, or a small or large family daycare home as that term is defined in Health & Safety Code § 1597.45; or
(h) Other businesses that the City may not regulate.
(Ord. 236, passed 11-8-2023)