(A) The City Council finds that the following occupations are of such a nature as to require special regulation and supervision and, therefore, the following flat annual license fees are imposed on every person, corporation, association or the like, engaged in the business, occupation, calling or profession, or using, holding or exhibiting articles named in this section who shall pay in advance to the city for each calendar year (or fraction thereof in the case of a new business) the license fee or fees herein set forth. Where fees are set forth in the following table for a period less than one year, the same shall be considered as the fee due for the period set forth in the table and shall be paid in advance of engaging in the activity.
(B) Under the column head “Fee and Due Date” in the following table the words, “Before Showing” shall mean that the license fee per showing is due prior to the date of each showing. Where the word “Yearly” appears under the column head, the same shall mean that the fee shall be due on or before May 11 of each year.
(C) In no event shall any fee set forth under this section, or under § 110.04 of this chapter, be reduced for the reason that the business or activity covering same shall have been commenced subsequent to May 11 of the fiscal year.
(E) Schedule.
Occupation | Fee and Due Date |
Occupation | Fee and Due Date |
Building contractors | |
Where gross contracts total $100,000 or less | $100 yearly |
Where gross contracts total over $100,000 | $200 yearly |
Building sub-contractors | |
Where gross contracts total $100,000 or less | $100 yearly |
Where gross contracts total over $100,000 | $200 yearly |
Cabinet builders | $35 yearly |
Carnivals, regardless of local sponsorship before showing | $100 per week |
Carpenters | $35 yearly |
Circuses, regardless of local sponsorship before showing | $75 per week |
City directory | 12 free copies of City Directory and $50 yearly |
Dance halls (tax exempt to non-profit or fraternal organizations) | $50 a dance or $200 yearly |
Door-to-door salesperson, whether itinerant or not, each salesperson | $35 yearly |
Electrician apprentice | $35 yearly |
Electricians | $35 yearly |
Fortune telling, clairvoyant, palmist | $120 yearly |
General peddlers | $35 yearly |
Ice cream or confection peddlers, each wagon | $35 yearly |
Marina (commercial) | $75 yearly |
Nurserymen, itinerant | $55 yearly |
Painters | $35 yearly |
Peddlers (produce grown or produced by the peddler, exempt) | $35 yearly |
Pest control company | $50 yearly |
Pinball, jukebox Every person, firm or corporation conducting or engaging in the business of operating, renting, leasing, selling, distributing or installing any machine, board, table or device where same is operated by the insertion of a coin, or any counter device, either coin-operated or otherwise, used for amusement or skill, save and except those used solely for the purpose of vending chewing gum, peanuts, candy, cigarettes or other merchandise, and about which is no element of amusement or skill, shall pay a license fee, license shall be publicly displayed on each machine, per year of each machine | $10 yearly |
Plumbers | $35 yearly |
Poultry, itinerant dealers | $35 yearly |
Stocks, bonds and investment salesperson | $35 yearly |
Television repairpersons | $35 yearly |
Trucks or delivery wagons | |
All persons, firms, corporations or associations who are not liable for a city license and doing business in the city and whose business requires the operation of motor trucks, station wagons, cars or any type of motor vehicle for the purpose of delivering merchandise, and whose motor vehicles use the streets of the city for the foregoing purposes, shall be required to purchase a motor vehicle license for this privilege as follows: | |
Motor vehicles used in the delivery of merchandise to stores | $25 |
Motor vehicles used in the delivery of merchandise to individuals or consumers when not otherwise provided | $35 |
The above schedule of prices is not intended to include the delivery of coal to consumers. The price of this particular license shall be | $25 |
This section shall not apply to any person, firm, corporation or association whose motor vehicles operate under the authority of a certificate or permit issued by the Department of Motor Transportation. However, evidence of such permit must be prominently displayed on the vehicle | |
Wholesale oil company | $75 yearly |
(Prior Code, § 110.15) (Ord. A-27, passed 3-24-1969)