A. Every person engaged in business in the city, whether or not a fixed place of business in such city, in the business of conducting, managing, carrying on or engaging in any business, profession or occupation or service enterprise, including the businesses listed below, shall pay to the city an annual license fee of thirty dollars ($30.00) per annum plus five dollars ($5.00) for each employee or equivalent thereof in excess of two full-time equivalent employees.
Accountant | Chiropractor |
Abstract title | Civil, electrical, mining, chemical, structural, consulting or hydraulic engineer |
Advertising agent | |
Advertising designer | |
Appraiser | |
Architect | Collection agency |
Artist | Commission broker |
Assayer | Consumer finance consultant |
Attorney at law | Dental laboratory |
Auditor | Dentist |
Bacteriologist | Designer, illustrator or decorator |
Book agent | |
Broker or commission agent | Detective agency and/or private patrol agency |
Chemist | |
Certified public accountant | Diet counseling |
Chiropodist | Drugless practitioner |
Electrologist | Mortgage companies |
Employment agency | Naturopath |
Engraver | Oculist |
Entomologist | Optician |
Escrow and title companies | Optometrist |
Feed, grain and fruit broker | Osteopath |
Finance companies | Physician |
Geologist | Physiotherapist |
Graphologist | Podiatrist |
Illustrator or show card writer | Photographers |
Professional child care | |
Income tax services | Real estate |
Interior designer | Roentgenologist |
Inheritance tax referee | Savings and loan companies |
Investment counseling | Sign painters |
Landscape architect | Surgeon |
Management consulting services | Surveyor |
Masseuse | Taxidermist |
Mercantile agency | Travel agencies |
Mortician | Veterinarian |
B. Every person engaged in general contracting, sub-contracting or specialty contracting possessing a State License A, B, and C and all other contractors including but not limited to those listed below, shall pay to the city an annual license fee of thirty dollars ($30.00) per annum, plus five dollars ($5.00) for each employee or equivalent thereof in excess of two full-time equivalent employees.
Air conditioning and heating | Masonry |
Electrical | Mechanical |
Electric sign | Mobile home installation |
Carpet | Painting |
Concrete/cement | Patio |
Construction | Plumbing |
Drywall | Remodeling |
General | Roofing and insulation |
Grading and paving | Sheet metal |
Landscape | Shower door |
Swimming pool | |
C. Any person conducting or carrying on the business consisting of selling at retail any goods, wares, merchandise or commodities, or conducting or carrying on the business of manufacturing, packing, processing or selling at wholesale any goods, wares, merchandise or commodities or conducting or carrying on any trade, occupation, service or calling, or business not otherwise specified including, but not limited to, those listed below, shall pay to the city annual license fee of thirty dollars ($30.00) per annum, plus five dollars ($5.00) for each employee or equivalent thereof in excess of two full-time equivalent employees.
RETAIL, WHOLESALE AND MANUFACTURING | |
Antiques and hobby crafts | Hardware |
Auto parts | Home cleaning products |
Bakery | Ice cream |
Boats | Jades and gems |
Books, newspapers, magazines | Jewelry |
Bowling supplies | Lawn sprinklers |
Burglar alarms | Lapidary |
Camera and film supplies | Liquor |
Carpets and rugs | Lumber and building supplies |
Ceramics | Mobile food vendor |
Clocks | Mobile homes |
Coffee shop | New and used cars |
Concrete and rock | Nursery |
Cosmetics | Office machines |
Cottage food operation | Oil products |
Cycleries | Paint supplies |
Dehydration plant | Pet supplies |
Delicatessen | Records and tapes |
Dog kennel operators | Recreation vehicles |
Draperies | Restaurants |
Dress shop | Secondhand dealers |
Drive-in restaurant | Service stations |
Drugstore | Shoes |
Electronic supply | Soft water services |
Fabric | Sporting goods |
Feed and grain | Stationery |
Fire extinguisher | Statue craft |
Florist | Television |
Furniture | Tires and supplies |
Garages | Toys and hobbies |
Glass | Vacuum cleaners |
Golfing supplies | Variety shop |
Grocery | |
SERVICE ORIENTED FIRMS | |
Aquatics instruction | Car wash, waxing and polishing |
Air conditioning/heating repairs and service | Catering |
Coin-operated laundry | |
Aircraft service | Cold storage |
Alterations | Clock repair |
Ambulance service | Community antenna television |
Appliance repair | Dance studio and instruction |
Automotive repair and painting | Diaper service |
Barbershop | Distributor-wholesale/retail |
Beauty shop | Distributor-petroleum products |
Bookkeeper | Exercise salon |
Carpentry | Home and other repairs |
Installation firms | Refrigeration repair and service |
Janitorial services | |
Laundry-dry cleaning | Reupholstery |
Landscape/yard maintenance | Rototilling |
Lawn aeration | Rubbish/Garbage collection |
Linen supply | Rugs and carpet cleaners |
Locksmith | Service business machines |
Mail order | Shoe repair |
Newspaper-Distributing | Shoeshine |
Newspaper-Publisher | Tailoring |
Outdoor/indoor advertising | Taxi cabs |
Amusements: | Telephone answering service |
Bowling alley | Telephone company |
Gold course | Title insurance |
Theater | Tool and equipment rental |
Pest control | Tow Truck service |
Photography | Trading stamp service |
Plumbing | Tree trimming |
Poodle/dog grooming | Trucking |
Post setting | Warehouse storage |
Printing/offset duplicating | Wedding planning |
Radiator repair | Welding |
Radio broadcasting | Welcome services |
Radio repair | Window cleaning |
D. Every person or firm listed in Subsection C of this section whose gross income is between one dollar and five thousand dollars per annum shall pay to the city an annual fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per annum.
E. Any other business or businesses, except those excluded by the statutory provisions of Business and Professions Code Sections 16000, et seq., shall pay to the city, unless such business is specifically taxed otherwise by other provisions of this title, a license fee of thirty dollars ($30.00) per annum, plus five dollars ($5.00) for each employee equivalent thereof in excess of two fulltime equivalent employees.
F. Certain businesses are of a nature wherein the fee schedule listed in Subsections A through E is not equitable. These particular businesses are therefore assigned a separate rate as follows:
Boxing or wrestling exhibitions | $ 10 per exhibition |
Carnivals, circuses, etc. | $ 100 per day |
Public dances | $ 25 per day |
Rest/convalescent homes, hospitals | $ 1.50 per bed |
Palmistry, fortune-tellers, etc. | $ 100 per year |
Pawnbrokers | $ 75 per year |
Bars, saloons, lounges or restaurants where alcoholic beverages are served | $ 100 per year |
Cardrooms, poolhalls | $ 5 per table per year |
Christmas Tree vendor | $ 10 per month |
Apartments, motels, hotels, bed and breakfasts, etc. | |
3-5 units | $ 20 |
6 to 50 units | $ 20 + $1 per room over 5 |
Rooming, boarding houses | |
0-3 rooms | $ 15 per year |
4+ rooms | $ 15 + $1 per room over 3 |
Trailer courts | |
0-5 spaces | $ 20 |
5+ spaces | $ 20 + $1 per space over 5 |
G. Peddlers. Any person, who, as owner and for the purpose of livelihood or profit, engages in any one or more enterprises in which personal property is sold, offered for sale at retail or delivered in the city at retail, and who has not an established place of business in the city, and who travels from place to place in the city or has a stand in any public street, sidewalk or doorway of any unoccupied room or building, and sells and offers for sale at retail any personal property in his possession, is declared a peddler. The following fees shall be assessed and paid by peddlers:
1. Peddlers of Souvenirs. For a peddler of flags, banners, balloons, canes, horns, trumpets, musical or noise making instruments of any kind, toys, badges, buttons, shoestrings, hairpins, lead pencils, combs or souvenirs of any kind, five dollars ($5.00) per month;
2. Foodstuff Peddlers. For a peddler of meats, game, poultry, fish, fruits, vegetables, food, butter, eggs, buttermilk, milk, ice cream, bread, crackers, cakes, pies, or other breadstuffs, confections or other edibles intended for use as a food for human consumption:
a. By means of any wagon or other vehicle, $2.50 per month;
b. By means of any hand or push cart, $1.50 per month;
c. By means of any basket, tray or other container, $1.00 per month;
d. Included in the definition of "foodstuff peddlers" are those who engage in the activity of the preparation of game, poultry or fish by means of skinning, removal of feathers, removal of visceral organs, dressing, or other preparation of game, poultry, or fish for human consumption. For those who engage in the activities described in this subparagraph d., $1.00 per month.
3. Flower Peddler. For a peddler of flowers, ferns, trees, plants or nursery stock, $2.00 per month; except any such peddler under the age of 16 years, peddling his own produce, in which case the license fee shall be $0.50 per month.
4. Peddlers-Generally. For a peddler of any article not otherwise provided for in this chapter, $5.00 per day.
H. Solicitors.
1. "Solicitor," within the meaning of this chapter, is defined to be any person who goes from house to house or from place to place in the city, selling or taking orders for, or offering to sell or take orders for goods, wares or merchandise, or article for future delivery, or for services to be performed in the future, or for the making, manufacturing or repairing any article or thing whatsoever, for future delivery; provided, however, that this section shall apply only to solicitors who demand, accept or receive payment or deposit of money in advance of final delivery, providing further that this shall not apply to any person or firm maintaining a regular place of business in the city.
2. Every person engaged in business as a solicitor shall pay a license fee of five dollars ($5.00) per month in advance; provided, that before a license shall be issued to a solicitor so engaged in the business of soliciting in the city, such a person shall make formal written application for such license to the Finance Director upon forms provided for such purpose, containing the name and address of the person, firm or corporation which he represents, and the kind of goods offered for sale or the kind of services to be rendered. Such application shall be accompanied by a bond in the penal sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) executed by a surety company or by two responsible freeholders residing in the city or, in lieu thereof, a cash bond of an equal amount conditioned upon the making of final delivery of the goods ordered or the services to be performed in accordance with the terms of such order, or failing therein, that the advanced payment on such order be refunded.
3. Any person aggrieved by the action of such solicitor shall have a right of action on the bond for recovery of money or damages or both. Such bond shall remain in full force and effect, and, in case of cash deposit, such deposit shall be retained by the city for a period of ninety days from and after the expiration of such license unless sooner released by the city council.
4. All orders taken by solicitors shall be in writing, in duplicate, stating the terms thereof and the amount paid in advance, and one copy shall be given to the purchasers.
5. Every person soliciting or taking orders for photographic work or selling coupons for special discount offers, whether work or any part thereof is to be done outside of the city shall pay a license fee of five dollars ($5.00) per month; provided, that such solicitor, at the time of making application for such license, shall file a bond in the manner and form required by subsections B and C of this section.
(Ord. 807-2013 § 1, 2013: Ord. 806-2012 § 1, 2012: Ord. 565, 1990).