(A) License fee. Any number of persons doing business in co-partnership at any one place shall be required to pay but one license fee therefor; provided, if more than one kind of business or pursuit hereinafter mentioned shall be conducted or carried on by the same person or firm at the same time, a separate license fee shall be paid for each, according to the rate prescribed.
(Prior Code, Chapter 23, Article I, § 3)
(B) Businesses. There shall be taxed and collected of and from the persons engaged in or carrying on the different branches of business, occupation, or pursuits in this section mentioned, respectively, license fees for each year at the rates following, to-wit:
(1) Ball or pin-alley keepers shall pay $10 each alley;
(2) Billiard, bagatelle, pool, pin-pool, pigeonhole, and the like table keepers or proprietors shall pay $15 for each table;
(3) Patent medicine vendors, corn doctors, fortune tellers, exhibitors of natural or artificial curiosities, or any other vendor of goods not herein otherwise provided for shall pay for license at the rate of $10 per day;
(4) Hawkers or peddlers (except farmers and gardeners selling the produce of their farms or gardens) shall pay $10 for two weeks or less and $15 for one month;
(5) Keepers of fruit, candy, and peanut stands on the sidewalks shall pay $25 per year, unless such stand or stands be situated directly in front of the proprietor’s regularly established place of business;
(6) Keepers of shooting galleries or places for target shooting shall pay $50 per year;
(7) Proprietors and managers of circuses and menageries or other like shows shall pay $10 for each exhibition;
(8) Sideshows with circus or menagerie shall each pay $5 for each exhibition;
(9) (a) Proprietors or managers of theaters, operas, minstrels, concerts, dramatic readings, lectures, panoramas, tableaux, and other such shows or amusements not otherwise provided for shall pay for license at the rates following:
1. When the admission price to any of said shows or amusements is $0.25 or less, they shall pay $4 for each exhibition;
2. When the admission price is more than $0.25 and not to exceed $0.50, they shall pay $7.50 for the first exhibition and $4 for each exhibition thereafter; and
3. When the admission fee is $0.75 or more, they shall pay $15 for the first exhibition and $10 for each exhibition thereafter.
(b) Provided that proprietors or lessees of opera houses or motion picture theaters may pay a license fee of $25 per annum, in lieu of all separate license fees for shows or amusements, given in such opera house or theater during the period of such license; provided further, no license shall be taken or collected for any such show or entertainment given by societies or citizens of said city or by persons exclusively for charitable purposes.
(10) Minors engaged in door-to-door vending and sales utilizing vending and sales equipment provided by a not-for-profit corporation shall pay $5.
(Prior Code, Chapter 23, Article I, § 4)
(Ord. 16 (Series 1973-1974), passed - -) Penalty, see § 110.99