A. Payment Of License Fees: In the absence of provisions to the contrary, all fees and charges for licenses or permits shall be paid in advance at the time application therefor is made to the chief operating officer in the amounts prescribed in this section. Except as otherwise provided, all license fees shall become a part of the general corporate fund to reimburse said fund for the costs incurred in investigations and processing applications for the licenses required herein, and for the costs of regulating the subject businesses or establishments. In no event shall any rebate or refund be made of any license fee, or part thereof, by reason of death or departure of the licensee; nor shall any rebate or refund be made by reason of nonuse of the license or discontinuance of the operation or conduct of the licensed establishment, business or activity.
B. Fee Schedule: License fees under the terms of this chapter for the businesses, occupations, and business activities and uses set forth shall be as follows:
Activity Or Purpose
| Fee Or Charge
| ||
Activity Or Purpose
| Fee Or Charge
| ||
After hour clubs | $120.00 | ||
Ambulance service: | |||
Each ambulance | $120.00 | ||
Each attendant or driver | $30.00 | ||
Amusements: | |||
Athletic contests | $120.00 | ||
Automobile show (per day) | $120.00 | ||
Balloon contest (per day) | $120.00 | ||
Billiard and pool halls: | |||
5 tables or less | $300.00 | ||
Each table more than 5, add | $30.00 | ||
Each table in other than billiard or pool hall | $60.00 | ||
Bowling alleys: | |||
10 lanes or less | $300.00 | ||
Each lane more than 10, add | $30.00 | ||
Carnivals (per day) | $120.00 | ||
Circus or sideshows (per day) | $120.00 | ||
Commercial playground or amusement park | $600.00 | ||
Concert, minstrel, or musical entertainment (per day) | $120.00 | ||
Fireworks display (per day) | $120.00 | ||
Horse or dog show (per day) | $60.00 | ||
Public dance hall | $120.00 | ||
Public skating rink | $60.00 | ||
Raffles (per annum) | $40.00 | ||
Rodeo (per day) | $120.00 | ||
Stock or poultry show (per day) | $120.00 | ||
Tennis clubs (except as part of golf club) | $120.00 | ||
Theater (motion picture or dramatic and cabaret): | |||
Seating capacity 1 - 500 | $120.00 | ||
Seating capacity 501 - 1,000 | $300.00 | ||
Seating capacity over 1,000 | $600.00 | ||
Theatrical exhibitions | $120.00 | ||
Vending and/or coin operated units | $60.00 | ||
ATM machines | $50.00 | ||
Auctioneers: | |||
Per day | $60.00 | ||
Per year | $120.00 | ||
Automotive repair establishment | $120.00 | ||
Bankers and brokers (other than insurance and real estate): | |||
Bankers | $120.00 | ||
Brokers/sales | $120.00 | ||
Barbers | $120.00 | ||
Barbershops: | |||
3 chairs or less | $120.00 | ||
Each chair more than 3, per chair, add | $30.00 | ||
Bathing beaches | $120.00 | ||
Bed and breakfast establishments | $120.00 | ||
Boats and harbors | $120.00 | ||
Breweries and distilleries | $300.00 | ||
Brick, firewood, coal, hay | $120.00 | ||
Carters, expressmen, movers, messengers and storage of carting and express vehicles and trailers: | |||
Each vehicle with capacity not exceeding 3 tons | $72.00 | ||
Each vehicle with capacity exceeding 3 tons | $300.00 | ||
Additionally, for each 1,000 square feet of real property for vehicle storage | $60.00 | ||
Coal and lumber yards | $180.00 | ||
Convention hall | $120.00 | ||
Detectives | $120.00 | ||
Dry cleaners | $180.00 | ||
Electrical equipment | $120.00 | ||
Elevator operators | $120.00 | ||
Exhibitions | $120.00 | ||
Explosive or combustible materials - storage and handling | $240.00 | ||
Film production | $250.00/shot | ||
Fire extinguisher service and repair | $120.00 | ||
Florists and plant shops | $120.00 | ||
Food establishments: | |||
Bakeries | $120.00 | ||
Candy, confectionery stores | $120.00 | ||
Catering services and establishments | $120.00 | ||
Coffeehouses | $120.00 | ||
Delicatessens | $120.00 | ||
Fish markets | $120.00 | ||
Food and ice cream delivery vehicles and mobile food dispensers | $120.00 | ||
Fruit stores | $120.00 | ||
Grocery stores, including convenience stores, and supermarkets: | $225.00 plus $75.00 per cash register | ||
Ice cream manufacturers and dealers | $120.00 | ||
Ice cream parlors | $120.00 | ||
Meat dealers | $120.00 | ||
Milk and milk products | $120.00 | ||
Restaurants: | |||
Seating capacity of not more than 25 persons | $120.00 | ||
Seating capacity of not more than 50 persons | $240.00 | ||
Seating capacity of more than 50 persons | $360.00 | ||
Foundries | $120.00 | ||
Fuel oil, solid fuel dealer: | |||
Fuel oil dealer: | |||
Storage capacity not exceeding 20,000 gallons | $120.00 | ||
Each additional 1,000 gallons or fraction thereof | $12.00 | ||
Each vehicle used | $60.00 | ||
Fuel oil store: | |||
Storage capacity not exceeding 1,000 gallons | $120.00 | ||
More than 1,000 gallons but not exceeding 5,000 gallons | $240.00 | ||
More than 5,000 gallons | $360.00 | ||
Sale of solid fuel: | |||
Less than 10,000 tons sold during preceding fiscal year | $120.00 | ||
More than 10,000 tons sold during preceding fiscal year | $300.00 | ||
Each delivery vehicle used | $300.00 | ||
Storage of solid fuel (not for resale) | $300.00 | ||
Gasoline filling stations | $180.00 | ||
Home business/brokers | $90.00 | ||
Hospitals: | |||
Capacity of 50 beds or fewer | $300.00 | ||
Each bed in excess of 50 | $90.00 | ||
Hotels, motels and inns | |||
Up to 150k sq. ft. | $750.00 | ||
Greater than 150k sq. ft. | $1,000.00 | ||
Junk dealers | $300.00 | ||
Laundry and laundromat | $120.00 | ||
Livery stables | $120.00 | ||
Lumberyards and lumber storehouses | $300.00 | ||
Machine shops | $120.00 | ||
Medical dispensaries | $120.00 | ||
Nursing homes, sheltered care homes and residential units, homes for the aged or infirmed, assisted living, skilled care, rehab centers: | |||
Up to and including 50 beds | $300.00 | ||
Each bed in excess of 50 | $90.00 | ||
Parking lot or public garage | $300.00 | ||
Pawnbrokers | $300.00 | ||
Rooming houses | $300.00 | ||
Scavenger: | |||
Commercial | $2,000.00 | ||
Residential | $2,000.00 | ||
Secondhand dealers, garage, rummage and similar sales | |||
Garage, estate or rummage sale | $25.00 | ||
Second hand dealers | $300.00 | ||
Showcase display home | $1,250.00 plus $3,000.00 cash bond or $30,000.00 security bond. | ||
Solicitors | |||
Street sales | $120.00 | ||
Tanneries | $180.00 | ||
Taxicabs and limousines: | |||
Each operator | $30.00 | ||
Each vehicle | $300.00 | ||
Theatrical ticket brokers | $120.00 | ||
Tobacco dealers | $120.00 | ||
Tree experts or arborists | $120.00 | ||
Undertaking home | $180.00 | ||
Used car dealers | $300.00 | ||
Watercraft | $120.00 | ||
C. Late Fees: Any business license fee set forth in the fee schedule in subsection B of this section that is not paid by January 31 of each year, shall be assessed a late fee of fifty percent (50%) of the original fee for the month of February of each year. Thereafter, any business license fee set forth in the fee schedule in subsection B of this section that is not paid by the end of February of each year, shall be assessed a late fee of one hundred percent (100%) of the original fee. (Ord. 826-98, 5-11-1998; amd. Ord. 1290-09, 8-17-2009; Ord. 1315-10, 2-16-2010; Ord. 1325-10, 6-21-2010; Ord. 1411-12, 7-16-2012, eff. 1-1-2013; Ord. 1474-13, 11-18-2013; Ord. 2284-23, 11-27-2023)