The City Council finds that the following occupations, trades, professions, and other activities are of such a nature as to require special regulation and supervision and, in addition to the business license fees imposed by an ordinance dated December 18, 1978, the following additional police special license fees are imposed on every person, partnership, association, and corporation involved in the occupation, trade, profession, and other activities named in this subchapter, which police special license fees shall be payable in advance to the City Treasurer:
(A) Amusements. To conduct any amusement, athletic contest, or entertainment, not a part of a duly licensed business, or not held in a regularly licensed theatre or in a publicly owned or religious building, or not sponsored by a bona fide civic, patriotic, religious, or educational organization, a license fee of $50 per event or $100 per year.
(B) Billiard and pool tables. To operate for hire a billiard table or pool table, an annual license fee of $25 for each such table.
(C) Bowling alley. To operate a bowling alley, an annual license fee of $15 for each lane in the bowling alley.
(D) Carnival. To operate a carnival not sponsored by a bona fide civic, patriotic, religious, or educational organization, a license fee of $250 per week or any part thereof.
(E) Circus. To operate a circus not sponsored by a bona fide civic, patriotic, religious, or educational organization, a license fee of $100 per week or any pert thereof.
(F) Clairvoyants, palmists, fortunetellers. To engage in the practice of being a medium, clairvoyant, soothsayer, fortune- teller, palmist, phrenologist, spiritualist, or any like activity, a license fee of $100 per week or any part thereof.
(G) Coin-operated machines for amusement. To maintain on the premises any pinball or other coin-operated machine for amusement, an annual license fee of $25 for each machine.
(H) Dances. To allow the general public to dance in any place or business, either to the music of an orchestra, band, or any mechanical contrivance, a license fee of $10 per dance or $50 per year.
(I) Pawn brokers. To engage in the business of a pawn broker, an annual license fee of $100.
(J) Roller skating rink. To operate a skating rink, an annual license fee of $50.
(K) Tattooing. To engage in the business of tattooing, a license fee of $200 per week or any part thereof. Tattooing does not include the process of micro-pigmentation, commonly known as permanent makeup, which uses a silent handpiece with controlled pulsation depositing pigments which are predominantly non-resorbable directly near the epidermis.
(L) Transient peddlers. All transient peddlers, transient hawkers, transient solicitors, and transient merchants selling appliances, household machines, magazines, books, encyclopaedias, novelties, confections, insurance, or any other item, article, or thing, unless specifically employed by a local wholesale or retail merchant, shall register with the Police Department immediately upon their arrival in the city and shall have their picture taken and their fingerprint made at the Police Department and shall allow sufficient time for the processing of the registration. The cost of registration shall be $10 for each registrant. Each registrant shall receive a card stating the name of the registrant, nature of the occupation and information of due processing by the city, and the card shall be used as a proper credential by the registrant only. In the event any of the itinerant peddlers or others above named shall leave the city, a new registration shall be required when and if they return during any succeeding calendar year.
(Ord. passed 12-18-78; Am. Ord. 21-6, passed 5-17-21)