§ 38.083 IMPOSITION OF TAX.
   There is hereby levied and shall be collected from persons actively engaged in the practice, within the corporate limits of the city, of professions, trade or activity recognized and regulated as such by the laws of the state which are hereinafter named, an annual license tax as follows.
Profession, Occupation, Trade or Activity
Price Per Unit
Profession, Occupation, Trade or Activity
Price Per Unit
Acupuncturist
$425
Alcoholic beverages (liquor and wine)
Wine
Supplier
$150
Distributor
$2,500
Retailer
$150
Wine specialty shop
$250
Wine tasting
$150
Private wine bed and breakfast
$150
Private wine restaurant
$250
Private wine spa
$150
Wine sampling license
$150
Retailers, liquor
Class A license
$1,000
Class B license
$1,000
Class A (nonprofit social, veterans and fraternal clubs)
$375
Class B (private club, membership of 1,000 or less)
$500
Class C (private club, membership more than 1,000)
$1,250
Amusement or music devices
Less than 20:
1 device - each device
$2
5 devices - each device
$5
10 devices - each device
$10
10 plus devices - each device
$12.50
20 or more:
1 device - each device
$50
5 devices - each device
$150
10 devices - each device
$225
10 plus devices - each device
$300
Any device taking more than one denomination of coin shall be licensed on the basis of the largest denomination of coin taken or the total of the coins necessary to make the device function or operate.
Athlete agent
$10
Architects
$75
Attorney
$5
Auctioneer
$15
Baggage or parcel checking devices, vibrator machines and toilet lockers, sanitary napkins
$0.50
Barber, beautician, manicurist
$25
Barber or beautician school
$250
Beer (state license shall be presented in Clerk’s office)
Retail dealers:
Class A (restaurants, bars, clubs, fraternal and social organizations)
$150
Class B (grocery store, chilled/unchilled)
$150
Distributor
$1,000
Brewer
$1,500
Brewpub
$1,000
Billiard or pool, first table
Each additional table
$25
$15
Bowling alley, first alley
Each additional alley
$25
$15
Certified public accountant
$65
Chiropractors
$200
Circuses, carnivals (street or other)
For each performance, exhibit or entertainment - per week
$5
Riding devices - per week
$10
Concession selling services, goods, wares, merchandise, and food - per week per concession
$5
Games of skill - per week per concession
$10
Candy or merchandise wheels - per day
$25
Collection agency
$100
Commercial rental (shall register and pay per unit)
$15
Dental corporation
$150
Dental hygienist
$65
Dentists
$150
Embalmer and funeral director
$80
Employment agencies
$100
Employment agency
$200
Engineers
$40
Fortune telling, palmist, phrenologist, spiritualist, clairvoyant, mind reader, medium
$200
Funeral establishment
$200
General contractors (shall register)
$100
Annual renewal
$50
Handyman (shall register)
$25
Annual renewal
$25
General store
$15
Hawker and peddler
On foot
$10
Vehicle not exceeding one-half ton
$15
Vehicle not exceeding one ton
$50
Vehicle not exceeding two tons
$100
More than two tons
$150, plus $100 for each additional ton or fraction thereof
Hearing aid fitters/dealers
$100
5-49 beds
$20
50-99 beds
$30
100-199 beds
$40
200 or more beds
$50
Hotels, motels, boarding houses
Each bedroom in excess of seven
$2
$0.25 each up to $10
Insurance broker
$25
Insurance company
$50
Itinerant vendors
$500
Junk dealers
Resident junk dealer within city limits
$25
Resident junk dealer - no yard for storing
$25
Resident junk dealer’s agent
$10
Itinerant junk collector
$2
Non-resident junk dealer
$150
Non-resident junk dealer’s agent
$50
Land surveyor
$20
Landscape architects
$100
Laundromats - car wash
1-5 devices
$15
6-9 devices - each
$3
10 or more devices
$30
Licensed forester
$15
Licensed practical nurse
$40
Licensed social worker
$30
Loan companies, credit union and banks
$50
Massage therapist
$30
Master electrician (shall register)
$50
Master plumber (shall register)
$50
Medical corporation
$300
Mid wives
$10
Motels, hotels, restaurants
$10
Nursing home administrator
$300
Occupational therapist
$90
Optometrist
$325
Osteopathic physician/surgeon
$100
Pawnbroker
$100
Personal care homes - per bed
$4
Physical therapist
$60
Physicians, surgeons, podiatrist
$50
Practical nurses
$5
Private detective/investigator
$50
Professional counselors
$75
Psychologists
$175
Radiological technologist
$20
Real estate appraiser
State licensed residential licensee
$265
State certified general licensee
$465
State certified residential licensee
$315
Real estate broker
$100
Real estate sales person
$50
Registered professional nurse
$25
Residential rental (shall register and pay per unit)
$15
Respiratory care therapist
$65
Restaurants
Each five chairs or spaces where persons are fed in excess of ten
$2
$0.25/section up to $10
Social worker
$5
Special store
$5
Speech language audiologist
$60
Speech language pathologist
$60
Street vendors
$15
Theaters and public shows
$40
Trading stamps
$175
Vending, merchandise or service machines (providing product)
Less than 20:
1 device - each device
$2
5 devices - each device
$5
10 devices - each device
$10
10 plus devices - each device
$12.50
20 or more:
1 device
$50
5 devices
$100
10 devices
$150
10 plus devices
$250
Veterinarians
$225
All other business not listed above
$25
 
(Prior Code, § 733.14) (Ord. 09-06, passed 7-21-2009; Ord. 12-6, passed 9-18-2012; Ord. passed 12-17-2019)