(a) Auctioneers. For every license to act as an auctioneer, the annual license fee shall be $10.
(b) Bakeries. For every license to maintain and operate a bakery, the annual license fee shall be $15.
(c) Barber and beauty shops. For every license to maintain and operate a barber shop or beauty shop, the annual license fee shall be $10.
(d) Billiard or pool tables. For every license to keep a billiard table or pool table or table of like kind for public use or resort, where any charge is made for the use of the same, the annual license fee shall be $25. If more than one of such tables be kept in the same house by the same person, the annual license fee shall be $25 for the first one and $5 for each additional one.
(e) Bowling alleys. For every license to keep a bowling alley for public use or resort, where any charge is made for the use of same, the annual license fee shall be $25.
(f) Circuses or menageries. For every license to exhibit a circus or menagerie, the license fee shall be $10 for each exhibition. For every license to exhibit a sideshow in the vicinity of any other show, the license fee shall be $5 for each day or part thereof during which such sideshow is exhibited.
(g) Collection agencies. For every license to carry on or practice the business of a collection agency, the annual license fee shall be $10.
(h) Drugstores. For every license to keep or maintain a drugstore, the annual license fee shall be $15.
(i) Employment agencies. For every license to conduct a business of a labor or employment agency for the purpose of hiring or contracting with laborers for employment within the town, or arranging for the transportation of such laborers to other points for employment there, the annual license fee shall be $100.
(j) Fortunetellers. For every license to act as a fortuneteller, palmist, mind reader or anyone who practices the profession of telling the past or future, the license fee shall be $25 for one week or $200 for one year. No license shall be issued for less than one week.
(k) Grocery stores. For every license to operate and maintain a grocery store, the annual license fee shall be $15.
(l) Hawkers and peddlers. For every license to act as a hawker or peddler, the annual license fee shall be $10; provided, however, that, this section shall not be construed as requiring a license of a person engaged and continuing in the business of agriculture, horticulture or grazing, who offers for sale in the town goods produced upon the premises which he or she owns or which he or she occupies as a bona fide tenant.
(m) Hotels and taverns. For every license to keep or maintain a hotel or tavern where rooms are kept or maintained for transient guests, the charge for which is by the day or night, the annual license fee shall be $10.
(n) Itinerant vendors. For every license to act as or carry on the business of an itinerant vendor, the annual license fee shall be $25. The words ITINERANT VENDOR mean and include all persons, firms and corporations who engage or conduct within the town a temporary or transient business of selling goods, wares and merchandise, and who have no permanent place of business within the town.
(o) Junk dealers. For every resident junk dealer or itinerant purchaser of junk, the annual license fee shall be $25, and for every agent, solicitor, canvasser or salesperson employed by any resident junk dealer, the annual license fee shall be $10. For every non-resident dealer who buys or solicits for the purchase of junk within the town, the annual license fee shall be $50.
(p) Lunch wagons. For every license to keep or maintain a lunch wagon, the annual license fee shall be $10.
(q) Music boxes and the like. For every license to keep or maintain a music box or automatic phonograph in a public place, the annual license fee shall be $10 for each such music box or automatic phonograph.
(r) Pawnbrokers. For every license to practice the business of pawnbrokers, the annual license fee shall be $100.
(s) Pinball machines. For every license to keep or maintain a pinball machine in a public place, the annual license fee shall be $10 for each such pinball machine.
(t) Real estate agents. For every license to practice the business of real estate agent or real estate broker, the annual license fee shall be $15.
(u) Restaurants and eating places. For every license to keep or maintain a restaurant or other eating place not operated in connection with a hotel, the annual license fee shall be $10.
(v) Theatrical performances. For every license to present a theatrical performance, the license fee shall be $10 for one week, and no such license shall be issued for less than one week; provided that, a theater, opera house or other permanent place for public shows may secure a license for which the charge shall be $10 for three months, $15 for six months and $20 for one year. The provisions of this section shall not be construed to apply to literary, dramatic, musical or benevolent societies, that conduct occasional theatrical performances.
(w) Electronic or video games.
(1) The annual license tax, to operate or maintain an electronic or video game, as defined below, shall be $12.50 per game machine if less than 20 machines are involved, or a flat fee of $250 if 20 or more machines are involved.
(2) The phrase “electronic or video game” shall be determined in the sound discretion of the individual or department responsible for the issuance of licenses from the town.
(3) The lessor of such machine shall be liable for the license tax if a leasing or rental arrangement is involved; otherwise, the owner of such machine shall be liable for the license tax.
(4) This section shall exempt public corporate bodies, which are owners or act as lessors of such games, from the payment of the license tax.
(x) All others. An annual license fee of $15 shall be imposed upon any other business activity not licensed under this article.
(Ord. passed 6-22-1982; Ord. passed 1-14-1986; Ord. 1989-02, passed 2-28-1989; Ord. passed 3-8-2011)