[Amended 3-22-1961 by Ord. No. 4-1961; 12-22-1976 by Ord. No. 48-1976; 12-31-1980 by Ord. No. 60-1980; 10-17-1990 by Ord. No. 145-1990]
In addition to all other taxes levied and collected by the City, license taxes in the amounts as set by ordinance and provided in Chapter 212, Fees, are hereby levied for general revenue purposes upon every person conducting or engaging in any of the hereinafter mentioned businesses or occupations and upon every hereinafter mentioned vehicle, gaming table, place of amusement, jukebox and amusement device as follows:
A. Persons soliciting orders for goods, wares or merchandise by sample, or otherwise, or for the rendition of services to or from others not merchants or dealers, each, per year.
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B. Pawnbrokers, each, per year.
C. Market-house companies and owners of each market-house, per year.
D. Express companies or agencies, telegraph, telephone, steam-heating, gas, natural gas, electric light or power companies or agencies or individuals furnishing communication, light, heat or power, each, per year.
E. Motor vehicle liveries, and owners of motor vehicles for hire, each, per year.
F. Street railways.
(1) Street railway cars, omnibuses and motor buses except taxicabs, whether operating solely within the City or to points without the City, which at any time transport passengers for pay or hire from one point to another within the City limits, each vehicle, per year.
(2) Street railway cars, omnibuses and motor buses, except taxicabs, transporting passengers for pay or hire from the City only to points within the radius of 10 miles of the City's boundaries, each vehicle, per year.
G. Taxicabs, each, per year: not to exceed an amount per year from any one person, firm or corporation so operating.
H. Bowling alleys, billiard tables, pool tables, bagatelle tables and other gaming tables not prohibited by law, except pinball games and coin-operated amusement devices, each alley or table, per year.
I. Theaters having stage productions of any type, and shows, circuses or menageries under canvas, each, per year.
J. Moving picture theaters, where no stage productions are held, each, per year.
K. All other public exhibitions for pay or hire, except amateur athletic contests, each, per day of exhibition.
L. Amusement devices not prohibited by law except shuffle boards, each, per year.
M. Shuffle boards, each, per year.
N. Jukeboxes, each, per year.
O. Coin-operated riding devices within the City, each coin-operated riding device, per year.
P. Public dump or junkyard, each, per year.
Q. Waste rag or paper handling establishment, each, per year.
1. Editor's Note: Original Subsection A, regarding fees to be paid by street vendors, hawkers, peddlers, which immediately preceded this subsection, was repealed during codification (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Part 2).