(A) Every person transacting and carrying on the businesses herein enumerated shall pay a license tax as adopted by resolution and specified in the City of Red Bluff Schedule of Fees:
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Use |
Advertising by means of billboards, signboards, or electrical signs, per year |
Amusements: |
Boxing or wrestling exhibitions, per day |
Commercial card rooms, each table, per year |
Circuses, per day |
Dances, public (no fixed place of business) per day |
Rides and shows, itinerant, per day |
Shooting gallery, per quarter |
Astrology, palm reading, fortune-telling, hypnotism, magic or similar business, per month |
Directories, classified, per year |
Finance companies, savings and loan companies or agents |
Fire sale, bankrupt sale, wreck sale, close out and the like per month |
Manufacturer, which is a person fabricating or manufacturing materials, raw or partly finished into goods, wares or merchandise and not sold at retail, per year |
Shoe shine stand, each person, per year |
Solicitor, which is a person taking orders for any photographs, goods, wares or merchandise or taking pictures and not having a regular place of business in the city or who is not an agent or representative of a person having a regularly established business in the city; itinerant vendor which includes all persons, both principal and agent who engage in a temporary and transient business in the city, selling goods, wares and merchandise, with the intention of continuing the business in the city for a period of not more than 90 days and who for the purpose of carrying on the business hires, leases or occupies any room, building or structure, stand, platform, tent or lot for the exhibition or sale of the goods, wares or merchandise, and the person so engaged shall not be relieved from the provisions of this section by reason of associating temporarily with any local dealer, trader, merchant or auctioneer or by conducting the temporary or transient business in connection with or as part of or in the name of any local dealer, trader, merchant or auctioneer; and peddler which is any person who, at any place in the city other than a fixed place of business, sells or takes orders or offers to sell or take orders, sells and makes immediate delivery or offers for sale and immediate delivery or for future delivery not for resale, any goods, wares, merchandise or thing to be performed either per day, per month or per year.
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(B) No license shall be issued for any person engaged in the occupation or business of a solicitor, itinerant vendor or peddler until the applicant has furnished the Police Chief a sufficient statement setting forth the following, and the Police Chief shall have issued and delivered to the Finance Director a certificate of compliance with the provisions of this section:
(1) The name and address of the applicant;
(2) The type of business for which the license is required;
(3) The names and addresses of person, firms or corporations represented by the applicant;
(4) A letter authorizing the applicant to represent the person, firm or corporation;
(5) The proposed route of the applicant’s operations;
(6) Any convictions or violations of laws involving moral turpitude and not including traffic violations;
(7) The name and address of persons, firms or corporations by whom the applicant has been employed for the past five years;
(8) The fingerprints of the applicant;
(9) The names and addresses of three responsible persons who have known the applicant for more than three years; and
(10) The application shall be accompanied by a bond to the city in the penal sum of $1,000. If, in the judgment of the Police Chief, the representations made in the statement, or his or her investigation of the applicant, discloses that the granting of the license applied for may be detrimental to the public peace, morals, health, safety or general welfare, or that the applicant is not of good moral character, or has been convicted of any violation of laws involving moral turpitude, the Police Chief shall recommend to the Finance Director that the license shall not be issued until a permit therefor has been granted by the Council and the Finance Director shall thereupon require the applicant to file an application for the permit, and the City Council shall then hear the application as an appeal from the denial of the license by the Finance Director.
(C) (1) The bond which is given by the applicant, designating the city as the beneficiary thereof, shall likewise protect all citizens of the city who purchase goods, wares or merchandise from any itinerant vendor, solicitor or peddler and who are defrauded in any way.
(2) For the purposes of determining if a person has been defrauded in any way, the person or persons shall institute an action in a court of competent jurisdiction, and if that person or persons receives a judgment in that court, then the bond shall be conditioned to pay the judgment, plus reasonable costs and an attorney’s fee not exceeding 25% of the amount of the judgment. If the action is commenced in small claims court, then the relief to be afforded and for which the bonding agent is responsible shall be restricted to the amount of the judgment and costs of suit.
(3) Applicants for a license, may, in lieu of bond, post cash or other security deemed adequate by the Finance Director and the security shall remain posted with the city for a period of one year following the date of the expiration of the license which is granted.
(`61 Code, § 12.22) (Ord. 397, passed 12-27-1960; Am. Ord. 807, passed 3-21-1989; Am. Ord. 823, passed 9-18-1990; Am. Ord. 852, passed 1-4-1994; Am. Ord. 967, passed 1-2-2007; Am. Ord. 982, passed 12-18-07; Am. Ord. 994, passed 12-16-2008; Am. Ord. 1004, passed 12-15-2009; Am. Ord. 1021, passed 6-19-2012)