(A) Wholesale deliveries. Every person who does not maintain a fixed place of business in the city and who delivers any merchandise, such as beverages, dairy products or food products, to merchants for resale or to restaurants for consumption, or who delivers any article, goods, wares or merchandise, or who conducts any business by means of a motor vehicle, and who is not licensed specifically by the provisions of this chapter, shall pay a license fee of $90 per year, or portion thereof. The provisions of this division shall not apply to transactions exempt from the imposition of a city license tax by the provisions of the Cal. Public Utilities Code § 4303.
(B) Retail deliveries.
(1) Every peddler of fruits, vegetables, poultry, rabbits, eggs, candies, confections, ice cream, ice cream mix or any other food product or merchandise or article of any description, who does not have a fixed place of business in the city, and who travels from place to place within the city in a truck or vehicle selling, or offering for sale, direct to consumers from such truck or vehicle shall pay a business license fee of $90 per year for each such truck or vehicle used; provided, however, farmers, poultry raisers, and horticulturists who peddle exclusively products grown by them shall be exempt from such license fee.
(2) A warehouse or distribution place where such foodstuffs, merchandise or articles are received and intended for resale to consumers from a truck or vehicle shall not be deemed to be a place of business for the purposes of this division.
(C) Junk, garbage, salvage, and rubbish collection. The business license fee for each junk, garbage, salvage or rubbish collection truck shall be $180 for each calendar year, or portion thereof, for each vehicle used.
(D) Taxicabs. The business license fee for each taxicab shall be $45 each calendar year, or portion thereof, for each vehicle used.
(E) Buses for hire. The business license fee for every person engaged in the business of operating a motor bus for hire in the city shall be as follows:
(1) For each motor bus capable of seating more than five and less than eight passengers, $120 per year.
(2) For each motor bus capable of seating more than seven and less than 16 passengers, $150 per year; and
(3) For each motor bus capable of seating more than 16 passengers, $180 per year.
(F) School buses.
(1) For the purpose of this section,
SCHOOL BUS shall mean any automobile or other motor-propelled vehicle, except a licensed taxicab, used for the transportation of school children over the public streets of the city, whether such school bus is operated as a separate business or as a part of the business of conducting a school, or otherwise, including the contract services of the owner or operator of such vehicle with any public or private school, but not including buses owned or operated by a public school board.
(2) The business license fee shall be on the gross receipts basis, as set forth in Classification A, for receipts from the operation of any part of the business in the city, whether the address of the business is in the city or elsewhere.
('65 Code, § 3-1.308) (Ord. 810, passed - - ; Am. Ord. 165-C.S., passed - - ; Am. Ord. 197-C.S., passed - - ; Am. Ord. 356-C.S., passed - - )