The legislative body of the city hereby finds that the following occupations or events are of such a nature as to require special regulations and supervision and therefore, in addition to the license fees provided herein (except the minimum license fee provided for in § 60.006 shall not apply to regulatory licenses), the following additional police license fees are imposed on every person, corporation, association, and the like, involved in the business, occupation, calling, or profession named in this section. The required fee shall be paid in advance prior to the beginning of business or the happening of the event unless otherwise specified.
(A) Special events, twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per event. Except as provided elsewhere in this chapter, special events shall include, but not be limited to, dances, shopping centers or retail merchant association events involving persons other than their regular merchants, subdivision-wide or block yard sales (limited to one (1) per year), and auctions of real or personal property by persons who do not otherwise hold an occupational license.
(B) Farmers markets. Notwithstanding any other provision in this chapter, a single license shall issue to the sponsor of farmers produce markets. The license fee shall be a maximum of fifty dollars ($50.00) per year, provided that if business is not conducted for more than six (6) months in any calendar year, the license fee shall be twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per calendar year.
(C) Shelby County fair, four hundred dollars ($400.00).
(D) Burglar alarms serviced by city.
(1) Resident business, fifteen dollars ($15.00) per year.
(2) Nonresident business, fifty dollars ($50.00) per year.
(E) Yard sale, five dollars ($5.00) for a period lasting no more than three (3) consecutive days. There shall be a limit of two (2) yard sales per year on any one (1) property and a limit of two (2) yard sale permits per year issued to any one (1) person. An owner or occupant of the property where the sale is located shall purchase the permit and shall list the names of all other persons participating in the yard sale, and those individuals shall also be deemed persons to whom a permit is issued, although, no fee shall be required of them. For the purpose of this subsection (E), the term “property” shall be defined as any single parcel or tract of land as it is identified and described in the recorded deed thereto.
(F) Circuses, seventy-five dollars ($75.00) per day.
(G) Fortunetellers. Any person engaging in the practice of being a medium, clairvoyant, soothsayer, fortuneteller, palmist, phrenologist, spiritualist, or like activity shall pay an annual license fee of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500.00). Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to apply to persons pretending to tell fortunes as a part of any play, exhibition, fair or amateur show presented by any religious charitable, or benevolent institution.
(H) Amusement devices. Every person, firm, or corporation conducting or engaging in the business of operating, renting, leasing, selling, distributing or installing any machine, board, table, or device where same is operated by the insertion of a coin, or any counter device where same is operated or otherwise used for amusement or skill, except those used solely for the purpose of vending chewing gum, peanuts, candy, cigarettes, soft drinks, or other merchandise and about which there is no element of amusement or skill, shall pay a license fee, ten dollars ($10.00) per year of each machine. The license shall be publicly displayed on each machine.
(I) Alcoholic beverages. Licensees under this section are subject to Chapter 62 of this code providing for license for dealers in alcoholic beverages and fixing conditions concurring the exercise of the privileges granted to those licensees as it exists or as it may be amended.
(J) Ice cream vendors. Any person, association, or corporation engaged in the businesses of retail distribution or sale of packaged ice cream or other frozen confections and employing for that purpose carts, bicycles, wagons, or other vehicles propelled by hand, foot, or other means, shall pay an annual license fee of ten dollars ($10.00) for each vehicle employed.
(K) Itinerant businessmen and contractors. All persons, agencies, corporations, associations or any other business engaging in any temporary or transient occupation not included elsewhere in this chapter, shall pay a license fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per year or any portion of a year spent in transacting that occupation in the city.
(L) Peddlers, canvassers, solicitors, and transient merchants, twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per day per person. Licensees under this section are subject to the provisions of this code dealing with the regulation of peddlers, canvassers, solicitors, and transient merchants, as it exists or as it may be amended.
(M) Any business entity or person organizing an event at which business is conducted in the form of multiple vendors displaying, showcasing, giving away, selling, or otherwise making their products or goods available to the public at temporary tables, booths, stations, or other temporary settings located within a controlled area specifically designated for that event, shall, as the organizer, be require to hold an occupational license in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Nothing in this subsection (M) shall be construed to required the other attending vendors to hold an occupational license or pay additional fees based solely on their activities at the event, except all food and beverage vendors must still adhere to the requirements of Chapter 69 of this Code of Ordinances, as well as any other applicable local or state laws.
(Ord. 2010-04-15, passed 4-15-10; Am. Ord. 2016-09-22, passed 9-22-16; Am. Ord. 2017-07-11, passed 7-11-17; Am. Ord. 2021-10-07, passed 10-7-21)