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SIGNAL HILL, CALIFORNIA MUNICIPAL CODE
PREFACE
Title 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Title 2 ADMINISTRATION AND PERSONNEL
Title 3 REVENUE AND FINANCE
Title 4 (Reserved)
Title 5 BUSINESS TAXES, LICENSES AND REGULATIONS
Chapter 5.04 GENERAL LICENSING PROVISIONS AND TAXES
5.04.010 Definitions.
5.04.020 Revenue purpose.
5.04.030 Compliance with additional regulations.
5.04.040 Effect on other provisions.
5.04.050 Tax and license required.
5.04.060 Applicability to individuals.
5.04.070 Separate licenses required for branch establishments.
5.04.080 Separate businesses--License and tax computation.
5.04.090 Establishments extending across city boundaries--Tax computation.
5.04.100 Computation of number of employees.
5.04.110 Exemptions--Constitutional and statutory.
5.04.120 Exemptions--Interstate commerce.
5.04.130 Exemptions--Nonprofit enterprises.
5.04.140 Exemptions--Disabled veterans.
5.04.150 Exemptions--Statement filing.
5.04.160 Application and license contents.
5.04.170 Initial application.
5.04.180 Renewal application.
5.04.190 Application verification and investigation.
5.04.200 Application information confidential.
5.04.210 Assessment determined by tax collector.
5.04.220 Appeals.
5.04.230 Additional powers of tax collector.
5.04.240 License--Nontransferable--Exceptions.
5.04.250 License--Duplicates.
5.04.260 License--Display.
5.04.270 License--Identification tags for devices and machines.
5.04.280 Taxes--Payment due dates.
5.04.290 Taxes--Penalties for delinquencies.
5.04.300 Taxes--Deemed debt to city.
5.04.310 Remedies cumulative.
5.04.320 Promulgation of administrative rules.
5.04.330 Enforcement authority.
5.04.340 Penalty for violation.
5.04.350 Advertising businesses.
5.04.360 Amusements--Vending machines--Kindred operations.
5.04.370 Auctions, auctioneers, and pawnbrokers.
5.04.380 Automobile wreckers.
5.04.390 Circuses and carnival parades.
5.04.400 Coin-operated vending machine rentals or leasing businesses.
5.04.410 Contractors and subcontractors.
5.04.420 Drive-in theaters.
5.04.430 Golf courses, archery ranges, and kindred enterprises.
5.04.435 Off-site hazardous waste management facility and latex splash water treatment facility.
5.04.440 Hospitals.
5.04.450 Junk dealers.
5.04.460 Lectures, theatrical performances, and concerts.
5.04.470 Liquidation and kindred sales.
5.04.480 Manufacturers and processors.*
5.04.490 Motels, hotels, and auto courts.
5.04.500 Motion picture theaters.
5.04.510 Motor vehicle rentals.
5.04.520 Peddlers and solicitors.
5.04.530 Professional and semiprofessional businesses.
5.04.540 Retail agents and delivery vehicles.
5.04.550 Retail and wholesale sales and services - Businesses not otherwise designated.
5.04.560 Stables and riding academies.
5.04.570 Taxi drivers.*
5.04.580 Taxi services.*
5.04.590 Trailer parks.
5.04.600 Trained animal shows.
5.04.610 Transporters of personal property.
5.04.620 Wholesale agents.
Chapter 5.06 SIDEWALK VENDING
Chapter 5.08 SPECIAL BUSINESS PERMITS (REPEALED)*
Chapter 5.12 CRUDE OIL PRODUCERS
Chapter 5.14 FILMING ACTIVITIES
Chapter 5.15 MARIJUANA USES AND ACTIVITIES PROHIBITED
Chapter 5.16 MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENTS AND PERMITS*
Chapter 5.17 MASSAGE TECHNICIANS
Chapter 5.18 HOTEL AND MOTEL REGULATIONS
Chapter 5.20 PRIVATE PATROL SYSTEMS
Chapter 5.24 PUBLICATION VENDING MACHINES
Chapter 5.28 SOCIAL CLUBS
Chapter 5.32 VEHICLES FOR HIRE
Chapter 5.36 MOBILE FOOD VENDING
Title 6 ANIMALS
Title 7 (Reserved)
Title 8 HEALTH AND SAFETY
Title 9 PUBLIC PEACE, MORALS AND WELFARE
Title 10 VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
Title 11 (Reserved)
Title 12 STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND PUBLIC PLACES
Title 13 PUBLIC UTILITIES
Title 14 (Reserved)
Title 15 BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION
Title 16 OIL AND GAS CODE*
Title 17 TRAILER PARKS
Title 18 SUBDIVISIONS*
Title 19 (Reserved)
Title 20 ZONING
Title 21 PUBLIC DEDICATION REQUIREMENTS AND IMPROVEMENT FEES TO BE PAID BY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
STATUTORY REFERENCES FOR CALIFORNIA CITIES
PRIOR CODE CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE
ORDINANCE LIST AND DISPOSITION TABLE
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5.04.030   Compliance with additional regulations.
   Persons who are required to pay a license tax for transacting and carrying on any business under this chapter shall not be relieved from the payment of any license tax for the privilege of doing such business required under any other ordinance of the city and shall remain subject to the regulatory provisions of other ordinances. No license shall be issued under this chapter for the conduct of any trade, business, or calling for which a permit or other approval of the city council is required pursuant to the provisions of any other ordinance, unless and until the required permit for approval has been obtained.
(Prior code § 5.04.030 (Ord. 494 § 3, 1960))
5.04.040   Effect on other provisions.
   A.   Neither the adoption of the ordinance codified in this chapter nor the repeal by it of any portion of any existing ordinance of the city shall be construed to in any manner excuse or relieve from prosecution the violation of any ordinance committed prior to the effective date hereof.
   B.   Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed as releasing any person from payment of any tax due under the provisions of any other ordinance of the city, nor to affect the validity of any bond or cash deposit required by any ordinance to be posted, filed, or deposited with any officer of the city; and all rights and obligations thereunto appertaining shall continue in full force and effect.
(Prior code § 5.04.040 (Ord. 494 § 4, 1960))
5.04.050   Tax and license required.
   A.   There are imposed upon the businesses, trades, professions, callings and occupations specified in this chapter license taxes in the amounts prescribed in this chapter.
   B.   It is unlawful for any person to transact and carry on any business, trade, profession, calling or occupation in the city without first having procured a license from the city to do so or without first complying with any and all applicable provisions of this chapter.
   C.   This section shall not be construed as requiring any person to obtain a license prior to doing business within the city if such requirement conflicts with applicable statutes of the United States or of the state of California. However, persons not required to obtain a license prior to doing business within the city because of conflict with applicable statutes of the United States or of the state of California shall be liable for payment of the tax imposed by this chapter.
(Prior code § 5.04.050 (Ord. 494 § 5, 1960))
5.04.060   Applicability to individuals.
   Every person engaging in or carrying on any business, profession, occupation, trade or calling in this city in any capacity other than as the employee of another with wages as his sole compensation must obtain the license and pay the license tax provided therefor under the provisions of this chapter.
(Prior code § 5.08.010 (Ord. 494 § 40, 1960))
5.04.070   Separate licenses required for branch establishments.
   A separate license must be obtained for each branch establishment or location of the business transacted and carried on which is located in the city, and each license shall authorize the licensee to transact and carry on only the business licensed thereby at the location or in the manner designated in such license; provided, that warehouses and distributing plants used in connection with and incidental to a business licensed under the provisions of this chapter shall not be deemed to be separate places of business or branch establishments.
(Prior code § 5.04.060 (Ord. 494 § 6, 1960))
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