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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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5.04.300   Taxes--Deemed debt to city.
   The amount of any license tax and penalty imposed by the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed a debt due the city. An action may be commenced in the name of the city in any court of competent jurisdiction, for the amount of any delinquent license tax and penalties.
(Prior code § 5.04.260 (Ord. 494 § 23, 1960))
5.04.310   Remedies cumulative.
   All remedies prescribed in this chapter are cumulative and the use of one or more remedies by the city shall not bar the use of any other remedy for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this chapter.
(Prior code § 5.04.270 (Ord. 494 § 24, 1960))
5.04.320   Promulgation of administrative rules.
   The city council shall have the right from time to time by resolution to adopt such administrative rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes and policies of the city as are set forth in this chapter.
(Prior code § 5.04.240 (Ord. 494 § 21, 1960))
5.04.330   Enforcement authority.
   A.   It shall be the duty of the tax collector and he is directed to enforce each and all of the provisions of this chapter; and the chief of police shall render such assistance in the enforcement of this chapter as may from time to time be required by the tax collector or the city council.
   B.   The tax collector, in person or by his deputies or duly authorized assistants, shall examine or cause to be examined all places of business in the city to ascertain whether the provisions of this chapter have been complied with.
   C.   The tax collector and each and all of his assistants and any police officer shall have the power and authority to enter, free of charge, and at any reasonable time, any place of business required to be licensed under this chapter and demand an exhibition of its license certificate. Any person having such license certificate theretofore issued, in his possession or under his control, who wilfully fails to exhibit the same on demand, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, subject to the penalties provided for by this chapter.
   D.   It shall be the duty of the tax collector and each of his assistants to cause a complaint to be filed against any and all persons found to be violating any provisions of this chapter.
(Prior code § 5.04.250 (Ord. 494 § 22, 1960))
5.04.340   Penalty for violation.
   Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter or knowingly or intentionally misrepresenting to any officer or employee of the city any material fact in procuring a license provided for in this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punishable as set forth in Chapter 1.16.
(Ord. 586 § E (part), 1966: prior code § 5.04.280 (Ord. 494 § 25, 1960))
5.04.350   Advertising businesses.
   Every person who in this city engages in the business of installing, maintaining, and operating outdoor advertising displays, advertising structures, billboards, advertising signs, painted signs or structures, or signboards shall pay an annual license tax determined as follows:
   A.   If none of the facilities has a display area in excess of one hundred and twenty square feet, the license tax is seventy dollars, plus four dollars for each facility in excess of twenty;
   B.   If any of the facilities has a display area in excess of one hundred and twenty square feet, the license tax is two hundred dollars, plus four dollars for each facility in excess of twenty; provided, that if the licensee maintains more than twenty facilities which have in excess of one hundred and twenty square feet of display area, the additional tax for each such structure in excess of twenty shall be ten dollars.
(Ord. 78-6-798 § 2 (part); prior code § 5.08.060 (Ord. 504, 1961: Ord. 494 § 44, 1960))
5.04.360   Amusements--Vending machines--Kindred operations.
   Every person conducting, managing or carrying on in this city any of the businesses enumerated in this section shall pay an annual license tax in the amount specified therefor.
   A.   Bowling Alleys. Any public bowling alley or building, thirty dollars per year for each alley;
   B.   Mechanical Devices and Ball Courts. Skee ball, bat ball, handball or shuffleboard court or any mechanical amusement device or any device, implement, or unit of equipment maintained for the recreational use of patrons and not operated by coins, sixty dollars per year for each court, device, implement or unit of equipment;
   C.   Vending Machines. Vending machines delivering merchandise only, and having no amusement feature, ten dollars per year for each machine operated by coins of one-cent denomination and twenty dollars per year for each machine operated by coins of greater denomination;
   D.   Weighing Devices. Weighing devices operated by insertion of one-cent coins, ten dollars per year;
   E.   Coin-operated Amusements. Music boxes, pinball machines, marble boards or other similar devices which are of an amusement nature and which are operated by coins, sixty dollars per year for each such device or machine;
   F.   Billiards and Pool. Billiard rooms and pool halls, seventy dollars per year for the first pool or billiard table, plus forty dollars per year for each additional pool or billiard table, and such license shall include the right to sell tobacco, confections, soft drinks and prepared foods;
   G.   Skating Rinks. Ice or roller skating rinks, enclosures, or parks, two hundred eighty dollars per year;
   H.   Other Coin-operated Devices. Any mechanical device or machine which operates upon the insertion of a coin and for which a license tax is not specifically provided elsewhere in this chapter, one hundred dollars per year for the first machine, plus fifty dollars per year for each additional machine.
   I.   Shooting Galleries. Shooting galleries, two hundred eighty dollars per year;
   J.   Dancehalls. Dancehalls or establishments of any kind which are open to the public and in which dancing by patrons is permitted, two hundred twenty dollars per year; provided, that if alcoholic beverages as defined by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act of California are dispensed at such place, the license tax shall be determined by the number of days dancing by patrons is permitted each week, as follows:
   1.   One day or less per week, one hundred eighty dollars per year,
   2.   Two days of any calendar week, three hundred sixty dollars per year,
   3.   Three days of any calendar week, five hundred forty dollars per year,
   4.   Four days of any calendar week, seven hundred twenty dollars per year,
   5.   Five days of any calendar week, nine hundred dollars per year,
   6.   Six or seven days of any calendar week, one thousand dollars per year;
   K.   Arcades. Any arcade, four hundred dollars per year.
(Ord. 78-6-798 § 2 (part); prior code § 5.08.090 (Ord. 65-2-574 § 1; Ord. 494 § 47, 1960))
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