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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))
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))
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))
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))
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))
A. Auctioneers. Every person engaged in the business of auctioneer in this city shall pay a license tax of sixty dollars per day.
B. Auction Houses. Every person engaged in the business of maintaining, conducting, or carrying on an auction house in this city shall pay a license tax of three hundred dollars semiannually.
C. Auction Yards and Pawnbrokers. Every person engaged in the business of conducting, maintaining, or carrying on an auction yard or pawnbroker business in the city shall pay an annual license tax of six hundred dollars.
(Ord. 78-6-798 § 2 (part); prior code § 5.08.110 (Ord. 494 § 49, 1960))
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