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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))
Every person who in this city engages in the business of an automobile wrecker shall pay an annual license tax of three hundred dollars. An automobile wrecker is any person who has an established place of business in which he engages in the business of buying, selling, or dealing in automotive vehicles for the purpose of dismantling or wrecking the same and who buys or sells the integral parts and component materials thereof in whole or in part and deals in used motor vehicle parts. The activity included in an automotive wrecker's license shall include the repair of automobiles and the parts thereof and the buying and selling of used automobiles.
(Ord. 78-6-798 § 2 (part); prior code § 5.08.120 (Ord. 494 § 50, 1960))
A. Every person conducting, managing or staging in this city a circus, carnival, or other similar exhibition shall pay a license tax of six hundred dollars for each day of public attendance plus two hundred dollars for each day of public attendance in each sideshow conducted in conjunction therewith. No additional tax shall be due if a parade is staged.
B. Any person who stages in this city a circus or carnival parade where such circus or carnival or similar exhibition is conducted outside the city shall pay a license tax of two hundred dollars per day.
(Ord. 78-6-798 § 2 (part); prior code § 5.08.100 (A, B) (Ord. 494 § 48(a), (b), 1960))
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