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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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5.04.435   Off-site hazardous waste management facility and latex splash water treatment facility.
   Every person who in this city operates an off-site hazardous waste management facility or a latex splash water treatment facility and who discharges any effluent from such operations into the city's sewer system, shall pay a business license tax which shall be in the amount of $0.01.5 per gallon for every gallon of effluent discharged from the off-site hazardous waste management facility or latex splash water treatment facility into the city's sewer system. The amount of water discharged by the off-site hazardous waste management facility or the latex splash water treatment facility shall be reported by the operator in writing to the city engineer within five business days of the first day of each month. The report shall be accompanied by payment of the business license tax indicated by the per gallon rate multiplied by the amount of effluent for the thirty-day period. The city engineer or his/her designated representative shall, at any time, have full access to all portions of the off-site hazardous waste management facility or latex splash water treatment facility, for the purposes of confirming the accuracy of any reported amount of discharge.
(Ord. 94-10-1188 § 1: Ord. 92-05-1117 § 2)
5.04.440   Hospitals.
   Every person who in this city engages in the business of operating a hospital for the care and treatment of human beings shall pay an annual license tax of two hundred fifty dollars.
(Ord. 78-6-798 § 2 (part); prior code § 5.08.210 (Ord. 494 § 59, 1960))
5.04.450   Junk dealers.
   Every person not having a fixed place of business within this city who engages in the business of collecting, buying, or selling at either retail or wholesale or otherwise dealing in junk and/or rubbish, waste material, refuse and/or any old rags, sacks, bottles, cans, papers, metals, jewelry, precious metals, rubber, bric-a-brac, cordage, truck or automobile tires, truck or automobile parts, truck or automobile accessories, and other like articles, whether the same can be sold or otherwise disposed of in the condition or state of repair as collected, or whether the same are collected, bought or sold or otherwise disposed of for the purpose of being treated, repaired or prepared so as to be used again in the same or in some other form, shall pay an annual license tax of one hundred twenty dollars for the first vehicle, plus sixty dollars for each additional vehicle used in the business of the city.
(Ord. 78-6-798 § 2 (part); prior code § 5.08.130 (Ord. 494 § 51, 1960))
5.04.460   Lectures, theatrical performances, and concerts.
   Every person who in this city conducts or stages any lecture, or any traveling theatrical performance or concert in a place other than a licensed theater shall pay twenty dollars for the first day of such staging and ten dollars for each additional day.
(Ord. 78-6-798 § 2 (part); prior code § 5.08.100(C) (Ord. 494 § 48(c), 1960))
5.04.470   Liquidation and kindred sales.
   Every person engaging in the business of selling goods, wares, or merchandise in liquidation of the assets of insolvent or bankrupt persons or in the business of liquidating goods, wares, or merchandise which have been damaged by fire, flooding, or other calamity shall pay a license tax of three hundred dollars for each day that such a sale is conducted within the city; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to persons selling their own property in the regular course of business from a permanent business establishment.
(Ord. 78-6-798 § 2 (part); prior code § 5.08.200 (Ord. 494 § 58, 1960))
5.04.480   Manufacturers and processors.*
   Every person who in this city engages in a business consisting mainly of manufacturing, packing, processing, canning, or fabricating any goods, wares, merchandise, or produce, or in processing or refining oil, natural gas or products derived therefrom, shall pay an annual license tax which shall be in the same amount and computed in the same manner as the annual license tax specified in Section 5.04.550. The cleaning and dehydration of crude oil at the well where it is produced does not constitute the processing thereof within the meaning of this section.
(Prior code § 5.08.030 (Ord. 533 § 1 (part), 1962: Ord. 494 § 42, 1960))
*   For provisions regarding taxation of crude oil producer, see Ch. 5.12 of this code.
5.04.490   Motels, hotels, and auto courts.
   Every person carrying on the business of operating a motel, hotel, or auto court within the city shall pay an annual license tax as follows: one to nine rooms or units, sixty dollars; ten to fourteen rooms or units, seventy dollars; fifteen to nineteen rooms or units, eighty dollars; twenty to thirty rooms or units, ninety dollars; thirty rooms or units or over, one hundred dollars.
(Ord. 78-6-798 § 2 (part); prior code § 5.08.160 (Ord. 494 § 54, 1960))
5.04.500   Motion picture theaters.
   Every person who in this city operates a motion picture theater or any other type of theater other than a drive-in theater, shall pay an annual license tax of one hundred dollars if the theater has a seating capacity of five hundred seats or less, one hundred fifty dollars if it has a seating capacity of five hundred one to one thousand seats, and two hundred dollars if the theater has a seating capacity of over one thousand seats.
(Ord. 78-6-798 § 2 (part); prior code § 5.08.100(F) (Ord. 494 § 48(f), 1960))
5.04.510   Motor vehicle rentals.
   Every person who in this city engages in the business of renting out motor vehicles for the transportation of persons or property on a U-drive basis shall pay an annual license tax of fifteen dollars for each vehicle used in the conduct of such business.
(Ord. 78-6-798 § 2 (part); prior code § 5.08.180(D) (Ord. 494 § 56 (d), 1960))
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