(a) Any person engaging in the operation of running a general store, construed to mean and include any store or stores or any mercantile establishment or establishments in which goods, wares, or merchandise of any kind are purchased, ordered, sold or offered for sale in either retail or wholesale, shall pay an annual City license tax of fifteen dollars ($15.00).
(b) Any person engaging in the operation of running a special store, construed to mean and include any store or stores or any mercantile establishment or establishments in which goods, wares or merchandise of any kind, except cigarettes, tobacco products and soft drinks are purchased, ordered, sold or offered for sale, either at retail or wholesale, and which contain no coin operated device or devices, owned and operated by the store proprietor, shall pay an annual City license tax of five dollars ($5.00).
(c) Any person engaging in the business of providing the accommodations or services of a hotel, motel, inn, tourist home, rooming house, boardinghouse or other establishment where lodging is furnished for compensation shall pay an annual City license tax of ten dollars ($10.00); provided that this section shall not apply to any such establishment which provides accommodations and services for not more than four persons.
(d) Any person engaging in the operation of a restaurant shall pay an annual City license tax of ten dollars ($10.00).
(e) Any person operating an establishment containing pool tables shall pay twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for the first table and an annual City license tax of fifteen dollars ($15.00) for each additional pool table.
(f) Any person engaging in itinerant vendoring shall pay an annual City license tax of five hundred dollars ($500.00).
(g) Any person engaging in business as an insurance company or its agent shall pay an annual City license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25.00).
(h) Any person engaging in the business of an employment agency shall pay an annual City license tax of one hundred dollars ($100.00).
(i) Any person engaging in the business of public shows, theatrical exhibitions, exhibiting motion pictures or other performances to which admission is obtained by the payment of money or other consideration shall pay an annual City license tax based upon available seating at eight cents (8¢) per seat.
(j) Any person engaging in the business of a collection agency shall pay an annual City license tax of one hundred dollars ($100.00). For the purpose of this section, solicitation or collection by or through an agent operating within this City shall be considered to be engaging in the business of a collection agency in the City.
(k) Any person engaging in the business of junk dealer shall pay an annual City license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25.00); and any person engaged in the business as a junk dealer's agent shall pay an annual City license tax of ten dollars ($10.00); that any person who is a non- resident of the State who engages in the business of junk dealer or junk dealer's agent shall pay an annual City license tax of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00).
"Junk" as used in this section shall mean old or scrap gold, copper, brass, rope, batteries, rags, paper, rubber, automobile parts, iron, steel and other old scrap ferrous or nonferrous metals.
"Junk dealer" shall include any person engaged in the business of buying or selling junk as hereinabove defined. "Junk dealer's agent" shall include any person who buys or sells junk as hereinbefore defined for or on behalf of the junk dealer, as hereinabove defined, but "junk dealer's agent" shall not be construed to include any person regularly employed upon a salary by a regularly licensed junk dealer engaged in such business within the City.
(l) Any person engaging in the business of a drive-in theater shall pay an annual City license tax of sixteen cents (l6¢) per available space.
(m) Any person engaging in the operation of a bowling alley shall pay an annual City license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25.00), and for the first additional bowling alley, pay an annual City license tax of fifteen dollars ($15.00).
(n) Any person engaging in the business of operating a parking lot shall pay an annual City license tax of twenty dollars ($20.00).
(o) Any person engaging in the business of pawnbroker shall pay an annual City license tax of one hundred dollars ($100.00).
(p) Any person engaging in the business of clairvoyance shall pay an annual City license tax of one hundred dollars ($100.00).
(q) Any person engaging in the operation of a trading stamp store shall pay an annual City license tax of one hundred seventy-five dollars ($175.00). (Ord. 2-24-86.)