(A) Every person transacting and carrying on the business enumerated in this section shall pay a business license fee as follows:
1. Apartments Or Courts: The license fee for the operation of up to four (4) units is forty dollars ($40.00) per year. Each additional unit over four (4) is five dollars ($5.00) per year.
2. Arts And Crafts Fairs: Organizations sponsoring arts and crafts fairs, community celebrations or similar activities of more than five (5) vendors, not exceeding eight (8) calendar days in duration shall pay a license fee as follows:
(a) | 5-10 participants | $30.00/event |
(b) | 11-24 participants | 50.00/event |
(c) | 25-50 participants | 75.00/event |
(d) | Over 50 participants | 100.00/event |
3. Auto Wrecking: The license fee for the purchase and sale of damaged motor vehicles or parts is two hundred dollars ($200.00) per year.
4. Automobile Storage Or Parking Lots: The license fee for an automobile storage or parking lot with no building or structure on the property is fifty dollars ($50.00) per year.
5. Billboard Or Advertising Sign Business: The license fee for a billboard or advertising sign business is one hundred dollars ($100.00) per year.
6. Card Tables:
(a) No person shall engage in managing, conducting or carrying on the business of maintaining a place where tables are used by the public for playing cards, until such person shall have first obtained a permit and license to conduct the business.
(b) Every person proposing to engage in carrying on or conducting the business of maintaining a place where tables are used by the public for playing cards shall make out an application to the chief of police for a permit to so do.
(c) The chief of police is hereby directed to investigate the location, building and premises of the applicant for a permit; provided, that there is at least one entrance from the street or public parking area, and at least one window in the front thereof adjacent to the street or parking area. No doors, screens or other obstructions shall be used to conceal the players at any table.
(d) Nothing herein contained shall be in any manner construed as permitting any gaming prohibited by the laws of the state, or the provisions of this code.
(e) No licensee, permittee or his agent shall allow any person under the age of twenty one (21) years to play cards or otherwise patronize his place of business.
(f) The license fee for carrying on or conducting the business heretofore described in this subsection shall be one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500.00) per annum, payable quarterly in advance, for any number of tables up to five (5), and three hundred seventy five dollars ($375.00) quarterly for each additional table in excess of five (5) payable quarterly in advance.
7. Cleaners, Laundries: For soliciting, receiving or delivering clothing or textiles of any form or nature, in any manner, for dry cleaning or laundry services or other cleaning services, when such dry cleaning, laundry or other cleaning services are performed outside of the city, the license fee is seventy five dollars ($75.00) per year for each vehicle engaged or operated in such soliciting, receiving or delivering.
8. Coin Operated Machines: Includes all types of coin operated, debit and credit card machines, weighing scales, phonographs, cigarette machines, peanut machines, gum machines, rifles, pin tables, counter games, video games, and all other games, video (DVD) and game rental machines, and machines operated by placing a coin in or inserting a debit or credit card to bring about its operation, except machines dispensing U.S. postage stamps. "Operator" means any person selling or placing on assignment or on commission basis in two (2) or more places of business, any coin operated, debit or credit card machine or device. "Owner" means any person doing business at one business location only.
(a) The license fee for a distributor of dispensing and nondispensing machines shall be based upon the gross receipts schedule in subsection 4-2-29-2(C) of this chapter.
(b) The license fee for merchandise dispensing machines on premises, per machine, shall be based upon the gross receipts schedule in subsection 4-2-29-2(C) of this chapter.
(c) The license fee for nondispensing machines including video games, arcade games, music devices, etc., is thirty dollars ($30.00), minimum licensing fee, for the first machine and then ten dollars ($10.00) per machine thereafter, on each premises, with a maximum of two hundred dollars ($200.00) per year at any one location.
9. Collection Agency: For an establishment for the collection of accounts, notes, obligations or debts for others for a compensation or fee, provided this shall not apply to attorneys at law, the license fee is forty dollars ($40.00) per year.
10. Contractors/Builders: This subsection refers to "contractor" as defined in division 3, chapter 9, article 2, section 7026 of the Business And Professions Code of the state. Contractors who undertake, or offer to undertake, the performance of any work of improvement, maintenance, alteration or repair in or upon real property, the annual license fee shall be based upon the gross receipts schedule in subsection 4-2-29-2(C) of this chapter.
11. Dance Academy: The license fee for operating a regularly established place of business where instructions in dancing or dancing lessons are given or taught and a charge or fee for such instructions or lessons is made or paid is thirty dollars ($30.00) per year.
12. Hotels, Motels, Lodging House, Campgrounds And Commercial Leasing, Etc.:
(a) For operating any hotel, motel or similar accommodation, the annual license fee is as follows:
Less than 20 rooms | $40.00 |
20 to, and including 34 rooms | 65.00 |
35 to, and including 49 rooms | 85.00 |
50 or more rooms | $2.00 per room, per year |
(b) For operating campground, recreational vehicle park (RV park), or similar accommodation, the annual license fee is as follows:
Less than 20 spaces | $40.00 |
20 or more | $5.00 per each space |
(c) For operating commercial leasing property, the annual license fee is as follows:
$30.00 for the first 1,000 square feet, and $20.00 per 1,000 square feet, thereafter |
13. Importing Of Merchandise For Wholesale:
(a) For the importing into the city, for any delivery therein, of any goods, wares or merchandise, when such importing and delivery is by means of any vehicle operated upon the public streets or highways, the license fees for such importing and delivery shall be based upon the average number of importings and deliveries per week and shall be in accord with the following schedule:
Deliveries Per Week | Fee Per Year |
Less than 2 | $30.00 |
2 or 3 | 40.00 |
4 or more | 50.00 |
(b) The license fee in this subsection apply to each and every vehicle used and/or employed in the importing of merchandise under this subsection provided, however, in no case shall these fees exceed two hundred dollars ($200.00) per year.
(c) "Importing of merchandise", or any variation, as used in this subsection, refers to importing of merchandise at wholesale only, and for the purpose of resale. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any importing of goods, wares or merchandise where the sale and/or delivery of any goods, wares or merchandise is at retail to the ultimate consumer and/or user of such goods, wares or merchandise.
(d) This subsection shall not apply to vehicles owned and/or operated by an established licensed place of business in the city and used exclusively for such licensed business.
14. Importing Of Merchandise For Retail Sale:
(a) Whenever any business consists of the sale and delivery, at retail, of goods, wares or merchandise from house to house, or place to place, when such business does not maintain and operate an established retail sales store, market or other fixed business in the city for retail sales to the general public, such business shall pay a license fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) per year for each and every vehicle used in the conduct of business.
(b) "Vehicle", as used in this subsection, includes all automobile, push carts, vans, trailers or other means of transportation of persons or property on the public streets.
(c) "Sale at retail", as used in this subsection refers to all sales where the delivery of goods, wares or merchandise is to the ultimate consumer and/or user.
(d) The provisions of this subsection refer only to regularly established and regularly operated retail sales routes, and shall not apply to any transient, sporadic or irregular sales business which shall be classified as itinerant sales under the provisions of subsection (A)15 of this section.
15. Itinerant Vendor, Peddler, Salesman, Solicitor, Etc.:
(a) For the sale or solicitation for sale of any goods, wares or merchandise to the ultimate consumer when the seller has no established place of business in the city, the license fee is twenty dollars ($20.00) per quarter.
(b) Itinerant Christmas tree vendors shall pay a license fee of forty dollars ($40.00) per year except for the following:
(1) Sale of trees as a part of, and on the premises of, an established place of business shall include Christmas tree sales as part of the gross receipts of such business;
(2) Sales of trees solely for the benefit of a charitable or nonprofit organization.
16. Laundromats: The license fee for a place of business containing laundry machines (washers and dryers) for use by the public shall be as follows:
(a) Laundromats with nineteen (19) or more machines at any one location shall be based upon the gross receipts schedule in subsection 4-2-29-2(C) of this chapter.
(b) Laundromats with less than nineteen (19) machines at any one location shall pay thirty dollars ($30.00), minimum licensing fee, for the first machine and then ten dollars ($10.00) per machine, thereafter, on each premises, with a maximum of two hundred dollars ($200.00) at any one location.
17. Palmist, Fortune Teller, Clairvoyant, Etc.: For practicing or engaging in the business of palmist, fortune teller, clairvoyant, phrenologist, astrologer, necromancer or any kindred business, the license fee is five hundred dollars ($500.00) per year or any fraction thereof without proration.
18. Professions And Specified Personal Services:
(a) For the rendering and performing of business and professional services in the classifications specified in this subsection where the profession is leasing or renting space within an established business, a license fee is thirty dollars ($30.00) and is due and payable annually:
Accountant, certified public.
Agent, real estate, all others.
Anesthetist.
Architect.
Assayer.
Attorney.
Auditor.
Barber.
Beautician (cosmetology).
Bookkeeping and accounting.
Broker, real estate, insurance.
Chemists.
Chiropodist.
Chiropractor.
Dental lab (technician).
Dentist, orthodontist.
Designer, structural or building.
Draftsman.
Electrolysis.
Engineer, registered.
Esthetics (skin care).
Foot spa.
Geologist.
Manicuring/nail salon.
Medical lab or technician.
Mortgage companies.
Nurse practitioner.
Oculist, optician, optometrists.
Physician, surgeon, psychiatrist.
Physiotherapist.
Psychologist.
Surveyors, licensed land.
Veterinarian.
(b) In the event of an omission of any profession not listed above, the minimum license fee is thirty dollars ($30.00) per year, per person, so engaged.
(c) Whenever more than one person is engaged in the conduct of a profession listed in this subsection, but not limited to, in association with others of the same profession, who is renting or leasing office space, booth space, etc., the license fee for each such additional person is thirty dollars ($30.00).
19. Rental Cars, Automobiles For Hire, Stages: The license fee for rental cars, automobiles for hire and stages is thirty dollars ($30.00) per vehicle, per year.
20. Secondhand Dealer, Secondhand Furniture Dealer: Any person dealing in, buying, selling or exchanging secondhand household furniture or household goods only; provided, however, that this definition does not include any person, firm or corporation who handles or deals in secondhand household furniture or household goods only as an incident to his regular business, or one who conducts or maintains a furniture store and whose principal business consists of buying, selling or dealing in new and unused furniture or household goods. The license fee for secondhand dealers is forty dollars ($40.00) per year.
21. Shows, Theaters, Carnivals, Exhibitions:
(a) For engaging in the business of operating any theater, playhouse or motion picture house at an established place of business, wholly within a structure designed and constructed for theater or auditorium purposes, the license fee shall be one hundred dollars ($100.00) per year.
(b) For operating any carnival, traveling show, collection of shows and/or attractions, exhibitions, rides, concessions, animal or mechanical, games of skill or chance, wherever conducted, the license fee is five hundred dollars ($500.00) for seven (7) days or less.
(c) Whenever any exhibition consists of a circus, animal exhibition or acrobatic performance, the license fee is two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) for two (2) performances.
(d) Whenever any exhibition consists solely of an article of public interest contained in, or upon, a single vehicle not operated in connection with any carnival, circus or traveling show, the license fee is thirty dollars ($30.00) for the first day and then ten dollars ($10.00) per day for each exhibit in, or upon, such vehicle.
(e) For open air theaters, tent shows, trade exhibitions; except exhibitions, shows, etc., given for the benefit of churches, schools or charitable organizations, the license fee shall be thirty dollars ($30.00) for the first day and ten dollars ($10.00) per day for each additional day.
22. Solicitor, Salesman, Service Repairman Or Canvasser:
(a) A solicitor, salesman, service repairman or canvasser, for the purpose of this subsection, refers to any person who goes from house to house or place to place, or at any place, soliciting or taking orders for or offering to sell any goods, wares or merchandise for future delivery to the ultimate consumer or user; or soliciting or taking orders for any services or repairing to be performed in the future or doing or performing any services or repairs. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any solicitor, salesman, service repairman or canvasser employed by any business maintaining and operating an established place of business in the city.
(b) Every solicitor, salesman, service repairman or canvasser shall pay a registration fee of ten dollars ($10.00) per solicitor plus the tax specified in subsection 4-2-29-2(C) of this chapter.
23. Taxicab: The license fee for operation of a taxi service is forty dollars ($40.00) per vehicle per year.
(a) The fee for a driver's permit as required pursuant to subsection 4-19-28(B) of this title is twenty five dollars ($25.00).
(b) The fee to renew a driver's permit, required pursuant to subsection 4-19-28(H) of this title is fifteen dollars ($15.00).
(c) The fee for the transfer, to another carrier, of any driver's permit, required pursuant to subsection 4-19-28(I) of this title is fifteen dollars ($15.00).
(d) The fee for a duplicate of any driver's permit pursuant to subsection 4-19-28(J) of this title is ten dollars ($10.00), and must be paid at the time the request is made.
24. Trading Stamp Company: The license fee for operation of a trading stamp company is one hundred dollars ($100.00) per year.
25. Trucking, Hauling:
(a) For the business of owning and operating any vehicle and/or vehicles for transportation of property for hire, irrespective of point of origin or destination of haul, where such business has an established place of business within the city, the annual license fee is thirty dollars ($30.00) for eight thousand (8,000) pounds and under carrying capacity and forty dollars ($40.00) for carrying capacity exceeding eight thousand (8,000) pounds.
(b) When the business specified in this subsection has no established place of business, the annual fee for operation of each vehicle operated is forty dollars ($40.00) for eight thousand (8,000) pounds and under carrying capacity and fifty dollars ($50.00) for carrying capacity exceeding eight thousand (8,000) pounds.
26. Wireless Television And Wireless Internet Transmission: The license fee for wireless television and wireless internet transmission or similar devices not subject to section 4-11-1 of this title is five percent (5%) of gross revenue generated within the city limits. (Ord. 794-12, 11-20-2012)