(A) General license fee. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, any person, firm, partnership or corporation conducting any trade, business, occupation, service, profession and outdoor advertising for hire, or profit from a place of business within the city, including his own residence or that of another, shall pay an annual license fee of one hundred seventy-five dollars ($175.00). An additional ten dollars ($10.00) late fee will be added for each month after the due date until paid in full. A person opening or starting a business or service during a year or operating a business or service for only a part of a year shall only be liable and required to pay a license fee for the months the business or service is operated.
(B) Alcoholic beverages. A person operating a tavern serving food in connection with the retailing of whiskey, wines, and malt beverages by the drink on his premises shall pay an annual license fee of one hundred fifteen dollars ($115.00)
(C) Automobile sales and service. A person operating a sales establishment for new and used automobiles, trucks, and allied equipment, including repair services for automobiles and trucks, and sales of automotive parts, gasoline, and oils shall pay an annual license fee of four hundred ninety-five dollars ($495.00).
(D) Barber shop, beauty shop. A person operating a barber shop or a beauty shop shall pay an annual license fee of one hundred fifty-five dollars ($155.00)
(E) Coin operated machines.
(1) Coin operated amusement machines.
(a) As used in this division (1), "COIN-OPERATED AMUSEMENT MACHINE" shall mean and include any lawful coin- or token- operated machine or device which contains no element of chance and which as a result of depositing a coin, token, or other object automatically by or through some mechanical operation affords music or amusement of some character with or without vending any merchandise, but in addition to any such merchandise. Such coin-operated amusement machine shall not include any bona fide merchandise vending machine in which there is incorporated no amusement features. (KRS 137.010)
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Editor’s note:
KRS 137.010 repealed 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 13, sec. 3, effective June 30, 1994
(b) Every person operating an establishment in which coin-operated amusement machines, as defined above, are utilized by the public shall pay an annual license fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) for each machine.
(2) Coin-operated service machines. Every person operating an establishment wherein coin-operated machines are used for service, copy machines, and other like service machines, shall pay an annual license fee of twenty-two dollars ($22.00) on each and every such machine on the premises available to the public. This section shall not apply to coin-operated public telephones.
(3) Vending machines. Every person operating an establishment wherein coin-operated vending machines are used shall pay an annual license fee of twenty-two dollars ($22.00) on each and every machine on the premises available to the public.
(F) Construction and building materials. Any person, firm, partnership or corporation, operating a business consisting of but not limited to drawing of plans, labor, subcontracting work, and carpentry, shall pay an annual license fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00).
(1) Subcontractors under this chapter shall be charged an annual license fee of fifty dollars ($50).
(G) Contracting and/or subcontracting. A person engaged in a contracting and/or subcontracting business who uses his residence within the city for office space for storage of tools and equipment only and who can show that more than eighty-five percent (85%) of this business is normally done outside the city shall pay an annual license fee of one hundred fifty-five dollars ($155.00).
(H) Deliveries made within the city limits. Any person, firm, or corporation selling and/or delivering directly for sale (including, but not limited to retailers, householders, wholesalers and distributors) food products, hard goods, clothing, or any other items for resale or individual uses, shall pay an annual license fee of one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125.00). Companies requiring more than twenty (20) truck stickers will be required to pay for additional stickers, at the rate of fifty cents ($.50) each or they may self duplicate as many as needed. All delivery vehicles are required to have a sticker. (Rev. 5-99)
(I) Electrical appliances. A person operating a shop for electrical appliances shall pay an annual license fee of one hundred fifty-five dollars ($155.00).
(J) Electronics sale and service. Any person, firm, partnership or corporation operating a shop for radio, TV, VCR, etc., shall pay an annual license fee of one hundred fifteen dollars ($115.00)
(K) Food market or drugstore. A person operating a retail food market or drugstore carrying a mixed inventory of food items, manufactured tobacco products, beverages, paper goods, and the like shall pay an annual license fee of three hundred dollars ($300.00).
(L) Fresh produce sales. A person operating a shop for retail sale of fresh produce as a specialty shall pay an annual license fee of one hundred fifty-five dollars ($155.00)
(M) Gasoline service station. A person operating a gasoline service station shall pay an annual license fee of one hundred fifty-five dollars ($155.00).
(N) Insurance agency. A person operating an insurance agency shall pay an annual license fee of one hundred fifty-five dollars ($155.00).
(O) Real estate office. A person operating a real estate office or agency shall pay an annual license fee of one hundred fifty-five dollars ($155.00).
(P) Sales of building materials. Any person, firm, partnership or corporation operating sales of lumber and building materials, a woodworking shop producing finished lumber and wood products made to order shall pay an annual license fee of one hundred fifty-five dollars ($155.00).
(Q) Shop for small appliances in the home. Any person, firm, partnership or corporation operating a shop for refrigerators, washers, dryers, etc., shall pay an annual license fee of one hundred fifteen dollars ($115.00).
(Ord. 87-83, passed 3-2-83; Am. Ord. 105-84, passed 5-7-85; Am. Ord. 147, passed 6-1-94; Am. Ord. 153, passed 12-5-95; Am. Ord. 163-1997, passed 5-6-97; Am. Ord. 171-1999, passed 5-11-99; Am. Ord. 238-2011, passed 11-1-11)
(R) Signs.
(1) There shall be no commercial advertising signs erected, installed, posted, or placed within the corporate limits of the city without first obtaining a permit from the City Clerk-Treasurer and paying the fee therefor.
(2) Every person, firm, corporation, or association maintaining any signs which are visible from the exterior, whether it is attached to the structure or free standing, shall pay an annual license fee in accordance with the size of sign as follows:
(a) Signs in excess of 14 by 25 feet or 350 square feet in total measurement shall pay five hundred dollars ($500.00).
(b) Signs in excess of 10 by 18 feet or 180 square feet and less than 14 by 25 feet or 350 square feet in total measurement shall pay one hundred seventy-five dollars ($175.00).
(c) Signs in excess of 6 by 12 feet or 72 square feet and less than 10 by 18 feet or 180 square feet in total measurement shall pay one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00).
(d) Signs under 6 by 12 feet or 72 square feet in total measurement shall pay one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125.00).
(Ord. 93-84, passed 5-1-84; Am. Ord. 163-1997, passed 5-6-97; Am. Ord. 171-1999, passed 5-11-99)
(S) Temporary or transient business. A person engaging in the business of selling merchandise of any kind or character or for the exhibition thereof on a temporary or transient basis shall pay a minimum license fee of five dollars ($5.00) per day or for a part day that said business is conducted and said license fee shall be paid in advance. For more specific license regulations concerning temporary or transient businesses, see Chapter 111 of this code of ordinances.
(Ord. 87-83, passed 3-2-83; Am. Ord. 105-84, passed 5-7-85; Am. Ord. 163-1997, passed 5-6-97; Am. Ord. 171-1999, passed 5-11-99; Am. Ord. 248-2013, passed 8-13-13)
Penalty, see § 110.99