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HomeMy WebLinkAbout197 Occupational Licenses ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR DEFINITIONS TO BE USED IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF LICENSE TAX REGULATIONS FOR BUSINESSES AND OCCUPATIONS; ' TO PROVIDE FOR PEN- ALTIES FOR DOING BUSINESS WITHOUT PAYING THE PRES- CRIBED LICENSE FEE; ALSO PROVIDING FOR PENALTIES FOR LATE PAYMENT; TO SET OUT CERTAIN EXEMPTIONS FROM THE NECESSITY OF OBTAINING THE LICENSE AS PROVIDED FOR THEREIN; TO ESTABLISH WHEN VARIOUS LICENSE TAXES FOR BUSINESSES AND OCCUPATIONS ARE DUE AND PAYABLE; TO ESTABLISH THAT SUCH LICENSE TAXES. ARE PAYABLE TO THE CITY CLERK; TO SET OUT THE FORM AND CONTENTS OF EACH SUCH LICENSE ISSUED; TO PROVIDE THAT EVERY LIC- ENSEE SHALL CONSPICUOUSLY DISPLAY SUCH LICENSE AS IS ISSUED HIM; TO PROVIDE THAT MONEYS COLLECTED BY THIS LICENSE TAX REGULATION SHOULD BE PAYABLE TO THE GENERAL FUND; TO PROVIDE WHEN SUCH LICENSES WILL EXPIRE; TO PROVIDE THAT AN AFFIDAVIT OF INVENTORY BE EXECUTED BY A PERSON OR ENTITY TAXED ON INVENTORY BASIS; AND TO PROVIDE A SCHEDULE OF THE VARIOUS LICENSE FEES; AND TO REPEAL ANY OF THE ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; AND TO PROVIDE FOR ITS EFFECTIVE DATE . Be It Enacted and Ordained by the City Council of the City of Zephyrhills, Florida; Section 1. That the words "Who pay no other license tax ' as herein used shall be defined and construed to mean those who pay no other license tax to the City of Zephyrhills provided for in this Ordinance. Section 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to engage in or manage within the said City of Zephyrhills, any business, profession or occupation mentioned n this Ordinance without having first obtained a license to do sl from the City of Zephyrhills, Florida, in the manner as hereinafter set forth opposite the name of such business, profession, occu- pation.. � p , or cc pation.. Section 3. That all confirmed cripples or invalids, physi- cally incapable of manual labor, who have been residents of the City of Zephyrhills,. Florida, for at least one (1) year, upon r the submission of proof of such disability, shall be allowed to peddle without paying a license, using their own capital. That in addition thereto, all veterans of the Armed Forces of the United States, with disability ratings as provided by law, shall upon the submission of proof thereof to the City Clerk ' s Office, be allowed to peddle without securing a license under the terms of this Ordinance, provided further that their capital only will be used in such business. That the exemptions provided for i this Section shall not apply to the sale of alcoholic beverages of any type and tobacco.. Section 4. That all licenses shall be payable on or before the 1st day of October of each year. Section 5. That no license shall be issued for any frac- tional portion of a year. Section 6.. That all license taxes shall be paid to the City Clerk of the City of Zephyrhi.11s, Florida, and the said City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to collect said license tax. Section 7.. That upon the payment of the license tax in the amount and in the manner as herein provided, the City Clerk of the said City of Zephyrhills, shall issue a license to the person, firm or corporation paying the required license tax, and sai license shall be in the form adopted and approved by the City Council of the said City of Zephyrhills, and shall state the name of the City of Zephyrhills, the name4.of- the person or firm or corporation to whom the license is issued, the nature of the business, profession or occupation to be engaged in or managed, the amount of the license tax paid, the date of issuance and the date of 'expiration. 2. Section 8. Every licensee shall keep conspicuously posted and' displayed in the place of busines's at all times the licen e which shall have been issued to him under this Ordinance. Section 9. That all license taxes collected by the City Clerk of the City of Zephyrhills, under the provisions of this Ordinance ' shall' be promptly paid into the general fund of sai City of Zephyrhills.. Section 10. That all -licenses ,under the provisions of t is • Ordinance shall expire on the 30th day of September of. eachcal- endar year. Section 11. _ That any person, - party, firm or business, who or which intends to make application for 'a to carry on an occupation or business in the city of Zephyrhills, the license fee for which is to be established upon the inventory of such cp licant • or his or its. business, as hereinafter provided for, shall not later than the 1st day of September next preceding the Octob r 1st of the year for which such! license is to . be obtained, fu nish to the City Clerk of the City of Zephyrhills a sworn:. affidav't as to the inventory of such applicant or his :or its business,- as ' • of the lst day of . the next preceding January or the next pre eding 1st 'day of the fiscal year under which said applicant is operating his or its business; for which the application for, license is made.. Provided, however., that, 'in the event of an emergency, the City Clerk may waive the said September 1st time limit for the presenting of such affidavit, provided, however, that it sha l be furnished before October 1st of the year 'for which issued, a d that in no instance shall such business, the license tax' for which is based 'on its inventory, be issued a license until the City Clerk has received an affidavit as hereinabove provided for. 3. Section 12. Following is a table or schedule of the different businesses, professions and occupations for the engage— ment in which city licenses shall be required as hereinabove provided, and the amounts to be paid for such licenses shall be as follows : Absent Treatment Healers $500.00 Abstractors of Titles $ 25.00 Accountants $ 25.00 Architects $ 25.00 Arms, Dealers in (exclusively) $ 25.00 Artificial Stone Dealers $ 25.00 Astrologists $ 25.00 Attorneys at Law: Per Attorney $ 25.00 Auctioneers $ 25.00 Automobiles : Dealers $ 25.000 Filling Stations $ 20..00 For Hire ( per vehicle) $ 20.00 Garages $ 20.00 Repair Shops $ 20.00 Truck Dray (per vehicle) $ 20.00 Bakeries (exclusively) $ 10.00 Ball Games (Professional and Semi- Professional) Per Season $ 25.00 Banks, Bankers or Trust Companies $150.00 Barber Shops : Two Chairs or less $ 20.00 Each additional chair $ 5.00 4. Baths, Public $ 20,00 Beauty Parlor: Two operators or less $ 20.00 Each Additional Operator $ 5.00 Beverages : (Intoxicating) 50% of State and County License Bicycles: Repair Shops $ 10.00 Billiard or Pool Halls : Four Tables or less $ 50.00 Each Additional Table $ 10.00 Boarding Houses, Lodging Houses, Hotels, Tourist Camps and Motels, (not including right tooperate dining room or restaurant) : Four rooms or rental units or less fl $ 20.00 Each additional room or rental unit $ 5.00 Bond Brokers $ 20.00 Book Agents $ 30.00 Bottling Plants $ 50.00 Bowling Alleys $ 30..00 Brick Yards or Factories, when paying no other license $ 30.00 Brokers : Bond $ 25.00 Merchandise $ 25.00 Stocks $ 25.00 Building and Loan Associations $150.00 • Bus Companies $ 25.00 5. Cafes : Seats for 15 or more $ 30.00 Seats for less than 15 - $ 20.00 Candy and Confectionery, Manufac— turers of $ 30.00 Canvassers, selling merchandise retail for non—resident dealers $ 30.00 Chemist, Analytical $ 25.00 Chiropractor $ 25.00 Circus or Carnivals, each day $ 50.00 Contractors : General $ 35.00 All kinds not otherwise specified $ 25.00 Cutting and Engraving $ 10.00 Dance Academy $ 30.00 Dance Halls : One night $ 20.00 Annual $100.00 Dentist $ 25.00 Detective : Agency $ 25.00 Private $ 25.00 Directories, Dealers in $ 25.00 Doctors $ 25.00 Dry Cleaners and Steam Cleaners, local ( Including Laundries ) $ 25..00 Electric : Light and Power Companies $200.00 Employment Agents $ 20.00 Engineers $ 25.00 6. Exhibitions : (If not otherwise provided for) Each day $ 50.00 Express Companies or Agents $ 50.00 Florists $ 25.00 Fortune Tellers $500.00 Funeral Home $ 35..00 Furniture Manufacturers $ 50.00 Gas, Dealers (all types) $ 25.00 Hawkers and Street Vendors $ 30.00 Hospitals and Sanitariums ' $ 25.00 Hotels : See Boarding Houses, etc. Hypnotists $500.00 Ice Distributor (exclusively) $ 10.00 Ice Cream : Carts, or wagons, selling at retail $ 10.00 Manufacturers of $ 30..00 Parlors (ice cream exclusively) $ 10.00 Insurance : Per Each Company $ 25.00 Per Each Agent $ 25.00 Jewelers and Watch Repairmen $ 15.00 Junk Dealers $ 50.00 Knife Racks, Ball Throwing Games,. and Concession -Stands : Per day $ 25.00 Landscaping and lawn care $ 25.00 Loans, small : Agencies $150.00 7. Locksmiths and Trunk Repairmen $ 10.00 Lodging Houses : See Boarding Houses, etc. Lumber Dealers : First $1,000.00, inventory value $ 10.00 Each additional $1,000.00 $ 2.50 Machine Shops $ 25.00 Merchants : First $5,000.00, inventory value $ 25.00 Each additional $1,000.00 $ 2.50 Merry-go-rounds, Managers or owners of (exclusively Per Day $ 25.00 Milk Vendors $ 25.00 Mobile Home Parks : For 10 mobile homes or less $ 25.00 For each additional unit• $ 1.00 Mobile Home Sales $ 25.00 Mortgage Companies $150.00 Moving Picture Shows $ 25.00 Music Boxes, ;Owners and Managers of : Per Box $ 20.00 • Naturopath • $ 25.00 Novelty Works _ $ 25.00 • Oculists $ 25.00 Oil Wells, Stock Salesman $100.00 Oil, Dealers : Wholesale $ 50.00 8. Retail $ 25.00 Fuel $ 25.00 Opticians $ 25.00 Optometrists $ 25.00 Osteopath $ 25.00 Packing Houses, Meats, Tobacco, fruits or vegetables $ 50.00 Palmists $500.00 Pawnbroker $100.00 Peddlers (all types) $ 25.00 Pest Exterminators $ 25.00 Pharmacists $ 25.00 Photographers $ 25.00 Physicians and Surgeons $ 25.00 Piano and Organ Dealers $ 25.00 Piano Tuners $ 10.00 Picture Agents $ 50.00 Printing, Publishers of Newspapers, Magazines $ 25.00 Professions, not otherwise specified $ 25.00 Public Stenographers $ 5.00 Publishers of News Periodicals, including Job Printing $ 25.00 Radio Repair Shops (exclusively) $ 10.00 Railroad Companies $ 50..00 Real Estate : Broker $ 25.00 Salesmen $ 10.00 Restaurants : Seating 15 or more $ 30.00 Seating less than 15 $ 20.00 Drive—In $ 50.00 9. Rest Homes for Aged $ 25.00 Sash, Door and Blinds, Manufacturers of $ 20.00 Second Hand Dealers $ 25..00 Sewing Machine Sales & Repairs $ 25.00 Shoe Repair Shops $ 10.00 Shows of all kinds, unless otherwise provided for Each day $ 50000 Skating Rinks $ 25.00 Solicitors, Selling Merchandise at retail for non-resident dealers $ 30.00 Taxi Cabs : Per Vehicle $ 20.00 Typewriter Repairmen $ 25.00 Upholsterers $ 25.00 Telephone Company $200.00 Section 13. That all occupational license fees provided for by this Ordinance shall be due and payable on or before October lst of each year, commencing October 1, 1971. That the City Clerk shall no later than September 1, 1971 and on/or before September 1 of each succeeding year mail notice by regular U. S. Mail to all persons required to pay occupational license fees under the terms of this Ordinan e, said notice stating the amount of occupational license fees d e. That all such occupational license fees shall be paid on or before October 1st, 1971, and on or before the lst day of each succe ding October. That all occupational license fees remaining unpaid after October 15, 1971, and on October 15th of each year they - after, shall bear a penalty of 10% of the amount due, which 10% penalty amount shall be computed monthly and added to the totc 1 amount of such license fee, until the full amount is paid. 10. Section 14. That any person, firm or corporation violating a provision of this Ordinance, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than Five Dollars ($5.00), nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), or by imprisonment in the City Jail for a period of not more than thirty (30) days � l or by both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the Municipal Judge of the said City of Zephyrhills, Florida. Section 15. That all Ordinances in conflict with this Ordinance be and the same are, hereby, now repealed; Section 16. If any section, clause or provision of this Ordinance shall for any cause be held void and of no effect, that it shall not affect the validity of the remainder of this Ordinance. The foregoing Ordinance No. J ,7 was read and passed on its first reading by the City Council of Zephyrhills, Florida on the /+ day of CJ ire e , 1971. Vice- President or City Council Attest : City Clerk The foregoing Ordinance No. was read and passed o its second reading by the City Council of Zephyrhills, Florida, on the / day of C/O/y , " 1971. ; President of Cityf" ouncil //" Attest : J &w, J rcity Clerk / 11. The foregoing Ordinance No.. / 97 T was read and passed upon its third re�ding by the City Council of Zephyrhills, Florida, on the /E t ' day of , 1971. ,rte_ , President of City/Council • i. Attest : Clerk The foregoing Ordinance No. /_ 7 was approved by me t is ia2 - day of , 1971. Mayor ``' Attest : City Clerk 4,6 12. THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT ORDINANCE NO. 197 AS BEEN POSTED IN TWO PUBLIC PLACES, NAMELY, THE CITY HALL AND THE U. S. POST OFFICE FOR A PERIOD OF FIFTEEN DAYS. THE ORDINANCE WAS POSTED. IN THE CITY HALL AND U. S. POST OFFICE ON July 13 t L9 71 AND REMAINED POSTED IN SAID CITY ALL AND U. S. POST OFFICE UNTIL July 29 , 1971, //TTY CLERK ZEPHYRHILLS. FLORIDA.