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Home My WebLink About203 Regulations for Business Occupations ORDINANCE NO. mZo3 AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR DEFINITIONS TO BE USED IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF LICENSE TAX RE- GULATIONS FOR BUSINESSES AND OCCUPATIONS; TO PROVIDE FOR PENALTIES FOR DOING BUSINESS WITH- OUT PAYING THE PRESCRIBED LICENSE FEE; ALSO PROVIDING FOR PENALTIES FOR LATE PAYMENT; TO ESTABLISH WHEN VARIOUS LICENSE TAXES FOR BUSI- NESSES AND OCCUPATIONS ARE DUE AND PAYABLE; TO ESTABLISH THAT SUCH LICENSE TAXES ARE PAY- ABLE TO THE CITY CLERK; TO SET OUT THE FORM AND CONTENTS OF EACH SUCH LICENSE ISSUED; TO PROVIDE THAT EVERY LICENSEE SHALL CONSPICU- OUSLY DISPLAY SUCH LICENSES AS IS ISSUED HIM; TO PROVIDE THAT MONIES COLLECTED BY THIS LICENSE TAX REGULATION SHOULD BE PAYABLE TO THE GENERAL FUND; TO PROVIDE WHEN SUCH LICENSES WILL EXPIRE; 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 C'ty of Zephyrhills, any business, profession or occupation mentioned in this Ordinance without first having obtained a license to do so from the City of Zephyrhills, Florida, in the manner as h re— inafter set forth opposite the name of such business, profession, or occupation. Section 3. That all licenses shall be payable on or before the 1st day of October of each year. Section 4. That no license shall be issued for any rac:— tional portion of a year. Section 5. That all license taxes shall be paid to the City Clerk of the City of Zephyrhills, Florida, and the said City Clerk is, hereby, authorized and directed to collect said license tax. Section 6. 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 said license shall be in the form adopted and appro ed by the City Council of the said City of Zephyrhills,,.and sha 1 state the name of the City of Zephyrhills, the name of the p r— son or firm or corporation to whom the license is issued, th nature of the business, profession or occupation to be engag d in or managed, the amount of the license tax paid, the date f issuance and the date of expiration. Section 7. Every licensee shall keep conspicuously osted and displayed in theplace of business, at all times, the li ense which shall have been issued to him under this Ordinance. Section 8. That all license taxes collected by the ity Clerk of the City of Zephyrhills, under the provisions of th s Ordinance shall be promptly paid into the general fund of sa d City of Zephyrhills. Section 9. That all licenses under the provisions o this Ordinance shall expire on the 30th day of September of ach calendar year. Section 10. Following is a table or schedule of the different businesses, professions and occupations for the en age- 2. LJ 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 $ 25.00 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 3. Barber Shops: Two Chairs or less $ 20.00 Each additional chair $ 5.00 Baths, Public $ 20.00 Beauty Parlors Two operators or less $ 20.00 Each additional operator $ 5.00 Beverages; (Intoxicating) Fifty (50%) percent 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 to operate dining room or restaurant) : Four rooms or rental units or less $ 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 4. Building and Loan Associa— tions $150.00 Bus Companies $ 25.00 Cafes; Seats for 15 or more $ 30.00 Seats for less than 15 $ 20.00 Candy and Confectionery, Manu— _ facturers of $ 30.00 Chemist, Analytical $ 25.00 Chiropractor $ 25.00 Contractors; General $ 35.00 All kinds not otherwise . specified $ 25.00 Cutting and Engraving $ 10.00 Dance Academy $ 30.00 Dance Halls $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 $ 25.00 Electric: Light and Power Companies $200.00 Employment Agents $ 20.00 Engineers $ 25.00 Express Companies or Agents $ 50.00 5. Florists $ 25.00 Fortlne Tellers- $500.00 Funeral Home $ 35.00 Furniture Manufacturers $ 50.00 Gas, Dealers (all types) $ 25.00 Hospitals and Sanitariums $ 25.00 Hotels: See Boarding Houses, etc. Hypnotists $500.00 .Ice Distributor (exclusively) $ 10.00 Ice Creams Carts' or wagons, selling at retail $ 10.00 Manufacturers of $ 30.00 Parlors (ice cream exclu— sively) $ 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 $ 25.00 Landscaping and lawn care $ 25.00 Loans, small: Agencies $150.00 Locksmiths and Trunk Repairmen $ 10.00 Lodging Houses : See Boarding Houses, etc. 6. Lumber Dealers . $ 25„00 Machine Shops $ 25.00 Merchants $ 25.00 Merry—go—rounds, Managers or owners of (exclusively) $ 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, Dealersx Wholesale $. 50.00 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 7. • Pawnbroker $100.00 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 News- papers, Magazines $ 25.00 Professions,' not otherwise specified $ 25.00 Public _-Stenographers $ 5.00 Publishers ofNews 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 Rest Homes for Aged $ 25.00 Sash, Door and Blinds, Manu- facturers of $ 20.00 Second Hand Dealers $ 25.00 Sewing- Machine Sales & Repairs $ 25.00 Shoe Repair Shops $ 10.00 Shows of .all kinds, unless other- wise provided for $ 50.00 8. Skating Rinks $ 25.00 Taxi Cabs: Per- Vehicle $ 20.00 Telephone Company $200.00 Typewriter Repairmen $ 25.00 Upholsterers $ 25.00 Veterinarian $ 25.00 Section 11. That all occupational license fees provi ed for by this Ordinance shall be due - and payable on or before October 1st. of each' year, commencing October-. 1, 1972. That the City Clerk shall, no later than September l : 1972, and on or be- fore September 1st of each succeeding year, :_`mail notice by .rdgu- lar U. S. Mail to all persons required to pay occupational license fees under the terms of this Ordinance, said notice stating he amount of occupational license_ fees due. That all such occu a- tional license fees shall be paid on or before October 1st, 972, and on or- before the 1st dayof each succeeding October. Th t ,. .. all licenses not renewed, by the October lst ' date, shall be c n- sidered delinquent and subject to a delinquency penalty of t n (10%) percent for the month of October, plus an additional five (5%) percent penalty for- each month of delinquency thereafte , <- . until paid; '. provided that the total delinquency penalty shal not exceed twenty five . (25%) percent of the occupational Sic nse fee for the delinquent establishment. Any person engaging in or managing any business, occ po- tion, or .profession without first obtaining an occupational license under' the of this Ordinance, shall be subject o a penalty of twenty five (25%) percent of the license determin d ..to be due, in addition to any other penalty provided by this Or i- nonce. 9. Section 12. That any person, firm or corporation vio lating a provision 'of this Ordinance, upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than Five $5.00) Dol ars, nor more than One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars, or by imprisonment in the City Jail for a period of not more than thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the Municipal Judge of the said City. of Zephyrhills, Flori a. Section 13. That all Ordinances in conflict with this Ordinance be and the same are, hereby, now repealed. Section 14. If any section, sub—section, paragraph or other provision ' of .this Ordinance, or its application to any person or . circumstance shall be held invalid or unconstitutional, such holding shall not affect the validity of any other sect on, sub—section, paragraph or other provision or its application to other persons or circumstances. Section 15. This Ordinance shall take effectimmediately upon becoming law, provided, however, that all occupational licenses issued pursuant to the existing Ordinance at . the tine of this effective date, shall remain in effect until October 1st, 1972. The. foregoing. Ordinance No. ,,2O3 was read and -passed - on its firsreading by the City Council of Zep.hyrhills, Flo ida, on the /D day of _ Jv/z , 1972. President of City Council Attest: ity Clerk 10. I _ The foregoing Ordinance No. Z3' was read and passed on its second readin�q� by the City Council of Zephyrhills, Florida, on the e-h rA day of (Jy/y , 1972. e C{ , rha : President of City Council .Attest: ity Clerk cV The foregoing Ordinance No. was read and passed on its third reading by the City Council of Zephyrhills, Flo ida, on the /' day of , 1972. President of City Council -Attest: ,tom :"'City Clerk The foregoing Ordinance No. 2.a3 was approved by me this -- -- day of 'st , 1972. Mayor / Attest: ity Clerk 11. THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT ORDINANCE NO. 203 S BEEN POSTED IN TWO PUBLIC PLACES, NAMELY, THE CITY HALL AN D HE U. S. POST OFFICE FOR A PERIOD OF FIFTEEN DAYS. THE ORDINANCE WAS POSTED. IN THE CITY HALL AND U. S. POST OFFICE ON August 15th 192 AND REMAINED POSTED IN SAID CITY HALL AND U. S. POST OFFICE UNTIL August 30th , 19 72 /7 CITY RK (/ ZEPHYRHILLS, FLORIDA. t V