Chapter 5.28
LICENSE FEES FOR VARIOUS MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESSES
Sections:
5.28.010 Transportation and trucking.
5.28.020 Junk collector or dealer—Auto wrecking.
5.28.030 Fortunetelling and mediumship.
5.28.040 Peddler, solicitor or itinerant merchant.
5.28.050 Sale of Christmas trees, pumpkins or fireworks.
5.28.080 Highest tax applicable.
5.28.010 Transportation and trucking.
Every person not having a fixed place of business within the city who makes wholesale or retail deliveries of goods or services by motor vehicle within the city, or who maintains, installs or repairs goods, wares or merchandise or equipment inside the city, or who provides a service not otherwise covered in this section, shall pay a license as follows: sixty dollars annually, or thirty-five dollars semiannually. A copy of the license issued by the city shall be carried within each such motor vehicle and available for inspection by authorized representatives of the city. (Ord. 720 § 2, 1986: Ord. 717 § 1(f), 1985: Ord. 590 § 8 (part), 1975).
5.28.015 Mobile lunch wagons.
Every person who makes wholesale or retail deliveries of goods or services by motor vehicles used as mobile lunch wagons in selling or delivering boxed lunches, confections, refreshments, cigarettes, tobaccos, and like merchandise shall pay a license fee as follows: sixty dollars annually or thirty-five dollars semi-annually. (Ord. 720 § 3, 1986).
5.28.020 Junk collector or dealer—Auto wrecking.
Every person engaged in the city in the business of carrying on an auto salvage or wrecking business or collecting, buying or selling at either retail or wholesale or otherwise dealing in junk and/or rubbish, waste material, refuse and/or any old rags, sacks, bottles, cans, papers, metals, jewelry, precious metals, rubber, bric-a-brac, cordage, truck or automobile tires, truck or automobile accessories, and truck or automobile parts, and other like articles, whether the same can be sold or otherwise disposed of for the purpose of being treated, repaired or prepared so as to be used again in some other form, shall pay one hundred seventy-five dollars per year. (Ord. 590 § 8 (part), 1975).
5.28.030 Fortunetelling and mediumship.
For every person who carries on, practices or professes to practice the business of the art of astrology, palmistry, phrenology, lifereading, fortunetelling, clairvoyance, crystal gazing, hypnotism, mediumship, prophecy, magic or necromancy and demands or receives a fee for the exercise or exhibition of his art therein, directly or indirectly, either as a gift, donation or otherwise, or who gives an exhibition thereof at any place where an admission is charged, the annual fee to be charged is one hundred eighty dollars for each designated location at which said business is practiced. Each such person shall first obtain a permit from the chief of police. The provisions of Chapter 5.40 shall, except where clearly inapplicable, apply to the application for, issuance of, conditions governing, and revocation of such permit except that restrictions on the hours of operation permitted by said permit need not comply with Section 5.40.070. (Ord. 590 § 8 (part), 1975).
5.28.040 Peddler, solicitor or itinerant merchant.
(a) Every temporary vendor, street vendor or person conducting the business of peddling or soliciting any goods, wares, services, merchandise, or any vehicles used in selling, delivering or offering for sale to residents vegetables, fruits and similar commodities, shall first obtain a permit from the chief of police, and otherwise comply with police requirements under Chapter 5.40, and health requirements for food products under Chapter 7.32.
(b) Every temporary vendor, street vendor, peddler or solicitor shall pay a fee of three hundred dollars annually or twenty dollars per day for each person. (Ord. 717 § 1(g), 1985; Ord. 590 § 8 (part), 1975).
5.28.050 Sale of Christmas trees, pumpkins or fireworks.
(a) Where Christmas trees or pumpkins are sold from a fixed place of business in the city, the license fee to carry on and maintain the business and use licensed at the location at which it is proposed to sell the above items shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) per year.
(b) The licensee shall furnish a cash deposit or bond in the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00). The conditions of the deposit or bond shall be determined by the license collector when the license is issued.
(c) The term "Christmas trees," as used in this section, means Christmas trees, garlands and wreaths only, and shall not include ornaments, toys, light bulbs, Christmas tree lights or strings of lights and shall not include candies, fruits, novelties or other merchandise.
(d) Charity or eleemosynary organizations or institutions shall pay twenty-five dollars ($25.00), and no bond will be required; provided, that a responsible person of the organization or institution guarantees compliance to conditions under which a bond would normally be required. (Ord. 1076 § 2, 2021; Ord. 590 § 8 (part), 1975).
5.28.060 Massage parlors.
A masseur or masseuse shall pay a license fee based on the schedule set forth in Chapter 5.12. Each person operating any such business and each employee of any such business shall first obtain a permit from the chief of police and a use permit issued by the community development department. The provision of Chapter 5.40 shall, except where clearly inapplicable, apply to the application for, issuance of, conditions governing, and revocation of such permit except that restrictions on the hours of operation permitted by said permit need not comply with Section 5.40.070. (Ord. 717 § 1(h), 1985: Ord. 590 § 8 (part), 1975).
5.28.070 Other businesses.
The following businesses shall pay fees as follows:
(1) Pawnbroker, seventy-five dollars per quarter;
(2) Finance company, three hundred dollars per year;
(3) Searchlights not mounted on vehicles, fifty dollars per year, twenty dollars per month or five dollars per day for each searchlight;
(4) Shoe shining. Three dollars per quarter or ten dollars per year;
(5) Auction sale or auctioneer, twenty dollars per day. (Ord. 590 § 8 (part), 1975).
5.28.080 Highest tax applicable.
If a license fee can be calculated either on the basis of this chapter or on the basis of any other chapter of this title, the basis for calculation which will produce the highest license fee shall be used in determining the tax to be assessed. (Ord. 590 § 8 (part), 1975).