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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 284i ORDINANCE No. IY AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF AZUSA LICENSING, FOR THE PURPOSE OF REVENUE AND REGULATION, ALL AND EVERY KIND OF BUSINESS AUTHORIZED BY LAW AND TRANSACTED AND CARRIED ON IN THE CITY OF AZUSA, AND ALL SHOWS, EXHIBITIONS AND LAWFUL GAMES CARRIED ON THEREIN, FIXING THE RATE OF LICENSE TAX UPON THE SAME, PROVIDING PENALTY FOR ALL VIOLATIONS THEREOF, AND REPEALING ALh ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT WITH THIS ORDINANCE. The City Council of the City of Azusa does ordain as fol.lgws: Section l: It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm; co -partnership or corporation, or for any person as agent, servant, clerk or employee, or for himself or for any other person, firm, co -partnership or corporation within the corporate limits of the City of Azusa.to transact, engage in or carry on any pursuit, trade, occupation, avocation, employment, business or calling herein specified until he, she, they or it bhall have first obtained. a license therefor as in this Ordinance required.• Each and every day or fractional part of a day that said pursuit, trade, occupation, avocation, employment business or calling in this Ordinance specified is conducted or carried on without such license, shall constitute a violation of this Ordinance, and any person, who, for himself, or for any other person, firm, co -partnership or corporation shall violate any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall, for each violation thereof, be deemed guilty of a mis- demeanor and upon conviction by any Court having jurisdiction thereof, shall be fined therefor in a sum not in .excess of $200.00, or shall be imprisoned in the City or County Jail not exceeding thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment; provided, however, that if any person shall furnish such evidence as shall satisfy the Chief of Police and the City Clerk, that he was formerly a soldier in the United States Army, or a sailor in the United States Navy, from either of which he was honorably discharged, a. free li- cense may be issued to such party for a limited number of consecutive days to be specified in such license., not in any event to exceed sixty days in any one fiscal year, nor shall more than one such license be issued to or for the benefit of any such person in any one fiscal year, under this proviso. The term or duration of each license shall be annually, quarterly, monthly, weekly or daily, according to the terms of the Section of this Ordinance fixing the amount of each license. Annual licenses shall date from the first day of July; quarterly licenses shall d_ate,from the first day of July, October, January and April of the year in which they are issued; monthly licenses shall, date from the first day of the month in which they are issued. IF[here licenses are issued hereunder for the unexpired part of the term, the amount of license fee required shall be proportioned accordingly; provided, that the minimum license fee for an unexpired. annual term shall. be one quarter of the annual license fee, and the minimum license fee for an unexpired quarterly term shall. be one third thereof. All licenses shall be paid for in advance, and no rebate given for any unused portion of the term. -1- All licenses issued under the provisions of this ordinance shall be posted in the place of business of licensee named in such license and the said license shall be produced by the licensee whenever the same shall be required by the Chief of Police, or any other Officer of the City. It is hereby made the duty of the Chief of Police to enforce all the provisions of this Ordinance. No personal demands or notices by the Chief of Police to such persons owing such licenses.tax shall be necessary to incur t:he penalties of this Ordinance. Section 2: All licenses issued under and by virtue of this Ordinance shall be printed in blank form, signed by the Clerk of the City of Azusa. The City Clerk shall. set forth in. said license the name of the party to whom the license is issued, the nature of the trade or business, he, she, they or it are licensed to pursue the time for which the same is granted, the date thereof, the amount paid. therefor, and the location where said trade, business, calling or avocation is carried on, or proposed to be carried on. The City Clerk shall cause to be printed a sufficient number of such license forms as may be required for one year, in book form with blank stub to each, and shall deliver the same to the Chief of Police from time to ti -e as may be required and charge the Chief of Police there- with, who shall appear at the office of the City Clerk on the first Monday in each month and settle for the licenses sold.; provided, however, that all licenses now issued shall be good for the time for whicl, such l.iccnses were issued, unless sooner revoked by the City Council. The City Clerk shall on application of the Chief of Police issue to him such blank licenses as may be required., receiving at the time of issuing the same, from the Chief of Police, a statement of the person to whom issued and the time of commencement and expiration of said. license, which statement must be inserted by the City Clerk on stub of said license issued and. which stub must be kept in the office of the City Clerk. Section 3: Any license granted or issued under any provision of this Ordinance shall authorize the licensee to transact or carry on the business or calling therein anmed, at the place therein -designated and no other, and the said .license shall not be transferrable nor assignable except by the approval of theCity Clerk, except as provided in Section 4 hereof. No license shall be granted. if any prior license fee remains unpaid. Section 4: No license shall be issued for any livery or feed stable, public laundry where washing is done for hire, hotel, lodging house, service station, gasoline plant, topping plant, oil refinery, absorption plant, warehouse, supply or storage depot or ,yard, cracking plant, dance hall, oil distillery, chop house, coffee house, bakery, restaurant, lunch counter, shooting gallery, billiard room, pool room, pocket billiard room, skating rink, merry- go-round, bowling alley, fortune telling, clairvoyance and kindred practices garage, creamery, auctiong, auction house, junk dealers, wrecking house,'or automobiles for hire at stations, stands, or places on public streets, or peanut venders, tamale stands, or lunch wagons at stations, stands or places on the public streets, or for any game, nor shall. the same be assigned or transferred, except on the order of the City Council of the City of Azusa,, and whenever any person, persons, firm, co -partnership, or corporation, desires to open or keep any business specified -2- in the section, he, she, they or it, shall petition the City Council to order a license therefor, which petition shall set forth the name of the applicant, the character of the business and the location of the premises where the business is to be conducted, and on the hearing of said petition the said City Council may grant the same in whole or in part, or may reject the same and no license shall be issued thereon except as ordered by said City Council. Where any business in this section specified may become dnagerous to.or affect the public health peace or safety, the City Council may refuse to grant the license. Should the City Council of this city at any time determine that the premises wherein any business described in this section is conducted, are not in good and sanitary condition, or not properly drained, or have become dangerous or affect the public peace, and quiet, it may revoke its order requiring the license .for such business to issue and no further license shall be issued thereon until such premises shall have been put in a safe, properly drained and sanitary condition. A separate license must be obtained for each branch establishment or separate place of business in which the business, trade, avocation, calling or occupation is carded on, and such license shall avthorize the party obtaining it to carry on, pursue or conduct only that trade, business, calling, avocation or occupation described in such license, and. only at the _location or place indicated in the license. Every peddler, solicitor, and any other person conducting or carrying on any business, calling, trade, profession, avocation or occupation named in this Ordinance, and not having a fixed and established place of business in the City of Azusa, who carried on his, her,.their or its business by means of canvass from house to house, or place to place, or by means of any motor or other vehicle is required to at all times, while engaged in said business or operating such vehicle, to have in his, her, its or their immediate possession and be able to produce and display to any officer of the City of Azusa requiring the same, the license under which he, she they or it carry on and conduct the said business, profession, calling, avocation or occupation. Section 5: All police officers are hereby appointed inspectors of licenses and in addition to their several duties as police officers are hereby required to examine all, places of business and persons in the City of Azusa liable to pay license for the transaction or carrying on of any business, profession, avocation, trade, calling or occupation as provided by this Ordinance, and to see that such licenses are taken out, and shall exercise in connection with their said duties as license inspectors the power to.make arrests for violation of any of the provisions of this Ordinance; to enter without charge at any time any place of business for which a license is required by this Ordinance and to demand the exhibition of such license for the current term, and if any such person shall there and then fail to exhibit such license, such person shall be liable to the penalty provided for a violation of this Ordinance. It is hereby made the duty of the police officers to cause complaint to be filed against all persons violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance. The Chief of Police is hereby directed to carry into effect the provisions of this Section. -3- Section 6: The conviction and punishment of any person transacting or carrying on any business, trade, calling, profession, avocation or occupation in the City of Azusa without a license as provided by this Ordinance, shall not excuse or exempt such person from the payment of any license due or unpaid at the time of such conviction and nothing herein shall prevent the commencement and maintenance in Court of competent jurisdiction of an action to recover such license tax. Section 7: The provisions of this Ordinance shall not apply to churches, religious societies, fraternal societies, charitable societies of the City of Azusa. Section 8: The rate of license for carrying on the pursuit, trade, occupation, avocation, employment, business or calling specified in this Ordinance shall be as follows: Section 9: The rate of license for carrying passengers in airplanes is hereby fixed at $10.00 per annum. Section 10: The rate of license for the business of auto virecking is hereby fixed at the sum of $25.00 per annum. Section 11: The rate of license for conducting and carrying on the business of auction house or auctioneer for selling goods, wares merchandise, at auction shall be $5.00 per day. Section 12: The rate of .license for carrying on the profession or business of astrology, palmistry, phrenology, fortune telling, car.tomancy, clairvoyance, crystal gazing, hypnotism, mediumship, prophecy, augury, magic, or necromancy where a fee is charged and received for the ractice or exhibition of any such practice, the sum of 20.00 per day. Section 13: The rate of license for conducting the business of buying, selling, leasing, renting, or 91oL exchanging or in any way dealing with real estate or real property as the broker or agent of another or where commissions are received or charged, including the business of soliciting, selling and dealing in fire, liability, accident, automobile, and life insurance of every- kind, shall be $12.00 per annum. Section .14: The rate of license for every person conducting managing or carrying on the'business of an auto for hire is hereby fixed as follows: (a) Pcr each auto capable o'f sedting more than fifteen (15) persons, the sum of $15.00 per annum. (b) For each auto capable of seating more than - seven (7) persons and less than fifteen (15) persons, $12.00 per annum. (c) For each auto capable of sea -ting seven (7) persons or less, $10.00 per annum. (d) For each ambulance, the sum of $10.00 per annum. Section 15: The rate of license for photography for sale of any character not having a permanent place of business, $3.00 per day. Section 16: The rate of license for conducting and carrying on an auto repair shop is hereby fixed at the rate of $12.00 per annum. For the purpose of this section the term "Auto Repair Shop" is defined as any shop, building, room, or place inhere any auto or any parts thereof are repaired, remodbled or or overhauled and a compensation charged. for the same. -4- Section 17: The rate of license,£or conducting, carrying on or managing the business of maintaining any game, exhibition, amusement recreational device or any kind of amusement or entertainment not otherwise provided for in this Ordinance and. charging or collecting any admission or playing fee, or acceptin any free-will offering therefor is hereby fixed.at 150.00 per annum of" $3.00 per day for every game, exhibition, amusement or re- creational devide and for each such amusement or entertainment. ` s , Secti.on.18: the rate of license Xor conducting, managing or carrying on.an amusement.park within any inclosure where an admission fee is charged is hereby fixed at .0100.00 per annum or $5.00 per day. Section•19: The rate•of license for engaging.in or carrying on the business or profession hereinafter enumerated isth.ereby fixed at $12.00 per annum., Architect, assayer, attorney at law, auditor, accountant, chemist, mechanical engineer, chiropractor, dentist, optician, optometrist, chiropodist, civil engineer, electrical engineer, chemical engineer, occulist, osteopath or osteopathist, physician and surgeon and veterinarian.' Section 20: The rate oflicense for conducting, managing or operating a boarding houTe'business if hereby fixed at $8.00 per annum. "Boarding House" is hereby defined as a place other than a Hotel, where regular meals only are offered or sold to the general public or some portion thereof. Section 21: The rate of license for conducting the business of a barber shop where one chair is used $1p.00 per annum, and for each additional chair used $2.00 per annum. If a manicurist is employed in connectionp with such barber shop an"additional license of x$64.00 per annum. Section 22: The'rate of license for carrying on the business of selling or supplying bread, cakes, pies and pastry from a wagon or other vehicle, for each such wagon or vehicle used in said business the sum of 160.00 per annum; provided that no person having a fixed and established bakery in the City of Azusa shall. be required to pay a license for the operation of one or more such wagons or vehicles used by him for the purpose of delivering the products of his bakery upon orders received at said place of business. Section 23: The rate of license for conducting, operating, or maintaining the business of selling, offering .for sale and otherwise dealing in and handling neva automobiles or other motor vehicles, the sum of 012.00 per annum. Section 24: The rate of license for carrying on, managin. or conducting the business of a beauty parlor, the sum of 12.00 per annum. Section 25: The rate of license for conducting, managing or carrying on`a`billiard, bagatelle or pool table , except such as are used in private homeq, $5.00 per annum per table, whether the same is in use or not.($5.00 for first table, and 12.50 for each additional table.) Section 26: The rate of license for conducting a bakery is hereby fixed at $t MO per annum. Section 27: The rate of license for maintaining, conducting and carrying on a banking business shall be $25.00 per annum. -5- Section 28: The rate of license for conducting, carrying on and maintaining a public bath house shall be, and the same is hereby fixed at $12.00 per annum. Section 29: The rate of license for carrying on, . maintaining or operating a blacksmith shop is hereby fixed at $12.00 per annum. Section 30: The rate of license for conducting or maintaining the business of checking room or station, which is hereby defined to mean a place or compartment at which baggage, .parcels, and personal property are checked for hire, shall be $10.00 per annum. Section 31: Contractors are either general contractors or sub -contractors. A general contractor shall be construed to be a person natural or artificial, who enters into contracts to construct buildings or structures of any kind in the City of Azusa for a contract price thereof or for a percentage of its cost, where the value of such structure when completed or the contract price thereof shall be more than $25.00 A subcontractor shall be construed to be person, natural, or artificial, who shall enter into contracts with a general contractor to construct any portion of a building or structure, and which. shall embrace roofing contractors, rig -builders, brickmasons, tile setters cement or concrete workers, or any other trade or craft, not including plumbers or electricians here otherwise licensed. The rate of license for either a general contractor or a subcontractor shall. be the sum of $50.00 per annum. Section 32: The rate of license for conducting the business of a restaurant, cafe, lunch counter, cafeteria, shall be $12.00 per annum. Section 33: The rate of license for every show, concert, theatre or similar entertainment conducted or presented within the City of Azusa, the sum of $12.00 per annum, except as herein otherwise provided. Section 34: The rate of license for every circus or menagerie exhibited within the City of Azusa. the sum of 50.00 per day, and for every sideshow connected therewith the sum of $15.00 per day if a separate admission fee is charged to such sideshow. Section 35: The rate of license for every creamery operating conducted or maintained in the City of Azusa shall be 412.00 per annum. Section 36: The rate of license for conductirlg or maintaining the business of soliciting or canvassing or taking orders for any goods, wares or merchandise, and not having a regularly established nd fixed place of business in the City of Azusa duly licensed hereunder, .or not as agent or representative of such regularly established place of business, the sum of 05.00 per day or 6100.00 per year, and each such person shall, in addition thereto, execute the bond required in Section 123 of this Ordinance in the sum of „$300.00 and deliver the same to the City Clerk of the City of Azusa; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall be deemed to regulate or apply to any interstate commerce or business. Section 37: The rate of license for conducting or maintaing the business of cleaning or pressing clothes, or both, by any person having a permanent place of business in the City of Azusa, is hereby fixed at $12.00 per year. For carrying on the business of soliciting or collecting clothes to be cleaned or dyed when not done as a part M of and incidental to a business for which a license is held hereunder per annum $50.00. Section 38: The rate of license for managing, con- ducting, or carryinZ on the business of a public dance hall, is hereby fixed at 5.00 per day. Section 39: the rate of license for conducting or carrying on the business of dancing academy, which is defined as a place where dancing is taught for a condiderati.on, is hereby fixed at $10.00 per annum. Section 40: The rate of license for conducting or operating the business of drug store is hereby fixed at $12.00 per annum, this license shall not include the right to sell sandwiches, lunches or meals. Section 41: The rate of license for conducting, managing or carrying on the business of electric wiring, or doing any work for which an electric permit is required, is hereby fixed at $50.00 per annum. This license shall include the right to sell electric fixtures and appliances, materials, radio sets and parts, at retail. Section 42:: The rate of license for conducting the business of employment agency or bureau shall be $25.00 per annum. Section 43: The rate of license for conducting or maintaining a warehouse or storehouse in the City of Azusa, where fertilizer is stored and from which fertilizer is sold or distributed to comsumers, per annum..$25.00 Section 44: The rate of license for conducting, managing or carrying on the business of bowling alley is hereby fixed at X12.00 per annum, for each alley, whether the same be used or not, and for carrying on the business of boxball game or alley for each such game or alley the sum of $5.00 per annum whether the same be used or not. Section 45: The rate of license for conducting the business of florist is hereby fixed at $12.00 per annum. Section 46: The rate of license for carrying on or managing a towel service business, $12.00 per annum. "Towel Service Business" is defined as dealing in washing, ironing or exchanging towels for compensation, directly or indirectly. Section 47: The rate of license for conducting or carrying on the business of garage shall be $12.00 per annum. Said license shall. include auto -repair work and automobile accessory business. Section 48: The rate of license for operating, con- ducting, or maintaining the business of hotel or lodging house shall be based upon the number of rooms contained in such hotel or lodging house, and for each such hotel or lodging house having thirty (30) rooms or more the license fee shall be $15.00 per annum; and for all hotels or lodging houses containing fewer than thirty (30) room $10.00 per Annum. Every hotel, lodging house, or apartment house where- in rooms are rented to the public in general shall keep and maintain a register in the office thereof in open view and subject to public inspection, wherein each lodger or guest shall be required to set forth in his or her envn hand writing his or her name and. permanent place of address before going to or being permitted to occupy any such rooms or room or apartment. -7- Section 49: The rate of license for carrying on or maintaining the business of house moving is hereby fixed at 9$15.00 per annum. Every person desiring to engage in the business of house moving shall, before receiving a license .for said business, execute and deliver to the City Clerk the bond required by Section 123 of this Ordinance in the sum of 01000.00. Each application for license to conduct said business shall be accompanied by a statement in writing, giving the name and address of the person, firm or corporation making said application, the address of such, person, firm or corporation, a statement of the number of years engaged in said house moving business, the designation of the last place where such applicant was engaged in said business, and such other matters as the Building Inspector may require. Such house mover must comply with all conditions laid down in the Ordinances of the City of Azusa and must repair and make good all damage or injuries caused by the moving of any house or structure. A permit shall be obtained from the Building Inspector before moving any building the fee to be ap paid for such permi.t is hereby fixed at X2.50. Each application shall specifically state the route to be taken, and the permit shall limit the time for the removing, and any delay of time longer than specified in such permit shall. be deemed a nuisance and a violation of this Ordinance. At the time of the issuance of said permit the applicant shall also pay to the Building.Inspector the sum of $5.00 for the first day and 9$2.50 for each additional day during which such removal is limited. Where a building is to be moved from one part of a lot to another part of the same lot, or from one lot to another lot owned by the same person, and without crossing any street, alley or property of any other person the owner must first obtain a written consent of the wilding Inspector to change the location of such.bui.lding and such consent shall not be granted where there is reasonable ob- jection on the part of the property owner adjoining, and the fee for such permit shall be 9$2.50 and services of a licensed housemover will not be required in such case. Section 50: The rate of license for carrying on the business of selling, peddling or delivering ice from a wagon of other vehicle for each such wagon or vehicle used in said business the sum of U8.00 per annum is hereby fixed; provided, that no person having a fixed ^nd established ice business in the City of Azusa shall be required to pay a separate license for the operation of one or more wagons or vehicles used by him for the purpose of .delivering ice upon order received at his said place of business. Section 51: The rate of license for carrying on or conducting the business of manufacturing and selling ice in the City of Azusa is hereby fixed at $18.00 per annum. Section 52: The rate of license for conducting, managing, or carrying on the business of tin -smith or sheet metal works is hereby fixed at 4$12.00 per annum. M i Sec Section 53: The rate of license for the business of junk collector shall be $12.00 per annum. The rate bf license for the business of junk dealer shall be $15.00 per annum. Section 54: The rate of license for operation of a laundry is hereby fixed at $18.00 per annum. Section 54-A: The rate of license for conducting or carrying on a laundry in the City of Azusa, other than a steam laundry, equipped or partly equipped with machinery for laundry purpose, per annum 84.00.' Section 54-B: For conducting or operating a vehicle for the collection or delivery of laundry work, when not operated as a part or incidental to an established laundry in the City of Azusa for which a license is held hereunder, per month 15.00. Section 54-C: The rate of license for operating or maintaining an agency for collection or delivery of laundry when not operated as a part or incidental to an established laundry in the City of Azusa for which license is hereunder held, per annum.,$60.00. Section 55: The rate of license for ennducting, managing, or carrying on the business of a livery or sales stable is hereby fixed at $12.00 per annum. Section 56: The rate of license for conducting the business of lumber ,yard and planing mill shall be $18.00 per annum. Section 57: The rate of license for carrying on the business of pawn broker shall be $100.00 per annum. Section 58: The conducting and carrying on of wholesale or retail establishments, stores, or places of business of every kind and description not otherwise provided for in this Ordinance, where articles of personal property for use or consumption are loaned, rented, let, served or sold as a business, shall be known and designated as a general business, and the license for conducting the same shall be designated a general business license; provided however, that where a general business .license is granted, the holder thereof, shall not have the right to conduct a restaurant in connection with or as a part of such general business, with- out procuring the restaurant license provided for in this Ordinance, and provided further, that where a general business license is issued and the business conducted thereunder consists in the selling of fruits, confectionery, groceries, dry -goods, hardware, and the other articles of general merchandise or the loaning or the renting of fishing tackle, or other articles of personal property, the holder of the general. business license to so conduct such general business shall not have the right to conduct in connection therewith a restaurant or lunch counter without procuring the restaurant license provided for in this Ordinance; provided that the holder•of any general business license who shall in connection therewith, engage in any other trade, business, calling or occupation for which a license is imposed by this Ordinance, then he shall pay the additional license required by this Ordinange. Section 59: Every place of business opened, established, conducted, managed or carried on under the terms provided for in Section 58 of this Ordinance concerning general business licenses shall be deemed either a permanent or a temporary place of business, as that term is used. herein, is defined to be and shall be construed to mean any general business that is opened, established, and carried on and conducted in the City of Azusa at the date this Ordinance takes effect, and also any business opened, established, conducted, managed / -9- and carried on therein after this Ordinance shall take effect, when the same shall have been opened, established, conducted, managed and carried on for a period. of six (6) consecutive months. Every general business opened, established, conducted, managed or carried on which is not a permanent business as that term is defined in this section, shall be construed to be a temporary business. Section 59: Every place of business opened, established, conducted, managed. or carried on under the terms provided for in Section 58 of this Ordinance concerning general business licenses shall he deemed either a permanent or a temporary place of business. A permanent place of business, as that term is used terein, is defined to be and shall be construed to mean any general business that is opened, established, and carried on and conducted in the City of Azusa at the date this Ordinance takes effect, and also any business opened, established, conducted, managed and carried on therein after this Ordinance shall. take effect, when the same shall have been opened, established, conducted, managed and carried on for a period of six (6) consecutive months. Every general business opened, established, conducted, managed or carried on w hick is not a permanent business, as that term is defined in this section, shall be construed to be a temporary business. The rate of license for a permanent business shall be ;$12.00 per annum, and the rate of license for a temporary business shall be $300.00 per annum, each payable in advance; provided, that any persnn, firm, or corporation engaging in any business which under the terms of this section would constitute a temporary business, may, in lieu of paying the $300.00 license provided for a temporary business pay the license of $$12.00 provided for a permanent business, and at the same time execute and file with the Clerk of the City of Azusa a bond in the sum of $$400.00 with two good and sufficient sureties, approved by the Chief of Police in his capacity as tax and license collector, the same to be conditioned that the licensee will remain in business for a period of six consecutive months from the date of such license, or pay the temporary business license less the amount paid on filing the said bond. Section 60: The rate of license for operating, managing or carrying on the business of maching shop is hereby fixed at $10.00 per annum. Section 61: The rate of license for running or operating a milk wagon or vehicle shall be $36.00 per annum for each such wagon or vehicle. Section 62: The rate of license for conducting a meat market is hereby fixed at $1;12.00 per annum. Section 63: The rate of license for carrying on or conducting a newspaper agency for the regular delivery of such papers, per annum $$4.00 Section 64: Every individual ped,91ing any goods; wares or merchandise not otherwise specified. in this Ordinance shall pay a license tax of $6.00 per day, or $$100.00 per year, which shall include the use of one vehicle, and, in addition thereto, the sum of $$2.00 per day, or $25.00 per year, for each additional vehicle used in such peddling. Every individual applying for a license for peddling, as get forth in the last preceding paragraph, shall, before said license is issued, deposit frith. the City Clerk a personal or surety bond in the amount of $200.00 in accordance with the requirements of Section 123 of this Ordinance. -10- r Section 65: Every person peddling any drugs or medicine, or going ,from place to place or from house to house in the City of Azusa distributing, selling or giving away any drugs or medicines, or any sample or samples of any drugs or medicines, shall pay a license tax ?100.00 per year. It shall be unlawful to peddle any drug or medicine, or to go from place to place, or from house to house in the City of Azusa distributing, selling or giving away any drugs or medicine, or any sample or samples of any drugs or medicine without first procuring a permit from the City Health Officer so to do; provided, however, that the City Health Officer may, if upon examination he shall determine that such drug or medicine is non-poisonous, harmless and not dangerous to life or health, file his statement 9.n writing to that effect with the City Clerk prior to the issuance eg of the license hereunder. Section 66: The rate of license for conducting, managing or carrying on the business of a peddler of flags, banners, toy balloons, horns, trumpets, musical or noise making instruments of any '.rind., toys, bags, buttons, shoe strings, hair pins, lead pencils, combs, or souvenirs of' other novelties of any kind is hereby fixed at 9$5.00 per day, or $50.00 per year. Section 67: The rate of license for engaging in or carrying on the business of peddling, either on foot or by vehicle, of any fruits, flowers, nursery stock, vegetables, pickled goods, preserves, jams, jellies, honey, candy, gum, nuts, ice cream, tamales, box lunches, potato chips, popcorn, poultry, dairy products (except milk) meats, sea products, lubricating oil is hereby fixed at $50.00 per annum, or $2.00 per day, which license tax shall include the use of any vehicle, and in addition thereto an annual license tax of $20.00 or $1..00 per day is hereby fixed for each additional vehicle used in such peddling. No license shall be required of any individual peddling any vegetables, fruits, nuts, meats, flowers, nursery stock, poultry or dairy products raised or produced by the individual peddling the same, or any sea products caught by the individual peddling the same. Section 68: The rate of license for conducting the business of a parking place or station, and which is defined to be a place or station at which automobiles are received. for the purpose of being park&d for hire, shall be as follows: If the place or station in which automobiles are parked will accommodate less than twenty automobiles, 9$10.00 per annum,; if the place or space in which automobiles are arked will. accommodate more than twenty automobiles, 20.00 per annum. Section 69: The rate of license for engaging in, maintaining or carrying on the business of plumbing or house drainage affecting the sanitary condition of any house or building situated within the City of Azusa, is hereby fixed. at X50.00 per annum. Section 70: The rate of license for conducting t a photograph gallery shall be x$12.00 per annum. Section 71: The rate of license for conducting the business of publishing a newspaper or conducting a printing business shall be $12.00 per annum. Section 72: The rate of license for conducting, managing, or carrying on the business of wood, coal, fuel, feed, or milling is hereby fixed at }$18.00 per annum. Section 73: The rate of license for conducting, managin, or carrying on the business of renting ponies is hereby fixed at $12.00 per annum. -11- Section 74: The rate of license for maintaining, carrying on or operating the business of renting automobiles is hereby fixed at $12.00 per annum. Section 75: The rate of license for conducting, managing, or carrying on the business of a shooting gallery is hereby fixed at $4.00 per month or $24.00 per annum. Section 76: The rate of license for conducting, operating, for managing the business of a skating rink is hereby fixed at $29'.00 per annum. Section 77: The rate of license for conducting or carrying on a carnival street fair or fiesta, per day $50.00, provided, that no such license shall be issued without a permit therefor be first obtained from the City Council of said City of Azusa, which permit the said Council, may, in their descretion, grant or deny. Section 78: A lunch stand or street kitchen shall be construed to mean a stand or kitchen at which prepared food is sold or food is cooked for immediate sale, and the lunch stand or street kitchen is portable and so constructed. that it can be moved from place to place. The rate of license for each such lunch stand or. street kitchen is hereby fixed at $12.00 per annum; provided, that no such lunch stand or street kitch.en .shall receive license except upon permit of the City Council. Section 79: The rate of license for carrying on the business of shoe shining stand or boo's black stand is hereby fixed at $4.00 per annum, when not connected with other business for which a license is hereunder held. Section 80: The rate of license for maintaining or carrying on the business of sign painting is hereby fixed at $12.00 per annum; provided that this provision shall not apply to persons painting or posting signs on bill boards owned and maintained by them as an advertising medium for a fee within the City of Azusa. Section 81: The rate of license for conducting, managing or operating an automobile service station is hereby fixed at $12.00 per annum. Section 82: The rate of license for conducting, maintaining and operating an undertaking, embalming or funeral directing business is hereby fixed at $25.00 per annum. Section 83: The rate of license for conducting or carrying on the business of acetylene or electricIl welding is hereby fixed at $25.00 per annum. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in said business of acetylene or electri.cil welding shall at all times maintain adequate screens around and about and over any and all acetylene and electric torches used by him, her, they or it in the welding blzsiness so as to obscure from public view the flame of such acetylene -or electric torch or. torches �rhen in operation. Section 84: For every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of running a tank wagon or other wagon or vehicle for hauling, peddling, or delivering distillate,lga.soline, refined oil, the sum of $18.00 per annum, which license shall include the use of two such tank wagons or other vehicles so run or operated, provided, for each a,'ditional wagon or vehicle an additional license of $3.00 per annum. -12- r - r Section 85: For every person, firm or corporation operating any cart, dray wagon, automobile, truck or vehicle for the transportation of freight material, goods, wares or merchandise for hire when not incidental to a business for which a license is otherwise held under this Ordinance, for each vehicle, td -wit: For each vehicle propelled by motor power not exceeding two tons capacity, per annum $6.00 for each vehicle so propelled exceeding two tons capacity, per annum $8.00; per each such vehicle so propelled exceeding four tons capacity, per annum $12.00, for each vehicle without motor power per annum A4.00. Section 86: The rate of license for conducting or carrying on the business of a jewelry shop including the jewelry repair business where said business is conducted as a retail. business, is hereby fixed at $12.00 per annum. Section 87: The rate of license for operating, conducting or managing the business of auto paint shop, is hereby fixed at $12.00 per annum. Section 88: The rate of license for managing, operating or conducting the business of cobbling or shoe repairing, which is hereby defined to be the business of altering or repairing any or all kinds of shoes, boots, or other footwear, is hereby fixed at $12.00 per annum. Section 89: The rate.of license for managing, conducting or carrying on the business of warehouse or maintaining a place for the purpose of keeping or storing goods, wares or merchandise for hire shall. be $12.00 per annum. Section 90: The rate of license for operating and conducting a fruit and vegetable stand, or fruit stand or vegetable stand is hereby fixed at $12.00 per annum. Section 90-A: The rate of license for conducting, managing or carrying on the business of selling any kind of fruit, vegetables, goods, wares or merchandise from a vehicle, other than a peddler, and having no fixed place of business in the City of Azusa, for each vehicle per annum, $25.00 Section 91: The rate of license for the business of collecting money or accounts, notes, claims or demands for a compensation or commission and for and from the general public is hereby fixed at $12.00 per annum; provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to regularly licensed and practicing attorneys at law. Section 92: The rate of .license for carrying on or conducting or managing the business of second hand furniture, or new and second hand furniture, or second hand or new and second hand household goods, furniture, fixtures„ trappings, is hereby fixed at '12.00 per annum. Section 93: The rate of license for managing, conducting, or carrying on the business of second hand clothing is hereby fixed at $12.00 per annum. Section 94: The rate of license for managing, conducting, or carrying on the business of sere selling, offering for sale or otherwise handling by special retail sale, the stock in trade of any bankrupt or insolvent person the sum of $25.00 per day. Section 95: The rate of license for carrying on, operating or conducting the business of tailor shop is hereby fixed at $12.00 per annum. Section 96: The rate of license for managing, conducting or carrying on the business of selling, offering -13- I ^, for sale, dealing in, renting, leasing or otherwise handling second hand automobiles, trucks or other motor vehicles is hereby fixed at $24.00 per annum; provided that the provisions of this section shall not apply to auto agencies or dealers engaged in the business of selling, handling, or offering for sale new automobiles, trucks or other motor vehicles who take second hand motor vehicles in trade. Section 97: The rate of license for carrying on the business of operating, maintaining or leasing bill boards, when not incidental to or a part of a business for which a license is held hereunder, per annum A100.00, provided that no such license shall be issued without a permit therefor being first obtained from the City Council of the pity of Azusa, which permit the said City Council, may in their descretion, grant or deny. Section 98: The rate of license for carrying on the business of distributing samples or circulars in the City of Azusa, when not incidental to or done as a part of a business for which a license is held as provided in this ordinance, per annum ;p25.00. Section 99: The rate of license for canvassing, selling, peddling or advertising any book or set of books, magazines or other literature, when not done as a part of or incidental to a business for which a license is held under. this Ordinance, per day $5.00. Section 100: The rate of license for soliciting subscriptions for any newspaper when not incidental to a business for which a license is otherwise Pg required under this ordinance, per day $5.00. Section 101: The rate of license for soliciting subscriptions for a newspaper when such solicitor is competing with one or more solicitors for a prize offered by such newspaper, per month, x,10.00. Section 102: The rate of license for carrying on the business of repairing motorcycles and bicycles, or either thereof, per annum 1342.00 Spetion 103: The rate of license for conducting or carrying on the business of a cigar store, per annum ;8.00. Section 104: The rate of license for carrying on the business fo selling fish and meat, or either thereof, from a vehicle, for each such vehicle, per annum $40.00 Section 105: The rate of license for conducting or carrying on a merry-go-round or circular swing for hire, per week, p15.00. Section 106: The rate of license for conducting or carrying on the business of selling, distributing or delivering goods, wares or merchandise from any railway car or cars to any person when not done as a part of or incidental to a business for which a license is held under ordinance, per day ;20.00. Section 107: The rate of license for carrying on the business of dealing in medicines or the businesse of treating diseases of the human body, by any person who calls attention to his wares or method of treatment or advertises the same by the use of music, entertainment, speech or other device, per day, ;$10.00 Section 108: The rate of license for conducting or operating a packing house where fruit is Tacked .for sale or shipping per annum, $25.00. -14- r-, ^, Section 109: The rate of license for carrying on or conducting the business of peddling sandwiches, ice cream, peanuts, candy -or any food articles of any description, from hand cart, -stand, tray, basket or receptacle thus employed, per annum 4 .00. Section 110: The rate of license for carr ring on the business of soliciting orders for paintings, pictures, portraits, photographs, or orders for advertising, or selling or distributing coupons or certificates purporting to be of commercial value, or selling or soliciting subscriptions to the stock of any corporation, when not incidental to carrying on any store or fixed place of business in the City of Azusa, for which a license is held hereunder, per day $10.00. Section 11.1: The rate of license for c(,nducting or carrying on the business of vaudeville or theatre, including moving picture theatre, per annum $'25.00. Section 112: The rate of license for conducting, managing or carrying on the business of selling goods, wares or merchandise by means of vending machines .located in, upon over or along any public street, alley or other public place, per annum $25.00. Section 113: The rate of license for conducting, managing or carrying on a boxing or wrestling exbibitdLon to which admittance is charged, $20.00 for each exhibition. Section 114: The rate of license for conducting, managing or carrying on the business of grinding or sharpen- ing scissors, knives cutlery or mechanical tools when the person conducting such business travels from place to place or house to house, and operates by means of any wagon or other vehicle, X8.00 per annum for each vehicle. When operating on foot $4.00 per annum. Section 115: The rate of license for conducting, managing or carrying on the business of a clothing, watch or jewelry club, per month dP20.00. Section 116: The rate of license for conducting and carrying on the business of pumps and wells for pumping water for sale is hereby fixed in the sum of $50.00 per annum for each well. Section 117: The rate of license for a nursery is hereby fixed in the sum of $12.00 per annum. Section 118: The rate of license for carrying on or conducting a rabbi#ery where rabbits are raised or kept for sale is hereby fixed as follows: (a) For every rabbitery having no less than fifty nor more than 150 rabbits, the sum of „6.00 per annum. (b) For every rabbitery of more than 150 rabbits, the sum of ,p12.00 per annum. Section 119: The rate of license for conducting, managing or carrying on a hennery where chickens or fouls are raised or kept for sale is hereby fixed as follows.: (a) For each hennery of from one hundred to five hundred hens or foul is hereby fixed at 06.00 per annum. / (b) Each hennery of from €i -f five hundred to twenty- five hundred hens or foul is her^.by fixed at $12.00 per annum Section 120: The rate of license for conducting, managing or carrying on a Loan Business when not connected with a Bank holding a license under this Ordinance, is hereby fixed. at x;18.00 per annum -15- Section 128: That all. Ordinances and parts of Ordinance of the City of Azusa in conflict with this Ordinance be, and the same are hereby repealed. The above and foregoing Ordinance No. 284. was passed and adopted at a regular meeting of t e C1 ty Council of the City of Azusa, on the 3 L'f day of ywr 19290 by the affirmative vote of the following nameT members thereof: 1% , AYES: Councilmen: Johnson, Mace, Muehe, Meier. NOES: None. ABSENT: None. Councilman Demmitt not voting. of the Z�Ifi"Y—G�L"L'�Y. o e ity f —Azusa. The above and foregoing Ordinance No.zP� is approved and signed by me this 5+9 day of�, 1929. MAYOR of the City of Azusa.