Arcadia Municipal Code § 6220.41 Same

Except for those businesses, trades or occupations for which a license fee is specifically required by any other provision of this Code, the following license fees are established and shall be paid by the owners or agents thereof at the time, in the manner and in the amount in the following subsections specified respectively for each of the following businesses, trades or occupations.

(Amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

Effective January 1, 1989 and each succeeding January 1 thereafter, the schedule of business fees established by the City Council shall be adjusted in accordance with the provisions of this Section. In December of each year, the Finance Director shall review the most recent October All Urban Consumer Price Index (CPI), for the Los Angeles-Anaheim-Riverside Area published by the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics. When such index differs from the index for the previous October, the factor of increase or decrease shall be applied to the schedule of business fees. Such factor shall be computed by dividing the CPI for the current October by that pertaining to the previous October. The business fees then in effect shall be multiplied by said factor and rounded off to the nearest dime, to determine the adjusted business fees for the following calendar year.

(Added by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person/company who distributes posters, dodgers, free samples and printed advertisements, One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00) per year. This subsection shall not apply to the proprietors of businesses in the City when advertising such business and possessing a valid license for such business.

(Amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88; amended by Ord. 2052 adopted 6-4-96)

For every person engaged in soliciting advertising where no regularly established place of business is maintained in the City, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per year or fraction thereof, and for every such person who has a regularly established place of business, Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per year plus Ten Dollars ($10.00) per year for each employee.

(Amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person operating an advertising vehicle on public streets or property, Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per day per vehicle.

(Amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person renting, leasing, owning or maintaining, as a business or in connection with any business, any amusement or game machine or device, any jukebox, any device for the playing of records or music automatically upon deposit of a coin, slug or other device, any pinball machine or any other or similar instrument, machine or device of like character not prohibited by law, where any sum is charged by means of a coin, slot or otherwise, Sixty Dollars ($60.00) per year or fraction thereof for each such machine or device.

(Amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person engaged in the business or occupation of conducting an apartment house or a bungalow court, Forty Dollars ($40.00) per year for the first four (4) rental units plus Ten Dollars ($10.00) for each additional rental unit.

(Amended by Ord. 1146 adopted 11-29-61; amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person engaged in the business or occupation of conducting a motel, motor court, auto camp, hotel, rooming house or lodging house, Forty Dollars ($40.00) per year for the first four (4) rental units plus Six Dollars ($6.00) for each additional rental unit.

(Added by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88. Formerly 6220.5.1 added by Ord. 1126 adopted 5-2-61 and repealed by Ord. 1146 adopted 11-29-61)

For the purpose of computing the fee applicable under Section 6220.6 or Section 6220.6.1, any portion of the premises occupied by the manager or owner thereof or any other person shall be deemed a rental unit if such portion contains dwelling or sleeping facilities.

(Added by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every auction or retail sale conducted by the day from a temporary location in the City, Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per day. No license shall be required for selling of goods at public sale belonging to the United States or to the State or for the sale of property by virtue of any process issued by any State or Federal Court, etc.

(Amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every retail sales vendor conducting business by the day from a temporary location in the City and sponsored or organized and operated by a charitable, nonprofit, civic or religious organization, there shall be a daily fee of Eight Dollars and Fifty Cents ($8.50) for the first three (3) consecutive days. If the event exceeds three (3) consecutive days, there shall be one fee of Twenty-five Dollars and Fifty Cents ($25.50). Events organized and sponsored as above shall not exceed seven (7) consecutive days. Qualifying events must have a charitable solicitation permit approved and issued by the City.

(Added by Ord. 2052 adopted 6-4-96)

For every City-authorized farmer's market, the sponsor of the farmer's market shall pay an annual/seasonal fee of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250).

(Added by Ord. 2090 adopted 8-4-98)

For every retail sales vendor conducting business and approved to participate in the Certified Farmer's Market and not qualifying under Section 6211.5.1 from the location specified as the Certified Farmer's Market approved by the City, the seasonal fee of Thirteen Dollars and Twenty Cents ($13.20) shall be assessed. The Business License will be in effect for the duration of the annual Certified Farmer's Market. The Business License issued for retail sales will expire on the last approved date of the annual season of the Certified Farmer's Market.

(Added by Ord. 2090 adopted 8-4-98)

For every person conducting or managing any business, occupation or enterprise described in and regulated by Division 3 of Part 2 of Chapter 4 of this Article, the fee for such license shall be and the same is hereby fixed as follows: For a period not to exceed thirty (30) days, Fifty Dollars ($50.00); for a period not exceeding sixty (60) days, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00); for a period not exceeding ninety (90) days, One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00); provided that only one (1) such license shall be issued to any one (1) person within a twelve (12) month period, and no such license shall be issued for less than thirty (30) days nor more than ninety (90) days.

(Amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person conducting or managing the business of advertising by means of billboards, bulletins, searchlights or other media on private property, Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per year, plus Ten Dollars ($10.00) per billboard.

(Amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every place where billiards or pool are played, or bowling or tenpin alleys, shuffleboard, table shuffleboard, skee-ball or other similar device, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per year, plus Ten Dollars ($10.00) per year for each table or alley or device.

(Amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every wild west show, carnival or other exhibition or entertainment at which feats of horsemanship, acrobatic feats or mechanical amusement devices are exhibited or displayed, or other similar show or exhibitions, One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00) for the first day and Twenty Dollars ($20.00) for each additional day.

(Amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person selling Christmas trees or pumpkins other than as a part of and at the same location as a business then and theretofore licensed on an annual basis pursuant to Section 6220.33.1, Sixty Dollars ($60.00) per month or fraction thereof.

(Added by Ord. 1184 adopted 8-21-62; amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1846 adopted 4-21-87; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

The fee specified in the preceding Section shall not apply to a nonprofit charitable, religious, patriotic, philanthropic, benevolent or fraternal organization if no portion of the proceeds of any such sales inures to the personal benefit of any individual engaging in such sales.

(Added by Ord. 1184 adopted 8-21-62; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For each exhibition for pay of a circus, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00).

(Amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person engaged in the business or occupation of conducting the rental of commercial building property, Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per year for the first two (2) rental units plus Ten Dollars ($10.00) for each additional rental unit thereafter.

(Added by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every general engineering contractor or general building contractor One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00) per year.

(Amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every contractor as defined in Section 6110, other than a general engineering contractor or a general building contractor required to be licensed under the preceding Section, One Hundred Twenty Dollars ($120.00) per year. A separate license shall be required by this Section for an electrical contractor or a plumbing contractor even though licensed under the preceding Section as a general contractor.

(Added by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person conducting, managing or carrying on any public dance hall, dance floor or ballroom open to the public, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per year.

(Amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For each exhibition for pay of any rare or unusual animal or thing, Ten Dollars ($10.00) per day.

(Amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person engaged in the business of care of seven (7) or more children or adults from two (2) different families and having a license from the State of California Department of Social Services, Sixty-two Dollars and Thirty Cents ($62.30) per year. The Code Sections 9285.1 through 9285.17 do not apply to this occupation.

(Former Section repealed by Ord. 1549 adopted 12-2-75 and a new Section was added by Ord. 2052 adopted 6-4-96)

For every boutique sale and craft show held from a residential location in accordance with the regulations in Sections 6437.1.2 and 6437.2 the fee shall be Eight Dollars and Fifty Cents ($8.50) per day with a limit of Fifty-one Dollars ($51.00) per year. Sales from a church, school, place of assembly or commercial location shall charge a fee of Eight Dollars and Fifty Cents ($8.50) per day with a limit of Seventy-six Dollars and Fifty Cents ($76.50) per year.

(Former Section repealed by Ord. 1146 adopted 11-29-61 and a new Section was added by Ord. 2052 adopted 6-4-96; amended by Ord. 2062 adopted 12-17-96)

For every person engaged in the business of moving houses, One Hundred Twenty Dollars ($120.00) per year.

(Amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person engaged in the business of collecting, purchasing, selling or dealing in junk, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per year.

(Amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For each self-service laundry, laundromat, or launderette, Twenty Dollars ($20.00) per year plus One Dollar ($1.00) per year for each washing machine upon the premises of such laundry, laundromat or launderette.

(Amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every business operating any vehicle gathering, securing or accumulating soiled articles of clothing, bedding or any other article or articles in the City for the purpose of carrying, hauling or transporting the same to any laundry located outside of the City, Sixty Dollars ($60.00) per year or fraction thereof per vehicle.

(Amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person conducting or operating any flying horses, merry-go-rounds, ferris wheels, or other riding devices, upon a temporary or transient basis, when said flying horses, merry-go-rounds, ferris wheels, or other riding devices are not shown with any other show, game, attraction or carnival as mentioned in this Part, Twenty Dollars ($20.00) per day.

(Amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person engaged in the business of extracting, excavating or exploiting natural resources such as rock, sand, gravel or other rock products, the sum of one percent (1%) of the gross receipts derived by such person from the sale thereof.

For every person engaged in the business of receiving any material authorized for a classified or unclassified landfill, the sum of one percent (1%) of the gross receipts derived by such business.

(Amended by Ord. 1421 adopted 11-3-70; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88; amended by Ord. 2052 adopted 6-4-96)

Gross receipts shall mean and include the total amount of the sales price of all sales of material extracted, excavated or exploited, including any sum charged or collected for the performance of any act or service in connection therewith.

(Amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

The license fee thus imposed shall be computed and payable upon a quarterly basis and shall be paid within ten (10) days after the end of each quarter for which it is thus payable.

(Amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person conducting a patio, garage and/or backyard sale from their residence with a permit and in compliance with the regulations in Division 7, a fee of Five Dollars ($5.00) per permit with a limit of Ten Dollars ($10.00) per year for each location.

(Former Section repealed by Ord. 1793 adopted 7-17-84 and a new Section was added by Ord. 2052 adopted 6-4-96)

Those engaged in fortunetelling as defined in Section 6616 of the Arcadia Municipal Code shall pay an annual fee of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00).

(Amended by Ord. 1817 adopted 8-6-85; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person engaging in the business of a private patrol, Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per year.

(Amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every pawnbroker, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per year.

(Amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every peddler or solicitor having no established place of business in the City, Forty Dollars ($40.00) per month per peddler or solicitor.

(Amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every peddler or solicitor having an established place of business in the City, Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per year for a master license and an additional fee of Ten Dollars ($10.00) per peddler or solicitor per year for each individual peddler or solicitor.

(Amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person not having a regularly established place of business in the City and engaged in making photographic exposures for sale within the City, One Hundred Twenty Dollars ($120.00) per year or fraction thereof.

(Amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person conducting, managing or carrying on a business of hatching, raising, breeding or selling birds, fowl, poultry, rabbits or animals, other than horses, or the business of selling any of the foregoing or the offspring, products or by-products of any of the foregoing, Fifty Dollars ($50.00) plus Ten Dollars ($10.00) for each employee.

(Amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person engaged in any professional occupation or semiprofessional occupation which is regulated by the State of California, either as an individual, partner, associate or otherwise than as an employee, Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per year, plus Twenty Dollars ($20.00) per year for each employee required by the State of California to be licensed, plus Ten Dollars ($10.00) per year for each other employee.

(Amended by Ord. 1256 adopted 8-27-64; amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person engaged in trade services listed below and any occupation, trade or craft for which no license is herein otherwise specified, and persons primarily engaged in selling, performing or furnishing services other than commodities, including trades and crafts, and all other persons engaged in a business for which no license is herein otherwise specified, an annual license fee computed as follows: Fifty Dollars ($50.00) plus Ten Dollars ($10.00) for each employee employed in such business. Employees engaged solely in rendering services to the City, either under contract or as employees, shall be excluded in computing the amount of fee due under this Section:

a. Barber shop/beauty parlor;

b. Charter buses;

c. Fumigating and spraying;

d. Hospital/nursing home / convalescent home/ maternity home;

e. Kennels;

f. Laundry;

g. Photograph studios;

h. Photograph laboratory;

j. Restaurant;

k. Retail outlets;

l. Private schools.

(Added by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88; amended by Ord. 1905 adopted 4-4-89)

For every person engaged in business as a real estate broker, Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per year plus Ten Dollars ($10.00) per year for each salesman and employee.

(Amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For each side show where a separate admission is charged, Twenty Dollars ($20.00) per day, unless such side show is a part of a carnival or circus licensed under this Chapter.

(Amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every skating rink or shooting gallery, Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per year or fraction thereof.

(Amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person operating or maintaining a social club in which club charges are made to members in addition to membership fees, for games or entertainment, excepting the food furnished the members of said club, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per year.

(Amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person engaged in the business of selling upon the streets flags, balloons, banners, canes, horns, trumpets, musical instruments, toys, buttons, badges, serpentines or souvenirs of any kind, Twenty Dollars ($20.00) per day.

(Amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person operating a taxicab business, Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per year for each taxi or taxicab.

(Amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person engaged in the business of conducting a theatre or moving picture show, either at an established place of business or by means of a mobile unit, Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per year.

(Amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person engaged in the business of conducting an open air theatre or tent show wherein vaudeville, comic, dramatic or operatic productions or performances are given, motion pictures shown or exhibited, as an independent business and not as a part of any other business or entertainment, Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per day.

(Amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For each separate exhibition of minstrels, opera or concert singers, Fifty Dollars ($50.00).

(Amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person who by any means engages in the business or practice of disseminating, distributing, passing out, giving away, handing out, selling, offering for sale, or soliciting for the sale of any sheet, dodger, handbill, circular, letter, booklet, or any other printed, typewritten, mimeographed or written matter of any kind, other than a newspaper, pertaining to any horse race, choice of a horse or horses, recommending any horse or horses, or giving or conveying any information about any horse, horse race or contest of endurance or speed between horses or beasts, if upon property owned and controlled by any racing association duly licensed by the State to conduct horse racing under and in accordance with the laws of the State relating to such matters and in conjunction with which such property is used by such racing association, Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) for a twelve (12) months period commencing December 1 and ending November 30; if upon any other privately owned property, Twelve Hundred Dollars ($1,200.00) for such twelve (12) months period. The number of persons allowed to distribute such material under any one license shall not exceed the number specified in Section 6426.

(Amended by Ord. 1104 adopted 11-1-60; amended by Ord. 1107 adopted 12-6-60; amended by Ord. 1127 adopted 5-16-61; amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person who, by any means other than by newspaper or by any means described in Section 6220.42, engages in the business or practice of disseminating, distributing, conveying, passing out, giving away, handing out, selling, offering for sale or soliciting for the sale of any information or recommendation pertaining to the probable or possible outcome of any race or contest of endurance between horses or beasts or any choice of, preference for, or recommendation concerning any horse or beast engaged therein, Twelve Hundred Dollars ($1,200.00) for a twelve (12) month period commencing December 1 and ending the following November 30, for each person so engaged. (Added by Ord. 1159 adopted 12-19-61; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88; repealed and re-enacted by Ord. 1165 adopted 2-20-62)

(Former Section 6220.56.1 added by Ord. 1104 adopted 11-1-60 and repealed by Ord. 1107 adopted 12-6-60)

For every person engaged in the business of renting, leasing, operating or maintaining any vending, weighing, or merchandise machine or device, not otherwise licensed under this Part and not prohibited by law, charged by means of a coin or token slot or otherwise, Ten Dollars ($10.00) per year or fraction thereof for each such machine or device.

(Amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For the purpose of this section, a bulk vending machine is defined as a nonelectrically operated vending machine, containing unsorted confections, nuts or merchandise which, upon insertion of a coin, dispenses the same or equal portions at random and without selection by the customer. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6220.43, when bulk vending machines are locked, bolted or otherwise firmly attached in clusters of two (2) or more machines on one (1) stand, the following fee shall be Ten Dollars ($10.00) per year.

(Added by Ord. 1378 adopted 3-19-68; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

Every person who, in conjunction with the business in which such person is engaged, runs, drives or operates, and every person engaged in the business of running, driving or operating, for hire or otherwise, any wheeled vehicle for the purpose of hauling, distributing, selling, receiving or delivering, and who actually hauls, distributes, sells, receives or delivers within the City for resale or otherwise, personal property of any kind, nature or description, unless otherwise provided in this Part, Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per year for each such wheeled vehicle so run, driven or operated. The provisions of this Part, unless otherwise in this Chapter provided, shall not apply to any person having a fixed place of business within the City which has been licensed under this Chapter and who in the usual course of business uses a wheeled vehicle or vehicles for the delivery of personal property which has been sold from said place of business.

(Amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

Every person who, in conjunction with the business in which such person is engaged, uses, drives or operates a fleet of five (5) or more wheeled vehicles for any of the purposes stated in subsection 6220.44, and no more than five (5) wheeled vehicles are used by such person in the City in any one (1) day in connection with the business in which such person is engaged, shall be deemed to have complied with the license requirements for all such wheeled vehicles of such fleet, upon payment of a license of Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) per year and the compliance with the provisions of subsection 6212.4 as to license decals for each wheeled vehicle of such fleet. The license provided for in this section shall be known as a "Fleet License."

(Amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person, including persons having a fixed place of business in the City, engaged in the business of selling at retail foodstuffs for human consumption from a wheeled vehicle upon the streets, over a fixed route from door to door or otherwise, except retail milk delivery or retail ice delivery, and unless otherwise provided in this Part, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per year for each vehicle so used.

(Amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)

For every person engaged in the business of selling goods, wares or merchandise at wholesale and for every person engaged in the business of manufacturing, processing or fabricating goods, wares or merchandise, unless otherwise in this Part expressly provided, an annual license fee computed as follows: Fifty Dollars ($50.00) plus Ten Dollars ($10.00) for each employee of said person actually employed in said business within the City.

(Amended by Ord. 1354 adopted 7-18-67; amended by Ord. 1896 adopted 10-20-88)