Blue Lake Municipal Code Ch. 5.08 Business License Fees

The City Council of the City of Blue Lake hereby determines and proposes that the rates of license for the businesses, trades, professions, exhibitions, and occupations hereinafter set forth may be, and the same are, hereby declared established for and within the City of Blue Lake and shall be collected pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 5.04.

A. Every person conducting or carrying on a business consisting of selling any goods, wares and merchandise or commodities, services, or conducting or carrying on any profession, trade, occupation, calling or business not otherwise specifically licensed by other sections of this chapter, shall pay an annual or semiannual license tax of $50.00 per year plus $15.00 per year for each employee for the first 14 employees in excess of one, plus $7.50 per year for each employee in excess of 15, or a single-day fee of $10.00.

B. Every person not having a fixed place of business within the City of Blue Lake, who delivers goods, wares, or merchandise of any kind or performs services within the City (other than those services specifically exempted by City ordinance or State law), by the use of a vehicle, shall pay a license tax of $50.00 per year. Every person who is a licensed contractor and who performs business within the City, shall pay a license tax of $15.00 per quarter, if paid quarterly, or $50.00 per year, if paid annually.

C. Every person conducting or carrying on a business consisting of door-to-door salesperson or traveling salesperson shall pay an annual license tax of $100.00 per year or pay a daily fee of $30.00 plus $5.00 for each salesperson in excess of one.

Every person operating or maintaining a coin operated electronic or arcade game, pool table, pinball machine or similar device shall pay a license tax of $40.00 per machine per year.

Every person operating or maintaining a coin operated juke box, vending machine, cigarette machine or similar device shall pay a license tax of $20.00 per machine per year.

For every person owning, maintaining, conducting, or presenting a carnival, circus, menagerie, acrobatic performance, or exhibition of trained animals after first having obtained a permit so to do, from the City of Blue Lake, the following license fee shall be charged and collected in advance: $50.00 per day plus $10.00 per day for each and every additional show, attraction, or exhibition for which a separate admission charge is made. For the purpose of this chapter, the word "carnival" means and includes any group of attractions such as ball games of chance, ferris wheels, and similar forms of entertainment.

For every person conducting or showing moving pictures in the City of Blue Lake a fee of $50.00 per year or $10.00 per day.

Any person carrying on the business of renting at his or her personal residence a self-contained unit with private access or a mother-in-law unit shall pay an annual license fee of $40.00 for the first unit plus $10.00 per unit for each additional unit.

Any person carrying on the business of conducting or operating a rooming house, hotel, motel, bed and breakfast inn, mobile home park, duplex or apartment, or commercial or mixed use rentals shall pay an annual license fee of $50.00 per year for each parcel and for each unit or rental space in excess of one on the parcel shall pay an additional $10.00 per unit per year. For the purposes of this section, a mobile home park shall be considered a single parcel.

Any person carrying on the business of renting one or more residences shall pay a license fee of $50.00 per year for one such rental unit on a parcel, and if there is more than one such rental unit on a parcel, including attached or separate self-contained units such as mother-in-law units, an additional fee of $25.00 per year for each such additional unit with a maximum of $100.00 per year per parcel. A residence shall be construed to mean living quarters having facilities for cooking as well as sleeping.

Every person conducting or carrying on the business of self-storage shall pay an annual license fee of $50.00 for up to 20 units or spaces permitted, plus an annual fee of $2.50 per unit or space permitted for each unit or space permitted over 20.