Calexico Municipal Code Ch. 5.20 License Rates

The amount or rate of license fees to be paid to the city by any person, firm, corporation or association engaged in or carrying on any business, show, exhibition or game designated in this title is fixed and established as provided in this chapter. Such license fee shall be paid by every person, firm, corporation or association engaged in carrying on any such business, show, exhibition or game in the city.

(Prior code § 2201)

A. For every business, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaging in any business within the city not specifically covered by this chapter or any other ordinance of the city, the license fee shall be the sum of twenty-five dollars per quarter.

B. "Home Occupations," as defined in Section 17.08.410, means an occupation customarily conducted entirely within a dwelling by the occupant of the dwelling as a secondary use in connection with which there is no display, no stock or trade or commodity sold upon the premises, and no persons employed. The sum of twenty-five dollars per quarter shall be charged for a home occupation license, with the exception of those businesses conducting or carrying on retail, wholesale/ manufacturing, retail food, or used and new auto dealers, as specified in other sections of the Calexico Municipal Code for which the license fee is based on gross receipts.

(Ord. 686 § 2, 1975: prior code § 2202)

(Ord. No. 1099-A, § 2, 12-2-08)

A. At the time of submission of application for issuance or renewal of a business license, the applicant shall pay a business license regulation fee in the amount of twenty dollars.

B. This section is intended to complement and aid in the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter. This section does not impose any form of taxation, nor collect fees greater than necessary to recover the costs of monitoring, regulating and enforcing the provisions of this Code or any other law.

C. The business license regulation fee shall be additional to any other application, license, tax or other fee required for a business under any other ordinance of the city of Calexico and shall remain subject to the regulatory provisions of other ordinances. Business licenses may be subject to review by other departments of the city of Calexico and related inspections and fees.

(Ord. 1040 § 1, 2006)

(Ord. No. 1124, § 1, 11-16-10)

In the event that any person, firm or corporation is conducting, managing or carrying on two or more businesses licensed by Chapters 5.04 through 5.24 at the same location and under the same management, the license fee to be paid by such person, firm or corporation shall be the highest license fee provided for in this chapter for only one of such businesses, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.

(Prior code § 2281)

In such cases where the license fee on one or more of such businesses as designated in Section 5.20.030 is based upon the gross annual receipts of such business and the license fee on one or more of such businesses is fixed at a definite amount, then the license fee shall be paid according to the provisions of Chapters 5.04 through 5.24 providing for a license fee based upon such gross annual receipts; and the receipts of the business or businesses upon which the license fee is fixed at a definite amount shall be included in the gross annual receipts for the business or businesses upon which the license fee is based upon the gross annual receipts of such business or businesses.

(Prior code § 2281.1)

If the license fee upon any one of such businesses as designated in Section 5.20.030 is greater in amount than the license fee of the business or businesses upon which the license fee is based upon the gross annual receipts of such businesses, then in that event the license fee to be paid shall be the highest license fee upon any one of such businesses upon which the license fee is fixed at a definite amount.

(Prior code § 2281.2)

In such cases where the license fee upon two or more of such businesses as designated in Section 5.20.030 is based upon the gross annual receipts of such businesses, then separate licenses shall be issued for each such business, and the license fee paid upon each of such businesses in accordance with the amount of gross annual receipts of each such business.

(Prior code § 2281.3)

There is excepted from Sections 5.20.030 through 5.20.060 the business of operating or conducting a money exchange.

(Prior code § 2281.4)

The business of operating a money exchange as referred to in Section 5.20.070 shall at all times be deemed to be a separate business for which a separate license fee is payable, whether or not such business of operating a money exchange is operated in connection with any other business or businesses.

(Prior code § 2281.5)

In the event that any person, firm or corporation conducts or operates any other business or businesses in connection or conjunction with the business of a money exchange, said other business or businesses shall be subject to the payment of a license fee as provided in this chapter in addition to the payment of the license fee for said business of operating or conducting a money exchange.

(Prior code § 2282)

The sum of five dollars per stand per year shall be charged for every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in the business of ginning cotton.

(Prior code § 2252)

The sum of thirty dollars per year shall be charged for every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in the operation of a packing shed.

(Prior code § 2251)

A. Fee. For every person, firm or corporation maintaining or operating or causing to be maintained or operated mechanical devices of any kind and/or lawful mechanical merchandise vendors, except those mechanical merchandise vendors which are specifically provided for in Section 5.20.230, and/or lawful pinball machines and/or lawful slot machines and/or electric phonographs for the production of music, the license fee shall be eight hundred dollars per year for the first forty machines or fraction thereof, and twenty dollars per year for each machine in excess of forty, payable annually in advance. In the event that any person, firm or corporation is conducting, managing or carrying on another business licensed by Chapters 5.04 through 5.24 at the same location and under the same management, the license fee to be paid by such person, firm or corporation shall be at the rate of twenty dollars per year for each machine described in this section located on same premises, payable annually in advance.

B. Fiscal year. The license provided for in this section shall be issued upon a fiscal year basis running from the date of the issuance of said license, and not upon a calendar year basis.

(Ord. 592 § 1, 1965: prior code § 2253)

A. General Contractors. The sum of one hundred dollars per year for the first year, and fifty dollars per year for any renewals shall be charged for every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on, or engaged in the business of a general contractor.

B. Other Contractors. The sum of fifty dollars per year for the first year and forty dollars per year for renewal years shall be charged for every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on, or engaged in the business of a plastering, lathing, refrigeration, air conditioning, roofing, plumbing, electrical, sewer, tile, painting, cement, sheet metal, masonry, flooring or sign contractor.

C. Payment in Advance. The license fees specified in subsections A and B of this section shall be paid annually in advance. Such licenses shall be issued upon a fiscal year basis of July 1st to June 30th of the succeeding year.

D. Renewal. The licenses specified in subsections A and B of this section shall be renewable not later than July 31st in each fiscal year. In the event said renewal is not made and paid for within such time, then a penalty of ten percent of the license fee shall attach and be paid with the license fee; provided further, that if such licenses are not renewed on or before September 30th of any fiscal year, then such license shall be canceled and the holder thereof shall be required to apply for a new license and pay the first year fee that is specified in this section.

(Ord. 456 § 2, 1954: prior code §§ 2254—2257)

The sum of ten dollars per quarter shall be charged for every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in any of the following businesses, professions or occupations:

Coal and wood dealers;

Coin-operated scales or weighing machines;

Fruit or vegetable stand, location of: a stand in or upon any public street, alley or public place or doorway of any room or building for the sale of fruits or vegetables;

Gunsmith;

Horses and mules for hire: keeping horses or mules for hire;

Laundry, collection of: conducting, operating or carrying on the business of collecting articles to be laundered by a hand laundry;

Laundry, hand-operated: laundry operated by hand or wherein any machinery is used other than a steam or power-driven laundry plant;

Messenger service;

Public stenographer;

Rug and carpet cleaning and/or repairing: cleaning and/or repairing rugs or carpets;

Shoeshining stand.

(Ord. 680 § 1 (part), 1975: Ord. 493 § 1 (part), 1957: prior code § 2211)

The sum of fifteen dollars per quarter shall be charged for every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in any of the following businesses, professions or occupations:

Auto wash rack: auto steam wash rack;

Card writing, printing: a card writer's stand in or upon any public street, alley or other public place or doorway of any room or building for the writing or printing of any cards, invitations or announcements;

Checkroom: a checkroom for the checking or storing of parcels or other personal property, and receiving a fee or compensation therefor;

Dancing school or dancing academy;

Flower peddlers: peddler of flowers, ferns, plants or nursery stock;

Flower shop;

Locksmith: key maker or locksmith;

Newsstand;

Photographer: photographer having a fixed place of business;

Popcorn stand: peanut or popcorn stand;

Shoe repairing: shoe repairing or shoe cobbling;

Sign painter;

Tailor shop. For the purpose of this chapter, "tailor shop" means the business of repairing or altering clothing and/or making of suits or other clothing upon special order, whether such suits or other clothing are to be made upon the premises of such business or not;

Transfer: running, driving or operating any automobile, truck or other vehicle for the transportation of baggage, express, freight, household goods, merchandise or materials, for hire, for each vehicle used.

Turkish bath;

Van and storage: freight forwarding or storehouse or warehouse for the storage of goods, wares, merchandise, baggage, household furniture, or food intended for human consumption.

(Ord. 680 § 1 (part), 1975: Ord. 493 § 1 (part), 1957: prior code § 2212)

The sum of twenty dollars per quarter shall be charged for every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in any of the following businesses, professions or occupations:

Auto paint shop;

Auto repairing shop;

Auto wrecking shop;

Battery shop;

Beauty parlor: manicuring, shampooing, hairdressing or beauty parlor or any establishment where surplus hair, moles, warts or other facial blemishes are removed or eradicated;

Blacksmith shop;

Carpenter shop or planing mill;

Cleaning buildings: cleaning buildings, rooms or furnishings by compressed air or vacuum cleaner by means of any machinery drawn, hauled, carried or propelled by hand power;

Cleaning or dyeing plant: plant, factory or establishment for the cleaning or dyeing of any garment, fabric, substance or articles by any process of washing or immersing in a volatile or inflammable oil or fluid;

Employment bureau;

Excavating or grading contractor;

House moving, salvaging or wrecking;

Ice sales: ice sales where no delivery is made;

Junk collector: junk collector, for each vehicle used in said business. For the purposes of this chapter, "junk collector" means any person, firm or corporation having no fixed place of business in the city engaged in or carrying on the business of collecting, buying or selling old rags, sacks, bottles, cans, papers, metals or other articles of junk;

Junk dealer: junk dealer, established place of business. For the purposes of this chapter, "junk dealer" means any person, firm or corporation having a fixed place of business in the city, engaged in or carrying on the business of buying or selling, either at wholesale or retail, old rags, sacks, bottles, cans, papers, metals or other articles of junk;

Machine shop;

Massage parlor: massage parlor where facial massage, fomentations, massage, electrical or magnetic treatment or alcohol rubs are administered or given;

Newspaper publisher;

Nursery;

Office machines, repair and maintenance: repairing or maintaining typewriters, adding machines, calculating machines or other similar mechanical devices or machines;

Pawnbroker;

Physical culture institute: a physical culture institute where instruction in physical culture or beauty culture, calisthenics or exercises are given;

Printing shop;

Public scales: operating public scales for a fee;

Radiator works;

Radio and television repair shop;

Sand and gravel dealer;

Secondhand furniture, buying or selling: buying and/or selling secondhand furniture or other secondhand personal property;

Service station;

Sheet metal works;

Tin shop;

Tire shop;

Upholstery shop: upholstery of furniture, autos, auto tops or awnings;

Welding shop.

(Ord. 680 § 1 (part), 1975: Ord. 493 § 1 (part), 1957: prior code § 2213)

The sum of twenty-five dollars per quarter shall be charged for every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in any of the following businesses, professions or occupations as specified below:

Accountant or auditor;

Architect;

Assayer;

Attorney at law;

Auto parking lot;

Auto rental agency;

Auto storage garage;

Bond and stock broker;

Chemist;

Chiropodist;

Chiropractor;

Civil, electrical, chemical or mechanical engineer;

Commission merchant or broker. For the purposes of this chapter, "commission merchant" or "broker" means the business of buying or selling meats, provisions, produce, food products, goods, wares or merchandise, drugs or medicines, jewelry or precious metal as a broker or agent for the owner or consignee thereof, for a fee or commission, whether or not the operation of such business customarily includes the actual possession, custody or control of such goods, wares or merchandise;

Customhouse or internal revenue broker;

Dairy;

Dentist;

Gasoline delivery or selling: selling or delivering gasoline or petroleum products by means of tank truck or other vehicles, for each vehicle;

Ice cream manufacturing or selling: manufacturing or selling at wholesale ice cream or similar products;

Ice delivery: ice delivery by truck or other vehicle, for each vehicle;

Insurance broker or agent;

Laundry, collector of: conducting, managing or carrying on the business of collecting articles to be laundered at a plant operated by steam or other motive power;

Laundry, steam or power driven; a steam or power driven laundry plant;

Milk delivery;

Oculist;

Optician;

Optometrist;

Osteopath;

Physician and surgeon;

Real estate broker;

Selling, buying or otherwise dealing in cotton: buying, selling or otherwise dealing in cotton as cotton brokers or factors, cotton oil or cotton oil mills;

Sign advertising, billboards: sign advertising by means of billboards or advertising signboards;

Taxicabs: Twenty-five dollars per quarter per taxicab company and twenty-five dollars per quarter per each taxicab permit issued to a taxi company;

Undertaker, embalmer or funeral director;

Vehicles from without city. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, for every person, firm or corporation not having a fixed place of business within the city conducting, managing or carrying on the business of running, driving or operating any automobile, automobile truck, automobile tank wagon, or other vehicle used for the transportation, selling at wholesale, collection or delivery of goods, wares, merchandise or other personal property of any kind from a vehicle, either as his or its principal business, or in connection with any other business, or for soliciting for work, labor or services to be performed upon the public street, in or from a vehicle, or to be performed on goods, wares, merchandise or other personal property to be taken for such purpose to a plant or establishment inside or outside of the city limits, the business fee shall be ten dollars per quarter per each vehicle;

Veterinary.

(Ord. 834 § 1, 1982; Ord. 680 § 1 (part), 1975: Ord. 493 § 1 (part), 1957: prior code §§ 2214—2216)

(Ord. No. 1099-B, § 2, 12-2-08)

Every person, firm or corporation conducting, managing or carrying on the business of auctioneering shall pay a business license tax, the amount of which shall be determined according to the following classifications as defined in Chapter 5.28:

Class A, the sum of twelve dollars and fifty cents per quarter;

Class B, the sum of ten dollars per day;

Class C, the sum of twenty-five dollars per quarter.

(Ord. 680 § 1 (part), 1975: Ord. 493 § 1 (part), 1957: prior code § 2217)

The sum of one hundred twenty-five dollars per quarter shall be charged for each person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in a money exchange business.

(Ord. 834 § 2, 1982)

The sum of two hundred twenty-five dollars, payable in advance, at the beginning of each quarter for every person, firm or corporation conducting, operating or engaging in selling ice cream from a vehicle and having no fixed place of business in the city, for each vehicle.

There shall also be a requirement for liability insurance as follows:

1. It is unlawful for an owner or operator of a vehicle engaged in this business, to drive or operate any said vehicle, or cause the same to be driven or operated in the city, unless and until there is filed with the city manager, or his/her designee, proof of financial responsibility as required by Vehicle Code Section 16800. A policy of insurance shall remain in full force and in effect at all times while such vehicle is being operated. Such policy of insurance shall be with a solvent and responsible admitted company authorized to do business in the state of California or in the alternative, a California assigned risk plan approved by the city attorney. Such policy shall insure the owner of said vehicle (giving manufacture number and state license number) against loss by reason of injury or damage that may result to persons or property from the negligent operation of defective condition of such vehicle, or for any other cause.

2. Amount. Said policy of insurance shall be in such a reasonable amount as the city council or the city manager may from time to time designate. However, at no time shall said insurance policy limits of coverage be less than that set by Vehicle Code Section 16500 or any other applicable statue of this code.

(Ord. 1007 § 1, 2003: Ord. 865 § 2, 1984)

Editor's note— Section 3 of Ord. No. 1121, adopted Aug. 17, 2010, repealed § 5.20.190, which pertained to advertising by electric signs, and derived from prior Code §§ 2226 and 2226.1; Ord. 493, adopted in 1957; and Ord. 680, adopted in 1975.

For every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in the business of operating an apartment house, bungalow court, auto court or motel, a license fee shall be charged based upon the number of apartments or house units contained in such apartment house, bungalow court, auto court or motel, as follows:

A. Not over twenty units, ten dollars per quarter;

B. Not over thirty units, fifteen dollars per quarter;

C. More than thirty units, twenty dollars per quarter.

(Ord. 680 § 2 (part), 1975: Ord. 559 § 1, 1963: Ord. 493 § 2 (part), 1957: prior code § 2225.1)

For every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in the business of selling at wholesale or retail any automobiles, automobile trucks or other vehicles of any sort, along with any trailers, farm equipment or implements, or heavy or light machinery of any type, whether it is new or used from a fixed and permanent place of business in the city, a license fee shall be charged based upon the annual receipts of said business as follows:

A. Less than $100,000.00, twenty-five dollars per quarter;

B. $100,000.00 and less than $250,000.00, thirty-five dollars per quarter;

C. $250,000.00 and less than $500,000.00, forty dollars per quarter;

D. $500,000.00 and less than $750,000.00, fifty dollars per quarter;

E. $750,000.00 and less than $1,000,000.00, sixty dollars per quarter;

F. All over $1,000,000.00, ten dollars per quarter for each additional $500,000.00.

(Ord. 680 § 2 (part), 1975: Ord. 493 § 2 (part), 1957: prior code § 2224)

A. One Chair. For every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in the business of operating a barbershop, the license fee shall be five dollars per quarter for each barbershop of one chair.

B. More Than One Chair. For every barbershop containing more than one chair, the license fee shall be five dollars per quarter for the first chair and two dollars per quarter for each additional chair.

C. Manicurist. If a manicurist is employed in connection with any barbershop, there shall be paid an additional license fee of two dollars per quarter for each manicurist so employed.

(Ord. 680 § 2 (part), 1975: Ord. 493 § 2 (part), 1957: prior code § 2228)

For every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in the business of operating cigarette, gum, peanut and/or candy vending machines, the license fee shall be the sum of five dollars per quarter for the first ten machines and three dollars per quarter for each additional ten machines or fraction thereof.

(Ord. 680 § 2 (part) , 1975: Ord. 493 § 2 (part), 1957: prior code § 2229)

For every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in the business of selling at retail food for human or animal consumption from a fixed and permanent location within the city, a license fee shall be charged based upon their gross annual receipts as follows:

A. Less than $15,000.00, fifteen dollars per quarter;

B. $15,000.00 and less than $50,000.00, twenty dollars per quarter;

C. $50,000.00 and less than $75,000.00, twenty-five dollars per quarter;

D. $75,000.00 and less than $100,000.00, thirty dollars per quarter;

E. $100,000.00 and less than $150,000.00, forty dollars per quarter;

F. $150,000.00 and less than $200,000.00, fifty dollars per quarter;

G. $200,000.00 and less than $300,000.00, sixty dollars per quarter;

H. $300,000.00 and less than $500,000.00, seventy dollars per quarter;

I. $500,000.00 and less than $700,000.00, eighty dollars per quarter;

J. $700,000.00 and less than $900,000.00, ninety dollars per quarter;

K. $900,000.00 and less than $1,100,000.00, one hundred dollars per quarter;

L. $1,100,000.00 and less than $1,300,000.00, one hundred ten dollars per quarter;

M. $1,300,000.00 and less than $1,500,000.00, one hundred twenty dollars per quarter;

N. All over $1,500,000.00, five dollars per quarter for each additional $100,000.00 or portion thereof.

(Ord. 680 § 2 (part), 1975: Ord. 493 § 2 (part), 1957: prior code § 2221)

For every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in the operation of a hospital, maternity or rest home, a license fee shall be charged based upon the number of beds contained in said hospital, maternity or rest home as follows:

A. More than three but not exceeding five beds, five dollars per quarter;

B. Not exceeding ten beds, seven dollars and fifty cents per quarter;

C. Not exceeding twenty-five beds, ten dollars per quarter;

D. Over twenty-five beds, fifteen dollars per quarter.

(Ord. 680 § 2 (part), 1975: Ord. 493 § 2 (part), 1957: prior code § 2225.2)

For every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in the business of operating a hotel, roominghouse, lodginghouse or boardinghouse, a license fee shall be charged based upon the number of rooms contained in such hotel, roominghouse, lodginghouse or boardinghouse, as follows:

A. Not more than ten rooms, five dollars per quarter;

B. Not more than twenty rooms, ten dollars per quarter;

C. Not more than thirty rooms, fifteen dollars per quarter;

D. Not more than forty rooms, twenty dollars per quarter;

E. Not more than fifty rooms, twenty-five dollars per quarter;

F. Not more than seventy-five rooms, thirty dollars per quarter;

G. Not more than one hundred rooms, thirty-five dollars per quarter;

H. More than one hundred rooms, forty dollars per quarter.

(Ord. 680 § 2 (part), 1975: Ord. 493 § 2 (part), 1957: prior code § 2225)

For every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in the business consisting mainly of manufacturing or selling at wholesale from a fixed place of business any goods, wares or merchandise, food products, bakery goods, bottled soda water or other soft drinks or beverages not otherwise specifically licensed by other sections of this chapter, a license fee shall be charged based upon the annual gross receipts of said business as follows:

A. Less than $100,000.00, fifteen dollars per quarter;

B. $100,000.00 and less than $200,000.00, twenty dollars per quarter;

C. $200,000.00 and less than $300,000.00, twenty-five dollars per quarter;

D. $300,000.00 and less than $400,000.00, thirty-five dollars per quarter;

E. $400,000.00 and less than $500,000.00, forty-five dollars per quarter;

F. $500,000.00 and less than $600,000.00, fifty-five dollars per quarter;

G. $600,000.00 and less than $700,000.00, sixty-five dollars per quarter;

H. $700,000.00 and less than $800,000.00, seventy-five dollars per quarter;

I. $800,000.00 and less than $900,000.00, eighty-five dollars per quarter;

J. $900,000.00 and less than $1,000,000.00, one hundred dollars per quarter;

K. All over $1,000,000.00, five dollars per quarter for each additional $100,000.00, or portion thereof.

(Ord. 680 § 2 (part), 1975: Ord. 493 § 2 (part), 1957: prior code § 2223)

For every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in the business of selling, at retail, any goods, wares or merchandise from a fixed and permanent place of business in the city not otherwise specifically licensed by other sections of this chapter, a license fee shall be charged based upon the annual gross receipts of said business as follows:

A. Less than $12,000.00, fifteen dollars per quarter;

B. $12,000.00 and less than $25,000.00, twenty dollars per quarter;

C. $25,000.00 and less than $50,000.00, twenty-five dollars per quarter;

D. $50,000.00 and less than $75,000.00, thirty-five dollars per quarter;

E. $75,000.00 and less than $100,000.00, forty-five dollars per quarter;

F. $100,000.00 and less than $150,000.00, fifty-five dollars per quarter;

G. $150,000.00 and less than $200,000.00, sixty-five dollars per quarter;

H. $200,000.00 and less than $300,000.00, eighty dollars per quarter;

I. $300,000.00 and less than $400,000.00, ninety-five dollars per quarter;

J. $400,000.00 and less than $500,000.00, one hundred ten dollars per quarter;

K. All over $500,000.00, five dollars per quarter for each additional $100,000.00 or portion thereof.

(Ord. 680 § 2 (part), 1975: Ord. 493 § 2 (part), 1957: prior code § 2222)

For every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in the business of operating a theater containing a permanent stage where a regular theatrical or vaudeville performance is given to which an admission fee is charged, collected or received, or a motion picture theater where motion pictures are exhibited and an admission fee is charged, collected or received, a license fee shall be charged based upon the seating capacity of such theater as follows:

A. Under one thousand five hundred seats, twenty-five dollars per quarter;

B. One thousand five hundred seats and over, thirty-five dollars per quarter.

(Ord. 680 § 2 (part), 1975: Ord. 493 § 2 (part), 1957: prior code § 2227)

A. The sum of ten dollars per month upon a monthly basis, or one dollar per day upon a daily basis, shall be charged for every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in any of the following businesses, professions or occupations:

1. Distributing Advertising. Distributing advertising samples, bills, dodgers or printed advertisements of any kind;

2. Posted Advertising. Advertising by posting, sticking, tacking, affixing or painting bills or signs to or upon posts, fences, buildings or other structures, except billboards or advertising signboards;

3. Projected Advertising. Advertising by means of stereopticon, biograph, moving pictures or other similar devices, for each machine.

B. Exception. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to affect or apply to any person, firm or corporation posting, sticking, tacking, affixing, painting or erecting any business sign on the premises or building occupied and used in the business of said person, firm or corporation, and which sign advertises the goods, wares or merchandise of the business of the person, firm or corporation only.

(Prior code § 2231)

The sum of three dollars per table per month shall be charged for every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in the operation of a public billiard, snooker or pool hall.

(Ord. 680 § 3 (part), 1975: Ord. 493 § 3 (part), 1957: prior code § 2233)

The sum of fifty dollars per month shall be charged for every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in the business of operating a clothing club.

(Prior code § 2232)

The sum of ten dollars per month or three dollars per dance shall be charged for every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or operating a dance club or a public dancehall.

(Ord. 680 § 3 (part), 1975: Ord. 493 § 3 (part), 1957: prior code § 2237)

The sum of one hundred dollars per month shall be charged for every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in the operation of a fire sale, bankrupt or wreck sale.

(Prior code § 2234)

A. For every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in the business of grinding or sharpening scissors, knives, cutlery or mechanical tools, when the person conducting such business travels from place to place or from house to house and operates by means of any wagon or other vehicle, the license fee shall be one dollar per month per vehicle.

B. For any person operating on foot, the license fee shall be one dollar per quarter.

(Prior code § 2235)

The sum of seven dollars and fifty cents per month shall be charged for every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or operating a shooting gallery or range.

(Prior code § 2236)

The sum of one hundred fifty dollars, payable in advance, shall be charged for each seven-day period, or any part thereof, for every person, firm or corporation conducting, operating or engaging in any of the following businesses, professions or occupations:

A. Food Vehicles from Without City. Selling tamales or other food products from a vehicle and having no fixed place of business in the city, for each vehicle;

B. Peddlers from Without City. Peddler of medicines, fruits, vegetables or food products intended for human consumption, having no fixed place of business in the city;

C. Hawkers. Peddler of goods, wares or merchandise who calls attention to his wares or advertises the same by the use of music, entertainment, speech, fancy or grotesque dress, or other device, upon any public street, alley or public place, doorway of any room or building or vacant lot or parcel of land, whether the actual sale of such commodity is made upon said premises or elsewhere.

(Ord. 865 § 1, 1984: prior code § 2261)

The sum of fifteen dollars per day shall be charged for every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in any of the following businesses, professions or occupations:

Ferris wheel;

Scenic railway;

Merry-go-round;

Swing or similar device where a fee is charged or collected for carrying any person thereon;

Any theatrical, vaudeville or motion picture performance in any public hall, clubroom, assembly hall or theater not conducted in a fixed or permanent place of business;

Peddler of flags, banners, balloons, canes, horns, trumpets, musical and noisemaking instruments of any kind, toys, badges, buttons, shoestrings, hairpins, lead pencils, combs or souvenirs;

Itinerant photographer. "Itinerant photographer" means and includes all persons, both principal and agent, who engage in a temporary and transient photography business in the city with the intention of conducting said business in the city for a period of not more than ninety days.

(Ord. 680 § 4, 1975: Ord. 552 § 1, 1963: prior code § 2241)

For every person, firm, or corporation carrying on a carnival or other similar business, the license fee shall be five hundred dollars per day.

(Ord. 519 § 8, 1960: prior code § 2244)

A. Large Seating Capacity. For every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in the operation of a circus or other similar exhibitions having a seating capacity of more than two thousand five hundred persons, the license fee shall be three hundred dollars per day.

B. Small Seating Capacity. For every person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in the operation of a circus or other similar exhibitions having a seating capacity of two thousand five hundred persons or less, the license fee shall be one hundred fifty dollars per day.

(Prior code §§ 2243, 2243.1)

For every person, firm or corporation conducting or carrying on a circus procession or parade, and not having a license for conducting, carrying on or operating a circus within the limits of the city, the license fee shall be three hundred dollars for each such procession.

(Prior code § 2243.2)

For any person, firm or corporation conducting, carrying on or engaged in the business of operating any show or exhibition not otherwise specifically provided for in this chapter, a license fee shall be charged based upon the admission charge to such show or exhibition as follows:

A. Admission not over twenty-five cents, three dollars per day;

B. Admission not over fifty cents, five dollars per day;

C. Admission over fifty cents, ten dollars per day.

(Prior code § 2242)

* For further provisions concerning solicitors, see Ch. 5.88 of this code.

For the purpose of this chapter, "regularly established, bona fide place of business" means a place of business in which is actually operated and conducted the business for which the license has been issued, and which business is upon the tax rolls of the city, and which business is separate and distinct from all other businesses and is regularly kept open with some person in exclusive attendance thereat.

(Prior code § 2271.1)

The sum of twenty dollars per day shall be charged for every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business or occupation of transient vending, peddling or soliciting pursuant to Chapter 5.88 of this code for any goods, wares and merchandise, whether by sample or otherwise, and not having a regularly established, bona fide place of business in the city and not acting as agent or representative of a regularly established, bona fide place of business in the city.

(Ord. 552 § 1, 1963: prior code § 2271)

(Ord. No. 1085, § 6, 4-7-09)

There is excepted from the license requirements of Sections 5.20.430 through 5.20.450 persons, firms or corporations engaged in the business or occupation of soliciting or taking orders from any person, firm or corporation, regularly engaged in the city in the business of reselling the thing for which an order is solicited from him.

(Prior code § 2271.2)