Martinez Municipal Code Ch. 5.04 General Provisions

Licenses are issued for the purpose of raising revenue for municipal operation.

(Prior code § 6100; Ord. 794 C.S. § 3, 1974)

Persons required to pay a license tax for transacting and carrying on any business under the ordinance codified in this Chapter and Chapters 5.08 through 5.32 shall not be relieved from the payment of any license tax for the privilege of doing such business required under any other ordinance of the City, and shall remain subject to the regulatory provisions of other ordinances.

(Prior code § 6102; Ord. 794 C.S. § 3, 1974)

Neither the adoption of the ordinance codified in this Chapter and Chapters 5.08 through 5.32 nor its superseding of any portion of any other ordinance of the City shall in any manner be construed to affect prosecution for violation of any other ordinance committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed as a waiver of any license or any penal provision applicable to any such violation, nor be construed to affect the validity of any bond or cash deposit required by any ordinance to be posted, filed or deposited, and all rights and obligations thereunto appertaining shall continue in full force and effect.

Where a license for revenue purposes has been issued to any person by the City and the tax paid for the business for which the license has been issued under the provisions of any ordinance heretofore enacted and the term of such license has not expired, then the license tax prescribed for the business by the ordinance codified in this Chapter and Chapters 5.08 through 5.32 shall not be payable until the expiration of the term of such unexpired license.

(Prior code § 6144; Ord. 794 C.S. § 3, 1974)