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Show IS: LICENSE ORDINANCE s vN Apj ORDINANCE REQUIRING LiCENSES FOR CERTAIN s BUSINESSES, SETTING THE jkVTES THEREFOR AND ESTABLISHING ESTA-BLISHING REGULATIONS RELATIVE RE-LATIVE THERETO. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE fTTY COUNCIL OF THE CITY oF ST. GEORGE, UTAH: Section 1. Doing business s jt-ithont License TJnlawfol. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to engage in or carry on any business, trade, profession or calling for the transaction tran-saction or carrying on of which a license is required, within the corporate cor-porate limits of the City of St. George, without first obtaining a license so to do. Section S. Rates of License. On and after January 2, 1939, the rates of licenses and regulations where not specifically set forth elsewhere in the city ordinances for the businesses, professions, trades and callings hereinafter named shall be, and the same are hereby fixed and established according ac-cording to the following schedule, to-wit: 2x1. Automobile and other repair shops. Repair or service shops, including washing, battery, or tire repairs or service, and radio and shoe repairing, per quarter $3.00, provided that if merchandise is sold other than I that used for repairs or service such shops shall be subject to the provision of 2 x 18 rather than to this section. 2x2. Auto Tourist parks. For the purpose of this ordinance an automobile or tourist park shall be defined as a camping ground or space set apart for camping, sleeping or lodging either in tents, cabins, huts or other structures and where the automobiles of the guests or tenants may be parked or stored in connection therewith. The quarterly license fee for said parks shall be $3.00 plus 10c for each guest room or equivalent available and provided by the licenses. A separate license shall be obtained for each place of "business operated by the Licensee. 2x3. Banks. Per quarter $25.00. 2x4. Barber Shops. One chair, per quarter, $3.00, each additional chair, per quarter, $1.00. 2x5. Beauty Shops. Employing Employ-ing two persons or less, including the proprietor, per quarter $3.00; each additional employee, per quarter $1.00. 2x6. Bill Board Advertising-: On every person, firm or corporation corpora-tion engaged in the business of supplying space for hire for outdoor out-door advertising, per year $25.00. 2x7. Billards, pocket or bagatelle bag-atelle tables: For the first table, per quarter $20.00; for each additional ad-ditional table, per quarter, $5.00. 2x8. Circuses or equestrian exhibitions, per day $50.00. 2x9. Clothes Cleaning, dying, repairing, etc., per quarter $5.00. 2 x 10. Embalmers of Undertakers: Under-takers: Per quarter, $5.00, provided pro-vided that all merchandise and service sold to the public by an embalmer or undertaker, shall be subject to the provision of section 2 x 18. 2 x 11. Electricians or wire-men. wire-men. All persons, firms or corporations cor-porations engaged in the business of electrical installation or wiring, employing two persons or less, per year $20.00. Each additional employee, em-ployee, per year, $5.00. 2 x 12. Exhibitions. Theatrical, slight-of-hand performances, menageries, men-ageries, or similar performances, first day $10.00; each succeeding day. $5.00. Location to be approved ap-proved by Mayor before license is granted, provided that entertainments enter-tainments given for purely charitable charit-able or benevolent purposes no license shall be required. 2 x 13.. Ferris Wheels. Revolving Revolv-ing swings, merry-go-round or machine of like nature, minimum license of $25.00. In addition, for each machine, per day $5.00. 2 x 14. Florist or Nurserymen. Every person, firm, or corporation corpora-tion doing business as a florist, either by taking orders for out of town business or maintaining an establishment in town, per quarter. quar-ter. $3.00. 2 x 15. Gasoline and Oil Wholesalers. Each and every person, per-son, firm or corporation acting as a wholesale dealer in illuminating or lubricating oils, benzine or gasoline either having an agency or warehouse for the distribution thereof in the city or selling, delivering or doing business in the city, per quarter, $.10. 00. 2 x lfi. Itinerant Merchants or vendors those who conduct a temporary or transient selling business ,at an established place and who do not intend to stay in business within the city for more than three months'! per quarter. $50.00. 2 x 17. Laundries with steam equipment, per quarter, $5.00; others, per quarter, $3.00. 2 x 18. Merchants. Wholesale and retail. Payable by every person, per-son, firm or corporation directly or indirectly dealing in any manner man-ner in motor vehicles, oils, gasoline, gaso-line, coal, lumber, machinery, equipment, appliances of every i kind and nature, hardware, confections, con-fections, lunches, ice, milk, food bakery products, groceries, meats dry goods, clothing, sport goods notions, drugs, or any other goods wares or merchandise of any kind or description and not otherwise specifically licensed by the city for each place of business operated, operat-ed, semi-annually in advance as follows: If such business was operated in this city during the complete latter half of 1938, the cash collected between July 1 and December 31, 1938, from sales shall form the basis for computing the license due January 15, 1939, unless the licenses thus computed! using the rate listed hereafter! would be less than the minimum, which is $10.00, for any six months license period or fraction thereof, in which case the minimum mini-mum charge would be paid on or before January 15, 1939. If any business to be licensed hereunder has begun or is to begin business operations subsequent to July 1, 1938, a minimum license fee of $10.00 shall be paid in advance for each half year license period or fraction thereof (there may be one fractional and one full period) until the business has been operating operat-ing for a full six months license period; at that time the cash collected from sales made between be-tween the date of the opening of the business and the close of the complete six months license period shall be used as a basis for computing the total license to the end of this first complete six months license period; from the total license thus computed shall be deducted the minimum payment pay-ment or payments that have been made and the difference shall be due and payable on the 15th day of the month following the end of this first complete six months license period. If, however, the license computed by using the above basis and the rate listed hereafter is less than the minimum mini-mum or minimums paid, the minimum mini-mum or minimums paid shall constitute con-stitute the license for the period from the opening of the business to the end of this first complete six months period. After any business, starting subsequent to July 1, 1938, has been operating for a complete six months license period it shall pay its license in advance on the same basis as those business units that commenced com-menced business on or before July 1, 1938; which basis is that everyone liable for license fees imposed under this section shall furnish the City Recorder on oi before January 15, for the period from July 1 to" December 31 immediately im-mediately preceeding, and on or before July 15 for the period frorr January 1 to June 30 immediatelj preceeding, said periods to begir Hth ttiA nprind immediately pre ceding January 15, 1939, satisfactory satisfac-tory evidence in such form as the city council may require showing the gross amount of cash receipts collected from sales by such licenses during the period covered by the report; the city recorder upon receiving said report, shall compute a license fee at the rate of $1.00 per thousand dollars or fraction thereof of such gross cash receipts. If said license fee is less than the minimum provided for herein, then the minimum fee shall be paid. If such license fee exceeds the minimum provided for herein, then such license fee computed shall be paid provided that the maximum fee to be imposed im-posed and collected hereunder, regardless re-gardless of the gross cash receipts shall be $100.00 for any six months. 2 x 19. Motion Picture and other theatres not classed as exhibitions, ex-hibitions, per quarter $25.00. 2 x 20. Printing Plants, Duplicating Dup-licating Machine, Mimeograph, or similar process for commercial purposes, per quarter, $5.00. 2 x 21. Phrenology, fortune telling, spiritualists, astrologists, etc., per year, $75.00, per day, $10.00. 2 x 22. Photographers. With permanent photography shop in the city, per quarter, $3.00. Without With-out permanent photography shop, per quarter, or fraction thereof, $6.00. 2 x 23. Plumbers. Employing two persons or less, per quarter, $5.00; each additional employee, per quarter, $1.00. 2 x 24. Public Scales, per year $5.00. 2 x 25. Telephone companies, per year, $100.00. Section 3. Penalty. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction convic-tion thereof shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $299.00 or to imprisonment, not exceeeding six-months, six-months, or to both such fine and imprisonment. Section 4. Constitutionality. That it is hereby declared that the sections, clauses, sentences and parts of this ordinance are severable sever-able are not matters of mutual essential inducement, and any of them may be exscinded by any ' court exercising final jurisdiction in a cause, if this ordinance would otherwise be unconstitutional or ineffective; it is the intention hereof to comply in all respects with the constitution and statutes of Utah, and if any one or more sections, clauses, sentences and parts of this ordinance shall for any reason be questioned in any court, and shall be adjudged unconstitutional un-constitutional or invalid, such judgement shall not affect, impair im-pair or invalidate the remaining provisions thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the specific provision or provisions so held unconstitutional or invalid, and the inaplicability or invalidity invalid-ity of any section, clause, sentence or part of this ordinance in any one or more instances shall not be taken to affect or prejudice in any way its applicability or validity valid-ity in any other instance. Section 5. Repeal. All ordinances ordin-ances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. re-pealed. Section 6. Kffoct. In the opinion of the City Council, it is necessary neces-sary to the peace, health, and safotv of the inhabitants of the City of St. George that this ordinance or-dinance become effective immediately. im-mediately. Therefore, this ordinance ordin-ance shall take effect upon its passage and publication. Passed by the City Council of the Citv of St. George on December De-cember 24th. 1938. and approved bv the Mavor on the same day. ALBERT E. MILLER. Mayor. ATTEST: H. R. BENTLEY, City Recorder. |