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Show Business Houses Ponder Council's License Fee EVIove NOTICES of city license fee assessments for 1947, mailed to local business houses and professional pro-fessional men, Tuesday, brought loud objections from a number of the recipients. It was not the levying of a license fee, which .alicr all is covered by an ordinance, ordin-ance, that occasioned the rumbling's, rum-bling's, but the iact that notices were mailed to individuals and Irms not listed in the license ordinance. The methods used in making up the license fee notices rather than the intent behind the move seems to be the foundation for the contention. Even the dissenters dissen-ters arc in accord with the city's efforts to raise needed funds, but they oppose the all inclusive, questionable basis upon which the notices appear to have been figured. - A contribution to help Roosevelt's Roose-velt's financial status is alright, they say, providing it is not disguised dis-guised in the form of a notice a .of license assessment. The provisions of the state 'covering the licensing of business busi-ness firms in Roosevelt are hazy to those being assessed. The original or-iginal ordinance was amended on June 24, 1946, and listed businesses bus-inesses subject to a yearly license li-cense and stipulated the amount chargeable. The firms covered . by Ordinance 436 are as follows: i REAL estate dealers, $25; Restaurants with seating capacity capaci-ty of 30, $30; with seating capacity ca-pacity of 15 to 29, $20; with seating seat-ing capacity of 1 to 14, $15. Rooming houses and tourist courts, $1 per year per bed with minimum of ?10; Theaters, with seating capacity up to 400, $40 per year; with seating capacity over 400, $60. Photographers, $4 per quarter; quar-ter; Bakery, $12; Vehicle and machine agents, $5; Dance hall, -, 515; Oil or gasoline wholesale ' ! or storage, $10; Wholesaler of beer, $25; Garage, $24, with minimum of merchandise, $10; Service stations doing garage work, $24 with pump, $3 per quarter minimum for merchandise, merchan-dise, $10; Coal dealer, $20; Blacksmith, $24; Lumber dealer, $25; Automobile sales agent, $40; Flour mill, SCO; Feed and seed dealer, $10. Except where stipulated, the ; license fee is an annual charge, and according to the ordinance, is payable in advance. Physicians and attorneys, contractors con-tractors and insurance men with several odd business houses in Roosevelt, scratched their heads Wednesday trying to figure out just how the city arrived at its figures and why it included firms not named in the ordinance when it mailed out license fee - Jiotices. |