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HomeMy WebLinkAbout0288 Ordinance1 6' imprisonment. Section 2. This, ordinance :hall be in force and effect from and after its passa, e and publication. Pawed this 7th clay of May, 1918, 'ttest: C. A. Dolan, City Clerk. (S E A L ) G. E. Willison, I.ayor ORDINANCE No.288 An Ordinance to license certain trades and occupations in the City of Pasco, -Washington. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PASCO: SECTION 1. No person shall engage in, prosecute or carry on any trade business or occupation ,::ithin the corporate limite of the CITY OF PASCO,for which a license is required by this ordinance without first having obtained a license therefor. SECTION 2. Each applicant for a city license shall pay to the City Clerk the sum or surns he-r3in required to be paid for such lic,nse and the clerk shall issue to the applicant a duplicate receipt therefor. Such receipt and the stub then'of shall. contain the name of the party paying such license fee, the date, the amount paid and tin business licensed, a short description of the place rah ere the business is to be conducted. Such receipts and stubs shall be numbered, and in lieu of a regular license be and constitute a sufficient license. Such receipt shall contain the signature of the City Clerk and the impress of the City Seal. Provided ho,aever that the City Clerk shall as soon as practical procure a license forms suitable to be used for all kinds of businesses for wh'ch license is required, and shall ther.:upon take up all such receipts and issue instead such licenses. SECTION 3. No license shall entitle the holder thereof to carry on bu;�iness except in the place named therein, unless the place so named shall have been first permanently closed. No license shall be assignable except by express vote or permission of the city council. SECTION 4. Every person engaged in any business or trade or occupation ib r which a license is required, shall keep such license posted in a conspicuo,,s place about such place of business, and shall produce such license at any time on demand ofthe City Clerk or any police officer. All licenses shall be conditioned upon the licensee coir forming to all the laws of the United States, of the State of 'Washington and Ordinances of the City of Pasco, pertaining to such business or occupation. No license shall be granted for any shorter 12 riod than as herein specified and no rebates shall be paid if the license shall fail to operate the business for the full period of the license. SECTION 5. In every case where more than one of the businesses or occupations for which a license is required is carried on in the same place by the same person at the same time a license must be taken out for each of said businesses. All licenses shall be for one year e::cept as herain otherwise provided, and shall be paid on or before the 30th day of June of each year. SECTION 6. Keepers of Billiard and Pool Halls shall pay an annual license of !;2.00 per year for each billiard or pool table belonging to or used in connection with such estab-ishment. EVERYPLACE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC where billiards or pool are played .,ith or <<,ithout price shall be deemed a billiard room under this ordinance. 1'1� SECTION 7. Bill Posters. Bill posters shall pay a license fee often dollars per year. Every person raho o.rns, controls or operates or rents any bill board for hire or .he shall engage in the business of posting bills or advertising matter for hire shall be deemed a bill poster hereunder. SECTION S. Bowling Alleys. Keepersof Bowling alleys shall pay a license fee of $8.(-10 per year for each alley used o-rmed or operated in such lace of business. Every place open to the -public where bowls are thrown or where bo.: ball is played shall be deemed a bowline• alley hereunder. SECTION 9. Circuses. Circuses shall be divided into two classes: Class 1. Shall in include all which charge a general admission fee of fifty cents or more and class two shall include all ::hich charge a general admission fee of less than fifty cents. The term circus shall be held to include a menagerie, dog and pony shows and other exhibitions in tents or other enclosuires There trained performers exhibit whether hunman beings or animals. Circuses of Class 1 shall pay a license fee of ••°j75.00 for each performance authorized to be !-iven under such license. Circuses of Class 2 ^hall pay a license fee of $;)10.00 for each performance authorized to be given thereunder. Side Shows. The proprietor of each -gide show travelling ::ith or connected with any circus or other travelling show where a separate charge is na de foradmission shall pay a license fee of five dollars per day. SECTION 10. Theatres and Iaoving Picture Shows. Proprietors or managers of moving picture shows having a seating capacity of more than (a -;O) persons shall pay a license fee of ;50.00 per year and those having a seating capacity less than the number above speefied shall pay a license fee of :;?25.00 per year. 'ECTION 11. 'The proprietor or manager of any other show not herein other•ise provided for shall pay a license fee of ;2.00 per day unless such performance shall be given for the benefit of some local social, religious or fraternal or educational orgahiza•tion, or for some charitable purpose or shell be a recognir:ed Chautauqua. SECTION 12. The proprietor or manager of each prnblic dance hall or open air dancing pavillion shall pay a license fee of {x40.00 per year. SECTION 13. Hawkers. Every person who shall offer any article for sale from any stand or wagon or conveyance upon any street, or public place or open ground -.-ithin the city limits shall be deemed a hawker and ;rhea more than one person shall sell or assist in the sale from the same stand, wagon or conveyance each shall be required to ta';e ort a license. Hawkers license shall be five dolla-r, per day, but this shall not apply to the sale of farm or garden products. SECTION 14. Each P,Ierry-Ge-Ro;md operated in the city .There a charge is made shall pay a license fee of one dollar per day, extent that upon holidays or circus days 101 such charge shall be five dollars per day. Each skating rinl; shall pay an annual license fee of $25.00 per year. Each Cane Rack, Knife Rack or other sifhila.r device operated for profit and not for tho benefit of any local charity church or society shall pay a license fee of :2.00 per day. SECTION 15. Any peddler or person who goes abort from place to place within the city and offers for sale any goods wares or merchandise shall be required to secure a license as herein provided. Peddlers shall be of two classes. Those of the first class to include any person .,'ho goes about the city from place to place and sells or offers to sell any goods, wares or merchandise from any wagon, buggy or automobile or other vehicle. Those of the second class to include th se who go about the city on foot and so offers ;goods for sale. Peddlers of the first class shall pay a license fee of %75.00 per day. Those of the second class shall pay a license fee of '2.00 per day. Persons -,1ho peddle or sell farm or garden products which they have themselves grown shall not be required to pay any license fee whatever. Persons who peddle fish fruit and tregetables only, and which they have not themselves ,grown or caught shall pay a license fee of ,10.00 per year. SECTION 16. Public Carriers. Every person owning or operating an automobile for hire or engaged in the carrying of passen^zcrs therein for hire shall pay an annual license fee eglual to two dollars per year for each passenger such automobile has the capacity t' carry. No license shalhissuek to any person who has not paid any license fee requui-red by the State of 6iashington, and the possession of such a license from the State to carry passengers for hire shall be prima facie proof of the fact that a person is engaged in such business. Section 16 B. Public Carriers for hire, subject to call by the public, commonly '7nown as draymen or expressmen shall pay an annual license fee of ;712.00 for each auto truck or one horse or two horse vehicle used in such business. Teams and trucks u.ed excln;:ively in the hauling of sand, gravel, rock, earth, fuel, or ba lding material and not doing a, eeneral dray or express bn.siness shall pay a license fee of ;;512.00 per „ear to be paid by the owner of the same or the user thereof. Section 16 C. All vehicles licensed to carry passengers for hire shall at all times keep such license about said vehicle in some convenient place and the owner or driver thereof mast exhibit the same upon demand of any Police Officer of the City. The City Clerk shall supply the licensee with a card on which shall be printed in large type the license number and date of expiration thereof and the licensee shall attach the same to his vehicle in some conspicaor_s place. SECTION 17. All restaurants in the City of Pasco shall pay a license fee of '10.10 per annum, Any place in said city wherein meals are commonly furnished to the public for pay and »aid for by the meal, or which advertises itself as a restan-rant or cafe, or holds itself out to the public as such public �a.ting horse, shall be deemed a res- taurant under this section. SECTION 18. Bankrupt Sales. Every person who shall conduct any sale of merchan- dise, other than a public officer conducting a judicial sale, where such merchandise is brought or shipped into the City for the purpose of this sale, or where said s ale is made or conducted by pe rsons other than the o:;ners of said goods, or where the owners thereof employ either on commission or other,. -rise, any agency for the purpose of con- ducting said sale other than the regular force of clerks or employees shall pay a license fee of ,x2.00 per day . SECTION 19, '_'emporary Iderchants. Any person whoshall bring into the city any stock of goods, or merchandise for the purpose of opening or conducting any temporary sale in any -room, building, tent or other structure and .'rithout intending to engage permanently in such business in such city shall be required to pay a license fee of ?5.'0 per cay for each and every day such temporary store is conducted. Provided that any person opening a business in said city, uu7der claim that the same is intended to be a permanent, may be required by the Chief of Police in liei-, of the payment provided for in this Section to deposit with the City Clerk a sum eq al to thirty times such daily license fee by way f bond to g-arantee that said person shall remain in said business for a poriod of not less than sixty days. At the end of said period of sixty days if the person shall have remained in -said business he may then dram down such deposit and no license fee shall be charged. Otherwise such deposit shall remain the property of the city and taken instead of the deposit required hereunder. Section 20. Second Hand Dealers and Junk Dealers. All persons engaged in conducting sec ->_.,d hand stores in the City of Pasco shall pay an annual license fee of X710.00. _11 dealer: in junk shall pay a license fee of ,;10.00 per year. Junk is hereby defind to mean lead, metals, bottles, rope, rage, -rubber, bags, bag=-ing, sacks, plumbing, fixtures and odds and ends of every nature in an old or second hand condition including~ parts of machinery, but not including household furniture, carpets or rugs. Section 21. Nodicense hereunder shall be deemed to authorize the conduct of any business e-cept in strict accordance with law and ill ordinances of the City of Pasco regulating such business. The words person or per^ons, owner or owners or other equival- ent e:-pressions shall be umclerstood to include both singular _nd plural, individuals, artnershi -s and a,sociations and cor,^rations. Section 22. All ordinances or parts of ordinances requiring the payment of any license fees to the city of Pasco, except that requ_rin� a license for tapping of irrigation mains, and that requiring the payment of a dog license are hereby repealed. Section. 23 This ordinance shall be in force and effect five days after its passage and publication. Passed and approved this _th day of J,me, 1918. G. E. ,�illison, 1.1ayor. attest: C. A. Dolan, City Clerk. (SEAL ) 109 PN ORDINANCE N0. Zea AN Ordinance to license certain trades and occupations in the City of Pasco, Wash- i.nr7t on. BE IT ORDAINED BY TEL CITY COUIICIL OF THE CITY OF PASCO: SECTION 1. No person shall engage in, prosecute or carry on any trade, businer's or occupation within the corporate limits of the City of Pasco, for which alicense is re- gmired by this ordinance without first having obtained alicen:'e therefor. Section 2. Each applicant for a city license shll pW to the city Clerk the sum or sums herein regmired to be paid for si.ich license, and the clerk shall issue to the applicant a du licate receipt therefor, Such rdoeipt and the stub therefor shall contain the name of the party paying such license fee, the date, the mmunt paid and the bus ineBali censed a short description of the place where the business is to be conducted. Such receipts and stubsshall be numbered, and in lieu of a regular license be and constitute asufficient license. Such receipt shall contain the signature of the City Clerk aildtheimpress of the City Seal. Provided, however, that the City Clerk shall as soon as practical procure a license form sz-itable to be used for all kinds of business for which license is req iced, and shall thereupon take up all such receipts and i -sue instead -1ch licenses SECTION 3. No license shall entitle the holder thereof to carry on business except in the place naned therein, unless the place so named shall have first been pdrmamently closed. No license shall be as ignable except by express v,te or p,r:aission of the City council. SECTION 4. Every person engaged in any business or trade or occupatign for which a license is required, shall keep such license posted in a conspicuous place abo-,t such place of business, and shall produce sc h lioen:e t any tune on demad of tbeCity Clerk or any police officer. All licen„es shallbe conditioned upon the licensee conf,)rming to all th, laws of the United States, or the State of bNashiagton and Ordinances of the City of Pasco, pertaining to such business or occupation. o license shall begratted for any shorter periodthan ashhrein specified and no rebates shall be paid if the licensee shall fail to operate the bu-iness for the full period of the license. SECTION 5. In every case where more than one of the businesses or occupations for which a license is rewired is carried on in the same place by the same person at the same time a license must be taken out for each of saidbusinesses. All licences sh31 be for one year except as herein otherwise provided, and shall be pail on orbefore the3Oth day of June of each year. SECTION 6. Keepers of Billiard and Pool Halls shall pay an annual license of 8$,00 per year for each billiard or pool table belonging to or used in connection with such establishment. Every place open to the public where billiards or pool are played :ith or without price shall be deem -d a billiard r om under this ordinance. SECTION 7. Bill posters. Bill posters shall pay a license fee of ten dollars ner year. EMERY person who owns, controls or operates or rents any bill board for hire or who shall engage in the business of posting bills or advertising matter for hire shall be deemed a bill poster hereunder. SECTION 8. Bowling alleys. Keepers of bowling alleys shall pay a license fee of $8.00 per year for each alley used owned or operated in such place of business. EVERY place open to the public where bowls are thrown or where box ball is played shall be deemed a bowling alley hereunder. SECTION 9. Circuses. Circuses shall be divided into two classes: Class 1. shall incluse all which wharge a general admission fee of fifty cents or more and class 2 shall include all which charge a general admission fee of less than fifty cents. The t•-�rm circus shall be held to include a menagerie, dog and pony shows and other exhibitions in tents or other enclosures where trained performers exhibit whether human beings or animals. Circuses of class 1 shall pay a license fee of $75.00 for each performance an.thorized to be given under such license. Circuses of class 2 shall pay a license fee of $10.00 for each performance auth rized to be given thereunder. Side shows, The proprietor of each s`de show travelling with or connected with any circus or other travellin.; show where a separate charge is made for admi sion shall pay a license fee of five dollars per day. SECTION 10. Theatres and Moving Picture Sh ws. Pro-rietors or managers of moving picture shows having a seating capactity of more than $300) persons shall pay a license fee of o,�50.00 per year and those having a ;:eating capacity lesathan the nrmber above specifiedshall pay a lic,nse fee of ?25.00 per year. SECTION 11. The proprietor or manager of any other show not herein other.ise provided for shall pay a licence fee of x;2.00 per day, unless such performance shall. be given for the benefit of sono local social, religious or fraternal or educational organ- ization, or for some charitable purpose or shall be a recognized CHautauqua. SECTION 12. The Proprietor or manager of each public dance hall or open air dancing pavillion ,3hall pay a license Bee of $40.00 r-er year. Section 13. Hawkers. Every person who shall offer any article for sale from any stand or wagon or conveyance upon any street, r public place or open ground within the city limits shall be deemed a hawker and wl.en more than one person shall sell or a,-eist in the :ala from the :same stand, wagon, or conveyance, each shall be required to take out a license. Hawkers licen-o sh811 be five dollars per day, but thiL shall not al ply to the sale of farm or garden products. Section 14. Each merry-go-round operated in the city where a charge is made shall pay a license fee of one dollar per day, e-ce:t that upon holidays or circus days such charge shall be five dollars per day. Each skating rink shall pay an annual license fee of JQ $25.00 per year. Each cane rack, knife rack, or other similar device operated for profit and not for the benefit of any local charity, church or society, shall pay a license fee of $2.00 perday. SECTION 15. Any peddler or porson who goes aboat from place to place within the city and offers for :ale any goods wares or merchandise sha 1 be required to secure a lioonse as herein provided. Peddlers whall be of two classes. Those of the first class to include any person who goes about the city from place to placeand sells or o ffers to sell any goods, wares or merchandise from any wagon, buggy or automobile or other vehicle. Those of the second class to include those who go about the city on foot and so offers goods for sale. Peddlers of the first class shall pay a license fee of $5.00 per day. Those of the second class shall pay a license fee of $2.00 per day. Persons who peddle or sell farm products which they themselves have grown shall not be required to pay any license fee whatever. Persons who peddle fish, fruit, and vegetables only, and which they have not them -elves grown or caught shall pay a license fee of $10.00 per year. SECTION 16. Public carriers. Every person owning or operating an authomobile for hire or engaged in the carrying of passen^ers therein for hire shall pay an annual license fee equal to two dollars per year for each passenger such automobile has the capacity to carry. No license shall issue to any person who has not paid any license fee required by the State of Washington, and the po;,session of such a licenr_e from the State to carry pa::sefigers for hire shall be »rima facie proof of the fact that a person is engaged in _uch business. SECTION 16Bi Public carriers for hire, subject to call by the public. commonly known as draymen or expressman, shall pay an annual license fee of $12.00 for each auto truck or one horse or two horse vehicle used in such business. Teams and trucks used ex- clusively in the hauling of sand, gravel, rock, earth, fuel, or bnildinrr, material and not doing a general dray or express business shall pay a license fee of $12.00 per year to be paid by the owner of the same or the user thereof. SECTION 16 C. All vehicles licensed to carry pas engers for hire shall at all times keep such license about said vehicle in some convenient place and the owner or driver thereof must exhibit the same up -n demand of any Police officer of the city. The City Clerk shall supply the licensee with a card on which shall be printed in large type the license number and date of expiration thereof and the licensee shall attach the same to his vehicle in some conspicuous place. SECTION 17. All restaurants in the City of Pasco shall pay a license fee of $10.00 per annum. Any place in said city wherein meals are commonly furnished to the public for pay and paid for by the meal, or which advertis-s itself as a restaurant or cafe, or holds itself out to the public 3s srch public eating house, shall be deemed a restaurant under this section. SECTION 18. Bankrupt sales. Every person who shall conduct any sale of merchandise, other than a public officer conducting a judicial sale, where such merchandise is brought or shipped into the City for the purpose of this sale, or where said sale is made or eondrr.eted by persons other than the owners of said goods, or '::here the owners thereof employ either on commission or otherwise, any agency for the purpose of conducting said sale other than the regular force of clerks or employes shall pay a license fee of $2.50 per day. SECTION 1C. Temporary merchants. Any person who shall bring into the city any stock of goods, or merchandise, for the purpose of opening or conducting any temporary sale in any room, building, tent or other structure and without intending to engage permanently in s,7ch business in such city shall be req ired to pay a license fee of $5.00 per day for each and every day such temporary store is conducted. Provided that any person opening a business in said city, under claim that the same is intended to be permanent, may be re- quired by the Chief of Police in lieu of the payment provided for in this Section to deposit with the City Clerk a sura equal to thi-•ty times such daily license fee for a peri^d of not less than sixty days. At the end of said period of sixty days if the person shall have remained in said business he may then draw down such deposit and no license fee shall be char -ed. Otherwise such deposit shall remain the property of the city and taken instead of the deposit required hereunder. SECTION 20. Second hand Dealers and Junk Dealers. All persons enga-^d in conducting second hand stores in the City of P2sco shall pay an annual license fee of t,tO.00. All dealers in junk shall pay a lic•:nse fee of 010.00 per year. Junk is hereby defined to mean lead, metals, bottles, rope, rags, rubber, bags, baeging, sacks, plumbing, fixtures, and odds and ends of every nature in an old or second hand condition including parts of machiner, but no'. including ho-sehold furniture, carpets or ^ugs. SECTION 21. No license hereunder shall be deemed to authorize the conduct of any business except in strict accordance with law and all ordinances of the CITY of Pasco regulating s -ch business. THE :cords person or persons, owner or owners or other equivalent e -pression shall be understood to include both singular and plural, individuals, partnerships and associations and corporations. SECTION 22. ALL ordinances or parts of ordinances requirint, the payment of any license fees to the city of Pasco, except th_it requiring a license for tapping of irrigation mains, and that requiring the payment of a dog license are hereby repealed. Section 23. This ordinance shall be in force and effect five days after its pgssage and I publication. Passed and approved this 4th day of June, 1.918. G. E. Wil'ison, Mayor Attest: C. A. Dolan, City Clerk ( S E A L ) ORDINANCE No. 289 An Ordinance amending Section 22 of Ordinance No. 288 entitled "An Ordinance to license certain trades and occupations in the City of Pasco, Washington." BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF TIS CITY OF PASCO, 17ASEINGTON: Section 1. That Section 22 of Ordinance No. 288 be and '.he same is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 22. Any person, firm or corporation regnirod under the terms of this ordinance, or any section thereof, to pay any license, or from whom any license fee herein provided for shall be due, and who shall fail, neglect, or refuse to pay the same at the time and in the manner in said ordinance required, shall be guilty of a misdomeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $100.00 or imprisoned in the city jail for any period not exceeding $1irty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and in addition thereto shall be required to pay the same license. All ordinances or parts of ordinances requiring the payment of any license fee to the City of Pasco, except that requiring a license fee for the tapping of irrigation mains and that requiring the payment of dog licenses are hereby repealed. This ordinance shall be in force and effect from and after its passage and pub- lication. Passed and approved this 1st day of October, 1918. Attest: C. A. 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