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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.
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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
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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.
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AN Ordinance to license certain trades and occupations in the City of Pasco, Wash-
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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
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$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. Dolan, City Clete.
( S E A L )
G. E. Willison,
Mayor
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