HomeMy WebLinkAbout0289 Ordinance$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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