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HomeMy WebLinkAbout0424 Ordinancer ORDINANCE N0. 424 AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO LICENSES FOR, AND REGULATING CERTAIN OCCUPATIONS, TRADES AND LINES OF BUSINESS CARRIED ON IN THE CITY OF PASCO, AND REQUIRING THE SAME TO BE LICENSED AND PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF, AND REPEALING ORDINANCE N0. 364, ENTITLED, "AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO LICENSES, REGULATING CERTAIN OCCUPATIONS, TRADES AND LINES OF BUSINESS CARRIED ON IN THE CITY OF PASCO, AND REQUIRING THE SAME TO BE LICENSED, AND PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF," AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 288 ENTITLED,"AN'ORDINANCE-TO LICENSE CERTAIN TRADES AND OCCUPATIONS IN THE CITY'OF PASCO, WASHINGTON,11 AND REPEALING ORDINANCES NUMBERED 289, 299, and 317, BEING ORDINANCES AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 288. BE.IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PASCO: SECTION 1: Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person or persons, company, corporation or association to do, transact, exercise, engage in, or carry on, either directly or indirectly, within the limits of the City of Pasco, any trade, occupation, business or activity for which a license is hereinafter required, or a or a license fee provided, without first procuring such license and paying such fee. SECTION 2. Each applicant fora city license shall file an applica- tion with the city clerk, together with the amount to be paid for such license, and the city clerk shall issue a receipt for the same. The city clerk shall, at the next regular meeting of the city council present the application to the said city council, and if the application be approved by the city council, the city clerk shall issue the applicant a license. If the application be not approved, the city clerk shall return the amount of money received at the time the application was filed. All applications for licenses,as herein provided for, shall be in writing and signed by the applicant and shall give his residence and business address and such other information as may be required. SECTION 3. No license shall entitle the holder thereof to carry on business except in the place named therein unless the place so named.shall have been first permanently closed. No license shall be transferable or assignable except by express vote of the city council. SECTION 4. Every person, company, corporation or association engaged in any business or trade, or occupation for which a license is required, shall keep such license posted in a conspicuous place about such place of business, and shall produce such license at M r -40- 2/ 4r 2/ any time on demand of the city clerk or any police officer. All licenses shall be conditioned upon the licensee conforming 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. All licenses shall be for the period of one year, unless otherwise provided herein; said license to begin January 1st of each year and terminate December 31st, following. No rebate shall be paid or allowed if the licensee shall fail to operate the business for the full period of the license; provided, that where more than one of any of the businesses or occupations for which a license is required, is carried on by the same person or party, in the same location, then such person or party shall pay the highest license fee in this ordinance required for any of such businesses or occupations and no license fee shall be required for the other businesses or occupations there carried on by him; provided further, that where pinball machines are used or operated in any place of business, they shall pay the license fee prescribed therefor, notwithstanding the fact that other licenses may bepaid by the same party for business operated in the same location; provided further that for the year 1937, license fees shall become. due and payable April lst, 1937, for such year and paid proportionally for remainder of such year. SECTION 5: Any license granted hereunder may be revoked or forfeited or the unexpired term thereof shortened by the city council for any reason which to it may seem sufficient. All licenses herein provided for shall be payable in advance. SECTION g: All businesses, occupations and professions named herein shall pay the license fee herein provided for, and all licenses issued hereunder shall be for the period of one year unless otherwise specified in.this ordinance. SECTION 7: AUCTION SALES All auction sales of merchandise, other than judicial sales held in pursuance of an order of court, shall pay'a license fee of 10.00.a day, and all auctioneers;'conducting or crying any auction sale, shall pay a license fee of $2.50 a day. SECTION g: APARTMENT HOUSES Any apartment house or building in which rooms in suits or suites are rented for housekeeping purposes shall pay a license fee of $1.00 per year for each suit or suite of rooms so rented, or kept for rent. SECTION 9: ABSTRACT OFFICES: All abstract offices or places of business engaged in the business of making abstract of title, shall pay a license fee of $5.00 per year. SECTION 10: BANKS All banks shall pay a license fee of $Z5.00 per year. in U 3f SECTION 11: BAKERIES All bakeries or places where bakery products are manufactured and sold shall pay a license fee of $10.00 per year. SECTION 12: BARBERS: All barbershops shall pay a license fee of $5.00 per year SECTION 13: BEER PARLORS All beer parlors or taverns, or places engaged in the sale of beer and wine or either thereof shall pay a license fee of $15.00 per year. SECTION 14: BEAUTY PARLORS All beauty parlors or places engaged in the business of hair dressing and/or manicuring shall pay an annual license fee of $5.00 per year. SECTION 15: BILL POSTERS All persons engaged in the business of posting bills for advertising purposes or operating and controling billboards, shall pay a license fee of $5.00 per'year. SECTION 16: BOWLING ALLEYS All bowling alleys conducted in the City of Pasco shall ay an annual license fee of $10.00 for the first alley and 5.00 per year for each additional alley. SECTION 17: CARD ROOMS, POOL AND BILLIARD HALLS Each and every public card room, billiard room or pool room, or place where games of cards, billiards or pool are openly and publicly played and the general public admitted there- to, and compensation charged for the use of the tables or equipment therein, shall pay a license fee of $80.00 per year for the first of any such table used or'operated therein and $1.00 per year for each additional card, billiard or pool table. SECTION 18: CARNIVALS All street carnivals or shows or performances ordinarily known and classified as carnivals, whether showing upon the streets or upon other property, shall pay a license fee of ,35.00 per day. SECTION 19 CLEANING AND DYEING ESTABLISHMENTS All cleaning and dyeing establishments or places engaged An dry cleaning, dyeing and repairing or alteration of clothing or any combination of such work, shall pay a license fee of $10.00 per year. 0 A 4/ SECTION 20; CLOTHING STORES All clothing stores or places engaged principally in the sale of either mens' or womens' ready to wear clothing, shall pay a license fee of $10.00 per year, each. SECTION 21: CIRCUSES Every circus where the general admission including cost of reserved seats, if any such seats there are, is fifty cents or more, shall pay a license fee of $50.00 for the first day's performance, and 425.00 for the second day's performance, and every such circus where such admission including the cost of reserved seats, if any, is less than fifty cents, shall p-nv a license fee of $25.00 for the first . day's performance and 12.50 for each subsequent day, and any dog and pony or trained animal show, where no acrobatic performances are given, shall pay a license fee of $25.00 for the first day of such performance and for each additional day, $15.00. SECTION 22; CONFECTIONERY AND SOFT DRINK PLACES Any confectionery store or place engaged principally in the sale of candy, confectionery and soft drinks, shall pay a license fee of $7.50 per ,year. SECTION 23; COLD STORAGE All cold storage plants or places where meats, vegetables or fruits are kept and stored under cold storage conditions, shall pay a license fee of $10.00 per year. SECTION 24: DANCES Any dance, or person giving or managing any dance, to which the general public is invited or admitted, whether a charge is made or not, shall pay a license fee of $2.00. SECTION 25; DANCE HALLS All dance halls or places rented or kept for rent for the urpose of conducting dances therein, shall pay a license fee of 10.0.0 per year. SECTION 26; DENTISTS All dentists shall pay a license fee of $10.00 per year SECTION 27; DEPART%XNT STORES Any store engaged in the keeping for sale and selling dry goods, mens' and womens' nearing apparel, or any combination thereof, and occupying or using floor space of 3000 square feet. shall pay a license fee of $15.00 per year, and any such institu- tion occupying less than 3000 square feet of floor space shall pay an annual license fee of $10.00. 5/ SECTION 28: DOCTORS . All doctors, physicians and surgeons,.including all persons licensed by the state to carry on any of the healing arts, shall pay a license fee of $10.00 per year. SECTION 29: DRAYS AND TRANSFERS All persons engaged in the business of draying or trans- ferring, or the moving of goods and commodities for hire, shall pay a license fee of 05.00 per year on the first truck or conveyance used in the operation of such business,.and.$1.00 for each and every additional truck or conveyance used therein, per year. SECTION 30: DRUG STORES All drug stores are to pay a license fee of $10.00 per. year. SECTION 31: ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER All persons,, firms or Icorporations engaged in the business of selling electrical energy shall pay a license fee of 075.00 per. year. SECTION 32: ELECTRIC SHOPS Any place engaged in the sale of any kind of electric goods, fixtures or equipment or electrical supplies of any kind, shall pay a license fee of $10.00 per year. SECTION.33: FLORISTS Florist shops, nurserys and greenhouses,.shall pay a license fee of $5.00 per year. SECTION 34; FUEL )WARDS All persons engaged in the sale of wood .and coal or either, for fuel purposes, or a fuel oil, shall pay a license fee of $15.00 per year. SECTION 35: FURNITURE STORES Any place engaged in the sale of household furniture and furnishings and occupying a floor space of 3000 square feet or more, shall pay a license fee of $15.00 a year, and any such place occupying a floor space of less than 3000 square feet shall pay a license fee of $10.00 per year. SECTION 36i GARAGES All places where motor vehicles are kept for sale or display, stored.or repaired, or where farm machinery is kept for sale, stored, or repaired, shall be known and classified as garages and shall pay a, license fee of $10.00 per year. SECTION 37: GIFT AND SPECIALTY SHOPS Any place of business such as is ordinarily known as a ll 6/ gift shop or place where gift goods, specialties and accessories are sold, shall pay a. license fee of $5.00 per year. SECTION 38: GROUPERS ASSOCIATIONS AND GRAIN DEALERS Any person, firm or corporation engaged in the buying and selling or the assembling for shipping purposes of grain or agricultural products, shall pay a license fee of $15.00 per year. SECTION 39: GROCERY STORES All grocery stores occupying a floor space of 3000 square feet or more shall pay a license fee of x$'15.00 per year, and all such stores occupying less than 3000 square feet of floor space shall pay a license fee of $10.00 per year. ,SECTION 40: HARDWARE STORES All hardware stores shall pay a license fee of $10.00 per year. SECTION 41: HOTELS .All hotels or places where rooms are kept for rent for the accomodation of the traveling public, whether rented by the day, week, or month, and having forty or more rooms, shall pay a license fee of $1.00 per year for each such room, and all such hotels having less than forty rooms for rent, shall pay a license fee of 60� per room, per year. Any place where such rooms are rented by the month or week only, and not by the day or night, shall be denominated as a rooming house, and shall pay a license fee in the rate of 30¢ per year, per room, provided that the minimum license fee of such rooming house shall be $5.00 per year. SECTION 42: INSURANCE AGENCIES Any person, firm or groups, whose principal line of business is the sale on commission or otherwise of any form of insurance, shall pay a license fee of $10.00 per year. SECTION 43: JEWELRY STORES All jewelry stores or places where jewelry, watches, time— pieces, etc., are sold or repaired, shall pay a license fee of 47.50 per year. SECTION 44: JUNK DEALERS All persons engaged in the collecting, buying and selling of junk shall pay a license fee of $15.00 per year. SECTION 45: LAUNDRIES All laundries shall pay a license fee of 910.00 per year. SECTION 46: LAWYERS All persons engaged in the practice of law having their offices or principal place of business in the city of Pasco, shall pay a license fee of $10.00 per year. P `w 7/ SECTION 47: LUMBER YARDS All lumber yards or places where lumber or building mater- ials are sold or kept for sale shall pay a license fee of $15.00 per year. SECTION 48: MACHINE SHOPS Any shop or place of business for the repairing of machin- ery, where power driven tools or appliances are used in the making of such repairs shall be known as machine shops and shall pay a license fee of 410.00 per year. SECTION 49; MEAT MARKETS Meat markets or butcher shops, or places where fresh meats are kept and sold at retail shall pay a license fee of $10.00 per year. SECTION 50: MUSIC SHOPS All places of business engaged in the sale of musical instruments, radios, phonographs, etc.T shall pay a license fee of $10.00 per year. SECTION 51: MUSIC BOXES OR ELECTRICAL PHONOGRAPHS All music boxes or electrical phonographs kept in any public place and operated by an insertion of a coin, shall pay an annual license fee of $12.00 per year. SECTION 52: NEWSPAPERS Any firm, corporation, or person engaged in the business of publishing any newspaper or periodical or in the conducting of any job printing plant, shall pay a license fee of $10.00 per year. SECTION 53: OIL PLANTS All oil plants or places where gasoline or lubricating oils are kept for storage and from which deliveries are made*for the sale of such products in wholesale lots, shall pay a license fee of $25.00 per year, each. SECTION 54: PEDDLARS Any person selling or offering for sale any goods or commodities by going about from house to house, making no outcry in the street, shall pay a license fee of $5.00 per day, provided that it shall be lawful.for any farmer or gardner or other person without a license to sell or deliver or peddle any fruits, farm products or edibles, raised, caught or produced by himself any. place in the State of Washington. SECTION 55: PIN BALL MACHINES All pin ball machines or similar devices shall pay a license fee of $8.00 per month provided that no such license shall be deemed to authorize the operation of any machine or device which cannot be legally operated under the laws of the State of Washington. a r SECTION 56: PHOTOGRAPHERS All photographers or persons engaged in the making of photographs or pictures by -any photographic process shall pay a license fee of $5.00 per ,year. SECTION 57: PLUMBING ESTABLISHMENTS All plumbing establishments or places where lumbing goods are kept or sold, shall pay a license fee of 910.00 per year. SECTION 58: RESTAURANTS All restaurants or places where cooked food is sold and served by the meal shall pay a license fee of $10.00 per year. SECTION 59: REAL ESTATE OFFICES- . All real estate offices or places where real estate is sold, by or through agents or on commission, shall pay a license fee of 10.00 per year. SECTION 60: SECONDHAND STORES All second hand stores or places where used furniture,` .machinery, or tools or household equipment is bought and sold, shall: pay a license fee of $7.50 per year. SECTION 62: SHOE SHINE PARLORS All shote shine parlors or places engaged in the business of shining, cleaning or dyeing of shoes, shall pay a license fee of $2.50 per year. SECTION 63: SHOE REPAIR SHOPS Shoe repair shops or places engaged in the business of mending, repairing, etc., of shoes, shall pay a license fee of $2.50 per year. SECTION 64: SERVICE STATIONS . All service stations or places for the sale of gasoline,. lubricating oil, or motor accessories for motor vehicles, shall be in two classes, known as class "A" and class "B"; Class "A" stations shall be all drive-in stations, located within 3_ blocks of the intersection of Fourth and Lewis Streets and shall pay a license fee of $25.00 per year each. Class "A" stations shall be all curb gasoline pumps wherever located and all drive- in stations located more than 32.blocks from the intersection of Fourth and Lewis Streets, and shall pay a license fee of $15.40 per year. SECTION 65: TELEPHONE COMPANY All'persoris, firms, or corporations engaged in the operat- ion of any telephone sustem shall pay a license fee of $65.00 per year. SECTION 66: TRANSIENT MERCHANTS All persons who shall open up or conduct any store or place 9/ of business in any-building,.tent, or structure for the purpose of disposing of, at retail, any stock of goods with the intention of disposing of the same at any bargain sales or.cut rates, shall be deemed a transient merchant and shall pay a license fee of $50.00 per day. SECTION 67: TAXI CABS All taxi cabs shall pay a license fee of $10.00'per year. SECTION 68: TOURIST CABINS All owners or keepers or managers of what is commonl known as tourist cabins shall pay an annual license fee of 41.00 per year for each such cabin so rented or kept for rent. SECTION gg:' THEATRES All theatres and moving picture shows shall pay a license fee of $65.00 per year. SECTION 70: TENT SHOWS Any shows or theatrical performances given in any tent or temporary structure of any kind shall pay a license fee of $15.00 per day.. 1 SECTION ?1: UNDERTAKERS All under -taking parlors and/or mortuaries or funeral directors shall pay a license fee of $10.00 per year. SECTION 72: WATERWORKS All persons, firms, or corporations engaged in the distri- bution and sale of water for domestic purposes, including the municipal water system,shall pay a license fee of $75.00 per year. SECTION 73: WHOLESALING All persons engaged in the business of wholesaling or jobing of cigarettes, cigars, tobaccos, candies, groceries or confectionery goods or any combination thereof shall pay a license fee of $10.00 per year. SECTION 74: WHOLESALER'S DELIVERY TRUCKS' Any persons, firm or corporation engaged in the sale of merchandise at wholesale, where such sales are solicited and/ or deliveries made to or from any person engaged in the retail business in Pasco, shall pay a license fee, on such business of wholesaling and delivering from trucks or vehicles within the city of Pasco of $25.00 per year. SECTION 75: COMMISSION MERCHANTS Any persons engaged in the sale of any kind of merchandise on commission or percentage, and who maintains a place of business in Pasco, whether or not the stock of merchandise is kept on hand, and whose business is not otherwise licensed or taxed_ in this ordinance, shall pay a license fee of $10.00 per year. i 10/ .SECTION 76: All license fees shall be paid to the city clerk promptly. in advance, upon the taking effect of this ordinance; provided, however, that any person who has paid and has outstanding an unexpired license issued under the terms of Ordinance No. 364, and who takes out a license under the terms of this ordinance prior to the expiration of such oldlicense, shall be entitled to credit on his new license pro rata for the unexpired portion of the license issued under Ordinance No. 364; any occupation or business required by this ordinance to take out a license which was not required to be licensed heretofore, may upon the taking effect of this ordinance, pay the license fee herein provided on a pro rata basis from the date the ordinance goes into effect till December 31st, 1937, and there- ster licenses shall be paid one year in advance, except where other- wise provided herein. SECTION 77: Ordinance No. 364, entitled "An ordinance relating to licenses regulating certain occupations, trades and.lines of bus- iness carried on in the City'of Pasco, and requiring same to be licensed and providing penalty for the violation thereof, and repealing Ordinance No. 288, entitled, "An ordinance to license certain trades and occupations in the City of Pasco, Washington," and repealing Ordinances Nos. 289, 299 and 317, being ordinances amending Ordinance No. 288, passed and approved on the 7th day of June, 1927, and all other ordinances.or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 78: It is the intention of this ordinance to require that each and every business, profession and occupation carried on in the City of Pasco, shall be required, for revenue purposes, to pay a license fee and any business or occupation carried on in'the city not specifically mentioned herein shall be required to pay a license fee, notwithstanding the fact that it is not mentioned, and the city clerk is authorized in his or her descretion to exact and collect a license and fee from any such business and to fix the license fee therefor as near as may be in accordance with fees exacted from similar businesses, professions or occupations. SECTION 79: PENALTY Any person who shall conduct or carry on any business or occupation for which a license.is herein required without having obtained said license and paid the required fee therefor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not greater than $100.00. SECTION 80: This Ordinance shall take effect five (5) days after and from its passage and publication. Passed and approved this 1.�. 37. ATTEST: Mayor Ctfy Clerk Approved as to form: City Attorney