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HomeMy WebLinkAbout502 - Business License Rates• • • ORDINANCE NO. 502 The City of Newport Beach, by and through its City Council. does ordain as follows: Section 1: Section 25 of Or- dinance No. 393 of the City of Newport Beach is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 25. The rate of license for conducting the business of a park' place or station, and which is defined to be a place or station at which automobiles are received for the purpose of being parked. for hire. shall be $2.00 per annum. provided. however. such parking place or station shall not be on two distinct parcels of land. and for each such distinct parcel. a license of $2.00 per annum shall be paid. In connection with this para- graph. no license shall be issued until the person. firm or corpor- ation intending to operate t h e business herein mentioned has filed with the City Clerk a Schedule of Prices to be charged for the park- ing of automobiles. and in ad- dition thereto has posted in a con- spicuous place upon said premises a Schedule of Prices to be charg- ed the public for the parking of automobiles on said parking lot and said Schedules shall not be changed or varied until a new Schedule has been filed with the City Clerk and a new Schedule posted as aforesaid on the prem- ises. In the event the person. firm or corporation who shall obtain a license to conduct a parking lot shall fail or neglect to keep a Schedule of Prices to be charged the public for services posted as aforesaid. the license of said per- son. firm or corporation to con- duct said business shall be can- celled at any regular or spec:ai meeting of the City Council." Section 2. Section 28 of Or- dinance No. 393 of the City of Newport Beach is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 28. The rate of license for conducting the business of a feed stable. horse or automobile liv- ery or stable. for each such feed or livery stable. $12.00 per annum." Section 3. Section 30 of Or- dinance No. 393 of t.:e C ty of Newport Beach is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 30. TEe rate of license for conducting or carrying on the business or a merry -go- round. circular swing. scenic railroad. ferr.s wheel. acroplane glide. swing or other similar device or dodgem. or anyth'ng of a similar nature. $5.00 per month." Sect on 4. Section 38 of Or- dinance No. 393 of the City of Newport Beach is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 38. The rate of license fo,, conducting the business of a planing mill or lumber yard and building supplies shall be $15.00 per annum." Section S. Section 39 of Or- dinance No. 393 of the City of Newport Beach is hereby amender to read as follows: "Section 39. The rate of license for conducting the business of a restaurant. cafe. lunch counter. cafeteria, s h a 11 be $12.00 p e r annum: provided. however. no li- cense shall be issued except upon the recommendation of the health officer of the City of Newport_ Beach. In the event music or entertain- ment is furnished patrons of a restaurant. cafe. lunch counter. or cafeteria. the rate of license shall be $25.00 per annum." Section 6. Section 5 5 o f Or- dinance No. 393 of the City of Newport Beach is hereby amend- ed to read as follows: "Section 55. The rate of license for conducting the business of selling new or used automobiles shall be $12.00 per annum." Section 7. Section 6 2 of Or- dinance No. 393 of the City of Newport Beach is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 62. The rate of license for the business of junk collector. junk dealer or maintaining a junk yard. $50.00 per annum. In this connection. any person. firm or corporation collecting junk from retail. wholesale or industrial plants shall only be required to pay $10.00 per annum." Section S. Section 6 5 o f Or- dinance No. 393 of the City of Newport Beach Is hereby repealed. Section 9. Section 7 2 of Or- dinance No. 393 of the City of Newport Beach is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 72. For every person. firm or corporation who shall en- gage in the autdmobile garage business. the annual license tax shall be $12.00. Automobile garage is hereby de- fined as and declared to be a place where automobiles are sold. stored or cared for. cleaned or repaired. and where the necessary machinery is kept for the purpose of repairing automobiles and where automobile accessories. gasoline. oils and supplies are kept and sold." Section 10. Section 77 of Or- dinance No. 393 of the City of Newport Beach is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 77. Every person. firm or corporation who shall engage in the business of contracting grading or laying streets. side- walks. drains or sewers in said City shall pay an annual license tax of $50.00." Section 11. Section 85 of Or- dinance No. 393 of the City of Newport Beach is hereby amend- ed to read as follows: "Section 85. The rate of license for carrying on or managing or engaging in'the business of leas- ing. renting or the hiring of boats to others. for taxi service. either as owner or operator. or as the agent. servant or employee of another. s h a l l be $15.00 p e r annum." Section 12. Section 87 of Or- dinance No. 393 of the City of Newport Beach is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 87. The rate of license for managing or carrying on. or engaging in the business of re- ceiving and transporting persons within the City of Newport Beach. for a consideration. in speed boats. shall be $15.00 per annum." Section 13. Section 88 of Or- dinance No. 393 of the City of Newport Beach is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 88. The rate of license for engaging iii the business of carrying passengers on boats or vessels from any point in the City of Newport Beach shall be $15.00 per annum." Section 14. Section 93a. The rate of Ycense for engaging in or carrying on the business of selling at retail or at wholesale. c u t flowers. trees. shrubs. vines. growing flowers or plants. floral pieces or displays. potteries con. taining plants or flowc:s. shall be $12.00 per annum. In this con- nection. any retail store in the City of Newport Beach paying a license under the terms hereof may en- gage in the business of selling. at retail. cut flowers without the payment of any additional license therefor. Section 15. A new section was added to Ordinance No. 393 of the City of Newport Beach and made a part thereof and shall read as follows: "A new section. to be known as "Section 93c ". shall read as fol- lows: 'Section 93c. F o r each mer- chandise vending machine oper- ated in the City of Newport Beach by the insertion therein of a coin of the value of $.05 or more. $2.00 per annum per machine: and for merchandise vending machines where coins are inserted of the value of less than $.05, the sum a $1.00 per annum per machine.'" Section 16. Ordinance No. 393 of the City of Newport Beach is hereby amended by adding a new section thereto. to be known as "Section 93d." and shall read as follows: "Section 93d. All machines known as 'penny machines' and which are not specifically enumer- ated or mentioned in this Or- dinance. and where pennies are inserted therein for service. shall pay an annual license of $1.00 per machine." Section 17. Ordinance No. 393 of the City of Newport Beach is hereby amended. by adding a new section thereto. to - be­known as "Section 93e ". and shall `read as follows: "Section 93e. All g mes of,every nature. description :or kind: for which license. may be Issued in the City of- Newport Beach. and which are not herein specifically enumerated. and !which shall not give prizes. shall be $12.00 per annum. In this connection. all games of every nature. descrip- tion or kind conducted in the City of Newport Beach which shall • offer or give prizes to the public, shall pay a license of $35.00 per annum." Section 18. If any section, sub- section, sentence, clause, or phrase of this ordinance is hereafter for any reason held to be unconsti- tutional or un- enforceable, such dec'sion shall not a f f e c t t h e validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council of the City of Newport Beach he eby declares that it would have passed this ordinance, and each section, sentence, clause or phrase, hereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more other sec- tions, sub - sections, a e n t e n c e s, clauses, or phrases be declared unconstitutional o r unenforce- able. Section 19. Each and every day or fractional part of a day that any pursuit, trade, occupation, avocation, employment, business or calling in this Ordinance speci- fied is conducted or carried on without first obtaining a license therefore as herein provided, shall constitute a violation of this Or- dinance, and any person, who, for himself, or for any other person, shall violate any of the pro- visions of this Ordinance, shall, for e a c h violation thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction by any court • having jurisdiction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not more than $200.00, or by imprisonment in the city jail in the C'ty of Newport Beach not exceeding twenty -five days, or both such fine and im- p': isonment. Section 20. This ordinance shall be published once in NEWPORT BALBOA NEWS - TIMES, a news- paper of general circulation, print- ed and published and circulated in the City of Newport Beach, and this Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after ¢ the 1st day of July, 1941. The above and foregoing Or- dinance No. 502 was passed at a regular meeting of the City Coun- cil of the City of Newport Beach, held on the -19th day of May, 1941, by the following vote, to -wit: AYES, COUNCILMEN: Reed, Claire, Allen, Brown, Gordon. ` NOES, COUNCILMEN: None. A B S E N T, COUNCILMEN: None, The above and foregoing Or- dinance No. 502 is approved and s "gned by me this 19th day of Max.. 1941. IRVIN GEO. GORDON, Mayor of the City of Newport Beach. ATTEST: FRANK L. RINEHART, • City Clerk of the City of New- port Beach. ( SEAL) Pub: May 29, 1941.