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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC Ord 1066 1979-06-25 -', .... I I I .. . . ORDINANCE NO. /t:)6t:, AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SEAL BEACH AMENDING ARTICLE II, SCHEDULE OF FEES, OF CHAPTER 11, LICENSES AND BUSINESS. REGULATIONS GENERALLY, OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF SEAL BEACH THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEAL BEACH DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: J , Section 1. Article II, Schedule of Fees, of Chapter 11, Licenses and Business Regulations Generally, of the Code of the City of Seal Beach is hereby amended to read as follows: Article II. Schedule of Fees. Sec. 11-32. Assessment of fee generally. Every person engaging in or conducting within the city any business, occupation or profession enumerated in this article shall pay the fees for such respective businesses, occupations or professions that are prescribed in this article. Sec. 11-33. Advertising business generally. Every persons engaged in the business of advertising shall pay the sum of two hundred dollars per year, except that persons engaged in the distribution of handbills and similar advertising shall pay the sum of one hundred dollars per year. For purposes of this section, newspapers printed and distributed at regular intervals which contain items of interest shall not be considered as being engaged in the business of advertising. Sec. 11-34. Aircraft--For hire. Every person engaged in the business of maintaining or operating any aircraft for hire, or for carrying passengers or freight for hire in any aircraft, or for carrying students or trainees in the art of flying or navigation for hire in any aircraft shall pay the sum of fifty dollars per year for the first aircraft and the sum of twenty dollars per year for each additional aircraft. Sec. 11-35. Same--Sale of new and used aircraft. Every person engaging in, conducting or carrying on the business of selling new or used aircraft shall pay the sum of one hundred dollars per year. A license obtained for the sale of either class of aircraft referred to in this section shall, for the purpos~s of this chapter only, entitle the licensee to engage in the sale of the other class or type of aircraft referred to in this section. Such license shall also entitle the licensee to engage in the repairing, remodeling, overhauling, altering or paint- ing of aircraft and the sale of aircraft parts and accessories without the payment of an additional license fee therefor. . '. . I I I SB19-12B Ordinance Number , . Sec. ll-36. Amusements--Generall~. Every person engaged in the business of maintalning any game, exhibition, show, amusement or recreational device, or any kind of amusement or entertainment no~ otherwise provided for in this chapter, and charging or collecting any admission fee, or accepting any free-will offering or other compensation therefor, shall pay the sum of seventy dollars per year, or six dollars per day, for each game, exhibition, show, amusement or recreational device, and for each such amusement or entertainment. Sec. ll-37. Same--Amusement park. Every person engaged in the business of an amusement park within any enclosure wherein an admission fee is charged, shall pay the sum of two hundred dollars per year, or twenty dollars per day. Sec. ll-38. Same--Beach umbrella and equipment stands. Every person engaged in the business ,of maintaining a stand for the rental of beach umbrellas and the rental of articles of beach equipment, other than bathing attire, for the convenience or entertainment of bathers, including, but not limited to, paddle boards or surfboards, surf mattresses or air cushions, or who is engaged in the activity of renting such articles to the public, shall pay the sum of fifty dollars per year for the first stand or place so main- tained, and in addition thereto, the sum of twenty dollars per year for each additional branch stand or branch place; provided, however, that in the event application is made for a license hereunder to operate a stand or place of business for the rental of articles referred to in this section, which stand or place of business is maintained upon public property, the applicant may engage in such business only by virtue of a contract with the city upon such terms and conditions as the city council may direct. Sec. ll-39. Same--Billiard and poolrooms and bowling alleys. Every person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of a public pool hall, billiard hall or maintaining any pool table, billiard table for public use shall pay the sum of ten dollars per year for each such table, whether the same is in use or not. However, the minimum annual license fee shall be not less than fifty dollars. Every person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of a bowling alley or maintaining a bowling alley for public use shall pay the sum of ten dollars per year for each such bowling alley, whether or not the same is in use or not. However, the minimum annual license fee shall be not less than fifty dollars or more than one hundred dollars. The conducting, managing or carrying on of the business of a bowling alley shall include any coin-operated lockers maintained by such bowling alley as a part of such business and not be subject to a separate business license fee. -2- ~ . I I I SB19-13B Ordinance Number . Sec. ll-40. Same--Boat for hire. Every person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of a boat for hire, or maintaining any boat for hire shall pay the sum of sixty dollars per year for,each boat not exceeding twenty-five feet in length, and eight dollars per year per foot in additton thereto for each boat exceeding twenty-five feet in length. The fee provided by this section need not be paid by any person for any boat for hire operated by him pursuant to a permit or other authority granted to him by the city to operate such boat from city property; provided, that such permit requires the permittee to, pay to the city such amount of money as will equal or exceed the total of the respective amounts specified above for each boat operated pursuant to such permit. Sec. 11-41. Same--Boxing matches. Every person managing, conducting or carrying on any professional boxing contest or exhibition shall pay the sum of one thousand dollars. Sec. 11-42. Same-Carnivals, fairs, circuses. Every person conducting, managing, carrying on or maintaining any game, exhibition, entertainment feature, show, amusement or recreational device or concession booth at any carnival or local fair, and charging or collecting any admission fee or purchase price, or accepting any free-will offering or other compensation therefor, shall pay the sum of six dollars per day, for each such game, exhibition, entertainment feature, show, amusement or recreational device, or concession booth, except that this section shall not apply to carnivals, fairs and shows run by the PTA, schools, recognized churches or other nonprofit organizations for charitable purposes. In addition to the license provided for in this section, such person shall first obtain from the city council any permit required by law for the operation of such activity. Every person conducting, managing or carrying on a circus shall pay the sum of seven hundred dollars for the first day and four hundred dollars per day for each day thereafter. Nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed or construed to authorize the holder of any license to conduct a circus to conduct, maintain or carryon any other business in connection with such circus without first having obtained a license to do so as provided by this c~apter. Sec. ll-43. Same--Coin operated machines. Every person engaged in the business of renting, leasing, maintaining, or operating any amusement machine, game machine or game device, the operation of which results from, or is allowed by, the insertion of a coin, slug, or token of value into the device, or any device attached to it, or who, for a fee or valuable consid- -3- SB19-14B Ordinance Number ~ . I eration of any kind, lets to players the use of any such games or devices, or who keeps any such games or devices available for such use in the city, shall pay the following sums: (al Pool tables, skill pool tables, bumper pool tables, billiard tables or similar devices, the sum of fifty dollars per fiscal year for each and every such table or device, whether used or not, that is operated, maintained, or made available in the city. (bl Coin-operated phonographs, music machines, or other devices for the playing or furnishing of music or other programs, the sum of thirty dollars per fiscal year for each and every such device. (cl Pinball, skill ball, or shuffleboard machines, or any other automatic amusement devices, not otherwise herein specified, the sum of thirty dollars per fiscal year for each and every such device. (dl Radios, television instruments, or other such devices furnished under this section that are equipped with coin slots and are furnished only to individual living apartments or dwelling units operated as a part of a single business on any premises, the license fee shall be the sum of three dollars per fiscal year for each and every such device. I Sec. 1l-44. Same--Entertainment cafe. Every person conducting, managing, carrying on or engaged in the business of an entertainment cafe in the city on which premises or in connection with which there is: Entertainment consisting of instrumental entertainment by one or more musicians, singing, floor show, vaudeville, cabaret or similar entertainment shall pay the sum of two hundred fifty dollars per year due and payable on the first day of July of each year; providing that such fee shall be prorated for any period of less than one year when the license is granted subsequent to July thirty-first of each year. Sec. ll-45. Same--Miniature trains. Every person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of maintaining or operating a miniature gasoline, electric or steam train for hire shall pay the sum of seventy dollars per year for each such train. I Sec. ll-46. Same--Penny arcades. Every person conduct~ng, managing or carrying on the business of a penny arcade shall pay the sum of seventy dollars per year. Sec. 1l-47. Same--Public bathhouse operation. Every person engaged in the business of a public bathhouse, or maintaining any public bathroom or public dressing room for hire shall pay the sum of thirty dollars per year. If such public bathhouse has in excess of fifty -4- SB19-l5B Ordinance Number , . I rooms, but less than one hundred and one rooms, includ- ing dressing rooms, bathrooms and lockers, then such license tax shall be sixty dollars per year, plus twenty cents for each dressing room, bathroom and locker in excess of one hundred rooms. Sec. ll-48. Same--Shooting gallery. engaged in the business of a shooting the sum of seventy dollars per year. Every person gallery shall pay Sec. 1l-49. Same--Shows or live animal exhibitions. (al Every person conducting, mapaging or carrying on a show or exhibit or live animals of any kind or character, where an admission or entry fee is charged, or a free-will offering is received, shall pay the sum of ten dollars per day or two hundred dollars per year. (bl Every person conducting, managing or carrying on a show or exhibition of fish, fowl, insects or reptiles, where an admission or entry fee is charged, or a free-will offering is received shall pay the sum of twenty dollars per day or fifty dollars per year. I (cl Every person conducting, managing or carrying on a show or exhibition where stuffed animals or fowl, or those other than live animals, fowl or reptiles are exhibited, where an admission or entry fee is charged or a free-will offering is received shall pay the sum of twenty dollars per day or fifty dollars per year. Sec. 11-50. Same--Wrestling matches. Every person engaged in the business of carrying on, conducting or operating any professional or amateur wrestling contest or exhibition in the city shall pay the sum of six hundred dollars per year. Sec. 11-51. Bottled water sales. Every person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of selling bottled water at retail shall pay the sum of fifty dollars per year for the first vehicle used in carrying on such business, plus the sum of twenty-five dollars per year for each additional vehicle used in the business; provided, however, that this section does not apply to confectionery stores, soda water fountains or similar places of business dispensing such waters by the glass or bottled in connection with the business. Sec. ll-52. Christmas tree and Christmas wreath sales. Every person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of selling, at retail, Christmas trees, Christmas wreaths or Christmas tree ornaments and decorations at a fixed place of business in the city shall pay an annual license fee of eighty dollars per year. I Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to the holder of a valid and unrevoked general merchandise license who sells Christmas trees, Christmas wreaths or -5- SBl9-16B Ordinance Number Christmas tree ornaments and decorations from the place of business so licensed in conjunction with his other merchandise. I Sec. 1l-53. Cleaning and pressing, etc., establishments. Every person engaged in the business of cleaning, dry cleaning, pressing, dyeing, sponging or spotting of clothes, or cleaning and blocking of hats, shall pay the sum of fifty dollars per year. Every person operating, conducting or carrying on any plant, factory or establishment wherein wearing apparel, feathers, furs, hats, fabrics or textiles are cleaned or renovated by immersion and agitation, or immersion only, in a volatile commercially moisture-free solvent, or by the use of a volatile and inflammable product applied either manually or by means of a mechanical appliance shall pay the sum of one hundred dollars per year. I Sec. 1l-54. Coin operated machines. (al Photographic and voice recording machines. Every person engaged in the business of operating or maintaining any photographic or voice recording machine, which machine is operated by the deposit of a coin, disk or slug, shall pay the sum of one hundred dollars per year, which shall entitle the licensee to engage in such business and operate not to exceed five machines. A person licensed pursuant to the provisions of this subsection shall, in addition to paying the sum of one hundred dollars per year, pay the sum of twenty dollars per year for each such machine in excess of five operated by him. (bl Vending machines generally. Every person renting, leasing, maintaining or letting the use of any coin- operated vending machine or device operated by depositing therein any coin or coins, or by payment of a valuable consideration, for the dispensing of goods, wares, merchandise, or other tangible property or services within the city shall pay the following sums: (il All vending devices, not otherwise herein specified, operated by depositing therein any coin or coins of the total value of sixteen cents or more, twenty dollars per fiscal year for each machine maintained. I (iil All vending devices, not otherwise herein sp~cified, operated by depositing therein any coin or coins of the total value of ten to fifteen cents, sixteen dollars per fiscal year for each machine maintained. (iiil All vending devices, not otherwise herein specified, operated by depositing therein any coin or coins of the total value of five to nine cents, twelve dollars per fiscal year for each machine maintained. -6- SB19-17B Ordinance Number I (iv) All vending devices, not otherwise herein specified, operated by depositing therein any coin or coins of the total value of four cents or less, two dollars per fiscal year for each,machine maintained. (v) All cigarette or cigar vending devices, thirty dollars per fiscal year for each machine maintained. (vi) Stamp vending machines, eight dollars per fiscal year for each machin~ maintained. (vii) Weighing machines, eight dollars per fiscal year for each machine. (viii) Coin locks or coin latches, which locks or latches are maintained on doors, entrance through which doors is gained by depositing a coin in such lock or latch, twenty dollars per fiscal year, for any number of coin locks or latches from one to ten, both inclusive. A person licensed pursuant to the provisions of this subsection shall, in addition to paying the sum of twenty dollars per fiscal year, pay the sum of one dollar per fiscal year for each such lock or latch in excess of ten rented, leased or maintained by him. I (c) Lock boxes. Every person conducting, managing or operating coin-operated lock boxes for the storage of personal property, or boxes or compartments so con- structed that a person wishing to use the same may deposit a coin in a slot in an unoccupied box and then place personal property in such box and lock the same therein for temporary safekeeping, shall pay the sum of fifty dollars per year. Sec. 11-55. Contractors--Generally. Every person conducting or engaging in the business of, or acting as, or in the capacity of a contractor, who is required by the Business and Professions Code of the state to be the holder of a license or certificate issued by the registrar of contractors of the state, who is not specifically required to be licensed by other provisions of this Code and is not specifically provided for elsewhere in this ordinance shall pay a license fee of thirty seven dollars and fifty cents per year. I (a) Every person conducting or engaging in the business of, or acting in the following contractor capacities shall pay a yearly license fee of seventy-five dollars per year and no such license shall be issued or renewed or be effective, for any purpose, until such fee has been paid to the City: (i) General and Restricted Electrical Contractor. (ii) Plastering Contractor. -7- Ordinance Number SB19-l8B J (iii) Plumbing Contractor (such person shall not be required to pay an additional license fee because he engages in the business of selling merchandise at retail. (iv) Building Contractor. (b) Every person conducting or engaging in the business of, or acting in the following contractor capacities shall pay the yearly license fee of thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents per year and no such license shall be issued or renewed or be effective for any purpose until such fee has been paid to the City: ( i ) cement contractor. (ii) sewer construction. (iii) cesspool construction. (iv) septic tank draining. (v) lathing contractor. (vi) masonry contractor. (vii) painting, paperhanging or decorating contractor. I (viii) refrigeration contractor. (ix) roofing contractor. (x) sewer contractor. (xi) tile and marble contractor. (xii) weather stripping contractor. I (c) Maintenance electricians. Every person who owns or operates an industrial establishment, hotel, office building or any other similar establishment or building, and who causes or permits one or more journeymen electricians in the regular employ of such person to do any work upon or in connection with such establishment, hotel or building for which an electrical permit is required to be obtained from the city by any ordinance of this city heretofore or hereafter adopted, shall ~ first obtain from the city either an electrical con- 5Sra)'~~ tractor's license as provided by section ll~, or a ~ ~ maintenance electrician's license shall name the journeymen electricians covered thereby and shall state their addresses, and shall be issued for a period of one year. The fee for such license shall be the sum of thirty seven dollars and fifty cents, and no such license shall be issued or renewed, or be effective for any purpose, until such fee has been paid. In the event any journeyman electrician named upon such license shall cease to be a regular employee of such -8- SBl9-19B Ordinance Number I licensee, or shall for any reason become disqualified to act as a journeyman electrician, the licensee may request that the name of another qualified journeyman electrician in his regular employ be substituted in lieu of the name appearing on the license~ for which substitution the city shall charge a fee of ten dollars. Sec. 11-56. Cold storage plant. Every person conducting, managing or carrying on a cold storage or refrigerating plant for the purpose of storing fruits, vegetables, fish, meats, eggs or dairy products shall pay the sum of one hundred dollars per year. Sec. 11-57. Collection agencies. Every person engaged in, conducting, managing or carrying on the business of a collection agency in the city shall pay the sum of forty dollars per year. Sec. 11-58. Commission merchants or brokers. Every person engaged in the business of a commission merchant or broker within the city shall pay an annual license fee of two hundred dollars per year. Sec. 11-59. Cosmetic treatments outside fixed place of business. Every person engaged in the business of the art or practice of performing, for compensation, cosmetic operations or giving cosmetic treatments in other than a fixed place of business or cosmetological establishment in the city, shall pay the sum of sixty dollars per year. (See Sec. 1l-72 re cosmetology establishment). I I Sec. 11-60. Country club golf course. Every person managing, conducting, carrying on or engaged in the business of a country club golf course, and not specifi- cally required to be licensed by other provisions of this chapter, shall pay either a sum equal to seven dollars per employee for the first ten employees, plus five dollars per employee for the next ten employees, plus three dollars per employee for the next twenty employees, plus two dollars for each employee over forty employees for the average number of individuals employed by such country club golf course within the city during the twelve months immediately preceding the due date of the license, or a sum equal to forty cents per one thousand dollars of total gross revenue received by such country club golf course within the city during the twelve months immediately preceding the due date of the license, whichever amount is greater; providing, that,such sum shall not be less than seventy dollars per year. In the event of a new business or a business that ha~ been operating for less than one year preceding the due date of the license, the applicant for a license shall reasonably estimate the annual gross receipts and the average number of employees for the first year of operation and the required fee shall be established on the basis of such reasonable estimate. -9- Ordinance Number SB19-20B I Sec. 1l-6l. Directory publication. Every person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of compiling and publishing city, business or classified directories, shall pay the sum of one hun~red dollars per year. Sec. 11-62. Employment bureau. Every person engaged in the business of an employment bureau shall pay the sum of one hundred dollars per year. Sec. 11-63. Fire Sale. Every person conducting, manag- ing or carrying on a sale, within the city, of goods, wares or merchandise, which sale' is being or has been advertised as a fire sale shall pay the sum of one thou- sand two hundred dollars per year; provided, however, that no person shall be required to pay such license tax for the advertising or for such sale of goods, wares or merchandise where such person was the legal owner of such goods, wares or merchandise in the city at the time of such fire. I Sec. 11-64. Fortunetelling and similar practices prohibited--Generally. Every person who carries on, practices or professes to practice the business or art of astrology, phrenology, life reading, fortunetelling, cartomacy, clairvoyance, clair-audience, crystal gazing, hyponotism, mediumship, mesmerism, oriental mysteries, palmistry, spirit photography, spirit writing, spirit voices, spirit materialization, ethereali- zation, numerology, physiognomy, seership, phrophecy, augury, divination, magic or necromancy, or other similar art or business, and demands or receives directly or indirectly a fee or reward, or who accepts any donation, for the exercise or exhibition of his art therein, or who give an exhibition thereof at any place where an admission fee, donation, or reward is charged or received, directly or indirectly, or who teaches or gives instruction in any such art or business and demands or receives, directly or indirectly, a fee or reward, or who accepts any donation for such teaching or instruction, is guilty of a misdemeanor. I Every person who, by means of occult or psychic powers, faculties, or forces, spirits, cards, talismans, charms, potions, magnetism or magnetized articles or similar art or craft, purports to or does find or restore lost or stolen property, locate oil wells, gold or silver or other ore or metal or natural product, restore lost love or friendship or affection, unite or procure lovers, husbands, wives, lost relatives, or friends, or by such means gives any counseling or advice,whatsoever, and who demands or receives directly or indirectly, a fee or reward or who accepts any donation therefor, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who advertises by sign, circular, handbill or in any newspaper, periodical or magazine, or other publication or publications, of by any other means, that he will do anything which is prohibited by this -10- SB19-21B Ordinance Number I section, is guilty of a misdemeanor. This section does not apply to, and it shall not be construed to interfere with, the belief, practices or usage of any incorporated eccelesiastical governing body or the duly licensed teachers or ministers thereof acting in good faith and without personal fee. Sec. 11-65. Herb doctors. Every person engaged in the business of a herb doctor, or who sells or dispenses medicinal herbs, or who employs herbs in the treatment of human beings for sickness or disease, shall pay the sum of one hundred fifty dollars per year, plus such additional total amount per year' as will equal the number of partners conducting such business, less one, times twenty dollars. Sec. 1l-66. Itinerant Vendors generally. Every person engaged in the business of an itinerant vendor shall pay the sum of one hundred dollars per year. The provisions of this section shall not apply to salesmen known as commercial travelers, nor to selling agents selling their goods to dealers, whether for present or future deliveries, by samples or otherwise, nor to hawkers upon the street within the city, nor peddlers from vehicles, nor to persons selling beverages, gum, foodstuffs, except milk, flowers and nursery stock, or other farm or ranch products. This license shall be nontransferable. I Sec. ll-67. Same--Purchase, sale, etc., of oil tools. Every person engaged in the business of going from house to house, or from place to place, in the city, collecting, buying or selling used oil well tools or used oil well equipment, and who does not have a fixed or established place of business in the city shall pay an annual license fee of fifty dollars, which shall permit the use of one vehicle or boat in such business, and in the event more than one vehicle or boat is used, such person shall pay an additional sum of twenty dollars per year for each such additional vehicle or boat. Sec. ll-68. Junk collector and dealers. Every person collecting junk in the city shall pay an annual license fee of fifty dollars, which shall include the right to use one vehicle or boat in connection with such business, and in the event more than one vehicle or boat is used, an additional sum of twenty dollars for each such additional vehicle or boat shall be paid. Every person engaged in the business of a junk dealer shall pay the sum of one hundred dollars per year. I Sec. 1l-69. Manufacturers. Every person, firm, corporation, firm or partnership, manufacturing, processing, fabricating, designing, engineering any product, commodity, airplane, Ship, selling any such product at wholesale or to jobbers, or selling any such product at retail, or selling any such product at both -11- SB19-22B Ordinance Number I wholesale and at retail, or any and every person contracting for or agreeing to manufacture, process, fabricate, design or engineer any product, commodity, airplane, ship, machine, vehicle, instrumentality, tool or other thing for fee, charge, valuable consideration or otherwise agreed upon sum of money, and not specifi- cally required to be licensed by other provisions of this chapter, shall pay either a sum equal to seven dollars per employee for the first ten employees, plus five dollars per employee for the next ten employees, plus three dollars per employee for the next twenty employees, plus two dollars for each employee over forty employees for the average number of individuals employed by such person within the city during the twelve months immediately preceding the due date of the license, or a sum equal to forty ceQts per one thousand dollars of total gross revenue received by such person from operations within the city during the twelve months immediately preceding the due date of the license, whichever amount is greater; providing, that such sum shall not be less than seventy dollars per year. In the event of a new business or a business that has been operating for less than one year preceding the due date of the license, the applicant for a license shall reasonably estimate the annual gross receipts and the average number of employees for the first year of operation and the required fee shall be established on the basis of such reasonable estimate. I Sec. 11-70. Massage parlors and massagists. Every person owning, maintaining or conducting a massage parlor shall pay the sum of seventy dollars per year. Every massagist, except any person who owns, operates or conducts a massage parlor in the city, shall pay the sum of fifteen dollars per year. This section shall have no application and no effect upon, and shall not be construed as applying to, any of the persons designated as follows: Physician, surgeon, chiropractor, osteopath or any nurse working under the supervision of a physician, surgeon, chiropractor or osteopath duly licensed to practice their respective professions in the state. Sec. ll-7l. Medicine show. Every person engaged in the business of a medicine show shall pay the sum of six hundred dollars per year. I Sec. ll-72. Yearly Pee. operating or pay a yearly Miscellaneous Licenses - Fifty Dollar Every person engaged in, conducting, managing the following businesses shall license fee of fifty dollars: (a) aircraft repair shop (b) barbershop -12- SB19-23B Ordinance Number - (c) cosmetology establishment I (d) dancing academy (e) day nurseries, kindergartens and private schools (unless exempt pursuant to section ll-6) (f) dog and cat hospital or boarding kennel (unless exempt pursuant to section 1l-6) (g) eating place (h) ice sale and delivery of ice, wholesale or retail (i) ice vending machines, except that any person having a valid license and ll-52(j) shall not be required to obtain a separate license to operate ice vending machines located at the place of manufacture of such ice (j) laundries (k) laundry agencies I (1) laundry operated outside the city - soliciting, collecting and delivering laundry in the city (m) linen supply business, including furnishing towels, uniforms etc., when such linens remain the property of the person furnishing them, except that a person licensed pursuant to 1l-52(1) shall not a separate license to operate a linen supply business (n) live theatre or vaudeville (0) livery stables and riding academies (p) lockers and locker storage, excluding athletic, golf and country clubs and gymnasiums and bathhouses (q) (r) house in week miniature trains motels, hotels, rooming house or lodging which the rental term is day to day or week to motion picture theatre (s) (t) (~ public dance hall - renting or leasing public garage I (v) repairing processing, or servicing goods, wares, merchandise or articles for others if not specifically required to be licensed under other provisions of this chapter -13- SBl9-24B Ordinance Number , I (w) retail sales establishments not specifically required to be licensed under any other provision of this chapter (x) self-employed persons not specifically required to obtain a license under any other provision of this Chapter (y) wholesale provision selling goods, wares or merchandise at not specifically governed under any other of this Chapter (z) signcraft or sign painting, except that no person ln the regular employment of another holding a valid license pursuant to this Chapter shall be required to obtain a license (aa) social club (bb) tailor shop (cc) truck transportation and baggage business (dd) warehouse I Sec. 11-73. Money lenders--Generally. Every per~on engaged in the business of loaning money or arranglng for the loan of money, for and on his own behalf, or on behalf of any other person, as principal, agent or broker, whether security of any kind is taken for such loan or not, or purchasing, for himself, or for any other person, automobile contracts, commercial papers, evidences of debt, assignments of salary, salary warrants, salary demands, time checks or other evidences of salary due or to become due on automobile paper shall pay the sum of one hundred fifty dollars per year. Sec. 1l-74. Municipal market sales. Every person selling any commodity at the municipal market shall pay the sum of twenty dollars per year, plus the sum of two dollars for each business day for the use of each space at such market. Sec. 11-75. Oil Business. Refer to Chapter 15A of this Code for regulations regarding licensing. I Sec. 1l-76. Operation on city streets for business purposes generally. Every person, not having a fixed place of business in the city, conducting, managing or carrying on the business or activity of running, driving or operating any vehicle upon the streets of the city for the purpose of transporting, selling, COllecting or delivering goods, wares or merchandise, or other personal property of any kind, or soliciting for work, labor or services to be performed upon the public streets in or from any such vehicle, or to be performed on goods, wares or merchandise, or other personal property, to be taken for such purpose to a -l4- SB19-25B Ordinance Number I plant or establishment inside or outside the city limits, either as his principal business, or in connec- tion with any other business, shall pay an annual license fee of fifty dollars for each suc~ vehicle. Sec. 11-77. Same--Grocery buses. Every person engaged in the business of a grocery bus within the city shall pay the sum of one thousand dollars per year for each grocery bus used in such business. Sec. 11-78. Same--Milk distribution. Every person engaged in conducting, carring on or operating the busi- ness of distributing milk by meahs of trucks or other motor vehicles shall pay the sum of fifty dollars per year, plus an additional total sum per year equal to the number of trucks or motor vehicles used in such distribu- tion, less one, times the sum of ten dollars. Sec. 11-79. Peddling--Generally. Every person peddling at retail in the city any goods, wares, merchandise or advertising, other than foodstuffs, not otherwise provided for in this chapter shall pay the sum of ten dollars per day or two hundred dollars per year, which shall permit the use of one vehicle or boat in such peddling, and in the event more than one vehicle or boat is used, an additional sum of ten dollars per day or two hundred dollars per year for each such additional vehicle or boat shall be paid. I Sec. 11-80. Same--Foodstuffs. Every person peddling, at retail, perishable foodstuffs in the city not otherwise provided for in this chapter shall pay an annual license fee of sixty dollars per year, which shall include the use of one vehicle and two helpers. In the event more than one vehicle is used, there shall be paid to the city an additional license tax of sixty dollars per year for each such additional vehicle. In the event more than two helpers are used in conjunction with any vehicle licensed pursuant to this section, there shall be paid to the city an additional license tax of ten dollars per year upon each additional helper. I Such license, mentioned in this section, shall expire with the first day of January next following its issuance, and the person or individual applying for such license may pay therefore one-quarter of the amount thereof for the then current one-quarter of the calendar year and one-quarter thereof for each following one-qu~rter of the calendar year. Sec. 11-8l. Same--Medicine. Every person peddling any drugs or medicines, or going from place to place or from house to house in the city distributing, selling or giving away any drugs or medicines or any sample of any drug of medicine shall pay the sum of six hundred dollars per year. -15- Ordinance Number SBl9-26B , I Sec. ll-82. Same--Novelties. Every person conducting managing or carrying on the business of a peddler of flags, banners, toy ballons, canes, horns, trumpets, musical or noise-making instruments of any kind, toys, badges, buttons, shoestrings, hairpins, lead pencils, combs or other souvenirs or novelties of any kind shall pay the sum of ten dollars per day or one hundred dollars per year. Sec. 1l-83. Photographers. (a) Every person engaging in the business of taking or making photographic pictures by any photographic process for compensation who has a fixed place of business in the city, shall pay the sum of forty dollars per year. (b) Every individual who solicits, offers for sale or takes a fixed place of business in the city or who sells, gives away or distributes in any manner whatsoever, any coupons redeemable in a photography or photographic work for any such fixed place of business, in the city, shall pay the sum of forty dollars per year, which license shall be issued to the individual actually engaged in such solicitation work and shall be nontrans- ferable. I (c) Every person who carries on the business of a transient photographer or transient photo finisher within the city shall pay the sum of one hundred dollars per year, and in addition thereto, such person shall comply with all of the provisions of any ordinance of the city now in effect, or which may be enacted hereafter, pertaining tO,the business of a transient photographer or transient photo finisher. Transient photographer and transient photo finisher. "Transient photographer" and "transient photo finisher" shall mean and include every person, whether acting as principal, agent or employee, who engages in the business of doing any of the following acts in the city: (a) Taking or making photographic portraits or photo- graphic views. (b) Selling, offering for sale, soliciting for sale, bargaining, exchanging or giving away any photographs, or enlargements thereof, by any means whatsoever. I (c) Soliciting for, collecting, receiving or delivering photo finishing, exposed roll films, exposed negatives, film packs, exposed cut films or exposed glass plates and who does not have a fixed place of business in the city as defined in Section 11-1. Sec. 11-84. Private patrol system. Every person engaged in the business of a private patrol system in the city shall pay a yearly license tax of one hundred -16- SB19-27B Ordinance Number . '. I dollars. The provlslons of this section shall apply only to a person who purports to furnish, or who does furnish, or who otherwise makes available to another, any watchman, guard or other individual, ~ither uniformed or otherwise, to patrol any portion of the city or to guard or watch any property, including guarding against theft, fire or both, or to act as escort for a funeral procession, or to guard the transportation and delivery of money or other personal property, or to perform any service usually and customarily performed by a peace officer. Sec. 1l-85. Professions generally. Every person engaging in or carrying on within the city any business, occupation, profession, avocation or calling, not as an employee of another, enumerated in the following subsections of this section, shall pay the sum of fifty dollars per year; unless, in the event such person is engaging in or carrying on any such ousiness, occupation, profession, avocation or calling as a copartner, such copartnership shall already have paid a total sum per year computed on the basis of twenty-five dollars per year for each member of such copartnership, plus the sum of twenty-five dollars: (a) Accountant (k) Landscape architect (b) Architect (1) Optometrist (c) Attorney at law (m) Osteopathic physician I (d) Attorney, patent (n) Physician and surgeon (e) Chiropodist (0) Doctor of medicine (f) Chiropractor (p) Surveyor (g) Dentist (q) Public relations counselor (h) Engineer (r) Veterinarian (i) Income tax service (s) Physiotherapist (j) Insurance or claims adjuster Sec. 11-86. Real estate brokers and salesmen brokers. (a) Brokers. Every person carrying on, conducting or engaging in the business of real estate broker shall pay the sum of fifty dollars per year, plus such additional total amount per year as will equal the number of partners conducting such business, less one, times twenty dollars. I (b) Salesmen. Every person carrying on, conducting or engaging in the business of real estate salesman shall pay the sum of ten dollars per year. At the time of applying for a license or any renewal thereof, pursuant to this section, such person shall furnish the city with the name and address of the licensed real estate broker "by whom he will be employed. In the event that such employment is terminated during the period otherwise covered by the license, such license shall be deemed to have expired; provided, that such license may be reinstated for the balance of the license period at such time as the licensee furnishes the city clerk with the name and address of a licensed real estate broker by whom he will be subsequently employed and pays at -17- SB19-28B Ordinance Number I that time a transfer fee of one dollar. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any real estate salesman during the remainder of any license period for which a licensed real estate broker has p~id a license fee covering the employment of such salesman pursuant to an ordinance of this city. Sec. ll-87. Repossessing agency. Every person conducting, carrying on or managing the business of repossessing any personal property, the legal title of which is in the name of one person, and the use and possession of which, under any contract or obligation, as security for a loan or contract of purchase, is in another person shall pay the sum of one hundred dollars per year. Sec. ll-88. Sales--Closing-out, bankruptcy, etc. Every person managing, conducting or carrying on any sale of goods, wares or merchandise and representing or holding out such sales as insurance, bankruptcy, mortgage, insolvency, assignee's, executor's, adminis- trator's, receiver's, trustee's, creditor's, forced, liquidation, removal or closing-out sales or a sale of goods, wares and merchandise damages by fire, smoke, water or otherwise or using any word or phrase which reasonably conveys to the public the belief that such person was retiring from or closing out his business in the city shall file with the city a complete inventory of such items to be sold at such sale, showing the actual purchase price thereof, and shall pay to the city license collector a license fee of fifty dollars for a period of three months; provided, however, that if at any time during the three months' period a sworn application is filed with the city license collector in which it shall appear that all of the goods in the applicant's original inventory have not been sold, accompanied by an inventory of remaining merchandise, showing the actual purchase price thereof, a supplemental license may be issued in the reasonable discretion of the city manager upon compliance by the applicant with requirements of the original license and upon payment of an additional license fee of thirty dollars per day. Such license shall continue in effect only so long as such daily license fee shall be paid and until such remaining inventoried items are sold. I I Sec. ll-89. Sanitariums, rest homes, etc. Unless exempted by section 11-6, every person engaged in the business of conducting, maintaining or operating a hospital, a convalescent or rest home, a sanitarium, or a home for the aged, who cares for, or purports to care for, more than three persons at a time, shall pay the sum of one hundred dollars per year, plus a sum equal to two dollars per year for each patient, based on the average number of patients cared for per day, in excess of three, computed monthly during the twelve month period next preceding the date of the license. -l8- ~ I I I SB19-29B Ordinance Number Sec. 11-90. Secondhand dealers. Every person engaged in the business of a secondhand dealer shall pay the sum of fifty dollars per year; and, in addition to such fifty dollars, the sum of two dollars per year for each employee employed in such business. Such' license shall not include the right to carryon the business of a pawnbroker. Sec. 11-9l. Security sales. Every person who shall sell or offer to sell any securities of any corporation, trust, partnership, or other association, except such securities as may be the property of the person so selling or offering to sell the same shall pay the sum of one hundred dollars per year. A license issued under this section shall not be required of salesmen working for or under any person holding a license as provided in this section. Sec. 11-92. Selling club plan. Every person selling or offering for sale memberships in any club or coopera- tive association, or selling coupon discount books, whereby the purchaser of such' membership or books is to be allowed a discount upon goods, wares or merchandise purchased by such member or person, and any person offering goods, wares or merchandise at a discount, or free, or partially free, as an inducement or reward for the purchase of such club membership, or coupon books shall pay the sum of four hundred dollars per year. Such license shall include the right to engage salesmen in the conduct of such business without an additional fee. Sec. 1l-93. Shoe shining parlor or stand. Every person engaged in the business of a shoe shining parlor or stand shall pay the sum of thirty dollars per year. Sec. 11-94. Soliciting, canvassing, etc.--Generally. Every person or individual SOliciting, canvassing or taking orders for any goods, wares, merchandise or advertising not otherwise provided for in this chapter shall pay the sum of ten dollars per day or two hundred dollars per year; provided, however, that this section shall have no application to any person or individual soliciting, canvassing or taking orders for any goods, wares, merchandise or advertising who has, or represents a regularly established or fixed place of business in the city, or elsewhere; provided, further, that any person or individual claiming the exemption above referred to the city, furnish to such representative within not less than forty-eight hours a statement in affidavit form, setting forth the facts entitling such person or individual to such exemption, stating therein the name of the solicitor, the name of the business he has or represents, the location and address of such business, and the period of time his business or the business he represents has engaged in trade at the address given. -19- I I I SB19-30B Ordinance Number , ~ Sec. 1l-95. Same--Foodstuffs. Every person or individual soliciting, canvassing or taking orders, either as a wholesale or retail produce so~icitor or canvasser for any beverages, gum, foodstuffs, except milk, flowers and nursery stock shall pay an annual license fee of sixty dollars per year; provided, however, that this section shall have no application to any person or individual soliciting, canvassing or taking orders for any beverages, gum, foodstuffs, except milk, flowers and nursery stock, who has, or represents, a regularly establish~d or fixed place of business in the city or,elsewhere; provided, further, that any person or individual claiming the exemption above referred to shall, upon demand made by any duly authorized representative of the city furnish to such representative, within not less than forty-eight hours, a statement in affidavit form setting forth the facts entitling such person or individual to such exemption, stating therein the name of the solicitor, the name of the business he has or represents, the location and address of such business and the period of time his business, or the business he represents, has engaged in trade at the address given. Sec. 11-96. Same--With fixed place of business. Every person or individual soliciting, canvassing or taking orders for any goods, wares, merchandise or advertising not otherwise provided for in this chapter, who has, or represents, a fixed place of business in the city or elsewhere shall pay the sum of twenty dollars per year, and in addition thereto, the sum of twenty dollars per year, and in addition thereto, the sum of twenty dollars per year for each agent of such person or individual engaging in such solicitation, canvassing or taking orders. Sec. 11-97. Takers and Producers of Motion pictures. Every person taking or producing motion pictures or photoplays not having a fixed place of business in the City shall pay a license fee of fifty dollars per day. Every person engaged in the business of taking or producing one or more motion pictures having a fixed place of business in the City shall pay a license fee of one-hundred and fifty dollars per year. Sec. ll-98. Tattooing. Every person owning, maintain- ing or conducting a place where tattooing is practiced, or every person practicing the art of tattooing in the city shall pay the sum of two hundred dollars per year. Sec. 11-99. Trade school, business college, etc. Unless exempt from the payment of a license fee pursuant to section 11-6, every person engaged in the business of conducting, maintaining or operating a trade school, trade college, business college or school, where instruction is given in any trade, profession, calling or occupation and where a fee is charged for such instruction shall pay the sum of ninety dollars per year. -20- SB19-8B Ordinance Number ," -. I Sec. 11-100. Undertakers. Every person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of an undertaker, embalmer, funeral director or crematory shall pay the sum of eighty dollars per year. Sec. 11-101. Vehicles. (a) For hire. Every person conducting or carrying on the business of renting, leasing, hiring, operating or causing to be operated autos for hire, ambulances, invalid coaches and motor scooters shall pay an annual license tax as follows: (1) For each auto for hire capable of seating more than fifteen persons, the sum of one hundred twenty dollars. (2) For each auto for hire capable of seating less than sixteen persons, the sum of eighty dollars. (3) For each auto for hire designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property, when available for rental, lease or hire without driver or operator, the sum of fifty dollars for one such vehicle, plus twenty dollars for each additional vehicle. I (4) For each ambulance or invalid coach, the sum of fifty dollars for one such vehicle, plus twenty dollars for each additional vehicle. (5) For motor scooters with or without a driver or operator, the sum of fifty dollars where not to exceed five such vehicles are available for rental, lease or hire, plus four dollars for each additional vehicle. ' (b) Automobile parking space. Every person engaged in the business of managing, conducting or operating an automobile parking space for hire shall pay the sum of fifty dollars per year. Any such person, however, may at his option, in lieu of such fee, pay the sum of fifteen dollars per day. I (c) Sales of new and used motor vehicles. Every person engaging in, conducting or carrying on the business of buying, selling or exchanging new or used motor vehicles of a type required to be registered under the Vehicle Code of the state shall pay the sum of one hundred sixty dollars per fiscal year. A licens~ issued hereunder shall entitle the licensee to sell, exchange or buy any and all types of motor vehicles classified herein. Such license shall also entitle the licensee to repair motor vehicles classified herein, and to sell motor vehicle parts and accessories without payment of an additional license fee therefor. -2l- -. I I I SB19-9B Ordinance Number " -. . . . (d) Auto parts, service and eq~ipment business. Every person engaged in the automobile parts, service and equipment busine~s at a fixed place of business in the city shall pay the sum of fifty dollars p~r year unless licensed pursuant to section 1l-79(a). (e) Auto repair shop. Every person engaged in the business of an auto repair shop shall pay the sum of fifty dollars per year unless licensed pursuant to section 11.101(c). (f) Auto wrecking shop. Every person engaged in the business of an auto wrecking shop shall pay the sum of one hundred dollars per year, and a permit shall first be secured from the city council. Sec. ll-102. Wedding chapel. Every person engaged in the business of conducting, maintaining or operating facilities, including a chapel, room, building or other space, and appurtenances thereto, intended to be used for the holding of wedding ceremonies, for the use of which facilities a fee is charged, shall pay the sum of thirty dollars per year. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to apply to such facilities furnished by any bona fide church or religious organization that maintains a church building in connection therewith. ~ -,,~I..l PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this~ day 1979. , ~ May ATTEST: -22- SB19-10B Ordinance Number I ._ .. . . . STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS CITY OF SEAL BEACH ) :1 I, Jerdys Weir, City Clerk of the City of Seal'Beach and ex-officio clerk f the City Council, do hereby certify that the f~~qoing 0 ance was int uced at a meeting held on the /, ~day of , 1979, a d adopted at a meeting thereof held 0 day 0 , 1979, by the fOllowing vote: AYES: Councilmen NOES: Councilmen ABSENT: Councilme I I -23- I , I I PROOF OF PUBLICA liON (2015,5 C.C.P.1 STATE OF CALIFORNIA, County of Los Angeles, I am a citizen of the United States and a resident of the County aforesaid; I am over the age of eighteen years, and not a party to or interested in the above-entitled matter. I am the principal clerk of the printer of the ..~~...~.f:(..;mlJru.J^c....,.. a newspaper of general circulation, printed and published ..W.~'i................ in the City of ..~~.~~...,.,.. County of Los Angeles, and which newspaper has been adjudged a newspaper of general circulation by the Superior Court of the County of Los Angeles. State of California. under the date of..:k~~, 197..(; Case Number .e..::6,~,~$.; that the notice, of which the annexed is a printed copy (set in type not smaller than nonpareil). has been published in each regular and entire issue of said newspaper and not in any supplement thereof on the following dates. to-wit: ....,.., ~.~ ~'1.. .1.,....,..,.......".......... all in the year 19.?~,. I certify (or declare) under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct, Dated at.S~..~~,............. cal~this..~~.daYOf'~.C((~" 191'. .,',..,...~............. Signature Free copies of Ihls blank form may be secured fram: CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER SERVICE BUREAU,INC, Legal Advertising Clearing House P.Q, Box 31 Los Angeles, CA 90053 Telephone 625.2541 Please request GENERAL Proo'of Publication when ordering this form. Ordinance Number This space is for the County Clerk's Filing Stamp Proof of Publication of ..~\I.~.~~.,OF,.~'.Ne$.~..~t?",. .......................................................... Paste Clipping of Notice SECURELY In This Space SUMMARY. ORDINANCE NO. 1_' . BUSINESS LICENSES AND REGU. LATIONS Ordinance No. 1068 received second re8dlng and W8I adopted by the Seal Beach City Council 81 their regular meeting of June 2S, 1979. which reviles lhe bUllneu license ordlNln. eel of the city by combining certain IeCtlonB paying the I8me annual tee, deleting certain aechons and adding a section relating 10 motion pICture takers and producer" Copies of the ordinance are available In the City Clerk', ofrlce, 211 . 8th Street. Seal _, phone, <31-2527, OATED this 28th day of June. 1979. Jerdya Weir, elly Clerk City of SeoI Beac,h ,. I I r-- PROOF OF PUBLICA liON (2015.5 C.C.P.) STATE OF CALIFORNIA. County of Los Angeles, I am a citizen of the United States and a resident of the County aforesaid; I am over the age of eighteen years, and not a party to or interested in the above-entitled matter. I -- am the principal clerk of the printer of the ~~...~...~\.........., .................................................... a newspaper of general circulation, printed and published .J!JJ!~~:"J4.......,.......... in the City of .~..~~........... County of Los Angeles, and which newspaper has been adjudged a newspaper of general circulation by the Superior Court of the County of Los Angeles, State of California. under the date of. ..2.~~, 19 .1f". Case Number A~Z~.; that the notice, of which the annexed is a printed copy (set in type not smaller than nonpareil!. has been published in each regular and entire issue of said newspaper and not in any supplement thereof on the following dates, to-wit: ,.,... .J~MGf.. .\3......,....,.,................ all in the year 19.7.L I certify (or declare) under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and c.orrect, Dated at.~.~..".,....,.. ~~::~~~::.:~:5... Signature Free copies of this blank form may be secured from: CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER SERVICE BUREAU, INC. Legal Advertising Clearing House P.O. Box 31 Los Angeles. CA 90053 Telephone 625-2541 Please request GENERAL Proo'of Publication when ordering this form. Ordinance Number This space is for the County Clerk's Filing Stamp ., Proof of Publication of ." ~b.{ tJ.MJ,.a~:,. .i:,.. ~.t?fl...,.,.,.,. Paste Clipping of Notice SECURELY In This Space Legal Notice ORDINANCE' 1088 BUSINESS L1CENSES-REGULATIONS-SUM. MARY - Orchnance , 1086 of the city of Se8I Beach recelvee first reading by the city council on June 11. 1979 which revileS the bUlmeu hcense ardm. ance of the city by combining certain , eectlonl paying the same annual fee, 4 deleting cerhUn sections and adding a section relating to motion pDlcture , t8kera and producers. This ordinance . will be presented tor adoption on I Monday June 25, 1919. CoPies of the ordinance are BYallable In the city I I cterk', Office, 211 8th Street, Seal I Beech, phone 431-2527. . . Dated thl8 12th Day of June 1979 Jerd.. Wetr I City Clerk _ _ _ .__ "