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50. Dentists. <br /> <br />See 14. <br /> <br /> <br />51. Draperies or Braids—Manufacture. <br /> <br />Each person, firm or corporation manufacturing draperies <br /> or braids shall pay a specific license of $100.00 per annum. <br /> <br /> <br />52. Dyeing Establishments. <br /> <br />Each person, firm or corporation conducting a dyeing <br /> establishment shall pay a specific license tax of ten dollars <br /> ($10) per annum. Not transferable. <br /> <br /> <br />53. Electric Machines, etc.—Exhibiting. <br /> <br />Every person exhibiting for pay electrical machines for <br /> testing strength or weight, or other machines or implements <br /> on the street or any location, for profit, shall pay a specific <br /> license tax of fifty dollars ($50.00) per annum. Not transferable. <br /> <br /> <br />54. Electricity. <br /> <br />Every person, firm or corporation generating or selling or <br /> offering for sale or delivering electricity for light or power or <br /> heat or any other commercial uses shall pay a license tax of <br /> one-half of one per cent. of the gross receipts of such person, <br /> firm or corporation, based upon receipts from such business <br /> during the preceding calendar year. In applying for such license <br /> a statement of such receipts shall be submitted to the Commis- <br /> sioner of Revenue. <br /> <br /> <br />55. Flooring Manufacturing. <br /> <br />Every person, firm or corporation manufacturing flooring <br /> shall pay a specific license tax of $100.00 per annum. <br /> <br /> <br />56. Florists. <br /> <br />On every person or firm engaged as a florist, a specific <br /> license tax of thirty-five dollars ($35.00) shall be imposed, and <br /> if they engage in buying and selling, they shall be deemed mer- <br /> chants and shall pay accordingly. <br /> <br /> <br />57. Flour and Meal Manufacture. <br /> <br />On every license to a manufacturer of flour or meal, the <br /> tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) for each license. But <br /> when such manufacturer deals in flour, meal or other grain <br /> products other than his own manufacture he shall be required <br /> to procure a merchants' license graduated by the amount of <br /> such purchases. <br /> <br /> <br />58. Fortune Tellers. <br /> <br />Every person practicing the art of divination, fortune <br /> telling, palmistry, astrology, or phrenology who shall practice <br /> the same in this city, shall pay a tax of one hundred and fifty <br /> dollars ($150.00) per week. Not transferable. <br /> <br /> <br />59. Foundry and Machine Shops. <br /> <br />On every license to a foundry the tax shall be fifty dollars <br /> ($50). On every license to a machine shop, the tax shall be <br /> fifty dollars ($50). But if a foundry be conducted in conjunction <br /> with a machine shop the combined tax shall be one hundred <br /> dollars ($100.00). <br /> <br /> <br />60. Furnace and Metal Furniture Manufacturing. <br /> <br />Every person, firm or corporation manufacturing metal <br /> furniture or furnaces shall pay a specific license tax of $100.00 <br /> per annum. <br /> <br /> <br />61. Furniture Upholsterer or Repairer. <br /> <br />On every license to a furniture upholsterer or repairer the <br /> tax shall be ten dollars ($10). <br /> <br /> <br />62. Garage Storage. <br /> <br />Every person who shall keep a garage for storage of auto- <br /> mobiles shall pay a tax of $25.00 and $0.50 additional for each <br /> vehicle for the storage capacity of such garage. <br /> <br />Shops for repairing automobiles whether conducted in con- <br /> nection with a garage or separately, shall be required to pay <br /> the license tax provided for in Sec. 103. <br /> <br /> <br />63. Garment Manufacture. <br /> <br />Every person, firm or corporation, manufacturing garments <br /> shall pay a specific license tax of $100.00. <br /> <br /> <br />64. Gasoline. <br /> <br />See 83. <br /> <br /> <br />65. Gasoline and Other Petroleum Products Outside City. <br /> <br />Any person, firm or corporation whose storage tanks are <br /> located outside of the corporate limits of the city who trans- <br /> ports gasoline or other petroleum products of like nature on or <br /> through the streets of this city for sale or delivery to wholesale <br /> or retail merchants for resale in this city shall pay a license <br /> tax for the privilege of doing such business in this city, the <br /> same to be graduated by the amount of sales or delivered price <br /> made by him or it of such commodities sold or delivered in this <br /> City during the next preceding year, or, in the case of starting <br /> business during the year, the estimated amount of sales which <br /> will be so made during the balance of the license year, the <br /> amount to be paid to be the same as that required of a retail <br /> merchant. <br /> <br />This section shall not apply to a person, firm, or corporation <br /> who or which has paid or is assessable a business license under <br /> some other section of this ordinance. <br /> <br /> <br />66. Hobby Horses, Merry-Go-Rounds, Ferris Wheels, etc. <br /> <br />On every license to keep a Hobby Horse, Merry-Go-Round, <br /> Ferris Wheel or other like amusement, the tax shall be fifty <br /> dollars ($50.00) per week and no license shall be issued under <br /> this section for a shorter period than one week. And such <br /> license, shall be a personal privilege and only granted by order <br /> of the Mayor, except where conducted in connection with <br /> County Fairs, in which case no tax shall be imposed. <br /> <br /> <br />67. Hotels. <br /> <br />Any person who keeps a public inn or lodging house of <br /> more than ten bedrooms where transient guests are lodged for <br /> pay shall be deemed for the purpose of this section to be en- <br /> gaged in the business of keeping a hotel. <br /> <br />A transient guest is one who puts up for less than one week <br /> at such hotel, but such a house is no less a hotel because some <br /> of its guests put up for longer periods than one week. <br /> <br />Any person conducting the business of keeping a hotel as <br /> defined in this section shall pay an annual license tax of two <br /> dollars ($2.00) for each bedroom and fifty cents ($0.50) for each <br /> bathroom in said hotel. <br /> <br />The payment of the license tax provided by this section <br /> shall not exempt the person paying such tax from the payment <br /> of a restaurant license tax as provided in this ordinance if a <br /> restaurant or dining room is operated in connection with said <br /> hotel. <br /> <br /> <br />68. Ice Dealers or Distributors. <br /> <br />A specific tax is hereby imposed on each person, other than <br /> an ice manufacturer, who sells or distributes ice in the city, <br /> of fifty dollars ($50.00). <br /> <br /> <br />69. Ice Manufacture. <br /> <br />Every person, firm or corporation manufacturing ice for <br /> sale, or dealing in ice imported into this city, shall pay a <br /> license tax of one hundred dollars ($100.00). <br /> <br /> <br />70. Ice Cream or Sherbet—Manufacture. <br /> <br />(a) On each and every establishment for the manufactur- <br /> ing of and selling at wholesale or wholesale and retail, ice <br /> cream or sherbet .................................................................$100.00 <br /> <br />(b) On each and every establishment for the manufactur- <br /> ing of and selling at retail in his own establishment, ice cream <br /> or sherbet...............................................................................$10.00 <br /> <br /> <br />71. Junk Dealers. <br /> <br />On every license to a junk dealer the tax shall be fifty <br /> dollars ($50) and on every person who shall engage in the busi- <br /> ness of buying junk or other matter for a junk dealer or for <br /> sale to a junk dealer, the tax shall be thirty dollars ($30). <br /> Where such a dealer engages in buying and selling of wool, <br /> hides or furs, he shall pay a merchants' tax in addition. <br /> <br /> <br />72. Laundries. <br /> <br />Every person, firm or corporation who operates a laundry <br /> shall pay for the privilege of conducting such business, if it <br /> be a laundry operated other than by hand, in this city, a license <br /> tax of one hundred dollars ($100.00), and in addition thereto, if <br /> the gross receipts of such person, firm or corporation, for the <br /> preceding calendar year, exceeded $50,000.00, an additional sum <br /> of ten cents (10c) for each $100.00 of excess of such receipts over <br /> $50,000.00.