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Home My WebLink About1976-09 - Amendments to Section 12.1 of the Municipal Code BILL NO. 76-9 ORDINANCE NO. 76-9 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CODE SECTION 12.1 WITH RESPECT TO THE SCHEDULE OF LICENSE FEE FOR OCCUPATIONAL LICENSES AND LOWERING SAID SCHEDULE OF LICENSE FEES AND PROVIDING THAT ALL OTHER SECTIONS OF CODE SECTION 12.1 SHALL REMAIN IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE, MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. The occupational license fee shall read as attached Exhibit "A". SECTION 2. The purpose of this ordinance is to lower the occupational license fee and in all other respects shall be in full force and effect. SECTION 3. This ordinance shall become effective January 1, 1977. SECTION 4. The City Clerk is hereby directed to make the requisite changes in the Code Book. . PASSED THIS ~nz~~ DAY OF 1976. MAYOR ATTEST: ~oLPiGG~-t ~/L~.~4.-~J CITY CLE K APPROVED THIS ~~ DAY OF _ ~ ~_, 1976. MAYO i 12.1 LICENSE FEE SECTION 1. SCOPE. No person shall carry on or operate, maintain or engage in any occupation, business, trade or avocation• of any kind enumerated herein without first obtaining a license which said license shall be issued by the City to such person, firm, partnership, corporation or legal entity upon proper application being made therefor and payment of the fee prescribed by the Board of Aldermen. No such license shall be transferrable or assignable. Each license that is issued to a designated address or location shall not be used for any other location within the City of Riverside unless application for a different designated address shall first have been made to the Board of Aldermen and permission granted by the Board of Aldermen. SECTION 2. DEFINITION. Business --The buying and selling of. commodities, services or any activity intended to be productive of income. Inside Occupation, Business, Trade or Avocation - Any occupation, trade, avocation or business that displays none of its merchandise out of a building and conducts any of its business, occupation, trade or avocation outside: Trade - All work and means of earning a living. SECTION 3. SCHEDULE OF LICENSE FEE Inside Occupation Only Animal Hospitals $84.00 00 $84 Antique Shops $48.00 00 $48 . $84.00 Appliance Store . Asphalt or Concrete Manufacturing $252.00 Establishments $84.00 Auctions $84.00 Automobile Agencies $48.00 Automobile Parts $48.00 Bait and/or Sporting Goods Shops $48.00 Bakeries $48.00 Banks $48.00 Barber Shops $48.00 Beauty Shops $84.00 Billboard Sales $84.00 Boarding Kennels $48.00 Body Shop $84.00 Bonding Companies $48.00 Book Store $48.00 Bookkeeping or Tax Service Inside Occupation Only Bowling Alleys $92.00 Building Material Yards $200.00 Burglary and fire alarm systems $48.00 Car Wash $84.00 Caterers $48.00 Cemetery $48.00 Christmas Tree Stands (non profit $20.00) Profit $84.00 Concrete or Asphalt Manufacturing Establishments $252.00 Concession Stands: $69.D0 per year for the operation of not more than six concession stands in a single place of amusement; $11.Oa_per year for each additional stand, provided, however, if food and/or beverages are sold from such concession stands by vendors circulating through such places of amusement and under the supervision and/or control of the business operating such concession stands in a place of amusement, then in that event $115.b0 per year for the operation of not more than six concession stands in a single place of amusement; $23.D0 per year for each additional concession stand Concession Stand $69.00 per year for the operation of concessions as a business of itself and not in conjunction with a place of amusement other than the amusement derived from such concession. Contractors $84.00 Dancing Studio $48.00 Day Nurseries $48.00 Delivery Services $48.00 Dog Kennels $84.00_ Drive-In Restaurants $48.00 Drive-In, soft drink and/or ice cream $48.00 Drive-In .theatres and any place of amusement accommodating more than 1,000 persons, except as herein otherwise provided $323.0.0 Drive-In theatre (Twin Screen) $460.00 Drug Stores $48.00 Dry. Cleaners $48.00. $84.00 Employment Agency $48.00 Exterminator $48.00 Fabric Shops $48.00 Farm Equipment Sales $84.00 Feed Stores $48.00 Fence (mfg, or sales) ', $168.00 Firework Stand (See Ordinance 39R1) Fireworks Wholesale $200.00 Florists $48.00 Inside Occupation Only Fruit Stands Funeral Homes Furniture Garage Business Gasoline Service Stations Gift Shops Grocery or General Store - occupying a floor space of 3,500 sq. ft. or less Grocery Store or General Store - occupying space area of more than 3,500 sq. less than 10,000 sq. ft. Grocery Store or General Store - occupying area of more than 10,000 sq. ft. than 20,000 sq. ft. Grocery Store or General Store - occupying area of more than 20,000 sq. ft. 30 000 sq. ft. a floor ft. and a floor space and less a floor space and less than Grocery or General Store - occupying a floor area of more than 30, 000 sc~. ft. Guards and Watchman's Service Haberdasheries Hardware Stores Hatcheries Hobby Shop s _ Hospitals Hotels Ice cream or hot dog Vendor Insurance Agencies Jewelry Shops Laundries Laundromats Liquor, Package Stores Locksmith Locker Plants Lumber Yards Manufacturing, processing or fabricating businesses and warehouses, .selling at wholesale with a floor area of less than 4,000 sq. ft. Manufacturing, processing or fabricating businesses and warehouses, selling at wholesale with a floor more than 4,000 sq. ft. and less than 10,000 sq. Manufacturing, processing or fabricating businesses and warehouses, selling at wholesale with a floor area in excess of 10,000 sq. ft. Motels, $48.00 plus for all motels having more than 15 units, $2.40 per unit-for each unit over 15 Nursing Homes Nursery Farms Nurseries Office Building Parking Lots Pawn Shops Pet Shops $84.00 $92.00 $48.00 $48.00 •$84.00 $48.00 $48.00 $84.00 $140.00 $280.00 $400.00 $84.00 $48.00 $48.00 $231.00 $48.00 $48.00 $8400 $48.00 $48.00 $48.00 $48.00 $48.00 $69.00 $48.00 $69.00 $200.00 $84.00 area ft. $140.00 $252.00 $200.00 $84.00 $84.00 $48.00 $84.00 $48.00 $48.00 Inside Occupation Only Plumbing & Heating Shops Printers Produce Stands Racetracks, where racing of either with vehicles or Radio and Television Repair Real Estate Agencies Rental Agency any kind or character, animals, are exhibited Service Shops Restaurant or cafe, floor area for use by public 3,000 sq. ft. or less Restaurant or cafe, floor area for use by public in excess of 3,000 sq. ft. Rock Quarries $48.00 $48.00 $84.00 ' $480.00 $48.00 $48.00 $84.00 $48.00 $92.00 $924.00 [plus .02A per ton] $92.00 $400.00 $48.00 $48.00 $48.00 $84.00 $48.00 $48.00 $84.00 Tavern - occupying a floor. area of 3,000 sq. ft. or less $88.00 Tavern - occupying a floor area of more than 3,000 sq. ft. $128.00 Roller Skating Rinks Salvage Yards Sand Blasting Shoe Repair Shop Shoe Stores Shooting Park Sign Shops Sporting Goods-Shops Stables Tire Sales Toy Shop Trailer Courts $9.00 per year per by the number of trailers on 1 - minimum $84.00 Trailer Sales Agencies Tow Truck - Garaged or stationed not connected with a service Trash & Refuse Hauler Turkish Baths Used Car Agencies Welding Shops $48.00 $48.00 trailer as determined the trailer court January in Riverside and station Western Goods & Riding goods store Woodworking Shops Inside businesses (not otherwise classified) $48.00 Other Business (inside-outside or outside not otherwise classified ' $84.00 $84.00 $120.00 $92.00 $84.00 $84.00 $48.00 $48.00 $84.00 SECTION 4. TERM OF LICENSE. The term of all licenses shall commence on January 1st and expire on December 31st of each year except as provided herein. SECTION 5. PRORATION. The fee based on the prorational time until the next date of the regular issuance of occupational license shall be charged at the time of the initial application. The fee shall be determined by the quarter of the license year in which the application is made. Provided, however, no proration shall be made for licenses for seasonal businesses or liquor licenses. SECTION 6. ISSUANCE AND-FORM OF LICENSE. The City Collector shall issue all license prescribed in this chapter and shall prescribe the form therefor. SECTION 7. COMPLIANCE OF ZONING REGULATIONS. The City Collector shall issue all licenses subject to the licensee's compliance with all zoning requirements and shall have the power to revoke any license for failure to comply with the zoning requirements and upon application may refund the unused portions of the annual license fee paid for such revoked license. SECTION 8. MORE THAN ONE OCCUPATION AT THE SAME ADDRESS. Where more than one occupation, business, trade or avocation as enumerated herein is carried on at the same address the licensee shall make an application for each separate occupation, business, trade or avocation. SECTION 9. SEPARATE LICENSE FOR EACH PLACE OF BUSINESS. Separate licenses shall be obtained for each location at which an occupation, business, avocation or trade is carried on. SECTION 10. DELAY IN PAYMENT - PENALTY. Should the licensee fail to make application for renewal, the fee to be charged for such license shall be increased 25o if the renewal license is applied for prior to February 1st of the succeeding calendar year. The fee of the license shall be increased 50$ if such renewal license is not applied for prior to March 1st of such succeeding calendar year. SECTION 11. DISPLAY OF LICENSE. All licenses granted by the City shall be carefully preserved and shall be displayed in a conspicuous place in the place of business by the licensee. SECTION 12. PENALTIES. Violation of this ordinance shall be punishable by fine not to exceed $100.00 or by imprisonment not to exceed 90 days or by both such fine and imprisonment and each days operation of an occupation or business without having obtained the necessary licenses as provided for herein shall constitute a separate violation. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the City from civil action to collect unpaid license fees. SECTION 13. INVALIDITY. Should any portion Ordinance be declared invalid, then the same shall remainder of the ordinance and it shall remain in effect. SOURCE: 73-5, March 6, 1973 72-24, December 5, 1972 74-2, January 15, 1974 76-9 January l,. 1977 (effective date) ,` of this not affect the full force and