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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1896 ORDINANCE NO. 1896 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ARTICLE VI OF THE , ARCADIA MUNICIPAL CODE CONCERNING BUSINESSES, PROFESSIONS, TRADES AND OCCUPATIONS, THE BUSINESS LICENSE FEES APPLICABLE THERETO, AND RELATED MATTERS WHEREAS, pursuant to a complete review of the City's business license provisions and a public hearing concerning the changes set forth in this Ordinance, which includes certain rewording to existing sections, added new sections, and deletions of other sections and portions thereof, it has been determined to amend Article VI of the Arcadia Municipal Code. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY FIND, DETERMINE AND ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That Sections 6109, 6116, 6215.7.1, 6220.14, and 6220.1 are heteby added to the Arcadia Municipal Code as follows: 6109. COMMERCIAL BUILDING RENTAL. Commercial Building Rental shall mean any building or portions thereof which is designed, built, rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied or which is occupied as the business address of two (2) or more companies or businesses. 6116. HORSE TRAINERS. Horse Trainers shall mean any person who engages in the training of horses wi thin the City for the purpose of horse racing with wagering on the results thereof by the system known as the para-mutuel method permitted by the laws of the State. -1- 1896 6215.7.1. CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION. Charitable organizations t maintaining an office location within the City shall be issued a free license by the License Officer upon proof of charitable status of the organization with the State of California. 6220.1. AUTOMATIC ANNUAL LICENSE RATE ADJUSTMENT. Effecti ve January 1, 1989 and each succeeding January 1 thereafter, the schedule of business fees established by the City Council shall be adjusted in accordance with the provisions of this Section. In December of each year, the Finance Director shall review the most recent October All Urban Consumer Price Index (CPI), for the Los Angeles-Anaheim-Riverside Area published by the U. S. Department of Labor Statistics. When such index differs from the index for the previous October, the factor of increase or decrease shall be applied to the schedule of business fees. Such factor shall be computed by dividing the CPI for the current October by that pertaining to the previous October. The business fees then in effect shall be multiplied by said factor and rounded off to the nearest dime, to determine the adjusted business fees for the following calendar year. 6220.14. COMMERCIAL BUILDING RENTAL. For every person engaged in the business or occupation of conducting the rental of commercial building property, fifty dollars ($50.00) per year for the first two (2) rental units plus Ten Dollars ($10.00) for each additional rental unit thereafter. SECTION 2. That the below Arcadia Municipal Code Sections are hereby amended to read as follows: -2- 1896 6212.6. SAME. AMENDMENT. Where a license is issued authorizing a person to conduct a business at a particular place, such licensee may, upon application therefor and paying a fee of Ten Dollars ($10.00), have the license previously issued amended so as to authorize the conduct of such business at some other location. 6212.7. SAME. DUPLICATE. charge of Ten Dollars ($10.00) Fi ve Dollars ($5.00) for each under the provisions of this destroyed. 6220. LICENSE RATES. Except for those businesses, trades or occupations for which a license fee is specifically required by any other provision of this Code, the following license fees are established and shall be paid by the owners or agents thereof at the time, in the manner and in the amount in the following subsections specified respectively for each of the following The License Officer shall make a for each duplicate license and duplicate license decal issued Chapter which has been lost or businesses, trades or occupations. 6220.2. ADVERTISING AND DISTRIBUTING. For every person who distributes posters, dodgers, free samples or printed advertisements, one hundred dollars ($100.00) per day; provided that the license fee shall be One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per year when such posters, dodgers or printed advertisements are incorporated in and distributed in conjunction and concurrently with a published newspaper of,general circulation as defined by -3- 1896 the Government Code of the State. This subsection shall not apply to the proprietors of businesses in the City when advertising such business. 6220.3. ADVERTISING SOLICITATION. For every person engaged in soliciting advertising where no regularly established place of business ~s maintained in the City, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per year or fraction thereof, and for every such person who has a regularly established place of business, Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per year plus Ten Dollars ($10.00) per year for each employee. 6220.4. ADVERTISING VEHICLE. For every person operating an advertising vehicle on public streets or property, Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per day per vehicle. ~ 6220.5. AMUSEMENT AND GAME MACHINES. For every person renting, leasing, owning or maintaining, as a business or ~n connection with any business, any amusement or game machine or device, any juke box, any device for the playing of records or music automatically upon deposit of a coin, slug of other device, any pinball machine or any other or similar instrument, machine or device of like character not prohibited by law, where any sum is charged by means of a coin, slot or otherwise, Sixty Dollars ($60.00) per year or fraction thereof for each such machine or device. 6220.6. APARTMENTS. For every person engaged in the business or occupation of conducting an apartment house or a bungalow court, Forty Dollars ($40.00) per year for the first four (4) rental units plus Ten Dollars ($10.00) for each additional rental unit. "'"4- 1896 6220.6.1. LODGINGS. For every person engaged ~n the business or occupation of conducting a motel, motor court, auto camp, hotel, rooming house or lodging house, Forty Dollars ($40.00) per year for the first four (4) rental units plus Six Dollars ($6.00) for each additional rental unit. 6220.7. AUCTIONS OR TEMPORARY RETAIL SALE. For every auction or retail sale conducted by the day from a temporary location in the City, Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per day. No license shall be required for selling of goods at public sale belonging to the United states or to the State or for the sale of property by virtue of any process issued by any State or Federal Court, etc. 6220.8. BANKRUPT, ASSIGNED OR DAMAGED GOODS. For every person conducting or managing any business, occupation or enterprise described in and regulated by Division 3 of Part 2 of Chapter 4 of this Article, the fee for such license shall be and the same is hereby fixed as follows: For a period not to exceed thirty (30) days, Fifty Dollars ($50.00); for a period not exceeding sixty (60) days, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), for a period not exceeding ninety (90) days, One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00), provided that only one such license shall be issued to anyone person wi thin a twelve (12) month period, and no such license shall be issued for less than thirty (30) days nor more than ninety (90) days. -5- 1896 6220.9. BILLBOARDS. For every person conducting or managing the business of advertising by means of billboards, bulletins, searchlights or other media on private property, Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per year, plus Ten Dollars ($10.00) per bi llboard. 6220.10. BOWLING ALLEYS OR BILLIARDS, ETC. For every place where billiards or pool are played, or bowling or tenpin alleys, shuffleboard, table shuffleboard, skee-ball or other similar device, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per year, plus Ten Dollars ($10.00) per year for each table or alley or device. 6220.11. CARNIVAL. For every wild west show, carnival or other exhibition or entertainment at which feats of horsemanship, acrobatic feats or mechanical amusement devices are exhibited or displayed, or other similar show or exhibitions, One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00) for the first day and Twenty Dollars ($20.00) for each additional day. 6220.12. CHRISTMAS TREES. PUMPKINS. For every person selling Christmas trees or pumpkins other than as a part of and at the same location as a business then and theretofore licensed on an annual basis pursuant to Section 6220.33.1, Sixty Dollars ($60.00) per month or fraction thereof. 6220.13. CIRCUS. For each exhibition for pay of a circus, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00). 6220.15. CONTRACTORS. GENERAL. For every general engineering contractor or general building contractor One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00) per year. -6- 1896 6220.15.1. CONTRACTORS. SPECIALTY. For every contractor as defined ~n Section 6110, other than a general engineering contractor or a general building contractor required to be licensed under the preceding Section, One Hundred Twenty Dollars ($120.00) per year. A separate license shall be required by this Section for an electrical contractor or a plumbing contractor even though licensed under the preceding Section as a general contractor. 6220.16. DANCE HALL. PUBLIC. For every person conducting, managing or carrying on any public dance hall, dance floor or ballroom open to the public. year. One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per 6220.17. EXHIBITIONS. For each exhibition for pay of any rare or unusual animal or thing, Ten Dollars ($10.00) per day. 6220.20. HOUSE MOVER. For every person engaged in the business of moving houses, One Hundred Twenty Dollars ($120.00) per year. 6220.21. JUNK DEALER. For every person engaged in the business of collecting, purchasing, selling or dealing in junk, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per year. 6220.22. LAUNDROMAT. For each self-service laundry, laundromat, or launderette, Twenty Dollars ($20.00) per year plus One Dollar ($1.00) per year for each washing machine upon the premises of such laundry, laundromat or launderette. 6220.23. LAUNDRY COLLECTIONS. For every business operating any vehicle gathering, securing or accumulating soiled articles of clothing, bedding or any other article or articles in the City -7- 1896 for the purpose of carrying, hauling or transporting the same to any laundry located outside of the City, Sixty Dollars ($60.00) per year or fraction thereof per vehicle. 6220.24. MERRY-GO-ROUND. TRANSIENT. For every person conducting or operating any flying horses, merry-go-rounds, ferris wheels, or other riding devices, upon a temporary or transient basis, when said flying horses, merry-go-rounds, ferris wheels, or other riding devices are not shown with any other show, game, attraction or carnival as mentioned in this Part, Twenty Dollars ($20.00) per day. 6220.28. PATROLS. PRIVATE. For every person engaging in the business of a private control, Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per year. 6220.29. PAWNBROKER. For every pawnbroker, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per year. 6330.30. PEDDLERS AND SOLICITORS. TRANSIENT. For every peddler or solicitor having no established place of business in the City, Forty Dollars ($40.00) per month per peddler or solicitor. 6220.31.1. SAME. ESTABLISHED BUSINESS. For every peddler or solicitor having an established place of business in the City, Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per year for a master license and an additional fee of Ten Dollars ($10.00) per peddler or solicitor per year for each individual peddler or solicitor. -8- 1896 6220.31. PHOTOGRAPHER. TRANSIENT. For every person not having a regularly established place of business in the City and engaged in making photographic exposures for sale wi thin the City, One Hundred Twenty Dollars ($120.00) per year or fraction thereof. 6220.32. POULTRY, ANIMALS AND PRODUCTS. For every person conducting, managing or carrying on a business' of hatching, raising, breeding or selling birds, fowl, poultry, rabbits or animals, other than horses, or the business of selling any of the foregoing or the offspring, products or by-products of any of the foregoing, Fifty Dollars ($50.00) plus Ten Dollars ($10.00) for each employee. 6220.33. PROFESSIONAL SERVICES. For every person engaged in any professional occupation or semi-professional occupation which is regulated by the State of California, either as an individual, partner, associate or otherwise than as an employee, Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per year, plus Twenty Dollars ($20.00) per year for each employee required by the State of California to be licensed, plus Ten Dollars ($10.00) per year for each other employee. 6220.33.1. TRADE SERVICES. For every person engaged in trade services listed below and any occupation, trade or craft for which no license is herein otherwise specified, and persons primarily engaged in sel1ing, performing or furnishing services other than commodities, including trades and crafts, and all other persons engaged in a business for which no license is herein otherwise specified, an annual license fee computed as -9- 1896 follows: Fifty Dollars ($50.00) plus Ten Dollars ($10.00) for . - .. - each employee employed ~n such business. Employees engaged solely in rendering services to the City, either under contract or as employees, shall be excluded in computing the amount of fee due under this Section: a. Barber Shop/Beauty Parlor b. Charter Buses c. Fumigating and Spraying d. Hospital/Nursing Home/Convalescent Home/Maternity Home e. Kennels f. Laundry g. Photograph Studios h. Photograph Laboratory i. Horse Trainer j. Restaurant k. Retail Outlets 1. Private Schools 6220.34. REAL ESTATE BROKER. For every person engaged in the business as a real estate broker, Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per year plus Ten Dollars ($10.00) per year for each salesman and employee. 6220.35. SIDE SHOWS. For each side show where a separate admission is charged, Twenty Dollars ($20.00) per day, unless such side show is a part of a carnival or circus licensed under this Chapter. -10- 1896 6220.36. SKATING RINK OR SHOOTING GALLERY. For every Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) skating rink or shooting gallery, per year or fraction thereof. 6220.37. SOCIAL CLUBS. For every person operating or maintaining a social club ~n which club charges are made to members in addition to membership fees, for games or entertainment, excepting the foot furnished the members of said club. One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per year. 6220.38. SOUVENIRS, ETC. For every person engaged in the business of selling upon the streets flags, balloons, banners, canes, horns, trumpets, musical instruments, toys, buttons, badges, serpentines or souvenirs of any kind, Twenty Dollars ($20.00) per day. 6220.39. TAXI. For every person operating a taxicab ($50.00) per year for each taxi or business, Fifty Dollars taxicab. 6220.40. THEATRES AND SHOWS. For every person engaged in the business of conducting a theatre or moving picture show, either at an established place of business or by means of a mobile unit, Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per year. 6220.41. SAME. OPEN-AIR AND TENT. For every person engaged ~n the business of conducting an open air theatre or tent show wherein vaudeville, comic, dramatic or operatic productions or performances are given, motion pictures shown or exhibited, as an independent business and not as a part of any other business or entertainment, Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per day. -11- 1896 6220.41.1. SAME. EACH PERFORMANCE. For each separate exhibition of minstrels, opera or concert singers, Fifty Dollars ($50.00). 6220.42. TIP SHEETS. For Every person who by any means engages in the business of practice of disseminating, distributing, passing out, giving away, handing out, selling, offering for sale, or soliciting for the sale of any sheet, dodger, handbill, circular, letter, booklet, or any other printed, typewritten, mimeographed or written matter of any kind, other than a newspaper, pertaining to any horse race, choice of a horse or horses, recommending any horse or horses, or giving or conveying any information about any horse, horse race or contest of endurance or speed between horses or beasts, if upon property owned and controlled by any racing association duly licensed by the State to conduct horse racing under and in accordance with the laws of the State relating to such matter and in conjunction with which such property is used by such racing associating. Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) for a twelve (12) months period commencing December 1 and ending November 30, if upon any other privately owned property, Twelve Hundred Dollars ($1,200.00) for such twelve (12) months period. The number of persons allowed to distribute such material under anyone license shall not exceed the number specified in Section 6426. 6220.42.1. RACING INFORMATION. For every person who, by any means other than by newspaper or by any means described ~n Section 6220.42, engages in the business or practice of disseminating, distributing, conveying, passing out, giving away, -12- 1896 handing out, selling, offering for sale or soliciting for the sale of any information or recommendation pertaining to the probable or possible outcome of any race or contest of endurance between horses or beasts or any choice of, preference for, or recommendation concerning any horse or beast engaged therein, Twelve Hundred Dollars ($1,200) for a twelve (12) month period commencing December 1 and ending the following November 30, for each person so engaged. 6220.43. VENDING AND WEIGHING MACHINES OR DEVICES. For every person engaged ~n the business of renting, leasing, operating or maintaining any vending, weighing, or merchandise machine or device, not otherwise licensed under this Part and not prohibi ted by law, charged by means of a coin or token slot or otherwise, Ten Dollars ($10.00) per year. 6220.43.1. SAME. BULK VENDING MACHINES IN CLUSTERS. For the purpose of this section, a bulk vending machine is defined as a nonelectrically operated vending machine, containing unsorted confections, nuts or merchandise which, upon insertion of a coin, dispenses the same or equal portions at random and without selection by the customer. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6220.44, when bulk vending machines are locked, bolted or otherwise firmly attached in clusters of two or more machines on one stand, the following fee shall be Ten Dollars ($10.00) per year. 6220.44. WHEELED VEHICLES. Every person who, ~n conjunction with the business in which such person is engaged, runs, drives or operates, and every person engaged in the -13- lB96 business of running, driving or operating, for hire or otherwise, any wheeled vehicle for the purpose of hauling, distributing, selling, receiving or delivering, and who actually hauls, distributes, sells, receives or delivers wi thin the City for resale or otherwise, personal property of any kind, nature or description, unless otherwise provided in this Part, Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per year for each such wheeled vehicle so run, driven or operated. The provisions of this Part, unless otherwise in this Chapter provided, shall not apply to any person having a fixed place of business within the City which has been licensed under this Chapter and who in the usual course of business uses a wheeled vehicle or vehicles for the delivery of personal property which has been sold from said place of business. 6220.45. SAME. FLEET LICENSE. Every person who, in conjunction with the business in which such person is engaged, uses, drives or operates a fleet of five or more wheeled vehicles for any of the purposes stated in subsection 6220.44, and no more than five (5) wheeled vehicles are used by such person in the City in anyone day in connection with the business in which such person is engaged, shall be deemed to have complied with the license requirements for all such wheeled vehicles of such fleet, upon payment of a license of Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) per year and the compliance with the provisions of subsection 6212.4 as to license decals for each wheeled vehicle of such fleet. The license provided for in this section shall be known as a "Fleet License." -14- 1896 6220.46. SAME. LOCAL VENDORS. For every person, including persons having a fixed place of business in the City, engaged in the business of selling at retail foodstuffs for human consumption from a wheeled vehicle upon the streets, over a fixed route from door to door or otherwise, except retail milk delivery or retail ice delivery, and unless otherwise provided in this Part, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per year for each vehicle so used. 6220.47. WHOLESALERS. for every person engaged in the business of selling goods, wares or merchandise at wholesale and for every person engaged ~n the business of manufacturing, processing or fabricating goods, wares or merchandise, unless otherwise in this Part expressly provided, an annual license fee computed as follows: Fifty Dollars ($50.00) plus Ten Dollars ($10.00) for each employee of said person actually employed in said business within the City. 6311.9. FEE. Each application for a permit from the Council for any business for which such a permit is required by any provision of this Code shall be accompanied by the payment of Forty Dollars ($40.00) to cover the cost of advertising and investigation relative to such application. SECTION 3. That Sections 6118, 6214.5.2, 6220.8, 6220.9, 6220.13, 6220.18, 6220.20, 6220.22, 6220.25, .6220.26, 6220.29, 6220.31, 6220.38, 6220.39, 6220.41, 6220.45, 6220.46, 6220.47, 6220.52 and 6324.8 are hereby deleted from the Arcadia Municipal Code. -15- 1896 SECTION 4. That where appropriate other specific sections of this Article VI of the Arcadia Municipal Code shall be renumbered and revised to adjust to the amendments set forth in this Ordinance. All renumbering and recitation of code sections of Article VI shall be consistent with the changes set forth in this Ordinance and shall reflect an order and placement in proper relationship to the additions, text changes and deletions set forth in this Ordinance. SECTION 5. That the City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Ordinance and shall cause a copy of the same to be published in the official newspaper of the City within fifteen (15) days upon its adoption. Passed, approved and adopted this 20thday of October, 1988. //~~ Mayor of the City of Arcadia ATTEST: -:: of Arcadia .., . .'\.- " ~ '- -16- 1896 STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS: CITY OF ARCADIA I, JUNE D. ALFORD, City Clerk of the City of Arcadia, hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1896 was passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Arcadia signed by the Mayor and attested to by the City Clerk at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 20th day of October, 1988, and that said Ordinance was adopted by the following vote, to wit: AYES: Councilmember Chandler, Gilb, Young and Harbicht NOES: Councilmember Lojeski ABSENT: None ;J f Arcadia -17- 1896