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ORDINANCE NO. 750
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA,
AMENDI~G ORDINANCE NO. 737 (THE BUSINESS LICENSE ORDINANCE)
OF SAID CITY BY AMENDING SECTION 23 THEREOF.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That section 23 of Ordinance No. 737 of the City of
Arcadia, entitled "An Ordinance of the City Councilof the City of
Arcadia, California, licensing the transacting and carrying on of
certain businesses, trades, professions, callings, and occupations
in the City of Arcadia, for the purpose of raising municipal revenues,
and providing a penalty for the vimlation thereof and repealing all
Ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith", adopted on the
16th day of November, 1948, be and the same is hereby amended to read
as follows:
"SECTION 23. LICENSE RATES. Except for those businesses licensed
by any ordinances of the City of Arcadia not herein specifically re-
pealed, the several rates of license fees for the pursuit of businesses,
trades and occ~pations hereinafter set forth, and to be paid by the
owners or agent.s thereof, be and the same are hereby fixed and es-
tablished, for and within the City of Arcadia, as follows:
1. ADVERTISING: Every person conducting or managing the business
of advertising by means of billboards, or bulletins, shall pay the
license for the privilege of so doing as follows: $12.50 per quarter.
2. ADVERTISING - DISTRIBUTING: For every person who distributes
posters, dodger:s, or printed advertisements, the sum of fifty dollars
($50.00) per day. This section shall not apply to the proprietors of
businesses in the City of Arcadia when advertising such businesses.
3. ADVERTISING - SOLICITATION: For every person engaged in
soliciting advertising where no regularly established place of business
is maintained in the City of Arcadia, the sum of $50.00 per annum or
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frac tion thereo:r, and f or every such person who has a regularly es-
tablished place of business in the City of Arcadia, the sum of $12.00
per annum.
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4. ADVERTISING VEHICLE. For every person operating an advertising
vehicle, $25.00 per day per vehicle.
5. AMUSEMENTS. (See Game Machines).
6. APART~~NT HOUSES, etc: For every person engaged in the business
or occupation of conducting a lodging house, apartment house or letting
furnished rooms (where there are five or more such furnished rooms used
for such purpose), the sum of $12.00 per annum.
7. ART and CURIO STORES: For every art and curio store, $12.00
per annum.
8. AUCTIONEERS: For every auctioneer, $25.00 per day. Provided,
no license shall be required for th~ selling of goods at public sale be-
longing to the United states of America or to the State of California, or
fOr the sale of property by virtue of any process issued by any State
or Federal Court, or for the bona fide sale of household goods at the
domicile of the owner thereof, or for the sale of any property of an
estate by the legally appointed administrator, executor or guardian thereof
9. AUTO FAINTING: For every person conducting or carrying on the
business of painting automobiles or trucks, $12.00 per annum.
10. AUTO WASH-RACK: For every automobile wash-rack or place of
business, $12.00 per annum, unless operated in conjunction with any
other automobile business.
11. BANKRUPT, ASSIGNED OR DAMAGED GOODS: It shall be unlawful for
any person to advertise or conduct any sale of goods, wares or mer-
chandise, at rE.tail, that is represented as a Bankrupt, Insolvent,
Assignee, Adju~,ters, Trustees ,Executors, Administrators, Reveivers,
~Vholesalers, Jobbers, Manufacturers, Closing Out, Liquidation, Closing
Stock, Fire or Water Damage Sale, or any other sale which is by repre-
sentation or advertisement intended to lead the public to believe that
the person conducting such sale is selling out or closing out the goods,
wares or merchlmdise of any business for less than the current or going
retail price thereof in the City of Arcadia, without first filing with
the City Clerk the inventory hereinafter provided for and obtaining from
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him a license so to do, to be known as a "Closing Out Sale License".
The fee for such license shall be, and the same is hereby fixed as
follows: For a period not to exceed thirty (30) days, $25.00; for a
period not exceeding si<<ty (60) days, $50.00; for a period not exceeding
ninety (90) days, $75.00; provided that only one such license shall be
issued to anyone person within a twelve (12) month period, and no such
license shall be issued for less than thirty (30) days nor more than
nine ty (90) days.
The provisions of thrs section shall not apply to a bonafide
closing out sale of merchandise by a person who has conducted said
business for a period of one yea' iminediately preceding such sale.
The Inventory required by the preceding section shall contain a
complete and accurate list of the stock of goods, wares and merchandise
to be sold at such sale f or which a license is hereby required, together
wi th the wholes ale price thereof, which inventory or lis t shall be signed
by the person seeking the license or by a resident agent thereunto
authorized and b y affidavit at the foot thereof he or such agent shall
swear or affirm tha t the information therein gi ven is full and t rue and
known by him or such agent to be so.
It shall be unlawful to sell, offer or expose for sale at any such
sale, or to list on such inventory, any goods, wares or merchandise
which are not the regular stock of the store or other place, the business
of Which is to be closed out by such sale, or to make any replenishments
or additions to such stock for the purposes of such sale, or during the
time thereof, or to fail, neglect or refuse to keep accurate records
of the artic leEI or things sold, from which records the 6i ty Clerk may
ascertain the kind and quantitiy of goods sold.
12. BARBE:R SHOPll. For every barber-shop, for thefirs t chair,
$12.00 per annum, and $2.00 per annum for each additional chair.
For every manicurist, or person shining or polishing shoes, employed
in connection with or operating in any barber shop there shall be paid
an additional license of $2.00 per annum for each person so employed.
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13. BEAUTY PARLOR: For every beauty parlor, $12.00 per annum
for the first operator and $2.00 per annum for each additional operator
employed therein.
14. BLACKSMITHS: For every blacksmith, $12.00 per annum.
15. BOOTBLACK: For every bootblacking or shoe shining parI or or
stand, $12.00 per annum.
16. BOWLING ALLEYS, etc: For every place where billiards or pool
are played, or bowling or ten-pin alleys, Shuffle-board, table Shuffle-
board, skee-ball. or other similar device; for each table or alley or
device, $4.00 ~r annum.
17. BROKERS, REAL-ESTATE: For every person engaged in business
as a real estate broker, the sum of $12.00 per annum, pIus the sum of
$3.00 per annum for each salesman over three in number, including the
broker proprietc.r.
18. BROKER, STOCK: For every person engaged in selling stocks,
bonds, or other securities the sum of $12.00 per annum, pIus the sum of
$2.00 per annum for each sqIesman employed.
19. BUNGAl~OW COURTS and MOTOR COURTS: For every person engaged in
the business or occupation of conducting a bungalow court, Motor Court,
or Auto Camp, the sum of $12.00 per annum.
20. CARNIVAL: For every pild-west show, carnival or other ex-
hibition or ent'3rtainment at which feats of horsemanship, acrobatic feats,
mechanical amusl3ment devices are exhibited or displayed or other similar
show or exhibitions, the sum of $75.00 for the first day and the sum of
$10.00 ror each additional day. Provided, however, that no person shall
conduct or carry onsuch business within said City without first having
obtained a spec:lal permit therefor from the City Council. Said s~ cial
permit shall be issued.by the City Council upon wri.ten application filed
wi th said Counc:l.l setting forth;
(1) The name of the person engaged in the business of managing,
carrying on or directing said show;
(2) The p lace where such show is to be exhibited.
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(3) The t~pe or manner of such exhibition~
(4) The time, date and number of ~formances to be exhibited.
Upon receipt of the application, the Council shall investigate the
business of the applicant, the appropriateness of the location at
whih said applicant proposes to engage in business ElS specified in
the application, and the type of carnival proposed to be produced.
Thereupon the Council may approve the application and authorize the
issuance of a license thereon or the Council may deny any application
if, in its judgment, the granting of the requested permit would be
contrary to the public interest or would result in appreciable dis-
comfort or serious inconvenience to persons residing in the vicinity
or if the proposed location is an inappropriate one.
21. CIRCUS~ For each exhibition for pay of a circus, $50.00.
22. COLLECTION AGENCY:. For every collection agency $12.00
per annum.
23. CONTRACTORS: For every contractor the sum of $50.00
per annum.
24. DANCE-HALL (Public): For ever~ person conducting, managing
or carrying on any public dance-haIl, dance floor or ballroom , open
to the public, $24.00 per annum.
25. DANCING SCHOOL: For every person conducting, managing or
carrying on any dancing school, or academy, $12.00 per annum.
26. DOG KENNELS: For every person conducting a dog kennel or a
place where dogs are cared for or bred, the sum of $12.00 per annum.
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a kennel.
2.7. ELECTRICAL FIXTURES AND SUPPLIES: For every electrical
contractor, the sum of $50.00 per annum.
28. EMPLOYME:NT AGENCY OR BUREAU: For every employment agency
or bureau, the sum of $12.00 per annum.
29. EXHIBITIONS: For each exhibition for pay of any rare or
unusual anima.l or thing, the sum of $5.00 per day.
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30. FUMIGATING AND SPRAYING: For every person engaged in the
business of fumigating, spraying or dusting fruit trees, plants, vines,
or orchards, $12.00 per year or fraction thereof.
31. GAME MACHINES: For every person carrying on the business of
renting, leasing or maintaining any game machine or device, juke boxes,
devices for the playing of records or music automatically upon deposit
of a coin, sl.ug, or other device, or any other instrument or machine of
like characte,r, not otherwise licensed hereunder, or any such similar
machine or de,vice, not prohibited by law, where any sum is charged by
means of a coin, slot or otherwise, $3.00 per quarter or fraction there-
of for each such machine. Each application for such a license shall des-
cribe the type of machine, the serial number, if any, the name of the
manufacturer and the location where each machine is to be operated.
Each machine shall also bear the name of the licensee in plain view
in letters of not less than one-fourth inch in height.
Each and every machine described herein and operated in the City of
Arcadia, and not licensed or not complying with other regulations of
this Ordinan(:e may be sealed agains t further operation and held by the
City of Arcadia, at the owner's risk, until all license fees, storage
charges and other accumulated costs are paid.
32. GAMES (Arcade): For every person carrying on the business of
operating an arcade wherein the sole business is the operation of game
machines, vending machines or similar machines or devices, not pro-
hibited by law, which said business is not merely an adjunct of some
other principal business, the license shall be $200.00 for the period of
12 months or any part thereof, provided, however, that such license
shall be good for the period of 12 months after issued, but that the
same shall ll'::>t be transferable nor shall any return or refund be made.
33. . GASOLINE DELIVERY TANKS: For every person conducting, mana-
ging or carrying on the business of delivering or selling benzine,dis-
tillate, kerosene, gasoline, or any or all other petroleum products
by means of tank wagons, tank trucks or other vehicles in the City
of Arcadia, $3.00 per quarter f or each such tank wagon, tank truck
or other vehicle.
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34. HORSESHOEING: For every person engaged in the business of
shoeing horses,$12.00 per year.
35. HOTEI~ AND ROOMING HOUSES: Hotels and rooming houses over
three rooms and not more than ten rooms, the sum of $3.00 per <parter;
over ten rooms and not over twenty-five rooms, the sum of $5.00 per
quarter; over twenty-five rooms, and up to fifty rooms, the sum of
$7.00 per quarter; over fifty rooms the sum of $10.00 per quarter.
36. HOSPITAL: For every hospital, nursing home or maternity
home maintaining more than three beds, but not over ten beds, the sum
of $4.00 per ~l~rter; and over ten beds, but not over 25 beds,$6.00
per quarter.
37. HOUSE MOVER: For every lE'son engaged in the business of
moving houses, the sum of $24.00 per year or fraction thereof.
f 38. JUNK OR RUBBISH DEALER: Every person engaged in the business
of collecting, purchasing, selling or dealing in junk or rubbish, and
not having a regularly established or fixed place of business, shall pay
a license of Thirty six ($36.00) dollars per annum, or if having a
regularly established or fixed place of business, the sum of Twenty Four
($24.00) Doll~ps per annum, provided that every such person before trans-
porting any such junk or rubbish from the City of Arcadia, shall file
with the said Chief of Police a detailed statement, giving the date,
deocription, person from whom and p lace from which each of such articles
of junk or rubbish shall have been purchased or obtained and shall hold
such junk or rubbish for a period of twenty-four (24) hours in the City
of Arcadia after delivering such statement to s aid Chief of Police or
shall submit such junk or rubbish to the inspection of said Chief of
police and obtain his written consent to the removal thereof from said
City of Arcadia.
39. LAUNDRY: For every laundry where more than three people are
engaged in such laundry work, $6.00 per quarter, and $2.00 additional
per quarter per wagon or vehicle in excess of one wagon or vehicle.
For every self-service, laundry, laundromat, or launderette, $6.00 per
annum PIus 50c for each washing-machine upon the premises of such
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laundry, laundromat, or launderette.
40. LAUNDRY COLLECTIONS: For every business operating any
wagon or vehicle of any kind, nature or description gathering securing
or accumulating soiled articles of clothing, bedding or any other article
or articles in this City, for the purpose of carrying, hauling, or trans-
porting the same to any laundry located outside of the City of Arcadia,
the sum of $15.00 per annum or fraction thereof, and an additional $5.00
per annum or fraction thereof for each additional wagon or vehicle in
excess of one 80 engaged.
41. LUMBER YERD: For every lumber yard, $12.00 per annum, and
$2.00 additonaJ. per truck per annum in excess of one.
42. MANUI~ACTURING PLANT: For e very person conduc ting or carrying
on the business of a manufacturing plant, the sum of $12.00 per annum,
pIus $2.00 for each partner exceeding one partner and $2.00 for each
employee of said person actually employed in said business within the
City of Arcadia, provided, however, that in no event shall the maximum
annual license tax exceed the sum of $200.00.
43. MEDICINE SHOW: For every person carrying on the business
of a medicine IIhow, $100.00 per year or fraction thereof. For the
purpose of this Ordinance a "medicine show" shall mean and include the
using of any music, lecture, entertainment, operationof other like
scheme or pIan to attract an audience or crowd, and the selling or
giving away to any person in such audience or crowd, any drug or medicine,
or pretended medicant, or any surgical or medical appliances or in-
strument.
44. MERCHANDISE VENDING MACHINES: (See Vending MaChines).
45. MERRY-GO-ROUND: Any person conducting oroperating any
flying horses, merry-go-rounds, ferris wheels, or other riding devises
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 herein, shall pay a license of $10.00 per day.
46. MOTION PICTURES: Every person, firm, or corporation engaged
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in the business of taking motion pictures or photoplays shal1 pay a license
fee as follows:
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(a) Twenty five ($25.00) dollars per day, or any portion of such
day, when said business is conducted wholly or partially in any public
street, railway right-of-way, railway station, or public park.
(b) Ten ($10.00) dollars per day, or any portion of such day, when
said business is conducted in the City of Arcadia on property other than
provided in subdivision (i) hereof.
47. NEWS STAND: For every news stand or agency, $12.00 per annum.
48. NURSERIES: ORNAMENTAL SHRUBBERY, FLOWERS, NURSERY STOCK:
For every dealer or person carrying on the businesw of selling ornamental
shrubbery, flowers or nursery stock, employing not more than.one sales
person in such business, the sum of $12.00 per annum, andfbr each add i-
tional sales person employed, $2.00 additional per sales person per annum.
48.1. PALMISTRY, ETC. Every person engaged in the business of, or
who practices the profession of astrology, palmistry, phrenology, life
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reading, minerology, fortune telling, cartomancy, clairvoyance, clair-
audience, crystal gazing, hypnotism, mediumship, prophecy or augury, and
who demands or receives a fee for the practice, exercise or exhibition
thereof, or who charges therefor an admission fee, shall pay a license
of Twenty ($20.00) Dollars per day.
49. PAWNBROKER: For every pawnbroker, $50.00 per annum.
50. PEDDLERS: For every peddler not otherwise provided for,
$12.00 f.B r annum.
51. PEDDLERS: DRUGS AND MEDICINES: For every person peddling
any drug or medicine or going from place to place or from house to house
in the City of Arcadia, and selling, distributing, or giving away any
drug or medicine, or any sample or samples of any drug or medicine,
$50.00 per annum or fraction thereof.
52. PEDDLERS: EXCEPTIONS: No license fee shal1 be required of
any person who may be engaged solely in peddling articles made or
agricultural products grown or animals or fowls raised in the City of
Arcadia, bp such person, provided, however, that such person shallfi' . -A
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apply for a free permit as herein provided.
53. PEDDLING AND SOLICITING CERTAIN TYPES OF SALES:
1. (a) Every person selling, offering for sale, or soliciting for
the sale of, by means of peddlers, any sheet, dodger, handbill, cir-
cular, letter, booklet, or any other printed, typewritten, mimeographed
or written matter of any kind, pertaining to any horse race, choice
of a horse or horses, recommending any horse or horses, or giving or con-
veying any information wout any horse, horse race or contest of endur-
ance or speed between horses or beasts, and whether at a fixed place of
business within said city or otherwise, shall p~y a license fee.of Six
Hundred ($600.00) Dollars per ninety day period; provided, however, that
the provisions of this subdivision (1) of this Section shall not pro-
hibit, or require a license, or the payment of a .fee, for the sale,
distribtuion or delivery of newspapers of general circulation, as defined
by Section 4460 and 4462 of the Political Code of the State of California,
nor shall said provisions apply within any racing enclosure duly licensed
by the State of' California, to conduct horse racing under and in accord-
ance with the laws of said State relating to such matters; nor to sales
of such materials or items made by a merchant duly licensed by the City
of Arcadia, provided such sales are made only inside a building in which
his licensed business is conducted.
(b) That any person licensed under the provisions of this Section
(1) shall be entitled to sell, solicit for the sale of, or offer far
sale said mater-ials through not more than six (6) persons during any
day; provided, howevep, that no person shall be entitled to act for and
on behalf of sllch licensee until such licensee has filed with the Chief
of Police of tr~ City of ~cadia, the name, address and photograph of
the person so !luthorized.
(c) No person shall, in the selling, soliciting for sale, or
offering for snle of said materials, interfere with or cause interference
with the normal flow of traffic upon the public streets of Arcadia.
For the purposEl of preventing congestion in traffic upon the public streets
of the City of Arcadia, the 10cation occupied by any person in the /I . _
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conduct of such. business shall be subject to the approval of the
Chief of Police of the City of Arcadia.
(d) No person shall sel1, solicit for sale or offer for sale any
of said material or materials upon any day unless a true copy of such
material or materials has been flIed in the office of the Chief of Police
of said City, at or before 11:00 o'clock A. M., of said day.
2. Upon ~Titten application filed with the City Clerk requesting
such extension (accompanied by the required extension fee) the City
Council of said city may in its discretion grant an extension of the
ninety day pertods referred to herein for either:
(a) An addttional thirty day period immediately following said
ninety day period; or
(b) An additional sixty day period immediately fol10wing said
ninety day pertod; provided that if said Council grants such thirty
day extension Em additicinal permit fee in the sum of Two. Hundred($200.00)
Dollars must bEl paid by permittee for such thirty day extension; and
if said Council grants such sixty day extension an additional permit fee
in the amount of Four Hundred ($400.00) Dollars must be paid by permittee
for such sixty day extension. No extension shall be valid uhless and
until such additlonal fee is paid.
3. Every person, not having a fixed place of business in the City,
who travels from place to place, or house to house, and makes demon-
s tration of, o]~ solici ts, takes orders or canvasses for the sale of, or
who sells any goods, wares, merchandise, subscripti<hns to periodicals
or magazines 0]' things or articles of value of any nature, kind or
description (not hereinabove mentioned in subdivisidn (1) of this
Section) shall pay a license fee of Ten ($10.00) Dollars per month.
54. PHOTOGRAPHERS: For the business of conducting a photograph
studio the sum of $12.00 per annum.
For every person, not having a regularly established place of
business in tho City of Arcadia, and engaged in making photographic
exposures for :3ale wi thin the City of Arcadia, the sum of $50.00 per
year or fractiQn thereof.
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For every film developing or printing laboratory, not connected
with a licensed p~otograph studio or photographic supply shop the sum
of $12.00 per annwn.
55. PLUMBERS: For every plumbing contractor, the sum of $50.00 per
annum.
56. POP CORN AND PEANUTS: For every street stand for selling pop
corn and peanuts, :$3.00 per quarter, whether located on private property
or doing business l)n th6 public streets under permit, if such is allowed.
57. POULTRY: HATCHERY: For every person canducting, managing,
or carrying on the business of a hatchery, using incubators for hatching
chickens, poultry or other fowls for sale, or for the account of other
persons, $12.00 per annum.
58. POULTRY INSPECTION: Every person engaged in the business of
inspecting poultry to be sold to the public shall pay a license fee of
$12.00 per annum, provided that the City Council, prior to the issuance
of any license hereunder, may re~ire the app~icant for such license to
furnish to the City Clerk such evidence as to his qualifications to en-
gage in this business as the City Council may deem advisable.
59. (REAL ESTATE AGENTS: (See Brokers).
60. RESTAURANT: For every person engaging in the cafe or restaurant
business or as a retailer of cooked foods or delicatessen foods $12.00
per annum, which shall include the owner; for each additional employee,
$2.00 per annum per employee. An employee, for the purpose 0 f this See tion
shall mean one who is on duty for at least four hours out of twenty-four
hours. Licenses shall not be issued to persons engaged in the cafe or
restaurant business or for the operation of lunchrooms, cocktail bars,
soft drink dispensaries or soda fountains until a permit has first been
secured from the City Health Officer.
61. SALESMAN (Itinerant): For every person engaged in the business
or occupation of an itinerant salesman, $50.00 per annum or fraction thereof.
The term "Itinerant SaJe sman", shall be construed to mean and include
persons, both principal and agent, who go from house to house, or to only
one house, or to any other place in the City of Arcadia, soliciting, either
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by sample or otherwise, the sale of goods, wares or merchandise, or
collection systems or material, for firms which do not have an es-
tablished place of business in the City of Arcadia.
The provislons of this section shall not apply to commercial trav-
elers or selling agents, selling. goods, wares or merchandise to dealers
at wholesale for resale purposes, or to persons, firms, or corporations
who use the purchased goods, wares or merchandise in the making of a
product to be manufactured in the City of Arcadia, or to persons en-
gaged in Interstate Commerce.
62. SCHOOIS: For every school or college where tuition is charged,
the sum of $12.00 per annum.
63. SECOND-HAND DEALER: (See Junk or Rubbish Dealer).
64. SHOWS: (See Theflters).
65. SIDE SHOWS: For each side show, where a separate admission
is oharged, $10.00 per day, unless such side show is a part of a carnival
or oircus.
66. SKATI~G RINK OR SHOOTING GALffiRY: For every skating rink or
shooting gallery., $100.00 per annum or fraction thereof.
67. SOCIAL, CLUBS: Every person, firm or corporation operating or
maintaining a social club in the City 0 f Arcadia, in wh:lc h Club charges
are made to members in addition to membership fees, for games or enter-
tainment, excepting the food furnished the members of said Club, shall
pay a license to the City of Arcadia, in the sum of $50.00 per annum,
payable quarterly; that is to say, one-fourth of said amount shall be
due and payable on the first day of January of each year, and one-fourth
of said amount on the first day of April of each year, and one-fourth
of said amount on the first day of July each year, and one-fourth thereof
on the first day of October of each year; and no license shall be issued
for less sum than one-fourth of said annual license.
Any member of the Police Force of the City of Arcadia or any Peace
Officer of the State of California, shall, at all times, be prmitted to
enter the Club rooms, or grounds of said Social Club; and if the owner,
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manager, or kel3per of said Social Club shall violate any law of the
United St~tes, or this state, or any Ordinance of this City, or permit
the same or any of them to be violated within the Club rooms, or upon
the Club grounds, s aid license shallbe revoked.
68. SOLICITORS: For every solicitor the sum of $10.00 per month.
69. SOUV3NIRS: Etc. For every person engaged in the business
of selling upo~ the streets, flags, baloons, banners, canes, horns,
trumpets, musical or noise making instruments, toys, button~, badges,
serpentine or souvenirs of any kind, $10.00 per day.
70. SPRAYING: (See Fumigating and Spra7ing).
71. STABLES: For every person conducting the business of a feed
or livery stable or of a riding academy where instructions in horse-
back riding are given, $12.00 per annum.
72. STABLES - SALES: For every person engaged in conducting
or maintaining a stock yard, sales stable or corral where live stock
is bought, sold or exchanged, the sum of $40.00 per annum.
73. TAXI: For every person operating a taxicab business, the
sum of $12.00 per cab per annum.
74. THEATRES AND SHOWS: (a) 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, the
license fee shall be $50.00 per year.
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(b) For every person engaged in 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 exhi-
bited, as an independent business and not as a part of any other
business or entertainment, the license fee shal1 be the sum of $25.00
per day.
(c) For each separate exhibition of minstrels, opera or concert sing-
ers, thelicense shall be the same as required for theatrical per-
formances.
The provisions of the above subdivisions shall not apply to ex-
hibitions or entertainments given exclusively for the benefit of churches
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or schools, or charitable entertainments given by any fraternal or-
ganization of this City.
75. . TOBACCO: For every dealer in tobacco, in any form, the sum
of $12.00 per annum; provided, however, that no license shall be
charged for such business when the same is conducted as an integral
part of another business which is licensed hereunder.
76. TRANSFER: For every person engaged in the transfer business
operating one truck, the sum of $12.00 per annum, and for each additional
transfer wagon or truck more than oae, the sum of $3.00 per annum for
for such wagon, wagons, truck or trucks more than one.
77. VENDING AND WEIGHING MACHINES OR DEVICES: For every person
engaged in the business of renting, leasing, operating or maintaining
any vending, weighing, or merchandise machine or device or any other
such slmilar or like machine or device, not otherwise licensed under
the ordinance and not prohibited by law, wherein the sum of one (lc)
cent or less than five (5c) cents is charged or collected for such
machine or device by means of a coin slot or otherwise, $1.00 per year
or fraction thereof for each such machine or device; where the sum of
five (5c) cents and less than ten (10c) cents is charged by me~ns of
a coin or token slot or otherwise, $3.00 per year or fraction thereof
for each such machine or device and when the sum of ten (lOc) cents
+ or more is charged by means of a coin or token slot or otherwise, $3.00
per year or fraction thereof for each such machine or device.
78. WASH RACK: (See Auto Wash Racks).
79. WATCH, CLOCK AND JEWELRY: For every repairer of watches,
clocks, and jewelry, where no stock of goods is carried or sold,
$12.00 per annum.
80. WEIGHING MACHINES: (See Vending MaChines).
81. WHEELED VEHICLE: (a) Every person, who, in conjunction with thE
busine~s in which such person is engaged, runs, drives or operates, and
every person engaged in the business. of running, driving or operating,
for hire or otherwise, any wheeled vehicle tor the purpose of hauling,
peddling, distributing, selling, receiving or delivering, and who
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actual1y hauls, peddles, distributes, sells, receives or delivers
within the City, for resale or otherwise, personal property of any
kind, nature or description unless otherwise herein provided, shall
pay a license of Twelve ($12.00) dollars per annum for each such
wheeled vehicle so run, driven or operated; provided, that the pro-
visions of this paragraph, unless otherwis6 in this Ordinance provided,
shall not apply to any person having a fixed place of business within
the City which has been licensed under this Ordinance, and 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.
(b) 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 subdivision (a)
of this section, and no more than five wheeled vehicles are used by
such person in the City of Arcadia in anyone day in connection with the
business in which such person is engaged, shall be deemed to hav e com-
plied with the license requirements of subdivision (a) hereof for all
such wheeled vehicles of such fleet, upon payment of license of Sixty
($60.00) Dol1~rs per annum, and the compliance with the provisions of
Section 24 her.eof as to license plates for each wheeled vehicle of
such fleet. The license provided for in this sub-section shall be
known as a "Fl.set License".
82. SELLING BAKERY PRODUCTS, VEGETABLES OR FRUIT FROM WHEELED
VEHICLE - FEE: Every person, including persons having a fixed place
of business in the City, engaged in the business of selling at retail
bread or other bakery products, vegetables, berries,
from a wheeled vehicle, over a fixed route from door
melons, or fruit,
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to door, or other-
wise upon the atreets shall pay a license of Fifteen. ($15.00) Dol1ars
semi-annually for each vehicle so used.
83. SELLING ICE FROM WHEELED VEHICLE - FEE: Every person
including persl:>ns havimg a fixed place of business in the City, engaged
in the businesll of selling ice at retail from wheeled vehicle, over
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a fixed route, from door to door, or otherwise upon the streets shall
pay a license of Twelve ($12.00) Dollars per annum for each vehic~
so used.
84. SELLING ICE CREAM, ETC., FROM WHEELED VEHICLES-FEES:
(a) OVER A FIXED ROUTE. Every person including persons having a fixed
place of business in the City, engaged in the business of selling ice
cream or ice c:t"eam mix, ice milk or ice milk mix, or sherbert or
sherbert mix, Qr other frozen product other than ice, at retail, from
a wheeled vehi,~le, over a fixed route, from door to door, or otherwise,
upon the streets, shall pay a license of Fifteen .($15.00) Dollars
semi-annually.
(b) TO MERCHill~TS FOR RE-SAIE: Every person, including persons having
a fixed place of business in the City, engaged in the business of
selling ice crllam or ice cream mix, ice milk or ice milk mix, or other
frozen product other than ice, to merchant~ for resale from a wheeled
vehicle, shall pay a license of Twelve ($12.00) Dollars per annum for
each vehicle so used.
85. WHOLESALE DELIVERY TRUCKS: For every person conducting,
managing or car'rying on the business of delivering wholesale orders
of goods, wareE:, or merchandise in the City of Arcadia, the sum of
$12.00 per vehicle per year or fraction thereof."
SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this
Ordinance and prior to th6 expiration of fifteen (15) days from the
passage thereof', shall cause the same to be published once in the
Arcadia Tribune and Arcadia News, a newspaper of general circulation,
published and circulated in the City of Arcadia, and thirty (30) days
from and after the final passage thereof said Ordinance shalltake
effect and be in force.
I HEREBY CEmTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was adopted at a
regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia, held on
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the 1st day of February, 1949, by the affirmative vote of at least
three Councilmen, towit:
AYES
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Councilmen, Boucher, Klomp, Libby, Nugent and Russell
NOES
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None
ABSENT:
None
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City
SIGNED and APPROVED this
IS~ of Febr~1949'
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MaYor of the G y 0 Arca a
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