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HomeMy WebLinkAbout393 - Business LicensesORDINANCE NO. 393 t ' The City Council of the City of Newport Beach, by and through its City Council, do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. It shall be unlaw- ful for any person, persons, firm. co- partnership or corporation, or for any person, as agent, clerk or employee, either for himself or for any other person, firm, copartner- ship or corporation within the cor- porate limits of the City of New- port Beach, to transact, engabe in or carry on any pursuit, trade, oc -1 cupation, avocation, employment,) business or calling, hereinafter specified, until he, she, they or it shall first obtain a license there -. , for as in this Ordinance required. Each and every day or fraction - aI part of a day that said pursuit, trade, occupation, avocation, em- ployment, business or calling in this Ordinance specified is con- ducted or carried on without suchl license, shall constitute a violatioNl of this Ordinance and any persm,,,, who, for himself, or for any other person, shall violate any of the provisions of this Ordinance, shah, for each violation thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction by any court having jurisdiction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not more than' $200.00, or by imprisonment in the, city jail not exceeding twenty -five! days, or both such fine and impris- onment; provided, however, that every honorably discharged or honorably released soldier, sailor or L'arine of the United States who has served in the Civil War, any Indian War, the Spau'sh- American War, any Philippine in- surrection or in the Chinese Relief Expedition, or in the World War of 1914 and years following, who Is physically unable to obtain a livelihood by manual labor.- air who s:iall be a qualified elector of the State of California, shall have the right to distribute circulars and to hawk, peddle, and vend any goods, wares or merchandise, ex- cept such goods, wares and mer- chandise as the law prohibits the sale thereof, without payment of any license tax or fee whatever and the Council shall issue to such soldier, sailor or marine without cost a license therefor; and pro- vided further that no license can be collected or any penalty for the non- payment thereof enforced against -.in} commercial traveler whose bu. iness is limited to the goods, wares and merchandise sold or dealt in in this State. at wholesale . The term of duration of every license shah be annual, quarteriy. ^ionthly, weekly, or daily, accord- ing to the terms of the sections of this Ordinance fixing the amount pf each license, after this Ordi- nance shall go into full force and effect. Annual Hcenses shall date from the first Qvy of July, of the fiscal year in which they are issued; monthly licenses shall date Pram the first day of the month in which they are Issued; no license shall be issued for We fractional part of a term. A" licensee shall be paid for in advance and no rebate given for any unusad portion of the term. All licen <es issued under the provisions of this Ordinance shall be posted in the place of bushes--- of the licensee named in such li• tense, and the said license shail be produced bS the licensee whenever the same shall be required by the Chief of Police or any office: of the City. It ie `hereby made the dut; l of the Chief of Police to enforce all the provisions of this ordimmee. Ao persouM demand or notice by the Chief of Police to such,. per- ' sons owing such license tax shall be necessary to Incur the penalties ef this Ordinance. SECTION 2. All licenses issued under and by virtue of this ordi- nance shall be printcd in clank _ !form signed by the Clerk of the I City of Newport Beach, counter- signed by the Chief of Police, who :l shall set forth the name of tha party to whom the license is is - ; sued, the nature of the trade or business he, she, they or it are li- 1 censed to pursue, the time fore which the same is granted, the date thereof, and the amount paid therefor. The City Clerk shall cause to be printed a sufficient number of such licenses as may be required for one year, in been form, with blank stub to each and snail de -! N liver the same to the Chief of Po- lice therewith, who shall appear at the office of the City Clerk on the first yfonday in each month, and- settle for the licenses sold; censes now issued shall be good for the time for which such licenses were issued. The City Clerk shall, on appll- 400n of the Chief of Police, Issue' to him such blank licenses as may be required, and take hts receipt therefor, and shall fill the stub at- - tatted thereto, which stub must be kept it, the office of Ute City Clerk. - "SECTION 3. Each license grant- ed or issued under any provision of this Ordinance shall authorize the licensee to transact or carry on the business or calling therein named, at the place therein desig- nated and at no other place, and < the said license shall not be as- i signable or transferrable. How- I ever, a change of location shall be I allowed to the owner of the license 1 upon the payment to the City i Clerk of the sum of $1.00, and upon application made to the City 1 Council. it I SECTION 4. The City Clerk rhall make a charge of $1.00 for e each duplicate license issued to re- I i J place any license issued under the 1 4 provisions of this ordinance, which 1 has been lost or destroyed. I That no license shall be granted' h under this Ordinance or under any other Ordinance for a business or businesses to be conducted on the public streets or highways and it shall be unlawful at all times to conduct a business on the side-1 walks or highways of the City of Newport Beach, and any person's violating this provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction by any Court having jurisdiction thereof, shall, �. be fined therefor in a sum not ex- ceeding $200.00, or by imprison- ment in the city or county jail not exceeding twenty -five (25) j days, or by both such fine and im- prisonment. SECTION 5. No license shall be v issued for any canning or fish pre- serving plant, livery or feed stable, public laundry where washing is done for hire, hotel, lodging house, chop house, coffee house, bakery, restaurant, lunch counter, shooting gallery, billiard room, pool room, pocket billiard room, skating rink, merry- go-round, bowling alley, fortune telling, clairvoyance, and, kindred practices, garage, cream- ery, auctions, auction house, junk dealers, wrecking house, or auto- mobile for hire at stations, stands, or places on the public streets, or peanut vendors, tamale stands, or 'lunch wagons at stations, stands, or places on the public streets, or for any game, except on the order Of, the City Council of the City of - Newport Beach, and whenever any person, persons, firm, co-partner - ship or corporation, desires to open) ,'or keep any business specified in, - I this section, he, she, they or it shall petition the City Council to order-1 -a license therefor, which petition shall set forth the name of the ap -, plicant, the character of the busi- ness and the location of the prem- ises where the business is to be conducted, and on the hearing of said petition, the said City Council may grant the same in whole Or in part, or may reject the same and no license shall be issued thereon except as ordered by said City Council. Where anv business in this section specified may become dangerous to or affect the public health, peace or safety, or become dangerous to surrouncing• proper. ty, the City Council shall refuse to V grant the license. Should the City Council of said City at any time determine that the premises wherein any business described in this section is con- ducted, are not in good and sani- tary condition, or not properly .drained, or have become dangerous or affect the public peace, liealth or quiet, it may revoke its order requiring the license for such busi- ness to issue and no further license shall be issued thereon until such premises shall have been put in a safe, properly drained and sani- tary condition. SECTION 0. The rate of license for carrying on the pursuits, trade, occupation, avocation, employ went, business or calling specified' III tbls ordinance shall be as fol -i lows: SECTION 7. The rate of license ,for conducting, managing or car -j tying on the business of a bath' house where suits are rented or: rooms are rented for the changing; Of clothes, shall be $12.00 per an- num. > SECTIONS. The rate of license' for every artist, agent or canvas- aser, soliciting, painting, retouching, or furnishing pictures of every de -! scription, where Ao Other rate is fixed by this ordinance, and for every book agent, or canvasser, Ii1 i shall be and the same is hereby fixed at $3.00 per day. I' SECTION 9. The rate of license for conducting, managing or car- , : rying on a billiard, bagatelle or S 'Pool table, except such as are used in private homes, $3.00 per annum, o per table, and there shall be no extra license charged for engaging In the business of soft drinks, i'; candies, cigars and tobaccos, is connection with said business However, such annual license shall not, in any case, be less- than 1, $12.00 per annum. The Clerk of the City of New- . port each shall make a list of I each such table mentioned, stand - 1 ing in the place of business where the same is maintained, and charge a license whether said table is used 3 or not. SECTION 10. The rate of 11- ,i tense for conducting, managing or s carrying on a bowling- alley, $15.00 per annum, for each alley, Whether the same De used or not, rand for carrying on the business of a boxball game or alley, $3.00 ;.� per annum for each such alley . in such game, whether the same be d, used or not, and in connection with said business and as a part there - k' of, soft drinks, candies, cigars and tobacco may be sold without the payment oY further or additional 3' licenses. v r r h rp SECTION 11. The rate of ]I- Sense for carrying on the busless Of selling broad from a wagon or other vehicle, whether the bread be baked in the City of Newport Beach, or not, for each such wa- gon or Vehicle used in such busi- ness, the sum of $10.00 per annum. SECTION 12. The rate of li- cense for every circus or menag- erie exhibited within the City of Newport Beach, the sum of $100.06 Per day, and for every sideshow connection therewith the sum of $50.00 per day, if a separate ad- mission fee is charged to such sideshows. SECTION 13. The rate of li- cense for every show, concert, theater or similar entertainment conducted or presented within the City. of Newport Beach,_ $24.00 joer annum, provided that when the proceeds of any such show, con- cert, theater or similar enter' m- ment are to be devoted to char- ity or some educational purposes, the City Council may authorize such exhibition without the pay- ment of a license fee, and a license for any such show, concert, the -, ater or similar entertainment shall. be issued only upon permit from the City Council. SECTION 14. The rate of li- cense for carrying passengers in aeroplanes is hereby fixed at $25.00 per annum. SECTION 15. The rate of li- cense for conducting the business of checking room or station, which shall be defined to mean a place at which baggage, parcels, valu- ables or clothing are checked for .hire, shall be $10.00 per annum. SECTION 16. The rate of li- cense for conducting the business of card writing, $10.00 per annum.' SECTION 17. The rate of li- cense for maintaining a card table . at which cards are played in con - nection with any other business, 1$5.00 per annum for each such card table. SECTION 18. The rate of li- cense for conducting, managing or carrying on the business of a pub- lic dance hall or public ballroom or dancing academy which is defined to be a place where dancing is taught for consideration„ shall be $40.00 per annum. i SECTION 19. The rate of li- cense for conducting or carrying' on the business of auto wrecking or maintaining a place at which, automobiles are wrecked, shall be $150.00 per annum. SECTION 20. The rate of li- cense for operating or running any cart, dray, wagon, truck or vehicle for the delivery of freight or goods for hire, or the delivery or rock, i sand, gravel or dirt, or any other material, for hire, for each cart, dray, wagon or vehicle, $10.00 per annum. SECTION 21. The rate of li- cense for carrying on the busi- ness of a hotel, lodging house or apartment. :souse, shall be as fol- lows: Six rooms or units, and not more than twelve rooms or units, $6.00 per annum. More than twelve rooms or units, $12.00 per annum. In this connection, those owning or renting out less than six rooms or units, shall not be required to pay any license. Every hotel, lodging house or apartment house wherein rooms are rented to the general public, shall keep and maintain a register in the office thereof, wherein each lodger therein she ! be required to set forth his name and permanent place of address before being per- mitted to occupy any such room. The rate of license for keeping and maintaining cottages for rent, shall be as follows: Six cottages, W.; -' not more than twelYe b}ges, $6.00 per annum. More than twelve cottages, $12.00 per annum. In this connection, those owning and renting less than six cottages, shall not be required to pay any li- sense. SECTION 22. The rate of li- cense for the operation of a laun- dry is hereby fixed at $100.00 per annum, and the rate of license for operating laundry wagons which shall be construed to be a vehicle operated, run or driven from house to house, or to business places, ho- tels, restaurants, lodging houses or i apartment houses, within the City of Newport Beach, for collecting and receiving clothes, table or bed linen, and other articles to be washed and returned, and unless such wagons are operated in con- nection with a laundry which has paid the above license tax, then the license for each laundry run. Ding or operating wagons in said city, shall be $100.00 per annum. SECTION 23. Contractors shall be either a general or a subcon- tractor. A general contractor shall be construed to be a person, nat- ural or artificial, who enters into contracts to construct or repair buildings or structures of any kind ' in the City of Newport Beach, for a contract price or for a percent- age of its cost, where the value of any such structure when complet- ed or the contract price thereof shall be $50.00 or more. And, for the purpose of this section, every person, co-partnership, firm or corporation . who shall commence the erection or construction of any building or structure or shall re- pair in any manner any building or structure in the City of Newport Beach, shall be deemed a contrac- tor as herein defined and shall be liable to pay the license herein -i after provided for, providing that the contract price or the value of said structure or building when completed shall be more than $50.00, unless the owner of said building or structure, or the own- r er of the land on which such build ing or structure is being erected, constructed or repaired, shall first make a sworn statement that they are erecting, constructing or re- pairing such building or structure k as the owner thereof, and that they have not entered into a contract ` ,either verbal or written, with any (contractor or subcontractor, or any person whatsoever, to erect or construct or repair said building or structure, and that said building or structure is being erected or con- structed or repaired by day labor at a stipulated wage (said wage to be specified in said statement) and further that they are making such representations in order that said person will not have to pay the li- cense fees herein provided for and that each of said representations 4 are true. The rate of license for a general contractor shall be $25.00 Der an- num, except plumbing contractors shall pay $100.00 per annum. A subcontractor shall be con- strued to be a person, natural or artificial, who shall enter into con- j tract with a general .contractor, to construct or repair any portion of a building or structure, when the contract price thereof shall be $50.00 or more, and for the pur- pose of this section, any person, co- partnership, firm or corpora - tion who shall commence the erec- tion, construction or repair of any! portion of a building or structure, I when the value of said erection,' construction or repair shall be $50.00 or more, shall be deemed a subcontractor, as herein defined and shall be liable to pay the li -_ ?cense herein provided for anleafl: he owner of said building or struc- :ure or the owner of the land upon which such building or structure is being erected, constructed or re- paired shall first make a sworn statement that they are erecting, constructing or repairing a portion) of such building or structure as the owner thereof and that they have not entered into a contract either verbal or written, with any con- tractor or subcontractor, or any person whatsoever, to erect, con- struct or repair any portion of said building or structure and that a portion of said building or struc- ture is being erected, constructed or repaired by day labor at a stip- ulated wage, (said wage to be specified in said statement), and further that they are making such .representations in order that said person, firm or corporation will not have to pay the license fees herein provided for and that each' of said representations are true. The rate of license per annum for any subcontractor shall be as fol- lows, to -wit: For plumbing contractor ....$100.00 For roofing contractor ...... 25.00 For electrical contractor .... 25.00 For painting contractor .... . 25.00 Foe plastering contractor.... 25.00 For cement contractor ........ 25.00 For brick contractor .......... 25.00 For tile and composition contractor ......... ___... .... _ 25.00 For sheet metal contractor 25.00 For hardwood floor finishers and layers --- _------- -------------- 25.00 For carpenter labor con- tractor ........- .................... 25.00 For plate glass setters ...... 25.001 For all other subcontrac- tors of any other trade or craft .... .....- ...... ... ------------- ... -25.00 SECTION 24. A license for the possession and permitting the pub - lic to play at a punch board is hereby fixed at $20.00 per annum for each such punch board, wheth- er the same be maintained in con- nection with any other business or not. SECTION 25. The rate of li- cense for conducting the business; of a parking place or station, ands which is defined to be a plaCe or :I station at which automobiles are received for the purpose of being parked, for hire, shall be $10.00 per annum, provided, however, such parking place or station shall not be on two distinct parcels of land, and for each such distinct parcel, a license of $10.00 per an- num shall be paid. SECTION 26. The rate of li- cense for conducting the business of a barber shop where but one chair is used, $8.00 per annum, and for each additional chair used,', 1$8.60 per annum. If a manicurist is employed in colinection with said barber, shop, an additional license of $2.00 per annum. SECTION 27. Every wagon, or l vehicle liable. for the payment of a license under the Provisions of this Ordinance shall have a number printed or painted thereon or i attached thereto in some con - i spicuous place in plain arabic figures of not less than one inch in length, and of a proportionate' width, and of such color as to be readily distinguished, which num- ber shall be designated by the Chief of Police who shall keep a '.record thereof. SECTION 28. The rate of li- cense for conducting the business of a feed stable, horse or automo- bile livery or stable, for each such feed or livery stable, $2.00 per month, or where the same is paid annually in advance, $15.00 per annum. SECTION 29. The rate of li- en shall be construed to mean a Cense for carrying on the practice) stand or kitchen at which pre- or profession of astrology, palmis- l pared food is sold or food is cooked try, phrenology, fortune telling, for immediate sale, and the lunch life reading, catomancy, clairvoy- stand or street kitchen is portable ante, crystal gazing, hypnotism, and so constructed that it can be mediumship, prophecy, augury, di- moved from place to place. vination, magic, or necromancy, SECTION 41. Where music or where a fee is charged and receiv- other entertainment is furnished in ed for the practice or exhibition of a cafe or restaurant the rate of li- any such practices, $10.00 per day. tense shall be $25.00 per annum. SECTION 30. The rate of li- SECTION 42. The rate of li- cense for conducting or carrying I tense for conducting the business on the business or a merry-g,. I of buying, selling, leasing or rent- round, circular swing, scenic rail- Ing or in any way dealing in real .road, Perris wheel, aeroplane glide, I estate or real property as the bro- swing or other similar device or, ker or agent of another, where dodgem, or anything of a similar commissions are charged, or re- nature, $10.00 per month. j ceived, together with agents and I SECTION 31. The rate of li- brokers soliciting, selling or deal- Canes for running or operating a - ing in fire, accident and life insur- mllk wagon or vehicle shall be ante of every nature, and kind. $10.00 per annum for each such shall be $15.00 per annum. SECTI The rate' o - tense for all street exhibitions shat be $10.00 per Gay and no license) shall be granted except by special I permit of the City Council. SECTION 51. The rate of li- cense for conducting the business of a dry cleaning or clothes press- ing establishment which shall be' construed to be a place where clothes are cleaned, renovated orl pressed, shall be $50.00 per annum, I and any laundry wagon that col -� lects or receives clothes to DC cleaned, renovated or pressed, shall'. be $50.00 per annum, and any laundry wagon that collects or re- ceives clothes to be cleaned, reno- voted or pressed shall in addition to the license herinbefore imposed') upon any such laundry wagon, pay an additional license of $50.00 per'. wagon or vehicle. SECTION 43. No license shall annum. SECTION 52. The rate of li- SECTION 32. The rate of li- be granted for engaging in the cense for conducting a fish mar - cense for carrying on the business of a pawnbroker, or business of selling tamales, sand - � wlchea, ice cream, heaps, I ket shall be $10.00 per annum. i conducting a; peanuts, SECTION 53. The rate of li- pawnbroker's shop, shall be candies or other edibles of any de- tense for conducting the business $120.00 per annum. I scription from wagons, handcarts, of smoking fish shall be $10.00 per! SECTION 33. The rate of li- trays or baskets upon the public annum and the rate of license for cense for carrying on an auctlon� streets, or vending of any kind. conducting the business of salting, house or selling goods, wares or SECTION 44. No license shall pickling, preserving or canning merchandise at auction shall be be granted for engaging in the fish or their by- products shall be $5.00 per day. business of selling on the public $100.00 per annum. SECTION 34. The rate of 11-1 streets or public places fire crack- person engaged In any such busi- cense for selling or contracting to ers, torpedoes or fire works of any SECTION 54. No license shall shall sell articles of wearing apparel, kind, flags, banners, balloons, be anted except upon permit p p drygoods, fancy goods, notions, I canes, horns, trumpets, music or the City Council for the conduct - jewelry_ cutlery, groceries hgr- noise making instruments of any ing of a fish market or of a place ness, pianos,. organs, machinery of kind, toys, badges, buttons or at which fish is smoked, salted, all kinds, hardware, tinware, mill souvenirs of any kind. pickled or otherwise treated. products or any merchandise of SECTION 45. The rate of li -' SECTION 55. T of li- he rate whatsoever class or character from cense for engaging in, conducting cense for conducting ,the business house to house or upon the public or carrying on the business of of selling new or used automoblles ,streets and not to persons regu- shooting gallery, $10.00 per an- shall be $25.00 per annum. larly engaged in carrying on a num. SECTION 56. The rate of li- business in the City of Newport SECTION 46. The rate of li- cense for conducting the business Beach, for the wholesale or retail cense for conducting a skating of publishing, circulating and dis -j of the above mentioned articles of rink shall be $25.00 per annum. tributing by carrier or otherwise, personal property, and at their re- SECTION 47. The rate of li- a newspaper in said city, or con- . spective places of business, $2.50 cense for carrying on or conduct- ducting a printing shop, shall be per day, or where the license is ing the business of a telephone ex- $15.00 per mourn. aid in advance, $12.00 per week. p p thane 10.00 change, $ per annum, unless SECTION 57. The rate of li- SECTION 35. The rate of li- cense for every solicitor, peddler, or huckster of every class and character, excepting drummers who deal directly with established places of business in the City of Newport Beach, $10.00 per day, and every such person shall, be- fore engaging in the business of soliciting, peddling or hawking iwares mentioned in this section, procure from the Chief of Police a number which shall be displayed in a conspicuous place upon the wagon, vehicle, cart, basket or other receptacle used for the con- veyance of goods, wares and mer- chandise to be sold or peddled in the City of Newport Beach. SECTION 36. Tho rate of li- cense for carrying on the business of a peddling machine and using music or other device for attract- ing crowds, .$100.00 per quarter. SECTION 37. The rate of li- cense for conducting a photograph gallery, shall be $10.00 per annum. SECTION 38. The rate of li- cense for conducting the business of a planing mill or lumber yard and building supplies shall be $15.00 per annum, provided, how- ever, if the two businesses shall be conducted together then the li- cense fee shall be $20.00 per an- num. SECTION 39. The rate of li- cense for conducting the business of a restaurant, cafe, lunch coun- ter, cafeteria, shall be $12.00 per annum. SECTION 40. The rate of li- cense for a lunch stand or street kitchen is hereby fixed at $2.00 per day, provided that no lunch stand or street kitchen shall receive a license except upon permit of the City Council, and In this connec- tion a lunch stand or street kitch- operated under a franchise, cense for maintaining a captive SECTION 48. The rate of H. balloon for carrying passengers for cense for maintaining n g y hire shall be $25.00 per annum. - vance or device at which the pub -i e pub- SECTION 58. The rate of li -) lic is invited or permitted to throw cense for managing or carrying on rings or balls, or other objects at the business of selling or distrib- I knives, whips, dolls, or other things uting ice cream at wholesale shall . for a prize, $35.00 per annum. be $10.00 per annum. SECTION 49. For every game SECTION 59. The rate of li. played in the City of Newport cense for conducting, managing or Beach, unless a license therefor is carrying on the business of post - otherwise provided by some section ing' sticking,. tacking, affixing or of this Ordinance, and where a 1 painting bills or signs to or upon prize, souvenir, or other object of I. posts, fences, buildings or other value is won, given or awarded to a structures excepting bill boards or player, if but one person is able I advertising sign boards, the rate to play at a time at any such of license shall be $1.00 per day per game, the rate of license for each person engaged In any such busi- game is hereby fixed at $25.00 per I ness, provided, that if the license 1 annum. Provided that for each ad- I shall be paid monthly in advance, fditional unit of or to any such then the rate of license shall be I game if operated, maintained and 810.00 per month, conducted by or under the same SECTION 60. The rate of li. management and within the same cense for the operation of a motor building, then for each such addi- or other vehicle for the purpose of. tional unit the sum of $10.00, it sharpening and grinding knives, being the intention of this section to license the first unit of any one axes, scissors or other cutlery, $1.00 per annum for each such ve- game at $25.00 per annum, and I hicle. each additional unit at $10.00 per, SECTION 61. The rate of li- annum. cense for operating or maintaining For all games of skill played in I a blacksmith or machine shop, the City of Newport Beach where where the same is not used in con -I a prize, souvenir or other object nection with a garage, $10.00 per or thing or value is given, won or annum. awarded to any player, where I SECTION 62. The rate of li- more than one person is able to cense for the businese of junk col. play at a time at any such game,. lector, junk dealer or maintaining the annual rate of license shall be : a junk yard, $50.00 per annum. $50.00. The licensing of any one SECTION 63. The rate of li. game shall not be construed as the cense for conducting the business licensing of any other or different of refining, reducing or distilling game, and every game shall be 1 petroleum, shale oil, tar or any deemed a different game and not; other hydro - carbon substaces, shall an additional unit of the same be $100.00 per annum, for each game if it shall be, differently op -, such refinery or distillery, and no erated, or shall utilize a different license shall be granted for the method or device, or in part a -dif- conduct of such business except ferent method or device. upon permit of the City Council. SECTION 64. The rate of li- SECTION 75. The business of business, trade, calling or occupa- tion be or L construed to be cense for engaging in the business conducting a carnival in the City can licensed, under two sections, and of drilling for oil, petroleum, tar, '., on any occasion, the license tax be $100.00 day. in such sections a different rate shale oil, $100.00 per annum, for each such well, being drilled or in shall per Said carnival shall cover all of license is Imposed, then the beI the course of drilling, and no li- manner of shows, exhibitions or highest rate of license shall deemed to be the license fixed for cense shall he granted to engage entertainment, together with all such trade, business, calling, or fI in such business except upon per- sales, stands or eating stands or mit of the City Council. places and peddling of novelties or occupation'. k SECTION 82. If any section,' SECTION 65. The rate of li -, notions for any activity or profit sub - section, sentence( clause, or' cense for engaging in the business growing out of such carnival show. phrase of this ordinance is here- of producing or obtaining oil, gas, Written application must be made I after for any reason held to be un- :' tar or other hydro- carbon sub -III to the City Council for such li- constitutional or un- enforceable, stances from the earth, for each I, well $100.00 annum, and no li- II cense and the City Council under Its police powers, reserves the such decision shall not affect the per cense shall be granted for the en -•' right to reject any such applies -', validity of the remaining portions gaging in said business except tion, and shall further have the of this ordinance. The City Council- upon permit of the City Council. right to inquire what shows, ex- I of the City of Newport Beach here - SECTION 66. The rate of li- hlbitions or entertainments are by declares that it would have cense for conducting or maintain - proper, and its action in all re- passed this ordinance, and each mg a shoe shine or boot black 'I spects shall he final and conclu- section, sentence, clause or phrase, stand, $5.00 per annum. sive. hereof, irrespective of the fact. SECTION 67. The rate of li- SECTION 76. Every person, that any one or more other sec - cense for maintaining a beauty, firm or corporation carrying on a I tions, sub - sections, sentences, clauses, or be declared un- parlor shall be $10.00 per annum. ! wholesale business in said City phrases i constitutional or un- enforceable. SECTION 68. For every person shall pay an annual license tax of SECTION 83. The rate of li -! conducting, managing or carrying $25.00. on the business or engaged in any SECTION 77. Every person, cense for carrying on or engag- ing in the business or renting row" business hereinafter enumerated, 'shall firm or corporation who shall en- boats, canoes or out hoard motor` a a license of 12.00 pay $ per gage r the business contract - hoary for hire, either as owner or'� annum. Architect in mg grading or laying streets, sidewalks, drains or sewers in said operator, or as the agent, servant. Assayer City shall pay an annual license or employee of another, shall be Attorney at Law tax of $100.00. $15.00 per annum. SECTION 84. The rate of li- Auditor SECTION 78. The conducting cense for conducting, managing or' Accountant and carrying on of wholesale or carrying on, or engaging in the Chemist retail establishments, stores, or business of leasing or hiring char - Chiropodist .. places of business of every kind ter boats for rod or reel fishing, Civil, Electrical, Chemical or 1 and description not otherwise pro- either as owner or operator, or as Mechanical Engineer Chiropractor vided for in this Ordinance, where for the agent, servant or employee of articles or personal property loaned, � another, shall be $15.00 per an- Dentist use or consumption are num. Optometrist rented, let, served or sold as a SECTION 85. The rate of It- Occulist It, shall be known and des- cense for carrying on or managing Optician tgnaled as a general business, and or engaging in the business of Osteopath or Osterpathist the license for conducting the samei leasing, renting or the hiring of Physician shall he designated a general busi- boats to others, for taxi service,. Surgeon Sign Painter ness license; provided, however, that where a general business n- I either as owner or operator, or as Veterinary . cense is granted, the holder there - the agent, servant or employee of and each person carrying on or of shall not have the right to con- another, shall be $25.00 per an- engaged in the business of treat- duct a restaurant in connection num. ing, curing, administering to or � with or as a part of such general SECTION 86. The rate of li -- giving treatments to the sick, � business, withour procuring the cense for carrying on or engag- - wounded or infirm for the purpose restaurant license provided for in ing in the business of receiving of bringing about their recovery, this Ordinance, and providing fur- and transporting. persons within_ by any method or pursuant to any ther, that where a general busi- the City of Newport Beach, In belief, doctrine, or system other ness license is issued and the busi- boats or other water craft, for the than those hereinabove specifically ness conducted thereunder consists purpose of affording such persons named, and charging a fee or com- in the selling of fruits, confection - an opportunity of viewing places pensation therefor, the sum of cry, groceries, drygoods, hardware of interest in and about the City of .$12.00 per annum. and other articles of general met- Newport Beach, for recreation, at SECTION 69. Every person, 1', chandise or the loaning or the I a consideration, either as owner or firm or corporation engaged in renting of fishing tackle, or other' operator, or as the agent, servant the business of buying or selling j articles of personal property the or employee of another, shall be trees, plants or shrubbery in said holder of the general business li- $25.00 per annum. City, pay an annual license �� cense to so conduct such general SECTION 87. The rate of 11- Y, cense for managing or carrying on, tax of $12.00. � business shall not have the right to conduct in connection therewith or engaging m the business of re- SECTION 70. Every person, ceivin and transporting persons firm or corporation who shall en- o restaurant or lunch counter with- g gage in the business of searching out procuring the restaurant li- within the City io Newport Beach, g for a consideration, in speed boats, public records in said City hall cense provided for in this holder shall be $25.00 per annum. pay an annual license tax of $12.00. nance; provided, that the holder of any general business license who SECTION 88. The rate of li- SECTION 71. Every person, shall in connection therewith en- cense for engaging in the business firm or corporation who shall gage in any other trade, business, of operating a live halt boat in the conduct a veterinary hospital in calling or occupation for which a City of Newport Beach, whether said City shall pay an annual li- license is imposed by this Ordi- the same be operated from the cense tax of $25.00. nance, then he shall pay the addi- wharfs extending from the main - SECTION 72. For every person ti license required by this land into the waters of the Pa- firm or corporation who shall en- Orrdindin ance. cific Ocean, or within Newport gage in the automobile garage SECTION 79. Every person, BaY, shall he $50.00 per annum, business, the annual license tax firm or corporation not specifical- and in this connection a live bait shall be $25.00. boat, for the purpose of this or- Automobile ara a is hereb de- ly mentioned to this Ordinance, g g Y conducting, managing or carrying dinance, shall be deemed held and fined as and declared to be a place on the business of running, driving construed to mean a floating where automobiles are sold, stored or operating any automobile, au- structure that receives and trans or cared for, cleaned or repaired, tomobile truck, automobile tank ports persons in the City of New- 1 and where the necessary m'achin- wagon or any other motor vehicle port Beach, for the purpose of af- ery is. kept for the purpose of ere used for the transportation of hag - fording such persons an opportun- pairing automobiles and where gage freight, household goods, I ity of fishing from such structures, automobile accessories, gasoline, merchandise, lumber, brick. ce- m the waters of the Pacific Ocean, oils and supplies are kept and ment, oil, rock, or gravel, shall for recreation, at a consideration, sold. pay an annual license tax of $10.00 with live bait, and which boat car-, SECTION 73. For the business for each such motor vehicle. ties a live bait tank and pump, bat of conducting or operating a. can- SECTION 81. For every bust- such live bait boat shall not in- ning or preserving plant, the li- ness, trade, calling, occupation, elude charter boats as hereinafter cense tax shall be $50.00 per an- art, or profession not licensed by defined. mmn• some section of this Ordinance, the SECTION 89. The rate of li- SECTION 74. For every person, rate of license for carrying on the cense for carrying on or engag - firm or corporation operating or same shall be $12.00 per annum, ing in the business of renting or conducting a dairy, the license tax and where in this Ordinance any 1 hiring boats to charter parties shall be $25.00 per annum. shall be $15.00 per annum, and in 11 SECTION 93. The rate of li- I c this connection for the purpose of 11 tense for conducting a penny ar- Its this Ordinance, 8 charter party) cade a$ that term is hereinafter' shall be construed to mean and. defined, shall be $2.00 per annual shall mean any person or persons for each instrument installed, at- s who shall, for a consideration, hire tached or operated in said Penny 'P fishing boat or other vessel for Arcade, and the term "Penny Ar- j • designated sum of money, for a cade" as used in this ordinance is 1 designated purpose and for a des- intended to mean and shall mean ignated time. the business of running a penny; SECTION 90. The rate of li- arcade or a place of amusement cense for engaging in or carrying where coins, disks, slugs, balls or on the business of a fishing barge, other representatives of value are as that term is hereinafter de- used, dropped or placed in any mu- fined, shall be $100.00 per annum, sic box, phonograph, picture ma- and in this connection, for the chine or other device or apparatus, purpose of this ordinance, a fishing used for the purpose of entertain - L barge shall be deemed held and meat, postcards, fortune cards, or p construed to mean a floating strut- tests of skill or strength, and it is ture anchored in the waters of the further provided in this connection Pacific Ocean, within the exterior that those conducting a penny ar. boundaries of the City of Newport cade business as that term is de- Beach, for the purpose of receiving fined in this section, shall not be persons on board thereof, for a required to pay the license provid- consideration. ed, for by Section 92 of this ordi- SECTION 91. The rate of li- mace. cease for conducting or carrying SECTION 94. Any person, firm on the business- of fishing barge or corporation conducting more ferries, as that. term is herein- than one business in the same store after defined, shall be $25.00 per. room, shall not be required to pay annum, for each Goat, and in this; more than one license tax, provid- connection, for the purpose of this ed, however, such additional busi- ordinance, a fishing barge ferry ness so conducted by h'nn shall be shall be deemed, held and con- I one that is ordinarily and custo- strued to mesa a floating strut- marily conducted in connection ture that receives and transports with such other business, and pro - persons to and from the mainland vided further, that those conduct - of dock of the City of Newport) ing different kinds of games under Beach, to and from fishing barges one business shall pay for each dif- anchored in the waters of the Pa ferent game so conducted. cific Ocean. SECTION 95. If the licenses in SECTION 92. The rate of li- this ordinance provided for shall cense for conducting or carrying not be paid on or before the 15th on the business of vending ma- day of the month following the chines shall be as follows: For date when they shall become due, vending machines operating by the then a penalty of 25 % of the li- placing therein of a coin, disk, cense tax due and payable shall be slug, ball or other objects repre- added thereto, and no license shall seating a value not to exceed one I be issued until such penalty shall cent (lc), $2.00 per annum for have been paid, and in addition each machine. For all other vend- thereto, such delinquent shall be ing machines attached, used, in liable for prosecution and the pea - stalled, erected and operated with - ally herein provided, for failure to In the City of Newport Beach, i pay his license provided for in this $20.00 per annum for each ma- ordinance. chine. In this connection, the words SECTION 96. This ordinance "vending machine" shall mean and shall never be held or construed as embrace any mechanical contri- vance, licensing or permitting the carry - apparatus, or machine lag on of any unlawful trade, call - which, by the operation thereof, releases or discharges any article ing' occupation or game and every of merchandise to or for the bene- such trade, calling, occupation or fit and or use of the person oper- game is prohibited and no license S be granted or issued there - ating the same, and which is op- 'for. erated by the placing therein of• any coin, disk, slug, ball or other SECTION 97. Any conviction of object any holder of any license herein SECTION 92 -a. The rate of li- mentioned for breach of this ordi- cease for the operation or conduct- nance or of any conviction of any ing of as ice manufacturing plant such person, firm or corporation is hereby fixed at $100.00 per an- for failing to conduct the business num, and the rate of license for so licensed in accordance with the operating ice wagons, which are ordinances of the City of Newport hereby construed to be vehicles op- Beach, or statutes of the State of erated, run or driven from house California, shall ipso facto work a to house, or to business places, ho- forfeiture and cancellation of such tels, restaurants, lodging houses or, license and the same shall not be re- issued without a new a lica- apartment houses, within the City pP of Newport Beach, for the purpose tion being made therefor as pro- of selling or delivering ice, shall vided for herein. be $100.00 per annum, for each. SECTION 98. Ordinances Nos. ' person, firm or corporation con 340, 358, 301 and all other ordi- ducting or carrying on the business nances in conflict with this ordi- of selling or delivering ice within'- nance, are hereby repealed. the said City of Newport Beach SECTION 99. In no case shall by means of ice wagons, unless; any mistake made by the City however, such ice wagons are op- Clerk or Chief of Police in stating erated in connection with an ice the amount of a license prevent or prejudice the collection for the manufacturing business which has City of what shall be actually due already paid the annual license of $100.00. from any one carrying on a trade, ailing, - profession of occupati* object to a license under this or- nance. SECTION 100. This ordinance hall be published once in NEW- PORT NEWS, a newspaper of gen- eral circulation, printed, and pub - ished and circulated in the City of Newport Beach, and this Ordi- nance shall take effect and be is force from and after the 1st day of July, 1931. The above and foregoing Ordi -, Hance No. 393 was passed at a, regular meeting of the City Coun cil of the City of Newport Beach, held on the let day of June, 1931, by the following vote, to -wit: AYES, COUNCILMEN: Hil_mer, Claire, Ellsworth, Garfield and Johnson. NOES, COUNCILMEN: None. ABSENT, COUNCILMEN: None. The above and foregoing Ordi- nance No. 393, is approved and signed by me this 1st day of June, 1931. MARCUS J. JOHNSON, Mayor of the City of Newport Beach ATTEST: ALFRED SMITH, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach. I-c I, Alfred Smith, Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 393 is a true and correct copy of an Ordinance passed by the City Council at a, regular meeting held on the 1st day of June, 1931, and that same was printed and published according to law. ^ A & Q Q_ City//Clerk of Newport Beach.