Fort Walton Beach Ordinance — 82 - Amend Business License — reading text

214 / \/ ORDINANCE NO. 82 AN ORDINANCE TO BE ENTITLED _ AN ORDINANCE requiring the payment of license, excise and privilege | fees and taxes for the right and privilege to engage in or manage a business, profession or occupation, or to exercise certain privileges in the Town of Fort Walton, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1950, and thereafter; designating the methods of computing of certain of said licenses and fixing the amounts of others of said licenses; and requiring the display of the said licenses upon the issuance of same; and to provide penalties for the violation of this Ordinance, and to provide for the collection of all such licenses,excise and privilege fees and taxes. THE TOWN OF FORT WALTON DOES ORDAIN: SECTION 1. That all schedules and all ordinances designating schedules for the payment of license, excise and privilege taxes heretofore in force and effect in the Town of Fort Walton be and the same are hereby repealed, except Ordinance #77. SECTION 2. That effective August 2, 1950, no person, firm or corporation shall engage in or manage the business or occupational or profession, or exercise any privilege, mentioned and designated in this ordinance, unless a town license, excise and privilege taxes set opposite the said designation of business, profession, occupation or privilege as set forth in this Ordinance as follows: - Accountants, Bookkeepers or Auditors--------nnan-e-n eee ne $25.00 Agents for dealers in adding machines or cash registerse-=-- 25,00 Attorneys at LaWenn-en enn n-ne ee ee ee ee ee eee 25200 Automobile dealers for new and/or used Automobiles------ == 125,00 Automobile Parking Lots----+---~~-~ 22 een ene eee een 15.00 Automobile garages and repair business~-féAusomebste}--~----~- 50.00 Automohiles for hire, other than taxis, for husiness-each oa 5 -~ 15.00 Advertising signs, electrical or mechanical, billboards or other structures, advertising other than property and business «= for each sign--~-+-.~------.--. 22 -- ee 25.400 Advertising Solicitors not otherwise covered---~---a------ 50.00 Agency, real estate brokers and dealers---~-~~-.---------. 2500 Ageney, rental or collecting.-~------~--~ nee eee eee 25200 Amusement parks and like places where entertainments and exhibitions are fivenq----snne nnn enw eee 22 0 to oo ee me we -- 100,00 Awning , Sales and/or erection-~-~~-~----~-------.-- eee 50.00 Bakeries, local or out of town soliciting and supplying local requirements ---~--~-- enn eee en ee ee eee eee 25200 Barber shops - for each chair whether operated or note---= 7,50 Beauty Shops - for each Operator---~--~---------- enn ee ~ 7.50 Bicycle Shops = bicycle supplies, renting or repairing---~ 15.00 Billiard and Pool Tables, hept and set up for other than private use, whether operated or not -first table---- 25,00 For each additional table-Electric or Manual--------- . 10,00 ’ Black Jack Tables or "Beat-Mi-Shake" Games ~- operated . outside of Licensed Cluh RoomSa~wanannanen wee emo 100,00 ' Bowling, Box Alleys or Shuffle Alley-Electric or Manual--- 15.00 ‘Boat Rentals-------~--+~-~~~-.--- en mF ot ano oe nos oe - 10,00 RBoot-Black Stands, alone or in connection with Rarter Shops- for each chair or seatq---~-----~-n anne --- 3,00 Boot and Shoe Maker wud Repalrers<ow-eeeemn nnn | eee et oe te Building Supplies-not sold in connection with Hardware stores-~ Candy ShopSa--- 22 en enn er ee re re mea ne et ere carom Carpenter Shops & other wood-workers, employing one or more-=<--=~ Cememt Products-Manufacturing Companies----- acne enn neem ene Cement Product Sales and/or Deliveries ----- eee ee eee wee es Cigar, Cigarettes and Tobacco - Retail alone or in connection with any husiness-----+--~ fa a ee oe ne err wr te a 8 ee Clairvoyants, Fortune Tellers, mind readers, mediums, Astrologists or PhronologiStSanenn ener e mee ween ee ene ~— Casinos and Club Rooms, where card sames or other games are played, carried on, or operated ~ per year -- Coin Machines, electrically or manually operated, excluding Pin hall and Cigarette machineS — POL YCA Tee sreas eins meme mae ee arenes mmm Cold Storage or Quick FreeZing wawwn enn eee emer ewe een t Dairies or persons peddling, selling or delivering to customers, milk, cream or dairy products or ice cream, For each person or Vehicle---------e nnn enw enn ea en a os ro ne Dentists - where local office is maintainede-----n---- n-ne en Dentists ~ Transient - per WeCKe meme nnn nn neem em meee ne sm en DOCTCOLS me emt me me mee et ee me ee ero a ee eh et Drug Stores - where prescriptions are prepared, mixed or COTO TALIS, © Cm mc we ce ee ee ce ee ee ee ee ee eo ee no mn a a Dry Cleaning, Pressing & Dying-each person, firm, association, corporation or agent therefor-including Alterations ELTLG LPT LT me we me a mn i en et mr a et me ceo eo os Cleaning ALONG nnn nn en He ew en ee en ee me ee em DY DIV DL OV ea we we mee mt me ea ae a ot te a te et te tt at tC a tm For each agency, pick=up or distributing pointe een eee Where Central or main plant is located out of Town, where soliciting is made, clothes picked up and delivered or for Storage =~ including dying & cleaning-~------nn nee eee eee ee Electric Light Companies or persons, firms or corporations furnishing light of poWePew---- mene eee eee etetetetater teteteta ELECtrical COntPactO Paw mace cece me on me ee ee ee ee ae ean oe Bleetric Phonographs Of MUSIC BOK Satu one cn em ee ce men cece on ne ee cere nec ce me nace cee FCA And Ged Ste gamma wi nn ve teste cee cee ne oe ne re we oe to vat ne ee cn i tnt 088 Film or Photograph-developing or finishing --------.-n--en- ne Finance and Loan Companies and Pawn Shops---------8« mtn eee Fish Dealers, wholesdle and/or Lretaj lawman ewn ween ene ene TEL OLS Com or et cee mae tw a te ee a a ts fn a A a en Floor finishing and/or Sandinge------------ nnn ene eee eee Asphalt,tile,ceramic, terrazo & quarry tile floor contr.-- Fumigators and Exterminatorgenn-- nena nw ee ee eee General Contractor S-n-- 2H ener ee en en eee en Gas Companies-Dealers inor distri*utors of Liquefied Petroleum gases, Butane,Propane and similar productSa-ew--n enw nen ne Gasoline, Filling and/or Service Stations For business and one pump~=----- 250 Eat 8 Hk mM 2 om For each pump used if CXceSS Of ON eam msm merece mse me cece teen te ae me eee re om - For Mdse. sold in connection, not otherwise specified~ Stock under $1,000.00 ma meme sem snne neem ma Stock Over $1,000. 00 n-ne een me ee Hotels, Rooming houses, tourist camps-cahins & rental houses; Per Room = except hath rooms & closet Sarwan w meee eee Minimum of $5.00 and Maximum of $100.00- anwbt warned wana Ziv 15.00 50.00 25400 25-00 25.200 25200 150.00 300, 00 100.00 25200 10.00 25200 5200 25400 15.00 3750 12.50 12.50 25200 037050 250600 25,00 25.00 25400 2500 100.00 25400 2500 2500 256 00 2500 100,00 75000 35400 5200 5200 10,00 07D ALO For Resturant, “@, wine and bber, coin m ines ~extra licenses as provided for with respect to each, Ice House or Ice Manufacturings+--- = oe ca et oa et ew nw ow ee ae an et ~ 325-200 Itinerant dealers in or Peddlers of “goods, wares and merchan- ' d@ise of any kind, not including Livestockeewna--j---~-—~ Satetes 25.00 Junk Shops and Dealers in old iron, rags, etc.----------------- 50.00 Life Insurance Companies and Agents------~--+-+-+-+-+--------~--- 25.00 Automobile Liability, Fire, Tornado, and/or all kindred lines - agents or sOLicitorsew--- nnn e nen ene ewe eee 10.00% plus-for each company represented 10.00 Land and Development Companies-~~---~---------~---- == meee - 50.00 Laundries - Steam or other power based on total amount of investment in plant,property,machinery,or other equipment, hased on, and as detlared in previous years income tax return(Undepreciated value)- Under $10,000, 00---~-~~-~.---» ” 37450 $10,000.00 to $20,000, 00----—= 75200 $20,000.00 and over--~-------= 100,00 For each agency, picup or distributing point------~------ 25.00 Home Laundry operated on home propertyq-=----- an ewe wen enna 12.50 Serve-Self Laundry where clothes are washed only--<-«=-~---+ 25400 ( Above to apply to outside Laundries) Linen Supply Houses---------n8--— 1+ 32 oe ee ee eee eee 50.00 Landscaper Contract Pewnw mewn meee eee eee wee 25.00 Meat Markets & Butcher Shops-not connected with other husiness- 25200 Merchants,Storekeepers and Dealers:= _ Operating at retail, other than those specifically provided for, otherwise in this ordinance, having an average stock at any time whether on display for sale or stored in warehouse, consigned to or for use of, either separate from or attached to husiness, covering entire husiness including all other licenses except as specifically provided otherwise herein. For the purpose of this ordinance, the average value of the stock of goods of each merchant, storekeeper, or dealer shall be determined by the inventory — taken and declared in income tax returns to the United States at the beginning or end of the calendar or fiseal year proceeding the application for license, adding thereto the total purchases of the said merchant, storekeeper or dealer for such calendar or fiscal year, the total amount divided by twelve, and the result of such division shall he the amount of the average stock of goods = stocks of goods covered hy Special taxes to he exempt from inventory tax. First {1,000.00 of average stock of merchandise-+-----~~~ -- 35200 . Each additional $1,000.00 of average stock of mdse.------= 5,00 § Maximum license shall he =~ per yeaTre~-----+~--- eee ne 100,00 Moving Picture Theatres:-Occupational license~--~-----------.~- 25600% ~ PLUS 2¢ amusement tax on each adult ticket sold. Each Plus * Moving Picture Operator shall keep complete records in order that the gross receipts may be checked By an agent of the Town from month to months As part of sue: records, the Operator shall sell consecutively numberéd tickets, heginning with one number on the first day of each month, said tickets shall and must he torn in half hy doorman in the presence of the Patron. This additional amusement tax shall he paid monthly by the 1Oth day of the month following each month of operation. The agent of the Town shall have the right to inspect and check all records in order to determine the gross receipts, It shall he the duty of the designated town agent to sign said Operators records, stating date examined, findings, acceptance or rejections. ai¢ Publications: “Newspapers - daily------------------ <2 29 -= wane en nnn een $150.00 Newspapers - semi-weeklyqnnmnae renner rr rn 75200 Newspapers ~ weekly------9- nn nnn rrr nn 50,00 (Newspapers published out of Town, distrituted in andfor soliciting advertising for, within town--the above applies) Opticians, Optometrists and dealers in glasseSen---------~ men 25.200 Paint ShopSe-----8- enn - nnn eee nen st 8 a os or 25.00 Painting Contractorse«---<-<-2eeec een em ee oe ae on oo en oe 25200 Peanut and Pop-corn roasters and vendors,alone and in connece _ tion with other husiness, each machineqnnwna-ennennnn “me 10.00 - Peddlers-making sales and deliveries from trucks or autos or other vehicles, excepting push-cartsqnnn=--se-ene neem ~~ 25200 Photosraphers-- 2-22 n ne nnn re en rr en em em me mn 25200 Piano TUNCTSe meen enn ewe we een 0 oe wer wo ee ~ 15.00 Plumbing Contracto0fena--mnwene nec em nee co ee ee er te re ~—— 25.00 Plastering Contractor~------== wom eee fat ae ee ee ee er ar on 25-00 Any other sub-contractor or item contractoTrem---------== 25200 PLANES TO wwe we ee os a to oe oe a em nn ee oe ae oo 25,00 Public - Notary Publicenqsneensn eee nee n renee nnn een 5.00 Punch-Boards-dealers,distrihutors and/or Salesmeneer-----= tee 50.00 $1,00 on each hoard of 1000 holes or lesss 50¢ on PLUS each hoard of 250 holes or fraction thereof over 1000 holes. Pinhall machineS < per Mach iNeqw naa mene ee mm me we - 25-200 Radio repair shops - alone or in connection with other husiness-= 25200 Refrigeration