Fort Walton Beach Ordinance — 29 - Business License — reading text

eg = : " ORDINANCE #29 Tu BE ENTTTLED Oyyendna 84 zi 3 AN ORDTNANCE 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 heginning Julvl, 1947 and thereafter; desig- nating the methods of computing of certain of said licenses and fixing tne amounts of others of said licensess and requiring the display of the said licenses upon the issuance of the same3 and to provide penalties for the violation of this Ordinance, and to provide for the collection of all such license, excise and privilege fees and taxes: Paiacy # P1191 dts ee . THE TOV! OF FORT WALTON DOES ORDATN: SECT"OM Le That all schedules and all ordinances designating schedules for the pavment of license, excise an’ privilege taxes heretofore in force an effect in the Town of Fort Walt n be and the same are herehy repealed. wip bed SECTTON 2, That effective July 1, 1947, no person, firm or corporation - shall engase in or manage the husiness of occupation or orofession, or 6x- ercise any urivilege, mentioned and desizmated jn this ordinance unless a town license stall have been procured from the Town Clerk hy the payment of the license, excise and privilege taxes set opposite the said designation of business, profession, occupation or privilege as set fort in this ordinance as follows: Agents for dealers in adving machines or cash registers 25000 Automobile dealers for new automohiles 62.50 Automohile dealers for used automobiles 37450 Automobile parking Lots 15.00 Automobile garages and avtomohbile repair husines~ 25400 Antomobiles for hire, other than taxts, for »usiness 15.00 For each car used in business oracle Advert’sing signs, electrical or mechanical, billboards or other structures, advertising other than proprietor's susiness, for each Agency, real estate sales, brokers and dealers 50,00 Agency, rental or collecting 25400 Agents, salesmen or representatives of any out of town yusiness taking orders 25400 Amusement ~arks and Like places where entertainments and exhthi- tions are siven 100,00 Bakertes, local or out of town soliciting and supplying local requirements 25.00 RBarher shops, 7or each clair whether operated or not FANNY ® OVO oO ssuty rarlors ov» shops for each operator 039 rele shop, bievele supplies, hicyels renting or repairing 15.00 ard ant pool tables, hept and set up for other than private ther operated or not first table 25.00 ditional table 10,90 rettes and soft drinks are sold, an additional 10,00 or hot allers, each alley 15.00 jack stants along or in connection with harher shops, for each chatr op seat 3200 - Boot and shoe maler and repairers 15.00 Building supplies, not sold in connection wtth hardware stores 50.00 Sale of beer and wine etther as a separate business or *n connection a with amr other business or place o® »ustness 50% of State License Canvass for toilet articles or anv other commodity 19,90 Carptnter shops and jer wood-workers employing ne or mor hands Cigar, cigarettes and tohac~o retail when principal stock in crade When sold *n comection with other merchants or cafe license as srecifted w'th resnect to each. Clairvovants, fortune tellers, mind readers, mediums, as- trologists or phrenologists General contractor Ulectrical contractor Patnting contractor Toofing contractor Floor finishing Contractor Asphalt, tile, ceramic, ue eontractor Any other sub-contractor or item contractor Plumbing Contractor Casinos and clvh rooms where card games or other games are played, carrted on or operated Wleetr*e phonographs or music boxes Curio stores Cold storage or quick freezine Dairies or cersons —eddling, gelling or delivering to cus- tomers milk, cream or dairy products or ice cream, *or each person or vehicle Jnolesale tee cream deliveries Dentists, wnere local off*ce *s maintained Dentists, transient -per week Doctors Drug stores - where prescriptions are prepared, mixed or compounded Plus retail merehants license. Dyers, d ~ cleaners and leundries, locel agency, pick up or distributing point Reciprocal license “or out of town agents or sub-stations. Bleetric Lisht companies or nersons, firms or corporations furni shing Licht or power film or shotograph Jeveloping or finishing Finence and loan comnanies and pawn shops Fish dealers, wholesale and/or retail Gas comsanies - artificial, natural or comm*ngled Gasoline, filling and/or service stations: For the musiness and one sump For each pump used in excess of one Hotels, rooming houses, tourist camps, cabins and rental houses reel oo rrazo and quarry tile floor iv For restaurant, cafe, «tne and heer, coin machines, entra Lieenses 2s “rovided for with resvect to each. e house 0 ny ‘ surance “nts “oods, wares and CG merehand Junie shors are) Land and sevelopment Linen supply comvany jackets etc. ommantes furntsiing Linen, uniforms, tovels, foe Eke € 150.00 50.00. 50.00 50.00 50,00 5,00 50.00 50.00 50.00 125.00 quarterl 25400 20.00 25.00 10.00 20400 2309 5200 25,00 10.00 250.00 25,00 75,00 25.00 75400 25400 © 5200 rx room for to a8 max= 109,00 25,09 25,00 25,00 5,09 25,00 50.00 50.00 50,00 93 Liquor dealers a (a) Vendors operating pl on the premises ‘s ft (>) Vendors operating pl sold only tn sealed ces of hustness vhere consumpt? on rm tted 50% of State and County License ces of business where heveraces are a) for consumption off the premises 50% of Suate and County License Meat markets and twtcher shops not connected with any otner husiness 525200 Merchants, storekeepers and dealers: Operating at retail, ots: -y than those svecifically provided for others se 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 a:tached to husiness, cover- ing entire *wusiness including all other licenses eXx-=- cert as snectfically provided otherwise herein, for the purpose of th? s ordinance the avereze value of the stock of soods of each merchant, storekeeper or dealer s shall he determined v tre 'nventory taken and declered in ineome tax returns to tre United States at the begin- ‘ng or end of the calendar or fiscal year preceding the application for license adding thereto the total pur- chases of the said merchant, storekeeper or cealer for sueh calender or fiseal vear, the total amount to he di- vided “1 twelve, and the result of such division shall bt he he ammount of t'e average stock of goods: 3 a For the first $1000.90 of average stock or merchandise 25-00 For each ad itionel 1000.00 of average stock of mdse. 5,00 Provided that the maxtimim License shall be 100,90 per rear Moving picture theatres: Orccunational Tax “&95,00 also 5% of gross sales. Each moving pieture operator shall keep conplete records in order shat the zross receipts may »e checked Wr an agent of tee town from ronth to month. As vert of such records tie said onerator shall sell consecutively mwmhered tiekets hestnnine with one numher on the first dar of each month. j shall he vatd monthi- hy the LOth day of the This License tax month following each month of operation, The agent of the Town shall heve ties right to insneet and check all reco ds in order to determine the gross receipts. News dealer selling at retvsil hooks , magazines, newspapers ana other period" cals end sellins cigars, cigarettes, tohacco it it connecter with the husiness of retail commodities 15.00 150,00 75200 59,00 Sts 25.00 ORSTE usines ack 7450 5 and delivertes from trucks or auto-— hieles, excepting sigh carts ae 5.00 1 6) 25,00 5% of total punched ¥) value to he “aia wsing. vis - a | | — «95 considered a separat offense. And upon convic 0n of-a violation of this ordinance the person, firm or corporation so convicted shall he rurnishable “v7 a fine of not more than Two Hundred ($200.00) Dollars or by imprisonment tn the town jail for not more than ninety (90) days, or hy hoth. SECTTON 5. All license, excise or privilege taxes provided for h~ this ordinance shall constitute a deht of the person, firm or corporation, subject to pray such tax, to the Town of Fort Walton. And *n the event any license, excise or privilege tax shall remain unpaid for a period of thirty (30) days after it is due thre shall be added as part of such tax a penalty of 50% of the amount of such tax. All amounts due and unpaid for license, excise or nrivilege tas shall constitute a lien upon the real and personal property of the person, firm or corporation subject to such tax. Provided, however, that in order for the lien to he effective as against third nersons without notice, notice of lien shall he recovded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Okaloosa County, Crestview, Florida. Such notice of lien shall be made up in the form of a certificate setting forth the name of the person, firm or corporation against whom the lien is claimed, the amount of the unpaid tax with tenalties, and the vear and occupation, trade, »usiness, profession or privilege for which the tax is in default. The seid certificate shall be executed »v the Mavor of the Town of Fort Walton and attested hy the Town Clerk, and shall have the corporate seal of the Town affixed. It shall contain an acinow- ledgement to he made by the Ma-or ani Town Clerk before a Notary Public and the Mavor shall arrange for its recording and for its being indexed as a lien on chattels as well as a lien on real estate. , SECTTON 6, All licenses issued under the provisions of this ordinance shall he displaved sy the licensee at the place for which the license was issued and shall he exhibited upon demand of anv dulv authorized agent or employee of the Town, SECT TON 7. This ordinance, dealing with the preservation of the pub- lie property, health, safety and susiness of the Town of Fort Walton, and it heing necessary that it should take effect hy July 1, 1947, the same is hereby declared to he an emervency ordinance and it sHall take effect immediately upon its nassage hy the Town Council and its approval by the Mayor. Adopted: June 24, 1947 ATTEST , APPROVE TOW Cheek HAYOR