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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance 413 N.C.S. 10/24/19551 1 ORDINANCE NO. 413 N. C. S. Introduced by Councilman ALBERT J. BIGELOW Seconded by Councilman W. C. BROWN AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE BUSINESS LICENSE ORDINANCE NO. 373 N. C. S. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUN- CIL OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. That Section 4.3 of the Business License Ordinance No. 373 N. C. S. be and the same is hereby amended to read as.follows: "Section 4.3 AVERAGE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES. In determining the number of employees for the pur- pose of fixing the license due under this Ordinance, the employer shall take the number of employees earn- ing wages during pay periods ending nearest the 15th nay of each month as shown by Form 'DE3 of the State of California Department of Employ- ment, or other form which may here- after be adopted for reporting pay ments due under the Unemployment Insurance Act, together with the em- ployer himself or employers them- selves, for each month of the pre- vious calender year, adding the ,same, and dividing by twelve; if the em- ployer has been in business less than one year, he may use the average number of employees as shown by said form for the last quarter; if the employer has not previously engaged in business, he may estimate the av- erage number of employees who will be employed by him during the re- mainder of the calendar year." Section 2. That Section 8.1 of said Business License Ordinance No. 373 N. C. S. be and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: "Section 8.1 EXEMPT LICENSES. No license payable hereunder shall be payable by: (a) Any charitable• institution, or- ganization or association, organized for charitable purposes and selling merchandise or services or conduct- ing or staging for charitable purposes only, any concert, exhibition, lecture or entertainment within the City of Petaluma where no admission is charged or A =here the receipts from adiission charged are used exclusive- ly for charitable or benevolent pur- poses and no 'part thereof is used for the purpose of private gain of any individual. (b) Any organization conducting or staging any concert; exhibition, lec- ture or entertainment, where the procee m ds from admissions charged are used for the furtherance of edu- cation, art or nn;sic within the City of Petaluma and where no part of the profits der ? -ved therefrom is used for the purpose of. private gain of any individual. (c) No license for street vending, entertaining or house-to-house selling shall be payable by any blind per- son or indigent person who by real son of the infirmities of age, loss of limb or other disabling cause is un- able to obtain livelihood by other means than such street vending or entertaining or house -to -house sell- ing. The - exemption .granted hereun- der shall not exceed two (2) days in any one month, and shall only be granted after the Chief of Police has satisfied himself that the applicant for such exemption has qualified therefor. (d) Any person, firm or corporation whose total net income for the pre- ceding year, and whose estimated net income for the ensuing year shall be less than $500.00, provided such per- son, firm or corporation can produce proof satisfactory to the Tax Collec- tor that said net income for said preceding year was less than $500.00 and said estimated net income for said ensuing year will be less than $500.00:" Section 3. That Section 12.3 of the Business License Ordinance No. 373 N. C. S. be and the same is hereby amended to.•read'as follows: "Section' SCHEDULE'F.OR CER- TAIN ; - PROFESSIONAL P E R S.O N S LISTED,IN, THIS SECTION AND'ANY PROFESSIONAL OR SEMI PROFES- SIONAL PERSONS NOT OTHER- WISE MENTIONED IN THIS ORDI- NANCE. An annual license tax in the -sum, of $30:00 shall be paid, in ad- vance "for each person, or in - case of a firm $30.00, in advance, for -each practicing member of, the profession, engaged in the following professions and vocations in the City of Peta- auma, plus $4.00 for each employee employed by such person or firm: Architect, attorney, advertising counsel, bacteriologist, chemist, chir- opodist, chiropractor, civil engineer, electrical engineer, mining engineer, construction engineer, structural en- gineer; consulting engineer; mechan- ical engineer hydraulic engineer, den- tilt., draftsman, drugless practitioner, electrologist, engraver, geologist, land- scape architect, masseur, mortician, occulist, optician, optometrist, osteo- path, physician, surgeon, surveyor, taxidermist, veterinarian, X -ray lab- oratory and any profession or semi - prcfession not otherwise classified under this Ordinance." Section 4. That Section 12.4.14 of the Business License Ordinance No. 373 N. C. S. be and the same is here- by amended to read as follows: "Section 12.4.14 CHRISTMAS TREE AND IIREWORKS VENDORS. $20.00 per nnonth per person." Section 5. That Section 12.4.21 of the Business License Ordinance No. 373 N. C. S. be and the same is here- by amended to read as follows: "Section 12:4.21 JUNK COLLEC- TORS AND DEALERS. For persons having no fixed place of business within the City, $50:00 per year for first vehicle, plus $30.00 per year for each additional vehicle. For persons having a fixed place of bvsiness in the City, $25.00 per vN ^r '..or first vehicle and $10.00 per for each additional vehicle." "; 6. That Section 1.2.4.34 of said Business License Ordinance No. '.7$ C. S. be and the same is here- by amended to read as follows: 12.4.34 VENDING MA- CHINES (this tax does not apply to any person operating a vending ma- chin^ or machines as an incident of any business licensed under this or- dinance.) $1..00 per year for each machine requiring one cent (1c) to operate, $2.00 per year for each machine requiring five cents (5c) to operate, $4.00 per year for each machine requiring ten cents (10c) to - operate. $6.00 per year for each machine requiring more than ten cents (100 to operate." Section 7. That Section 12,5.7 of said Business License Ordinance No. 373 N: C. S. be and the same is here- by amended to read as follows: "Section 1.2.5.7 CARNIVAL. $100.00 for the first day, and $75.00 for each succeeding day thereafter." Section 8. That this amendment to said Business License Ordinance No._ 373 N. C. S. shall go into effect on the Ist'clay of January, 1956. Ordered published this 17th day of Octol -r, 1955: AYES: Councilmen Adams, Bigelow, Brown, Gustafson, King, Norwood. and Mayor Schoeningh. NOES: None. ABSENT: None. Signed VINCENT J. SCHOENINGH, Mayor. Attest: . GLADYS R. WALLIN. City Clerk. I hereby certify that 'the within ordinance was published in full once in the Petaluma Argus- Courier, a daily paper of general circulation, published within the City of Petaluma, to-wit: October 19, 1955, and that the said Petaluma Argus- Courier is the official newspaper of the City of Petaluma. I hereby certify that the whole number of members of the Council of the •City of Petaluma is seven, and that the foregoing ordinance was passed *by the Council at its" meeting of the 24th day of October, 1955, by the following vote, to -wit: AYES: Councilmen Adams, Bigelow,_ Brown, Gustafson, ring, Norwood, and Mayor Schoeningh. NOES: Dlone . ABSENT: None. A ^ 1TEST_ ' . : : (SEAL) City The - foregein Ordinance Number 413 N.C.S., having been regiilarly, passed .and,. presen to me this 24th day of October, 1955, is hereby approved by me -this 24th day of October, 1955. LYFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 1956,. t n 1 1