HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 436O INANCE NO. S RI .S
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 391 NEW
SERIES OF THE CITY OF BAKERSBIELD BY AMENDING
SECTION 8, BY AMENDING SUBDIVISION 3.2 OF SEC-
TION 18. BY ADDING THERETO SUBDIVISIONS l-A,
l-B, 2-]~, AND 16-A TO SECTION 1V, AND BY
A~:RENDING SUBDIVISIONS l, 8, 24, 29, 30, 33
AND 40 OF SECTION 1V, BY ~.~iENDING SECTION 18,
AND BY ADDING SECTION 18-B AND SECTION 18-~
TO SAID ORDINANCE, AND REPEALING ALL OHDIN-
ANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HERE-
V. rlTH.
BE IT ORDAINED BY TEE COUNCIL OF TEE CITY OF BAKERSFIELD,
as follows:
SECTION 1.
That Section 8 of Ordinance No. 391 New Series of the City
of Bakersfield be and the same is hereby mended to read as follows:
SECTION 8. ANNUAL, QUARTERLY, MONTHLY AND DAILY LICENSES.
Except where otherwise provided licenses shall be issued
quarterly, commencing on the first day of January, April, July and
October, respectively, each year, and shall be due and payable on said
respective dates, except when. business is commenced during a pending
quarter, in which event the license for said quarter shall be due and
payable when said business is commenced, provided that in the event
business is commenced after the 15th day of the second month of a
quarter, the license fee shall be one-half (4) of the quarterly mount,
unless otherwise specifically provided for, and the license therefor
issued, and shall terminate at the end of the quarter so designated
so that the next quarter shall commence on either the first day of
January, April, July or October, respectively, of each year.
Monthly licenses provided for herein shall be due and payable
on the first day of each month.
Daily licenses shall be due and payable each day in advance,
provided, however, that payment may be made for any number of days in
advance, when application therefor is made. Said daily license my
be issued at any time and for any number of days.
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SECTION 2.
That Subdivision 32 of Section 16 of Ordinance No. 391
New Series be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
32. Profession -
Profession shall be held to mean and include vocations,
depending upon the knowledge, ability, and effort of individuals,
and not concerned with the furnishing of amusement,' goods, or
merchandise to the general public.
SECTION 3.
That Section 1V of'Ordinance No. 391 New Series be and
the same is hereby mended to include the following subsections:
1-A Appraiser -
Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the profession
of Appraiser in the City of Bakersfield shall pay'a license fee of
Fifteen ($15.00) Dollars per year in advance~ provided, however,
that any person licensed to practice law or any real estate broker
or salesm~n who has paid a license fee hereunder shall be exempt
f~om paying a further fee as an appraiser.
1-B. Architect -
Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the profession
of Architect in the City of Bakersfield shall pay a license fee of
Fifteen ($15.00) Dollars per year in advance.
2-A. Auditor a~d/or Accountant.
Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the profession
of Auditor and/or Accountant in 'the City of Bakersfield shall pay a
license fee of Fifteen ($15.00) Dollars per year in advance.
18-A. Milk Wagons.
For every person delivering milk, buttermilk and/or cream
from wagons or other vehicles, the license fee shall be Three ($3.00)
Dollars per quarter for each vehicle so used, payable in advance~
provided, however, that if such person's gross sales, as set forth
in a sworn statement, are under one hundred ($100.00) dollars per
month, no license fee shall be required.
SECTION 4.
That the following subsections of Section 1V of Ordinance
No. 391 EeW'Series be and the same are hereby amended to read as
follows:
1. Attorney-at-Law -
Every person or firm engaged in the profession of Attorney-
at-Law and maintaining an office in the City of Bakersfield shall pay
a license fee of Fifteen ($16.00) Dollars per year in advance.
8. Chiropodist and/or Masseur -
Every person or firm engaged in the profession of Chiropodist
and/or Masseur and maintaining an office in the City of Bakersfield
shall pay a license fee of Fifteen ($16.00) Dollars per year in ad-
vance.
24. Medicinal and Dental Professions -
Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the prof-
ession of chiropractic, osteopath, dentist, optometrist, optician,
oculist, physician and surgeon, or physician or surgeon, and
maintaining an office in the City of Bakersfield, shall pay a license
fee of Fifteen ($15.00) Dollars per year in advance.
29. Private Detective -
Every person engaged in the profession of detective in
the City of Bakersfield shall pay a license fee of Ten ($10.00)
Dollars per year, payable in advance.
30. Real Estate -
Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business
of buying, selling or renting real estate and receiving commissions
thereon and therefor, or 'conducting, maintaining, or carrying on
the profession of engaging in a real estate business for the pur-
pose of buying, selling or renting real estate in the City of Bak-
ersfield, shall pay a license fee of Fi£teen ($15.00) Dollars per
year in advance~ provided, however, that no such person, firm or
corporation who is duly license~in any other city of the State of
California shall be required to pay the license provided for in.,'~this
section until the license of such other city expires or unless such
person, firm or corporation maintains an office in t~e City of Bakers-·
field.
For the business of keeping or conducting boot-blacking
or shoe shining parlors or stands, the sum of one dollar 'and fifty cents
($1.50) per quarter, payable in advance.
40. Veterinarian -
Every person engaged in the business or profession of
veterinarian in the City of Bakersfield shall pay a license fee
of Fifteen ($16.00) Dollars per year in advance.
SECTION 6.
The Section 18 of Ordinance No. 391 New Series be and
the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
SECTION 18.
Every person, firm or corporation who, at a fixed place of
business, having a fixed and permanent headquarters within the City
of Bakersfield, who keeps, conducts, carries on, manages, or main-
tains any business, trade, calling, occupation, or who sells or
offers for sale any goods, wares or merchandise, either as principal
or agent, whether on commission or otherwise, whether for present
or future delivery or whether said goods, wares or merchandise are
owned by or'consigned to said person, firm or corporation, except
as ~therwise provided for in this ordinance, shall pay a license fee
based on the gross amount of monthly receipts and sales in accordance
with the following schedule:
Average Monthly Gross Receipts and Sales
Not g $ 000 ' 3 O0 quarter
exceedin 1, ....-.-..-...........-. ~ . per
More than Sl,O00 and not exceeding .82~000 .. ~ 6~00 per quarter
More than 82,000 and not exceeding S4,000 .~ $ 8.00 per quarter
More than 84,000 and not exceeding 86,000 .. ~12.00 per quarter
More than 86,000 and not exceeding~SlO,O00 .. 820.00 per quarter
More thanSlO,O00 and not exceedi~SlS,O00 .. 82~.00 per quarter
More th~SiS,O00 and not exceeding~20,O00 .. B3S.O0 per quarter
Mo~e t~n820,O00 and not exceedi~S30,O00 .. S48.00 per quarte~
More t~nS30~O00 and not exceeding$SO,O00., 880,00 per quarte~
t so,ooo . ....--..--................ vs.oo
Provided, however, that where any person, firm or corpora-
tion carries on said business exclusively at wholesale the license
fee therefor shall be equal in amount to one-half (,)'Of the license
fee of that class of which said business would come if same were
conducted as a retail business, as this section specified;provid~i'~~'''
however, that in no case 'will the license fee be less than Five
($5.00) Dollars per quarter.
Where said person, firm or corporation conducts both a
retail and wholesale business on the same premises and desires to
take advantage of the wholesale rate, such person, firm or cor-
poration shall, in making the statement as provided in Section 19
of this ordinance and upon which said license fee shall be based,
segregate the wholesale and retail sales, and said license fee
shall thereupon be paid for each such branch.
And provided, further, that nothing contained or set forth
in this ~ection, or elsewhere in this ordinance, shall apply to any
business coming.within the provisions of the law affecting or relating
to inter-state commerce, and any person, firm or corporation engaged
in doing any such business shall not be required to pay any license
fee thereof or therefor.
SECTION 6.
That a section to be known as Section 18-A be added to
Ordinance No. 391 New Series, said section to read as follows:
SECTION 18-B License Fees for Professions -
Every person, firm or corporation engaged in a profession
not otherwise provided for in this ordinance and maintaining an
office in the City of Bakersfield shall pay a license fee of Fif-
teen ($15.00) Dollars per year in advance.
SECTION V.
That a section to be known as Section 18-B be added to
Ordinance No. 391 New Series, said section to read as follows:
SECTION 18-~. Additional Persons in One Office -
Every person, firm or corporation engaged in a profession
shall pay a license fee for each and evez-y office or location;
provided, however, that whenever two or more persons ar~L~aged
in practicing a profession at one place of businesS~ license
fee of Twenty-Five ($25.00) Dollars per year shall be paid for
the first two persons, and Ten ($10.00) Dollars for each addi-
tional ~firmat said place of business.
SECTION 8.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith are hereby expressly repealed.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was
passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield
on the 29th day of May, 1934, by the following vote:
ABSENT,
City lerk of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield.
APPROV~D by me this 29th day of May, 1934.
MAYOR O~f ' the~Ci ty~f Baker s field.