HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 384ORD 384ê79wT ×P ë ª ORD 1 NANCE NO, 384
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF BALDWIN PARK AMENDING
SECTIONS 6100, 6105.1, 6117, 6118,
6127, 6128, 6129, 6130, 6131 AND
6132 AND REPEALING SECTIONS 6133
THROUGH 6189 OF THE BALDWIN PARK
MUNICIPAL CODE, RELATING TO BUSINESS
LICENSES
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BALDWIN PARK DOES ORDAIN AS
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SECTION 1. That sub-paragraph b), Section 6100 of the
Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
b) Employee. As used in this chapter, Employee"
shall mean any person engaged, full time or part
time in the operation or conduct of any business,
whether as owner, or any member of the owner's
family or partner, or agent, or manager, or solicitor
and any and all other persons employed or working in
said business."
Whenever a license tax is imposed based, in
whole or in part, upon the number of employees engaged
in the business, the following provisions shall be used
to determine the number of employees: the average number of
persons employed by or engaged in a business during the
calendar year preceding the issuance of a license and
shall be determined by the following formula: one-twelfth
of the total number of such employees engaged in the business
for each month of the preceding year. Where a business
has existed less than twelve 12) months of the year pre-
ceding the issuance of a license, the actual number of
months of existence shall be the computing fraction. If
an employer has not previously engaged in business, he
shall estimate the average number of employees who will
be employed by him during the remainder of the calendar
year."
SECTION 2. That Section 6105.1 of the Baldwin Park
Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
6105.1 TWO OR MORE BUSINESSES, In the event that any
person is conducting, managing or carrying on, more than
one of several businesses required to be licensed by this
chapter, in the same location, and under the same management,
such person shall obtain a separate license for each such
business.
SECTION 3. That sub-paragraph c) of Section 6117 of the
Baldwin Park Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
ORD 384ê79wT ×P ë ª c) DECALS. Any licensee, to whom a business
license has been issued for the operation of a
wheeled vehicle, shall obtain from the Tax
Collector, in addition to such business license,
a numbered vehicle decal, for a fee of $0.50 per
decal, for each wheeled vehicle. Said decal
shall be permanently affixed to the lower right
corner of the windshield of such vehicle."
Any licensee to whom a business license
has been issued for the operation of a coin-
operated machine or device shall obtain from the
Tax Collector, in addition to a business license,
a numbered vending machine decal, at a cost of
fifty cents 50~) per decal per machine; said
decals shall be permanently affixed to each
machine, in a conspicuous location."
SECTION 4. That Section 6118 of the Baldwin Park
Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
6118. License Tax How and When Payable.
Unless otherwise specifically provided, all
business licenses issued under the provisions of
this chapter shall be, annual licenses, and shall
be due and payable in advance, on the first day
of January of each year; provided that license
taxes covering new operations, commenced after the
first day of January, may be prorated for the
balance of the license period, except that licenses
of $1.00 per year shall not be prorated and all
other licenses shall be prorated on a quarterly
basis, except as otherwise provided in this chapter,
as follows:
When the license is applied for
during the first quarter of the calendar
year a license fee for the entire yearly
amount shall be due; when the license is
applied for in the second quarter of the
calendar year a license fee equal to three-
fourths of the annual fee shall be due; when
the license is applied for in the third
quarter of the calendar year a license fee
equal to one-half of the annual fee shall
be due; and when the license is applied for
during the fourth quarter then an amount
equal to one-fourth of the annual fee shall
be due."
All licenses shall be payable in advance in lawful
money of the United States at the Office of the
Tax Collector of the City of Baldwin Park.
SECTION 5. That Section 6127, of the Baldwin Park
Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
6127. Contractors.
a) All General Engineering Contractors and
all General Building Contractors, licensed as such
by the State of California, shall pay an annual
license fee of $52.00."
ORD 384ê79wT ×P ë ª b) All Specialty Contractors licensed by
the State of California as such, shall pay an
annual license fee of $28.00."
SECTION 6. That Section 6128 of the Baldwin Park
Municipal Code, is hereby amended to read as follows:
6128. Professional. For conducting, managing
carrying on or engaging in any business, profession
or occupation hereinafter enumerated, the annual
license tax shall be based upon the average number
of professional members and the average number of
employees, computed as follows: for each member of
the firm practicing his profession, other than as
a salaried employee, $28.00 per annum, plus $4.00
per annum for each employee in excess of three:
Accountant Chiropractor Optometrist
Appraiser Dentist Osteopath
Architect Engineering Physician
Consultant
Attorney-at-law Entomologist Physiotherapist
Auditor Geologist Surveyor
Bacteriologist Mortician Veterinarian
Chemist Occulist X-Ray Laboratory
Chiropodist Optician
SECTION 7. That Section 6129, of the Baldwin Park
Municipal Code, is hereby amended to read as follows:
6129. Retail, Wholesale and Manufacturing Businesses
and Other Businesses Not Otherwise Provided For.
Every person engaged in the business of selling to the
general public, at retail or wholesale, goods, wares,
merchandise or services, and for each person engaged
in the business of manufacturing any product, unless
otherwise expressly provided for elsewhere in this
chapter, and all persons engaged in any business or
occupation not specifically provded for elsewhere in
this chapter, shall pay an annual license fee of $28.00,
plus $4.00 for each employee in excess of three 3)."
SECTION 8. That Section 6130 of the Baldwin Park Municipal
Code, is hereby amended to read as follows:
6130. Specifically Enumerated Businesses. Every
person engaged in any of the following enumerated
businesses shall pay an annual license fee for the
conduct of such business as follows:
1) Advertising. For maintaining a bill-
board, bulletin board, advertising on benches
or other similar structures, installing flags or
other special decorations, a fee of $52.00.
2) Amusements.
a) Billiard and Pool Halls shall pay
an annual license fee of $28.00 for the first
pool or billiard table, plus $10.00 for each
additional table; such license shall include
the right to sell tobacco, confections, soft-
drinks and lunches."
ORD 384ê79wT ×P ë ª b) Bowling, All=. Every bowling alley shall pay an
annual fee of $28.00 for the first alley or lane, and an
additional fee of $10.00 for each alley over one.
c) Carnivals Circuses. Every carnival and circus
shall pay a fee of $50.00 for each day of operation; and an
additional $10.00 per day for each sideshow; provided that
the maximum license fee for such side show shall not exceed
$100.00 per day.
d) Coin-operated Amusement Devices and Vendors. A
vending machine operator's license shall be $28.00, provided
that there shall be no pro-ration of such fee; in addition to the
operator's license, there shall be an annual fee of $48.00 for
each game machine; $12.00 for each juke box; $6.00 for each
cigarette machine; and $1.00 for each soft drink or other machine
requiring eleven cents 110) or less to activate the mechanism.
No such license shall be required if the operator of such machine
has a valid business license or a business use or use directly
or incidentally provided that decals shall be required for each
such machine.
e) Dance Halls. Public or private dancing halls shall
pay an annual license fee of $150.00.
f) Theatres. Every theatre shall pay an annual license
fee of ten 10¢) cents for each spectator seat or car space.
3) Auctioneers. Each person conducting one or more auction
sales at a fixed place of business or elsewhere, shall pay a business
license fee of $100.00 per annum, provided that there shall be no pro-
ration of this fee.
4) Auto Wrecking Yard. Every person engaged in the dismantling
or altering of any motor vehicle or other activities generally carried
on in an auto wrecking yard, shall pay a business license fee of
$52.00 per annum, plus an additional fee of $4.00 for each employee
over three 3).
5) Coin-Operated Devices. Coin-operated devices such as
laundromats, dry-cleaners or ice vendors shall pay an annual license
fee of $28.00.
6) Weighing Machines- Vendors and U S Postage Stamp Mach*
Operators of weighing machines, U, S, Postage Stamp Machines and other
vending machines not otherwise herein mentioned, shall pay an annual
license fee of $1.00 per machine.
7) Deliveries, The business license fee for conducting,
managing or carrying on the business of running, driving or operating
any automobile, truck, tank wagon, or any vehicle for the wholesale
or retail delivery of merchandise of any nature, kind or description,
or for the purpose of carrying on a bakery route, linen route, ice
route, water distilled, spring, mineral aerated) route, laundry or
dry-cleaning route, dairy route, or other routes of a like or similar
nature, whether wholesale or retail, shall be $28.00 per annum for the
first vehicle and $7.00 for each additional vehicle.
8) Miscellaneous:
a) Apartments. The annual business license fee for
apartments shall be by the Following Fee Schedule:
ORD 384ê79wT ×P ë ª 3 9 Units $20.00 60 69 Units $ 90.00
10 14 Units 30.00 70 79 Units 100.00
15 19 Units 40.00 80 89 Units 110.00
20 29 Units 50.00 90 99 Units 120.00
30 39 Units 60.00 l00 l09 Units 130.00
40 49 Units 70.00 110 119 Units 140.00
50 59 Units 80.00 120 and above Units 150.00
b) Hospitals. Hospitals shall pay an annual license fee
of $52.00, plus $2.00 for each bed.
c) Hotels, Motels and Trailer Parks. Hotels, motels and
trailer parks shall pay an annual license fee of $28.00 for the
first three 3) units, plus $2.00 for each unit in excess of three
3).
d) Rest Homes. Rest homes, Homes for the Aged and Nursing
and Convalescent Hospitals, and Convalescent Homes, shall pay an
annual license fee of $28.00 plus $1.00 for each bed.
e) Rooming Houses. Rooming Houses shall pay an annual license
fee of $5.00 for each bed.
9) Junk Dealers. Junk dealers shall pay an annual license fee of
$28.00, plus an additional fee of $4.00 for each employee over three 3).
10) Newspapers. For each daily weekly, semi-weekly or monthly
newspaper, printed or published or circulated in the City, the annual
fee of $52.00.
11) Pawn Shops. Pawn Shops shall pay an annual license fee of $28.00
plus an additional fee of $4.00 for each employee over three 3).
12) Public Utilities. Every person engaged as a public utility or
otherwise in the distribution, transportation or transmission of electricity,
gas, communications or water, unless operating under a franchise and paying
a franchise tax to the City, shall pay an annual license fee of $28.00
plus $4.00 for each employee.
13) Real Estate Brokers. Real Estate brokers shall pay an annual
license fee of $52.00 plus an additional fee of $4.00 for each employee.
14) Restaurants. Each restaurant, drive-in, beer bar or cocktail
lounge shall pay an annual license fee as follows: a seating or drive-in
accomodation for 25 people or less $25.00; seating or drive-in accomo-
dations for between 25 and 100 people $50.00; and for seating or drive-
in accomodations of over 100 people $100.00.
ORD 384ê79wT ×P ë ª 15) Automobile Dealers. Every person regularly
engaged in the sae o new or used automobiles, trailers,
campers, or similar items, shall pay an annual license
fee of $52.00."
SECTION 9. That Section 6131 of the Baldwin Park Municipal
Code, is hereby amended to read as follows:
6131. Compliance with law. Issuance of a business license
under the provis o' no7 his chapter shall not be deemed a
waiver of any other privision of the Code; Licensees shall
abide by the provisions of all applicable laws."
SECTION 10. That Section 6132 of the Baldwin Park Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
6132. Solicitors. For every solicitor or employee not
having a ixe p ace of business in the City, who travels
from place to place, or house to house, and makes demonstra-
tions of, or solicits, takes orders or canvasses for the sale
of, or who sells any goods, wares, merchandise, subscriptions
to periodicals or magazines, or things or articles of value
of any nature, kind or description, shall pay $52.00 per annum
or $5.00 per day; provided, however, persons residing in the
City of Baldwin Park shall pay $28.00 per annum.
Every person or employee who is to solicit in the City of
Baldwin Park shall be required to furnish his fingerprints
and thumb prints, and shall file an affidavit with the
Tax Collector; such affidavit shall contain the following
information:
I. Name, address and telephone number of the applicant.
2. Name and address of the person by whom employed, if any.
3. Length of service of such applicant with such employer.
4.. Place of residence, and nature of employment of the
applicant during the period of at least the year just
preceding.
5. Nature of the goods and service to be offered by the
applicant.
6. Drivers license number and license number of applicant's
automobile.
7. Citizenship status of applicant.
8. Personal description of the applicant, and a statement
that he has not been convicted of a felony.
After the affidavit has been filed, the Tax Collector shall
refer the same to the Police Department for investigation, the
Police Department shall investigate the applicant and the
statements in said affidavit. If, upon such investigation, it is
found that the statements set forth in said affidavit are true,
license may be issued, and if, on the other hand, they are found
to be untrue in any material manner, application for license may
be denied. In the event the Tax Collector shall refuse to issue
a license to applicant, such applicant may appeal from the decision
of the Tax Collector to the City Council of the City of Baldwin
Park by filing a written notice of said appeal in the office of
the City Clerk within five days after notification by the Tax
Collector that his application for license has been denied."
SECTION 11. That Sections 6133 through 6189 inclusive of the
Baldwin Park Municipal Code, are hereby repealed and rescinded.
ORD 384ê79wT ×P ë ª SECTION 12. That the City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
of this Ordinance and cause the same to be published in the manner
prescribed by law. This Ordinance shall take effect on the 31st day
of December, 1964.
PASSED and APPROVED this 18th day of November 1964.
CHARLES E. MORE MAYOR
ATTEST:
Or 731641-
TH LMA L. BALKUS, CITY CLEW
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS:
CITY OF BALDWIN PARK
I, THELMA L. BALKUS, City Clerk of the City of Baldwin
Park, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 384
was regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading at a
regular meeting of the City Council on the 4th
day of November 1964. That, thereafter, said ordinance
was duly adopted and passed at a_ regular meeting
of the City Council on the 18th day f November 1964.
by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN GREGORY, ADAIR, CRITES, MCCARON AND MAYOR MOREHEAD
NOES: COUNCILMEN NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN NONE
T e ma L. Ba kus, qty Clerk
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