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ORDIL,IANCE NO. 485 (1970 Series)
AN ORDINANCE REVISING THE BUSINESS LICENSE
FEES AND MAKING APPROPRIA'T'E CHANGES IN
CLASSIFICATIONS.
SECTION 1. Sections 6100.9, 6100.19, 6100.24, 6100.28, 6100.29, 6100.31
and 6100.32 in Article VI of the San Luis Obispo Municipal Code entitled Business,
Professions and Trades, Chapter 1 - Business Licenses, as previously adopted, are
hereby repealed.
SECTION 2. Sections 6100.9, 6100.19, 6100.24, 6100.29 and 6100.31 are
hereby re- enacted to read as follows:
Section 6100.9 - Permanent Business- iVethod of Establishing-
Every person in the City who sells, or offers to sell or engages in the business
of selling any kind of goods, whatever, who shall hereafter begin business in
the City, and who represents that he is to be permanently located in the City in
said business, shall file with the City Collector, a statement under penalty of
perjury that he intends to be permanently located in the City in a fixed place of
business for a period of six months or longer.
Section 6100.19 - License Tax. Gross Receipts.
Every person carrying on the business herein enumerated shall pay an annual
license tax based on the following bracket system: Gross receipts of $25, 000.00
or less per annum, the sum of $25.00. Gross receipts of $25,000.00 and less
than $75,000.00 per annum, the sum of $25.00 plus $5.00 for each $5,000.00 of
gross receipts, or fraction thereof, in excess of $25,000.00 per annum. Gross
receipts in excess of $75,000.00 per annum, the sum of $75.00 plus $2.50 for
each $5,000.00 of gross receipts, or fraction thereof, in excess of $75,000.00
per annum.
Apartments (4 or more units)
Auto camp cabins
Auto court
Auto - repair, parts, trailer sales or wrecking
Barber shop
Beauty parlor
Camp ground
Clothing - sale of
Drug store
Florist
Furniture
Furs
Gift shop
Hardware
Hotel
Household appliances and furnishings
Jewelry
junk dealer (fixed place of business)
Lumber yard
Merchant - general
Motel
Music store
Nursery
Office equipment
Paint store
Pest control (fixed place of business)
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Pharmacy
Planing mill
Rooming house (capacity of 5 or more)
Sanatorium
Scooter or motor bike sales
Second-hand dealer
Shoe repairing
Shoes - sale of
Sporting goods
Stationery store
Storage
Theaters, except moving picture
Television sales
Upholstery.
Section 6100.24 - License Tax. Professions and Vocations.
Every individual person carrying on the professions or vocations herein enumerated
shall pay an annual license tax based on the following. During the first three years
after being licensed by the City to carry on such profession or vocation, the sum
of $50.00 per annum. After three years, the sum of $100.00 per annum.
Accountant
Appraiser
Architect
Assayer
Attorney-at-law
Auditor - accountant
Bacteriologist
Broker - stock, bond or real estate
Chemist
Chiropractor
Chiropodist
Court reporter
Dentist
Embalmer
Engineer - civil, electrical, chemical, mechanical, surveyor
Ge ologist '
Oculist
Optician
Optometrist
Osteopath or osteopathist
Physician or surgeon
Real estate developer
Subdivider of real estate
Tax consultant
Veterinary.
Anyone required to pay a license under this section may, in lieu thereof, pay the
tax imposed on the gross receipts as follows:
Gross receipts of $50,000.00 or less per annum, the sum of $50.00.
Gross receipts in excess of $50,000.00 per annum, the sum of $50.00 plus
a $5.00 fee for each $5,000.00 of gross receipts, or fraction thereof, in
excess of $50,000.00 per annum.
Section 6100.29 - License Tax. Flat Arnount.
Every person carrying on the businesses herein enumerated shall pay an annual
license tax as follows:
Ambulance Service
$ 25:00
Bail Bond Broker
10.00
Brokerage House
250;00
Cleaning Chimneys
10.00
Dancing School
20:00
Dancing, public hall (permits teaching)
50.00
Dressmaking or alterations (in home)
10.00
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Distributing Advertising
$ 20.00
Employment Agency
20:00
Finance or Loan Business
100:00
Golf Driving Range
50.00
.Handicraft
10.00
Hospital
250:00
House Cleaning
10.00
House Moving or Wreclldng
50.00
Instructor - private
10.00
20:00
Parking and Storage (lots or garages)
9, 001 lbs. to and including 10, 000 lbs. '
Patrol Service
20.00
Pawn Broker
100.00
Pest Control (no fixed place of business)
25 :00
Piano Tuner
10: 00
Private Detective
20:00
Public Stenographer
10 :00
Sanitary Supplies or Service
20:00
Shoe Shining Parlor
10:00
50:00
Shooting Gallery
Signs, Sale of (no fixed place of business)
50.00
Tools, Sharpening (no fixed place of business)
20.00
Trailer (Cargo) Rental Service
25:00
Travel Service
100:00
Window Cleaning.
10.00
Section 6100.31 - License Tax. Trucking.
Every person having a fixed place of business within the City and carrying on the
business of operating any truck, trailer, or other vehicle for the transportation
of baggage, freight, household goods, merchandise, or materials for hire, which
may or may not operate over a defined route within the City, shall pay for each
vehicle an annual license tax as follows:
(a) For any vehicle having not more than two axles according to the following
schedule:
Unladen 1 height Fee
(1)
Less than 4, 001 lbs.
$12:00
(2)
4, 001 lbs: to and including 5, 000 lbs.
13:00
(3)
5, 001 lbs. to and including 6, 000 lbs :
14.00
(4)
6, 001 lbs: to and including 7,000 lbs.
15 : 00
(5)
7, 001 lbs'. to and including 8, 000 lbs.
16:00
(6)
8, 001 lbs. to and including 9, 000 lbs.
17.00
(7)
9, 001 lbs. to and including 10, 000 lbs. '
18'00
(8)
10, 001 lbs. to and including 11, 000 lbs.
19.00
(9)
11, 001 lbs. to and including 12, 000 lbs.
20.00
(10)
12, 001 lbs: to and including 13, 000 lbs.
21.00
(11)
13,001 lbs. to and including 14,000 lbs.
22.00
(12)
14,001 lbs, and over
23.00
(b) For any vehicle having three or more axles or for any trailer, semi - trailer,
pole or pipe dolly, or other dolly according to the following schedule:
Unladen';deight Fee
(1)
Less than: 3,001 lbs.
$10:00
(2)
3, 001 lbs' to and including 4, 000 lbs;
17'00
(3)
4, 001 lbs: to and including 5, 000 lbs.
18.00
(4)
5, 001 lbs' to and including 6, 000 lbs.'
19:00
(5)
6, 001 lbs; to and including 7, 000 lbs'
20: 00
(6)
7, 001 lbs.: to and including 8, 000 lbs.
21:00
(7)
8, 001 lbs. to and including 9, 000 lbs.
22: 00
(8)
9, 001 lbs. *to and including 10, 000 lbs.
23.00
(9)
10, 001 lbs. to and including 11, 000 lbs.
24: 00
(10)
11,001 lbs. to and including 12,000 lbs.
25.00
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(11) 12, 001 lbs: to and including 13, 000 lbs. $26:00
(12) 13, 001 lbs. to and including 14, 000 lbs. 27.00
(13) 14, 001 lbs: to and including 15, 000 lbs. 28.00
(14) 15,001 lbs. and over 29.00
In determining the weights and types of equipment to be licensed, the weight
prescribed by the Motor Vehicle Code of the State of California as set out in
Section 9400, shall apply, and the applicant for such license shall present the
Certificate of Registration from said department for reference.
For the purpose of this section, a truck- tractor and semi - trailer shall be
considered one vehicle, and each trailer not accompanied by a truck- tractor shall
pay an annual license fee of $4.00.
Every vehicle licensed under this section shall have conspicuously displayed
thereon the license sticker furnished by the Collector.
SECTION 3. Section 6100.9.1 is hereby enacted and added to the San Luis
Obispo Municipal Code to read as follows:
Section 6100.9.1 - Non Permanent Business - P/.ethod of Establishing.
Every person merely a temporary resident or temporarily located in the City
who sells or engages in the business of selling any kind of goods whatever, where
such business is not permanently located in the City in a fixed place of business,
shall pay a license fee of $100.00 per quarter or $50.00 per week.
SECTION 4. This Ordinance, together with the ayes and noes, shall be published
once in full, at least three days prior to its final passage, in the Telegram Tribune,
a newspaper published and circulated in said City, and the same shall go into effect at
the expiration of thirty days after its said final passage.
INTRODUCED AND PASSED TO PRINT by the Council of the City of San Luis
Obispo at a Regular L-teeting held thereof on the 6th day of April, 1970 on motion of
Councilman Spring, seconded by Councilman Blake and on the following roll call vote:
AYES: Councilmen Blake, Graham, Miller, Spring and Mayor Schwartz
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ATTEST:
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FINALLY PASSED this 20th day of April , 19 72_,
by the following roll call vote:
AYES: Emmons Blake, Arthur F. Spring, Donald Q. Millers
Kenneth E. Schwartz
NOES: Myron Graham
ABSENT: None
ATTEST:
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PUBLIC HEARING
AMENDMENT TO BUSINESS LICENSE ORDINANCE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the City Council of the City of San Luis Obispo
will hold a public hearing on proposed amendments to the following sections of the
Municipal Code, Business Licenses:
Section 6100.19 License Tax - Gross Receipts
Add "Apartments (4 or more units)"
Section 6100.24 License Tax - Professions & Vocations
Existing Regulations
Every individual person carrying on the professions or vocations herin
enumerated shall pay an annual license tax based on the following:
During the first three years after being licensed by the City to carry on
such profession or vocation, the sum of $25.00 per annum.
After three years, the sum of $40.00 per annum.
Accountant Chemist Optician
Appraiser
Architect
Assayer
Attorney -at -law
Auditor - accountant
Bacteriologist
Broker- stock, bond or
real estate
Chiropractor
Chiropodist
Dentist
Embalmer
Engineer - civil, electrical,
chemical, mechanical, surveyor
Geologist
Oculist
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Optometrist
Osteopath or
Osteopathist
Physician or
surgeon
Real estate sales-
man (on commission)
Tax consultant
Veterinary
Section 6100.24 License Tax - Professions & Vocations
Proposed Regulations
Every individual person carrying on the professions or vocations herein
enumerated shall pay an annual license tax based on the following:
During the first two years after being licensed by the City to carry on
such profession or vocation, the sum of $50.00 per annum.
After two years, the sum of $100.00 per annum.
Same classifications as above.
Add
1. "Court Reporter"
2. "Real Estate Developer"
3. "Subdivider of real estate"
In the case of real estate salesmen, they would be included under the
employing brokers' license.
Anyone required to pay a license tax under this section, may in lieu
thereof, pay the tax imposed on the gross receipts as follows:
Gross receipts of $50,000.00 or less per annum, the sum of $50.00.
Gross receipts in excess of $50,000.00 per annum, the sum of $50.00
plus a $5.00 fee for each $5,000.00 of gross receipts, or fraction
thereof, in excess of $50,000.00 per annum.
Section 6100.29 License Tax- Flat Amount
Every person carrying on the businesses enumerated shall pay an annual
license tax as follows:
Drop "Court Reporter"
Add "Brokerage House" - $250.00
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Chanee Followin
Section 6100.28 Gasoline and Oil Distributing
Repeal
Section 6100.32 Vehicles - No Fixed Place of Business
Repeal
Section 6100.31 Trucking
Every person carrying on the business of operating any truck, trailer or
other vehicle for the transportation of baggage, freight, household goods, merchan-
dise, or materials for hire, which may or may not operate over a defined route
within the City, shall pay for each vehicle an annual license tax as follows:
(a) For any vehicle having not more than two axles according to the following
schedule:
Unladen Weight Existing Proposed
Existing
Proposed
Hospital
$100.00
$250.00
House Cleaning
20.00
10.00
Patrol Service
20.00
25.00
Tools, sharpening
20.00
10.00
Travel Service
20.00
100.00
Section 6100.28 Gasoline and Oil Distributing
Repeal
Section 6100.32 Vehicles - No Fixed Place of Business
Repeal
Section 6100.31 Trucking
Every person carrying on the business of operating any truck, trailer or
other vehicle for the transportation of baggage, freight, household goods, merchan-
dise, or materials for hire, which may or may not operate over a defined route
within the City, shall pay for each vehicle an annual license tax as follows:
(a) For any vehicle having not more than two axles according to the following
schedule:
Unladen Weight Existing Proposed
Fee
Fee
(1)
Less
than
4001 lbs.
$10.00
$12.00
(2)
4001
lbs
to and
including
5000 lbs.
11.00
13.00
(3)
5001
lbs.
to and
including
6000 lbs.
12.00
14.00
(4)
6001
lbs.
to and
including
7000 lbs.
13.00
15.00
(5)
7001
lbs.
to and
including
8000 lbs.
14.00
16.00
(6)
8001
lbs.
to and
including
9000 lbs.
15.00
17.00
(7)
9001
lbs.
to and
including
10,000 lbs.
16.00
18.00
(8)
10,001 lbs. to and including 11,000 lbs.
17.00
19.00
Existing Proposed
(b) For any vehicle having three or more axles or for any trailer, semi-
trailer, pole or pipe dolly or other dolly according to the following
schedule:
Unladen Weight
Existing
Fee
Fee
(9)
11,001
lbs.
to and including 12,000 lbs.
$18.00
$20.00
(10)
12,001
lbs.
to and including 13,000 lbs.
19.00
21.00
(11)
13,001
lbs.
to and including 14,000 lbs.
20.00
22.00
(12)
14,001
lbs.
an& over -
21.00
23.00
(b) For any vehicle having three or more axles or for any trailer, semi-
trailer, pole or pipe dolly or other dolly according to the following
schedule:
In determining the weights and types of equipment to be licensed, the
weight prescribed by the Motor Vehicle Code of the State of California as set
out in Section 9400, shall apply, and the applicant for such license shall pre-
sent the Certificate of Registration from said department for references.
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Existing
Proposed
Unladen Weight
Fee
Fee
(1)
Less than 3001 lbs.
$ 8.00
$10.00
(2)
3001 lbs. to and including 4000 lbs.
15.00
17.00
(3)
4001 lbs. to and including 5000 lbs.
16.00
18.00
(4)
5001 lbs. to and including 6000 lbs.
17.00
19.00
(5)
6001 lbs. to and including 7000 lbs.
18.00
20.00
(6)
7001 lbs. to and including 8000 lbs.
19.00
21.00
(7)
8001 lbs. to and including 9000 lbs.
20.00
22.00
(8)
9001 lbs. to and including 10,000 lbs.
21.00
23.00
(9)
10,001 lbs. to and including 11,000 lbs.
22.00
24.00
(10)
11,001 lbs. to and including 12,000 lbs.
23.00
25.00
(11)
12,001 lbs. to and including 13,000 lbs.
24.00
26.00
(12)
13,001 lbs. to and including 14,000 lbs.
25.00
27.00
(13)
14,001 lbs. to and including 15,000 lbs.
26.00
28.00
(14)
15,001 lbs. and over
27.00
29.00
In determining the weights and types of equipment to be licensed, the
weight prescribed by the Motor Vehicle Code of the State of California as set
out in Section 9400, shall apply, and the applicant for such license shall pre-
sent the Certificate of Registration from said department for references.
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For the purpose of this section, a truck - tractor and semi- tractor shall
be considered one vehicle, and each trailer not accompanied by a truck - tractor
shall pay an annual license fee of $4.00.
Every vehicle licensed under this section shall have conspicuously dis-
played thereon the license sticker furnished by the Collector.
SAID PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE held on Monday, April 6, 1970 at 9:30 P.M.
in the Council Chambers of the City Hall, 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo,
California.
JHF:mea
J. H. FITZPATRICK "=
CITY CLERK
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