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ORDINANCE NU1,11BER —(NEW SERIES) .
AB ORDINANCE LICENSING AND REGULATING THE DOING OF CERTAIN ACTS
Ma THE CARRYING ON OF UERTAIN TRADES, CALLINGS, BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS
AND OCCUPATIONS WITHIIJ THE CORPORATE LI1d1ITS OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS
OBISPO, CALIFORNIA, AND PRESCRIBIfIG PENALTIES IFOR THE VIOLATION
TH]SREOF.
Be it ordained by the Council of the City of San Luis Obispo,
as follows:-
Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, whether as
principal or agent, clerk or employee, either for himself or any
other person, or any body corporate, or otherwise, or as officer of
any corporation, to commence, carry on or engage in any trade, calling,
business, profession or occupation in this ordinance specified, or
to do any thing for the doing of which a license is herein provided
to be procured, without first having procured a license from said
City so to do, and each and every day or fractional part of a day
that said trade, calling, business, profession or occupation in
this ordinance specified is conducted, carried on or engaged in,
or said thing done, without such license, shall constitute a viol-
ation of this ordinance, and any person who shall violate any of the
provisions of this ordinance or who shall for himself.or for any
other person or persons, or for any body corporate, or otherwise,
commence, carry on, engage in or conduct any trade, calling,
business, profession or occupation or do any thing aforesaid, without
first having procured such license, shall, for each violation of
this ordinance, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon con-
viation by any Court having jurisdiction thereof, shall be fined
therefor in a sum of not less than ten (10.00) Dollars, and not
more than three hundred (44300.00) Dollars, or be imprisoned for a
term not exceeding thirty (30) days, or shall suffer both such fine
and imprisonment, and the amount of such license shall be deemed a'
debt to the said City of San Luis Obispo.,.ana-such person shall be
liable in an action in the name of the City of San Luis Obispo, in
any Court of competent juri-didtion, for the amount of the license
of such trade, calling, business, profession or occupation as he
shall or they may have been engaged in, with costs,of suit.
Provided, however, that arrest rrest and conviction hereunder shall not
be construed as a waiver of the right of said.City to bring Suda
civil action, nor shall the bringing.of such civil action release
the defendant therein, or any other person, from such criminal
prosecution.
Section 2. It shall be the duty of the pity Clerk to -
prepare and issue a license under this ordinance for every.person'.
firm and corporation liable to pay a license hereunder. Each license
shall state the amount thereof, the period of time covered thereby.,
the name of the person, firm or corporation for whom issued, the
trade, calling, business, profession, occupation or thing licensed,
and the location,of the place of business, if any, where such
trade, calling, business, profession or occupation is to be carried
on or thing done. Said City Clerk shall sign and deliver the
same to the.City Collector for collection and take his receipt for
the amount thereof.* In no case shall any mistake by the City,
Clerk or City Collector in stating the amount of a license or in
,preparing or issuing the same, prevent or prejudice the collection
by the City of what shall be actually due, from any one carrying
on a trade, calling, business, profession or occupation or doing
any thing subject to license under this. ord-inance..
Section 3. All licenes shall be paid in advance in lawful money
of the United States of America, at the office of the City Collector.
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A separate license must be obtained for each branch establishment
or separate place of business in which the trade, calling, business,
profession or occupation is carried on, and each license shall author -
ize the party obtaining it to uarry on, pursue or conduct only that
trade, calling, business, profession or occupation described in such
license, and only at the location or place of business which is
indicated thereby..
The monthly licenses in this ordinance provided shall be due
and payable to the City on the first day of each calendar month, in
advance, from all persons who have for the previous month been
licensed to carry on the same trade, calling, business, profession
or occupation,*and from all persons who have not been licensed
for the previous month for the same trade, calling, business, pro-
fession or occupation, the license shall be due and payable and
must be procured by such persons before commencing to carry on such
trade, calling, business, profession or occupation.
The quarterly licenses in this ordinance provided shall be
due and payable to the City on the first days of January, April,
July and October, and all such licenses shall expire with the last
days of March, June, September and December of each year. tmtxtjm
ftlr The weekly licenses in this ordinance provided shall be
due and payable to the City on the lJonday of each week in advance.
The daily licenses in this ordinance provided shall be due
and payable to the City each day in advance.
The annual licenses in this ordinance provided shall be due
and payable td the city at the.times spbcified herein respectively,
or when not so specified, on the first day of July of each year.
No greater or less amounts of money shall be charged or
received for any licenses than are provided in this ordinance, and
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no license shall be sold or issued for any period other than as
provided in this ordinance.
Section 4. The City Clerk must prepare and have printed-
licenses of all classes mentioned in this ordinance for such terms
as are herein authorized to be issued, with a blank receipt
attached for the signature of the City Collector when issued, in
substantially the.following form.
"No
CITY LICENSE
City of San Luis Obispo.
having paid into the City Treasury
Dollars, License is hereby granted to transact the business of
at No. Street, in the City of
San Luis Obispo, California, for the period of
ending in conformity with thenprovision.s
of the Ordinances of said City.
Dated
Received
cified for said License.
City Clerk.
, lg , the sum above spe-
City Collector."
The licenses so prepared by the City Clerk shall be bound in
books of suitable.size and shall have a stub corresponding thereta
which shall remain in the book after issuance. On this stub shall
be noted the number of the lieense, the date thereof, to whom issued,
for what, the time when it expires, and the amount paid. It shall
also bear a receipt and a statement to be signed by the licensee
under oath, substantially in the following form, to wit;
"Received the above mentioned License from the City Collector of the
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City of San Luis Obispo, Cal., to whorl the above mentioned sum has
been paid on this date.
There has been no material change that,would affect the amount of
license to be paid, for which said license was issued, since the
last statement thereof has been made.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of ,
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City Clerk."
Section 5. The City Clerk must keep an account with the City
Collector of all licenses delivered to him, issued or returned un-
issued by him; a correct 'statement of the Collector's license
account must be certified to the City Council each month by the
City Clerk. But the City Clerk shall not give the City Collector
credit for, nor shall the City Col ector be entitled to have credit
for any unissued license without first procuring the cancellation
thereof by and through the City Council,
Section 6. All licenses shall be issued for the term of three
months unless otherwise provided and specified in this ordinance.
Section 7. When.a license that is payable quarterly is issued-
in the first month of any quarter, the full quarterly license fee
shall be paid; when issued in the second month of any quarter, two -
thirds of the full quarterly license fee shall be paid;,when issued
in the third month of any quarter, one -third of the full quarterly
license fee shall be paid. Provided however, this shall not apply
to cases where the payment of the full quarterly license fee is
required, and provided also, that where the person procuring such
license shall prior to the issuance thereof have been engaged within
the corporate limits of said city in the.business, calling, trade,
profession or occupation for which said license is issued to him,
without having actually procured and paid for the proper license
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under the terms hereof, such person shall pay the full license fee
for the period, subsequent to December 31st, 1919, during which he
has been so engaged in such business, trade, calling, profession or
occupation
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^ ection 8. ' Wqh ! a licence h t is payable annually is issued
in the first quarter of any year, the full annual license fee shall
be paid; when issued in the second quarter of any year three - fourths
of the full annual license fee shall be paid; when issued in the
third quarter of any year, one half of the full annual license fee
shall be paid, and when issued in the fourth quarter of any year,
one - fourth of the full annual license fee shall be paid., Provided
however, this shall not apply to cases where the payment of the
full annual license fee is required..
Section 9. The City Collector shall on the last day of each
month before 12 o'clock, Noon, pay to the City Treasurer to the
credit of the.General Fund, all license fees collected by him
during said month; provided that if the last day of the month falls
upon a Sunday, or a legal holiday, then such payment must be made
on the day preceding, before the hour herein specified.
Section 10. In all cases where the amount of license fee
is determined by the amount of the average monthly sales or the amount
of business transacted or upon the average nurnber of men employed
or the number of wagons or other vehicles used, or the Number of
tables or other appliances used or maintained, or the number of
rooms in any building or used in any business, it shall be the
duty of the City Collector-to require such person or his agent or
attorney, or a member of such firm, or the'President, secretary
or managing agent of such corporation to make a statement in
writing and under oath of the total amount of receipts for sales,
or of business transacted, or of the average number of men employed
by such person firm or corporation during the license period next
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preceding the date of such statement, or as estimate of the same
for the succeeding three months if they have not already been engaged
in such business, or the nu..:ber of wagons or other vehicles used,
or the number of tables or other appliances used or maintained, or
the .number of rooms contained in such building or used in such busi-
ness,at the time of such statement, and such other information as
may be necessary to determine the amount -of license fee to be paid
hereunder; and thereupon such person, agent, president, secretary or
attorney must procure a license from said City Collector for the
term desired and pay the fee therefor required by this Ordinance.
All-statements herein required must be made in such form as may.be
specified by the City Council, and must be delivered to said City
Collector and by hini filed with,the City Clerk on or before the
third Monday of the first month-of each quarter. At least once
every year thereafter a statement must be made of the above matters
by every person, firm or corporation required by the provisions
hereof to obtain a license tYe amount of the fee whereof is determin-
ed or affected by any of said matters; and such additional statements
shall be made by such persons, firms and corporations as may be from
time to time required to be made by the City Council. Such state-
ments shall not be conclusive as to the amount of license fee to be
paid by such person, firm or corporation, and in no case shall any
mistake of the City Collector in stating the amount of license,
prevent or prejudice the collection by the City of what shall be
actually due, with all of the costs, against anyone for carrying on
such business without a license, or refusing to pay the'license fees
specified herein. If any person, firm or corporation, after
x=AhMki=x36kx demand made by the City Collector shall neglect or
refuse to give under oath any statement herein provided for, the
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City Collector must estimate the amount of license fee due from such
person hereunder, prepare the proper license in accordance therewith,
noting the fact of such refusal.on the appropriate ttub therefor,
within two weeks
transmit to the City Council,,a report of such refusal and the
amount of such estimate, and thereupon the sum so estimated and
set forth in said license shall be deemed to be and shall be the
proper license fee due from said firm, person or corporation hereun-
der and may be collected 'by the City hereunder, and failure to pay
the same shall be a violation of this Ordinance;.provided however
that the City Council at any time within one month after the filing
with it of the aforesaid report may raise or lower the amount of
said license fee at a hearing held either on application of such
person, firm or corporation, or after notice to such person, firm
or corporation given at least five days prior to such hearing, at
which hearing said person, firm or corporation shall make and said
Council shall have the -right to require all such statements under
oath, and shall furnish all such information, relating to the
determination of.the amount of license fee to be paid by such
person, fire or corporation, as may be required. by said City Council.
Section 11. No license shall be issued for any livery and
feed stable, public laundry where washing is done for hire, hotel,
boarding house, lodging house, rooming house, chop house, ocffee
house, bakery, restaurant, lunch counter, shooting gallery, billard
room, pool room, amusement parlor, cigar store, garage, creamery,
auctioneer, auction house, boxing or sparring contest, messenger
or messenger and parcel service, taxi -cab or motor vehicle for
hire, furtune teller, astrologer, phrenologist, card reader, ptLlmist,
cartomancy, clairvoyant, clair- audience, crystal - gazer, hypnotist,
medium, phophet, augury, divination, magic necromancy, carnival
company, rope or wire dancer, merry -go- round, or for showing any
or letting the use of any lung tester, muscle tester, phonograph,
talking machine,(phonographs kinetescope, galvanic battery, weighing
machine, ball, knife or ring throwigg, nor for any theatrical enter-
tainment, show or exhibition for which a license is required here-
under, save carrying on and conducting a permanently established
theater or motion picture show, except on the order of the City Council
of the said City of San Luis Obispo, and whenever any person, firm
or corporation desires to to open or carry on any business or do
any thing specified in this section, such person, firm or corporation
shall petition the City Council to order a license issued therefor;
which petition shall set forth the name of the applicant, the char-
acter of the business to be carried on or thing to be done, and
the location of the premises where such business is to be conducted
or thing done. The City Council shall not order the license for
any business in this section specified to,issue at the meeting on
which the petition therefor is presented to it nor-within six days
thereafter. Where any business in this section specified for any
reason is or may become dangerous to or affect the public health,
peace, safety or morals, or be or become dangerous to surrounding
or adjacent property, the Council shall refuse to grant the license.
Should the Council at any time determine that the premises
wherein any business prescribed in this section is conducted are not
in good sanitary condition or dangerous to adjacent property, or
do injure or affect the public health, peace, safety or
% morals, it may revoke its order requiridg the license for such
business to issue and no further license shall be issued thereon,
and it may also revoke any license theretofore issued, by written
notice to such licensed person.
Section 12. Every person, firm or corporation having a
license under the provisions of this Ordinance and carrying on a
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business, trade, calling, profession or occupation at a particular
place of business, shall keep such license posted and exhibited while
in force, in some conspicuous part of said place of business. Every
peddler of goods, wares or merchandise, shall carry his license with
him at all times when engaged in peddling. Every person driving cr
having control of any vehicle which is reauired.by this ordinance
to be designated by a number shall procure from the.City Collector
a ticket bearing said number which at all times shall be attached
to and carried on said vehicle in such manner that said number
shall be plainly legible ,.whether said vehicle shall be in motion
or not.
Section 13. A license shall be procured and the license
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fee paid therefor for engaging in, carrying^ conducting or pursuing
any business, trade, calling, profession or occupation hereinafter
mentioned, within the corporate limits of said City of San Luis
Obispo, or doing any thing hereinafter mentioned,within said corporate
limits, as hereinafter provided and set forth.
Section 14. Every solicitor or order agent soliciting or
taking orders from house to house for the sale or purchase of books,
maps,. charts, photographs, pictures, paintings, or other goods,
wares or merchandise, with or withour samples, either for present or
tuture delivery, when not in conjunction with any store or other
fixed place of business paying a license fee to the City of San
Luis Obispo, whether such books, maps, charts, photographs, pictures,
paintings, or other goods, waresx or merchandise shall be in his act-
ual possession or not, shall pay a license fee of Five ($5.00)
Dollars per day or Twenty -five ($25.00) Dollars per week.
Section 15. Every person engaged in the.practice of law as
an attorney at law or maintaining an office for the practice of law
within the corporate limits of said City shall pay a license fee of
Five ($5.00) Dollars per quarter.
Section 16. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in
the brokerage business, save real estate and insurance brokers,
shall pay a license fee of Two (42.00) Dollars per quarter.
Section 17t Every person, firm or corporation engaged in
the banking business or maintaining an office or place of business
for the transaction of a banking business,within the corporate
limits of said City shall pay a license fee of Twenty -five 025.00)
Dollars per quarter.
Section 18. Every p.ersbn practicing as a physician or
surgeon or maintaining an office for the practice of medicine or
surgery, within the corporate limits of said City shall pay a
license fee of Five 05.00) Dollars per quarter.
Section 19. Every person practicing as a dentist or main-
taining an office for the practice of dentistry or dental surgery,
within the corporate limits of said City shall pay a license fee of
Five (45.00) Dollars per quarter.
Section 20. Every person engaged in the business of selling
gasoline by means of what is known as a sidewalk gasoline pump only
shall pay a license fee of One (41.00) Dollar per quarter for each
pump maintained or operated in such business.
Section 21. Every person, firm or corporation conducting,
maintaining or operating what is knovrn as a service or filling
station or engaged in the business of selling gasoline at a fixed
place of business other than by means of a sidewalk gasoline pump,
shall pay a licnese fee-of Twenty ($20.00) Dollars per quarter if
any part of the product sold by such person, firm or corporation_
shall be manufactured, refined, extracted or produced by such
person; firm or corporation, or by any person firr,i or corporation
which it owns or controls in whole or in part, or which owns or
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controls in whole or in part the firm or corporation so engaging in
such business, and shall pay a license fee_�of Five ($5.00) per
quarter if all of the product so sold shall by such person, firm
or corporation be bought from some person, firm or corporation
other than and in which the person engaging in such business has
no interest, ownership nor control.
Section 22. Every person, fire: or corporation conducting
or carrying on a clothes cleaning or dye business or works shall
pay a license fee of $2.50 per quarter, save that where such
business is carried on and conducted and all work thereof done
solely by the proprietor thereof and members of his immediate
or by partners where no salary is paid
familyx,no license fee shall be required nor paid.
Section 23. Every person, firm or corporation conducting
or carrying on a tailor shop, or engaged in the tailoring business .
shall pay a license fee of $2.50 per. quarter, save that where
such business is carried on and all wore thereof done solely by
or by partners where no salary is paid
the proprietor thereofx,no license fee shall be required nor paid.
Section 24. All contractors and all persons engaged in the
business of performing or carrying out building or repairing contract
or other contract of whatsoever nature for the furnishing of labor
and materials or labor for the improvement of the property of
another, whether for a fixed price or on percentage, shall pay a
license fee of Twenty Dollars per jyear;Dr; provided that nothing
in this section shall be construed to -require.a license fee from
any person who furnishes no labor save his own in the performance
of any such contract. No license shall be issued hereunder save on
payment of the full annual license fee.
Section 25. Every person practicing as a ve$erinary or
veterinary surgeon within the corporate limits of said City shall
pay a license fee of Five Dollars per quarter.
Section. 26. Every person who peddles fish or engages in
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the business of a fish peddler within said City shall,pay a license
fee of Five Dollars per quarter.
Section 27. Every person, firm or corporation, who at a
fixed place of business sells or offers for sale, any real estate
belonging to said person, firm or corporation shall pay a license
fee of Five Dollars per quarter.
Section 28. Every person, firm or corporation, whp, at a
fixed place of business, sells or offers to sell, or buys 'Or offers
to buy, or who -rents or leases, or offers to rent or lease any real
estate, or who collects or offers to collect rents or other debts,
on commission, shall pay a license fee of Five Dollars per quarter.
Section 29. Every person, firm or corporation, who, from no
fixed place of business, sells`or offers to sell, or buys or offers
to buy, or who rents or leases;or offers to rent or lease any reel
estate, or who collects or off1ers to collect rents or other debts,
on commission, shall pay a license fee of Fifteen Dollars per
quarter.
Section 30. Every person firm or corporation engaged in
the business of selling,or offering to sell, from a fixed place of
business automobiles, or accessories, or motor cycles shall pay a
license fee of Five Dollars per quarter, unless the average monthxy
sales of such person, firm or kzzjzx= corporation in such business
amount to Six Hundred Dollars per month or over, in which case,
such person firm or corporation shall pay the merchandising
license required to be paid by Section �_of this Ordinance.
Section 31. Every person, firm or corporation who has no
fixed place of business, and who sells or offers to sell, or buys
or offers to buy, or who rents or leases or offers to rent or
lease any automobile , motor cycle or motor vehicle, shall pay a
license fee of Twenty -five Dollars per quarter, and no license
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shall be issued except upon the payment of the full quarterly license
fee.
Section 32. Every person, firm or corporation selling or offer-
ing to sell goods, wares or merchandise at public auction in a public
store room or store building shall pay a license fee of Two Hundred
Rmd:3=xx and Fifty Dollars per year; provided that nothing in this
section contained shall be deemed to apply to or prohibit any mer-
chant who has been engaged in business in said City for a period
of one year or more from selling or offering for sale at public
auction any stock of goods that,he may have on hand at the time
when he may in good faith desire to close out such business or to
reduce his stock.
Provided further, that nothing in this section shall be deemed
to apply to zxXxjmK=ax the selling, or offering for sale, at public
auction, of real estate or of live stock, or household goods, so
sold or offered for sale at the house or on the premises where the
same have been in use by the owner thereof.
And provided further, that nothing in this section contained
shall be deemed to apply to or prohibit any person from carrying
on the calling or profession of an auctioneer for hire. Every
person engaged in the calling or occupation of an auctioneer for
hire shall pay a license fee of Three Dollars per day or Ten Dollars
per quarter if a quarterly license is issued.
Section 33. From the participants, managers, or conductors .
of any boxing or sparring match where*an admission fee is charged,
a license fee of Fifty Dollars shall be collected and paid for
every such match or exhibition.
Section 34. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in
the business of bottling beverages shall pay a.license fee of
Six Dollars per quarter.
Section 35. For each nine or ten pin or bowling alley a
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license fee of Three Dollars per quarter for the first alley and one
dollar per quarter for each additional alley shall be paid.
Section 36. For each and every billiard table, pool table
and pigeonhole table of any and every kind whatsoever, not fIr-
bidden to be used by the statutes of the Mate of California,
whether used and played on for hire or not, if set up and kept in
or about a place of business, a "license fee of $2.50 per quarter
shall be paid; provided also, that no minor under the age of
twenty -one years shall be allowed to frequent, remain in or visit
any place of business licensed under this section unless accompanied
by the parent or legal guardian;of such minor, and said place of
business shall close at twelve o'clock midnight.
Section 37. Every person, firm or corporation carrying on
�4 the business of advertising by posting, sticking, tacking, affixing
or painting bills or signs to or upon posts, fences, billboards,
advertising sign boards, buildings or other structures, or the
business of advertising by distributing posters, dodgers, or printed
advertisements of any kind,from a fixed. and permanent place of bus-
iness shall pay a license fee of Five Dollars per quarter.
Section 38. Every person firm or corporation carrying on
the business of advertising by posting, stocking, tacking, affixing
or painting bills or signs or advertisements to or upon posts,
fences, bill boards, advertising sign boards, buildings or other
structures or the business of advertising by distributing posters,
dodgers, or printed advertisements of any kind,who has no fixed or
permanent place of business in the said City shall pay a license
fee of 4.50 per day or Twenty -five Dollars per quarter; provided
that no license shall be required for the advertisement of the goods,
wares or merchandise or business of any person who has a fixed
place of business within said City, except that provided. in section
37 of this ordinance. Provided further that nothing in this.
section nor in section 37 hereof shall apply to the distribution
nor posting by a printer who has a fixed place of business in said
City of any advettising signs, dodgers or other advertisements
printed or prepared by him at such place of business.
Section 39. For each ball, dance or party where a charge is
made or money received for attendance or ad-mission, a license fee
of Two Dollars shall be paid for each dance or party, or if a guar -'
terly .. license is issued, Ten.D'ollars per quarter; provided that
no lieense shall be req-aired for charitable, private social, relig-
ious, fraternal or school dances.
Section 40. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in
the business of conducting a creamery shall pay.,a license fee of
Ten Dollars per quarter.
Section 41. Every person, firm or corporation having no
fixed and permanent place-of business in the said City, who solicits
or receives orders for cleaning or dying shall pay a license fee
of twenty39five dollars per quarter, or a daily license of Five
Dollars per day.
Section 42. Every person, firm or corporation co I naucting
or carrying on the business of a cigar stand or cigar store, shall
pay a license fee of Five Dollars per quarter*
Section 436 Every person�� firm or corporation conducting
the business of a cigar factory for the manufacture of cigars shall
pay a license fee of $2.50 per quarter, save that where such. busirass
is carried on and all work thereof done solely by the proprietor
thereof, no license fee shall be requires_ nor paid.
Section 44. Every person, firm or corporation conducting
or carrying On the business of selling cigars or tobacco, when the
same are sold only as a side line and in conjunction with some other
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business fot which a license is paid under this ordinance, shall
pay a license fee of Three Dollars per quarter in addition to any
other license.
Section 45. Every person` or corporation condictin- or,
carrying on the business of storing or housing vegetables, fruits,
butter, eggs, or other perishable commodities by creating an arti-
ficial temperature by mechanical or other means, shall pay a
license fee of Dollars per quarter.
Section 46. For every person, firm or corporation conducting
managing or carrying on a circus or menagerie under canvas or in
a temporary structure, whose main tent or auditorium has a seating
capacity of Five Hundred or less than Five Hundred persons, Ten
Dollars for each performance of such circus shall be paid. For
every person, firm or corporation conducting, managing or carrying
on a circus or menagerie under canvas or in a temporary structure
whose main tent or auditorium has a seating capacity of more than
Five Hundred and less than two; thousand persons, twenty -five dollars
for each performance shall be paid; For every person, firm or cor-
poration managing or carrying on a circus or menagerie under canvas
or in a temporary structure, whose main tent or auditorium has a
seating capacity or two thousand or more than two thousand persons
Fifty Dollars for each performance shall be paid. 9 performance
under this section shall mean a show or exhibition between the
hours of six o'clock in the 'o „renoon and twelve o'clock noon of
any day, and between twelve o"clock noon and six o'clock in the after-
noon of such day, and between six o'clock P.L.I., and midnight
of such day. For every person conducting, managing or carrying on
a side show or after show to a circus or menagerie when a separate
admission fee is charged Five Dollars per day for each day of such
side show or after shover im shall be paid.
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business fot which a license is paid under this ordinance, shall
pay a license fee of Three Dollars per quarter in addition to any
other license.
Section 45. Every person` or corporation condictin- or,
carrying on the business of storing or housing vegetables, fruits,
butter, eggs, or other perishable commodities by creating an arti-
ficial temperature by mechanical or other means, shall pay a
license fee of Dollars per quarter.
Section 46. For every person, firm or corporation conducting
managing or carrying on a circus or menagerie under canvas or in
a temporary structure, whose main tent or auditorium has a seating
capacity of Five Hundred or less than Five Hundred persons, Ten
Dollars for each performance of such circus shall be paid. For
every person, firm or corporation conducting, managing or carrying
on a circus or menagerie under canvas or in a temporary structure
whose main tent or auditorium has a seating capacity of more than
Five Hundred and less than two; thousand persons, twenty -five dollars
for each performance shall be paid; For every person, firm or cor-
poration managing or carrying on a circus or menagerie under canvas
or in a temporary structure, whose main tent or auditorium has a
seating capacity or two thousand or more than two thousand persons
Fifty Dollars for each performance shall be paid. 9 performance
under this section shall mean a show or exhibition between the
hours of six o'clock in the 'o „renoon and twelve o'clock noon of
any day, and between twelve o"clock noon and six o'clock in the after-
noon of such day, and between six o'clock P.L.I., and midnight
of such day. For every person conducting, managing or carrying on
a side show or after show to a circus or menagerie when a separate
admission fee is charged Five Dollars per day for each day of such
side show or after shover im shall be paid.
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Section 47. For each and every dray, cart, wagon or other vehicle
for the delivery of freight, goods or other commodities for hire,
a license fee of Three Dollars per quarter shall.be paid; provided
that each such drab, cart, waon.or other vehicle shall be designated
by a number to be furnished by the City Collector as hereinbefore
provided.
Section 48. Every person, firba or corporation conducting
or carrying on the business of an employment office or intelligence
bureau shall pay a license fee of Three Dollars per quarter.
Section 49. Every person who carries on, practices or professes
to practice the business or art of fartune telling, astrology,
palmistry, phrenology, card reading, cartomancy, clairvoygnce,
Clair - audience, crystal- gazing, hypnotism, mediumship, prophecy,
augury, divination, magic necromancy and who demands or °receives a
fee or compensation for the practice, exercise or exhibition of his
art therein, or who gives an exhibition thereof at any place where
a fee is charged, shall pay a license fee of One Hundred Dollars
per year, or Fifty Dollars per quarter, or Twenty Dollars per
week or Five Dollars per day. Such license shall be paid in
addition to the theatre license in this ordinance provided; provided
that nolicense granted under the terms of this ordinance shall give
to any person the right to hypnotize subjects under the age of
twenty -one years.
Section BO. Every person, firm or corporation_ engaged_ in
the business of conducting, or carrying on a garage for pay shall
pay a license fee of Ten Dollars per quarter.
Section 51. Every person, firm-or. corporation engaged in
the business of conducting a boarding house, eating house, chop
house, lunch counter, doffee or refreshment saloon or restaurant,
shall pay a license fee as follows:
Where the average monthly receipts are under the sum of
$500.00 the sum of $5.00 per quarter.
Where the average monthly receipts are $ 500.00 or over but under
$1000.00 the sum of ;7.50 per quarter.
Where the average monthly receipts are 51000.00 or over, the
sum of $12.50 per quarter.
Section 52. Every person, firm or corporation conducting or
carrying on the business of selling ice - cream, soda or other soft
drinks, tamales or sandwiches, from any) wagon, hand cart or stand,
shall pay a license fee of $2.50 per quarter, and such wagon, .hand
cart, other vehicle or stand shall be designated by a number affixed
to the same, which shall be furnished by the City Collector.
Section 53. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the
business of manufactaring or selling ice shall pay a license fee
of Fiften Dollars per quarter.
Section 53. Blery person engaged in or carrying on the
business of a junk dealer shall pay a license fee of Five Dollars
per quarter, and every person carrying on the business of a jhnk
collector, for himself or any other person, shall pay a license fee
of Five Doilars per quarter.
A junk dealer is defined to be any person having a fixed_ place of
business in the City of San Luis Obispo and buying and selling
any old rags, sacks, bottles, cans, clothing, books, fire -arms,
knives, tools, or implements ofindustry, paper, metal, or other
articles commonly known as junk, and a junk collector is defined
to be any person not having such place of business who goes about
from house to house or from place to place collecting, buying or
selling any of the above articles.
Each wagon or other vehicle used by a jnnk dealer or junk collector
must be designated by a number to be furnished by the City Collects r,
and placed upon such wagon or vehicle as in this ordinance provided.
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Every jhnk dealer and junk shop keeper shall keep a regular
register showing the date, the names of all persons from he purchases
or trades for any article or thing whatsoever, and the name or des-
cription of such article or thing he.purchased or traded for. He
shall also keep a register showing the names of all persons to whom
he shall sell or trade any article or thing, and the name or descript-
ion of such article or thing so sold or traded and the date of such
sale or exchange. Such register shall at all times be open to the
inspection of any police officer.
No junk dealer or junk shopkeeper or pawn broker shall purchase,
trade for or receive any article or thing whatever from any minor
under the age of eighteen years without the written conselit of
the parent or guardian of such minor.
Section 540 Every public laundry where washing is done for
hire or compensation must pay a license fee of Ten Dollars per
quarter.
Section 55. Every livery and feed stable shall pay a license
fee of Four Dollars per quarter.
Section 56. Every feed stable shall pay a license fee of
Two Dollars per quarter.
Section 57. Every person, firm or corporation operating a
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lumber yea& or dealing in lumber must pay a license fee of
Dollars per quarter.
Section 58. Every person, firm or corporation who.-at a fixed
and permanent place of business sells any goods, wares, merchandise,
meat, food, jewelry or wares or precious metals, or any thine
whatsoever, save as in this ordinance otherwise specifically
provided, whether on commission -or otherwise, shall,pay to the
City the following license fee:
lWhere the average monthly sales are under the sum of 4''300.00
the sure of w2.50 per quarter.
Where the average monthly sales are $30W OO or over, but are under
$600.00, the sum of yp4.00 per quarter.
Where the average monthly sales are $600.00 or over, but under
X900.00, the sum of $6.00 pt
Where the average monthly
$1,200.00, the sum of 148.00
Where the average monthly
under 92,000.00, the sum of
;r quarter.
sales are ;p900.00 or over, but are under
per quarter.
sales are ;1.;200.00 or over, but are
'12.00 per quarter.
'lihere the average monthly sales are 2,000.00 or over, but under
3,500.00, the sum of $16.00,p 'er quarter.
Where the average monthly sales aren4�3,500.00 or over, but are
under X5,000.00, the sum of 420.00 per quarter.
Where the average monthly sales are 45,000.00 or over, but are
under ''10,000.0,0, the sum of $25.00 per quarter.
Where the average monthly sales are 410,000.00 or over, the sum
of X30.00 per quarter.
Section 59. Every person, firm or corporation conducting a
drug store or engaged in the business of selling drugs shall pay a
license fee of Five Dollars per quarter, unless the average monthly
sales of such person, firm or cp®poration in such business amount
to Sits Hundred Dollars per month or over, in which case such person
firm or corporation shall pay the merchandising license required to
be paid by Section 58 of this Ordinance.
Section 60. Every person, firm or cptvporation who sells in
the City of San Luis Obispo any bankrupt, assigned or damaged stock
of goods, wares, merchandise, jewelry, dry goods, boots* and shoes
clothing, hardware, groceries,.furniture, or other stock of
merchandise shall pay a) license fee of Fifty Dollars per quarter,
provided that this sectio;i shall not apply to any stock of goods
owned by any person actually conducting a regular place of business
in this City which stock has been damaged by fire or water resulting
from fire in the said City of San Luis Obispo.
Section 61. -Every person, firm or corporation merely a temporary
-resident or temporarily located in the City of San Luis Obispo who
sells or engages in the business of selling any kind of goods or
wares whatever where such business is not permanently located in
said City, shall pay a license fee of 4,100.00 per quarter or
`';50.00 per week.
Every person, firm or corporation in the City of oan Luis Obispo
who sells or offers to sell or engages in the business of selling
any 'rind of goods, wares or merchandise whatever, who shall here-
after begin business in said City and who represents that he is to
be permanently located in said City in such business, shall file
a bond with the City Clerk.of said City in the penal sum of 5 ?200.00
in favor of said City, conditioned that he will in good faith be
permanently located in said City in such business for the period
of six months, and in default of-which condition he will forfeit
to said City the sum of ti p'200000. Said bond shall be in such form
and of such security as may be a -ppio ved by the Council of said City
and in case said person, firm or corporation shall in good faith
permanently engage. in such business for the period of six months
after the giving of such bond, said bond shall be null and void.
Otherwise said sum of y�_200.00 shall be forfeited to. said City.
Section 62. Every person, firms or corporation keeping or
operating taxicabs or motor vehicles for hire or carrying passengers
for hire, either entirely within the corporate limits of said City
of partly within and partly outside said limits and not between
fixed termini, shall pay an annual license fee of Twenty -Five Doha rs
per year? for each vehicle used, maintained or operated in such
business, or a daily license fee of Two Dollars per day for each
vehicle used, maintained or operated in such business.
Vffien an annual license is issued under this section in the
first quarter of any year, the full annual license fee shall be paid;
when issued in the second quarter of any year three - fourths of the
full annual license fee shall be paid, and when issued in the last
half of any year one -half of the full annual license fee shall be
paid
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Section 63. :every person, firm or corporation operatingA passengerp
stage or stages, or carrying passengers for hire partly.within and
partly outside the corporate limits of said City, between fixed
termini, Shall pay a license fee of two dollars per quarter for
each vehicle used or operated in such business.
Section 64. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the
business of operatiai.g freight stages or carrying freight for hire
either entirely or partly within the corporate limits of said_ city,
shall pay a license fee per quarter for. each truck or vehicle used
or operated in such business .of $2.00 and j >1.00 in addition for
each ton by which the capacity of such truck or vehicle shall
exceed two tons.
Section 65. For every merry -go- round, roller coaster, Ferris
wheel or other similar device a license fee of Fifteen Dollars per
week must be paid, and no license shall be issued for less than one.
week; provided, that no mt.sic in connection therewith shall be
allowed after the hour of nine O'clock P..ia.
Section_ 6G. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the
business of publishing a newspaper shall -ray a license fee of
1, !`tj per quarter, and every person, firm or corporation
engaged in the job printing business shall pay a license fee of
$ S .gyp per quarter, which shall be in addition to any other
license.
Section 67. Egery person, fir_ror corporation engaged in
the business of hauling, selling and delivering crude oil, petrol -
eum, distillate, kerosene, gasoline, refined oil or any other
product of an oil well must pay a license fee of. Five Dollars per
quarter for each vehicle used or operated in said business.
Section 68. Every person or persons who have no fixed place
of business within said City and who vend or hawk on the public
streets or other places within the city limits, any goods, wares or
merchandise or jewelry, wares or ,precious metals or other artilles
of personal property, whether on commission or otherwise, for the
purpose of sale, barter or exchange or otherwise, (except such as
are sold by auctioneers at public sale under license, and by itin-
erant tendors ) must first obtain 'a license from the City Clergy: for
carrying on such business and must pay a license fee therefor of
Five Dollars per day or Twenty -five dollars per week. Provided,
that such person, firm.or corporation. desiring to carry on such
business may obtain from the City Clerk a quarterly license, and
must pay a fee therefor of One Hundred dollars per quarter, and in
that case no daily license shall be issued nor daily fee be paid.
Section 69. Every person in said City conducting or carrying
on as an itinerant vendor the business of selling spectacles,
eyeglasses, drugs, nostrums, ointments, or any appliances for the
treatment of disease, injuries, defective eyesight, or deformities,
shall pay a license fee of 25.00 per day, which license is hereby
designated as "An itinerant vendor's license ".
The term "Itinerant vendor", as used in this Ituxxx Ordinance
shall include all persons who carry on the business of selling
spectacles or eyeglasses or nostrums or ointments or drugs, or any
appliance or appliances for the treatment of disease or injuries or
defective eyesight or deformities, and. so carry on such business
by passing or soliciting from house to house, or in a public street,
or by haranguing crowds, people or bystanders in a public street or
public place accessible to the public or by using music or enter-
tainment or any performance, lecture or public harangue for attracting
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persons to whom any suc)� glasses, drugs, nostrums, ointment or
appliances may be sold or recommended. The leaving of any of the
wares mentioned in this section on approval or to be paid for
subsequently on any condition or coI).ditions; or the charging of
qn admission fee, or the giving orL gratuitous delivery of any of
the wares in this section mentioned to a person or persons who may
purchase from such itinerant vendor or vendors a licket, consult -
ation, opinion, examination, or articles of merchandise other than
.articles included within those mentioned in this section, or any
scheme, trifle, or device for evading the provisions of this ordinance,
shall not be held to exempt an itinerant vendor from the provisions
of this ordinance if otherwise he carries-on such business in the
.manner described in this section.
Section 70. Every pawn broker must pay a license fee of Ten
Dollars per quarter.
Section 71. Every person, firm or corporation managing, conduct-
ing or carrying on the business of showing or letting the use of
any phonograph, talking machine, kinetescope, lung tester, muscle
tester, galvanic battery, weighting machine, ball, knife or -ring
throwing, and all devices similar in character, or amusement, game
or test.of skill, strength, physical endurance or capacity of any
kind not in this ordinance otherwise provided for, and for partic-
ipation in'which a fee is charged or which is conducted for profit,
a license fee of $5.00 per day, $15.00 per week or $)50.00 per
month must be paid.
Section 72. Every photographer who has a fixed and permanent.
gallery or place of business within said City shall pay a license fee
of x'4.00 per quarter.
Section 73. Every travelling or transient protographer who has
no fixed and permanent place of business within said City shall
pay a license fee of $3.00 per day or X40.00 per week.
Section 74. For every rope or wire dancing, magic, theat-
rical entertainment, or other show or exhibition viiere an admission
fee is charged or a collection taken up, or where voluntary subscript-
ions are solicited, except a circus, menagerie, or carnival company
or aggregation of tent shows or other amusement devices under one
management or control, a license fee of Twenty -five Dollars must
be paid for each performance or exhibition; for every carnival'
company or aggregation of tent shows or other amusement devices
under one management or control, a license fee of Fifty Dollars per
day shall be paid; provided., however, this shall not apply to the
business of carrying on and conducting a permanently established
theater or motion picture show at a fixed place of business in
said City, the license for which shall be as follows: for less
than one month,',i�3.00 for each performance or exhibition; for one
month, X25.00 per month; for three months 40.00; for one year
$75.00.
Nothing in this section contained shall be construed to
prevent exhibitions or entertainments wholly for the benefit of
churches or schools or other charitable or private social enter-
tainments, for any benevolent,religious or literary society of
the City without a license therefor. None of the aforesaid provis-
ions of this section shall apply to any entertainment, show or
exhibition which shall be in good faith guaranteed against financial
loss on. account of such exhibition, entertainment or show in this
City, by not less fifty actual residents of said City, and any such
show, entertainment or exhibi.tionx, shall pay the same license fee
as is in this section provided. to be paid for the business: of
carrying; on and conducting a permanently established theater at a
fixed place of business in said City.
Section 75. Every person, firm or corporation who keeps or
conducts any public warehouse where goods, wares or merchandide
or grain or commodities of any kind are stored (except household
goods or effects), for hire, shall pay a license fee of Twenty Dollars
per quarter. Every person, firm or corporation who keeps or conducts.
any public warehouse for the storage of household_ effects or goods
for hire shall pay a license fee of $2.00 per quarter.
Section 76. Every person, firm or corporation conducting
a planing mill or moulding mill shall pa.yna license fee of $7.50
per quarter.
Section 77. Every person, firm or corporation conducting
or carrying on the-business of a sawing, sizing or surfacing mill
shall pay a license fee of x$`'7.50 per quarter.
Section 78. Every person, firm or corporation conducting
or carrying on a machine shop or engaged in the business of manu-
facturing or repairing machinery or vehicles, shall pay a license
fee of $5.00 pe-r'quarter, save that where aaid business is conducted
and all vaork thereof done solely by the proprietor thereof,no
license fee skloll be.required.
Section 79. for wach skating rink a license fee of 20.00
per quarter must be paid.
Section 80. For each pistol or shooting gallery a license
fee of $15.00 per quarter must be paid. `�
Section 81. Each undertake r, must pay a license fee of
*ls.00 per quarter.
Section 82. Every person, firm or corporation conducting
an amusement parlor shall pay a license fee of $2.00 per quarter in
addition to any other license required by this Ordinance; provided,
no minor under the age of twenty-one years shall be allowed to
frequent, rBmain in or visit any place of business licensed under
this subdivision unless accompanied by parent or legal guardian, and
.said place of business shall close at 12 o'clock midnight.
Section 83. Every person carrying on the business of
periodical or magazine agent soliciting orders or subscriptions
shall pay a license fee of $1.00 per day.
Section 84. Every person, firm or corporation peddling or
selling on the public streets any peanuts, candy or popcorn shall
pay a license fee of 41.00 per month or X1.50 per quarter.
Section 85. Every peddler of goods, wares or merchandise
except as hereinbefore provided shall pay a license fee of $2.00
per day or $10.00 per week or $60.00 per quarter; provided, that m
person or personsbshall be required to procure a license or pay
a license fee for peddling any of his own agricultural, pastoral
or dairy products raised by himself in the County of San Luis
Obispo, California, el-cept as provided_ in sections 86 and 87 of this
ordinance.
Section 86. Every pe-r,son, firm or corporation, who in said
City, as a permanent and regular business, peddles fruit or veget-
ables within said City, shall pay a license fee of �,?5.00 for each
wagon, vehicle, cart, basket or other receptacle used or operated
by said person in such business for the conveyance of said fruit
or vegetables. Provided, also, that each of said persons shall have
each of said receptacles or.veh.icles used for the conveyance of
said fruit or vegetables designated by number to be furnished by
the City Collector, and placed upon said vehicle or receptacle in
a, conspicuous place.
oection 8'7. every person who conducts or carries on the
business of selling anE delivering milk or cream by wagon, cart or
other vehicle to more than ten customers shall pay a license fee
of 85.00 per quarter for each wagon, cart or other vehicle used in
said business, which cart, wagon or vehicle shall be designated
by a number to be supplied by the City Collector and placed in a
conspicuous place thereon.
Section 88. Every person, firm or corporation having no fixed
or permanent place of business in the City of San Luis Obispo who
solicits or receives orders for laundry, shall pay a license fee
of �p25.00 per quarter or a daily license of Q5.00 per day.
Section 89. Every person, fi.rni or corporation who at a fixed
and permanent place of business in said City solicits or receives
orders for laundry, other than for a regular laundry in said City,
shall pay a license fee of �'�10.00 per quarter.
Section 90. Every person firm or corporation engaged in the
business of co,•ductilig or managing or operating a hotel-or public
inn shall pay therefor a license fee as follows:
For the business of keeping or conducting a hotel of less
than ten -rooms, the sum of Four Dollars per quarter.
For the business of keeping or conducting such hotel of
ten rooms or over but less than twenty rooms, eight,dollars per
quarter.
For the business of keeping or conducting such hotel of
twenty rooms or ,over but not more than fifty rooms, Fifteen Dollars
per quarter.
For the business of keep or conducting such hotel of more
than f ilty rooms, Twenty-five dollars per quarter.
Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of
conducting or keeping a lodging - house, where the average majority of
the guests entertained are not transient guests paying daily rate,
shall pay a license fee as follows:-
For the business of keeping or conducting such lodging -house
of less than three rooms no license fee shall be charged.
For the.business of keeping or conducting y, such
lodging -house of three rooms or over but less than twenty rooms, a
quarterly
-3p=t= license fee of twenty -five cents for each guest room in.
said lodging -house contained shall be charged.
For the business-of keeping or conducting such lodging -house
of twenty rooms or over, a quarterly license fee of thirty -five
cents for each guest room in said lodging -house contained, shall be
charged.
Section 91. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in
the business of selling candies, confectione:
a fixed place of business in said City shall
Five Dollars per quarter, unless the average
person shall amount to Six Hundred Dollars,
which case, such person, firs 2. or corporation
ising license provided to be paid by section
ry or soft drinks at
pay a license fee of
monthly sales of such
or over, in
shall pay the merchand-
58 of this Ordinance.
Section 92. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in
conducting or operating a barber shop where more than one barber
chair is maintained or operated shall pay a quarterly license fee
of $1.00jand fifty cents in additior� for each chair over two
which is,maintained or operated in said shop.
Section 93. .Every person, firm or corporation engaged in
the business of hauling, transporting, taking away or collecting
garbage within the corporate limits of said City shall pay a
license fee of Five Dollars per quarter.
Section 94. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the
business of cond- ucting operating or maintaining a bakery shall pay
a license fee of Five Dollars per quarter.
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Section 95. Every person engaged in the practice of osteopathy
or maintaining an office for the practice of osteopathy in said City
shall pay a license fee of. Five Dollars per quarter.
Section 96. Every person engaged in business EMM or maintaining
or chiropractics
an office for the practice of neurology shall pay a license fee of
Five Dollars per quarter.
Section 97. Every person engaged in business as a chiropodist
shall pay a license fee-of Five Dollars per quarter.
Section 98.. Every person, firm or corporation conducting, oper-
ating,. maintaining or managing a hospital or sanitarium for profit
shall pay a quarterly lience fee of $7.50 per quarter..
Section 9 1--_. 411 annual licenses heretofore issued for a
period not yet expired shall be in force and effect and entitle
the person holding the same to continue in the business therein
mentioned to the date of the expiration of the pLjiod for which the
same were issued respectively.
Section ) The City Collector shall, on the third T-2onday
of the first month of each quarter fixed for the payment of
licenses, present a written report to the Council in such form
as the Council may require, of all persons, firms or corporations
who have failed, neglected or fefused to pay the license fees
required by this Ordinance.
Section. Lb1 No license issued under any of the p-rovisinns
of tllis ordinance shall authorize any business or occupation
other than as herein mentioned to be done, transacted or carried
on; and no such license shall be in any way or manner assignable
or transferable or authorize any business to be done at any
other place than as therein mentioned without the permission
of the City Council, and when such permission shall be granted,
the City Collector shall record such change or transfer on the
proper register.
Sections Q Z Ordinance No. 22 (New Series) of the
City of San Luis Obispo, California, adopted and approved on
the 27th day of December, 1912, and emended by Ordinance No.
59 (New Series) of said City, is hereby repealed.
Section J b 3 This ordinance is hereby declared to be
urgent and necessary for the immediate pres&m# « of the
public peace, health and safety, and shall take effect bnd be
in force from and after its final passage.
Section Dv . This ordinance, together with the Ayes and
Noes shall be published for two days in the "Daily Telegram ", a
newspaper p in teda published and. circulated in said City of
San Luis Obispo.
Introduced and passed to print this % day of February,
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19209 l,tr +i, fnllowin- vote:-
AYES:
NOES: �
ABSENT:
ATTEST:
C i f BE RK. i.:�Y OR
Finally passed this day of 1920,
by the following vote:-
AYES:
NOES :
ABSENT:
ATTEBT :
C ITY CLERK
MAYOR.