HomeMy WebLinkAbout0076NORDIT�IANCE NUMBER 76
(NE1,1 SERIES) .
AN ORDIPANCE LICENSING AND REGULATING THE DOING OF CERTAIN ACTS
AND THE CARRYING ON OF C,RTAII TRADES, CALLINGS, BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS
AND OCCUPATIONS 17ITHIN THE CORPORAT J` LILITS OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS
OBISPO, CALIFORNI1 , ADD PRESCRIBII,lG PENALTIES FOR THE VIOL..aTION
TH REOF .
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, 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, with-
out first havinU procured such license, shall, for each violation
of this ordinance, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon
conviction by any Court having jurisdiction thereof, shall be fined
there=for in a sum Of not less than ten (5:10.00) Dollars, and not
more than three hundred 0300.00) 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, and such person shall
be liable in an action in the name of the City of San Luis Obispo,
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in any Court of competent jurisdiction, for the amount of the
license of such trade, calling, business, profession or occupa-
tion as he shall or they may have been engaged in, with costs
of suit. Provided, however, that arrest and conviction here-
under shall not be construed as a waiver of the right of said
City to bring such 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 City 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 tirle
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 pre-
judice the collection by the City of what shall be actually dne
from any one carrying on a trade, calling, business, profession
or occupation or doing any thing subject to license under this
ordinance.
Section 3. All.licenses shall be paid in advance
in lawful money of the United States of America, at the office of
the City Collector. 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 authorize the party obtaining it to carry
on, pursue or conduct only that trade, calling, business, profes-
sion or occupation described in such license, and only at the
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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, pro-
fession or occupation, and from all persons who have not been
licensed for the previous month for the some trade, calling, busies
ess, profession 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 arid. October, and all such licenses shall expire with
the last days of 1.1arch, June, September and December of each year.
The weekly licenses in this ordinance provided shall
be due and payable to the City on the Monday 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 to the City at the times specified herein respect-
ively, or when not so specified, on the first day of July of each
year.
Po greater or less amounts of money shall be charged
or received for any licenses than are provided in this-ordinance,
and 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
,,Tinted 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.
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"No.
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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 the provisions
of the Ordinances of said City.
Dated
Received
specified for said License.
City Clerk.
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City Collector."
The licenses so prepared by the City Clerk shall be
bound in books of suitable size.and shall have a stub correspond-
ing thereto which shall remain in the book after issuance. On
this stub shall be noted the number of the license, the dote there-
of, 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 City of San Luis Obispo, Cal., to whom 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.
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Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of
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City Clerk."
Section 5. The City Clerk must keep an account iTiith
the City Collector of all licenses delivered to him, issued or
returned unissued 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 Collector 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. 11hen 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 under the terms hereof,
such person shall pay the full license fee for the period, sub-
sequent to December 31st,•1919, during which he has been so en-
gaged in such business, trade, calling, profession or occupation,
also provided. that, for the period from the date this ordinance
takes effect to the first day of April, 1920, the license fee
shall in every case be the amount herein required to be paid for
a full quarter, for such business, calling, occupation or pro-
fession.
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Section 8. When a'license that 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 spec-
ified.
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 number 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 newt
preceding the date of such statement, or as estimate of the same
for the succeeding three months if they have not already been en-
gaged in such business, or the number of wagons or other vehicles
used, or the number of tables or other appliances used or maintained,
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or the number of rooms contained in such building or used in such
business, 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, secret-
ary 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 him filed with the-City Clerk on or before the
third 11onday 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 the amount of the fee whereof is deter-
mined or affected by any of said matters; and such additional state-
ments shall be made by such persons, firms and corporation: as may
be from time to time required to be made by the City Council. Such
statements 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 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 demand
made by the City Collector shall neglect or refuse to give under
oath any statement herein provided for, the City Collector m7-_st
estimate the amount of license fee due from such person hereunder,
prepare the proper license in accordance therewith, notinc, the fact
of such refusal on the appropriate stub therefor, transmit to the
City Council within two weeks a report of such refusal and the
amount of such estimate, and thereupon the sum so estimated and set
forth in raid license shall be deemed to be and shall be the proper
license fee due from said firm, person or corporation hereunder
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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, firm or corporation, as may be're-
quired 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,
coffee house, bakery, restaurant, lunch counter, shooting gallery,
billiard 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, fortune teller, astrologer, phrenologist, card
reader, palmist, ca-rtoma.n.cy, clairvoyant, clair- audience, crystal -
gazer, hypnotist, medium, prophet, augury, divination, magic
necromancy, carnival company, rope or wire dancer, merry -go- round,
for for showing any or letting the use of any lung tester, muscle
tester, phonograph, talking machine, phonograph, kinetescope,
galvanic battery, irreighing machine, ball, knife or ring thro ,.•ring,
nor for any theatrical entertainment, show or exhibition for
which a license is required hereunder, save carrying on and con-
ducting a permanently established theater or motion picture shover,
except on the order of the City Council of the said City of San
Luis Obispo; and ehenever any person, firm or corporation desires
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 character 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. 1.4here 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 con-
ducted 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 reouiring 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
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 or having control of any vehicle which is required
by this ordinance 'to be designated by a number shall procure from
the City Collector a ticket bearing said. number which at all ti?_les
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.
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Section 13. 9 license shall be procured and the license
fee paid_ therefor for engaging in, carrying on, conducting or pur -.
suing any business, trade, calling, profession or occupation here-
inafter 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 s.olicito-r 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 without samples, either for
present or future 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, v-aares or merchandise shall be
in his actual possession or not, shall pay a license fee of Five
(y?'5.00 ) Dollars per day. or Twenty -five ( Y�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
laver within the corporate limits of said City shall pay a license
fee of Five 05.00) 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 Tv.ro ( <)2.00 ) Dollars per quarter.
Section 17. Every person, firm or corporation engaged
in the banking business or maintaining an office or place of busin-
ess for the transaction of a banking business, within the corporate
limits of said City shall pay a license fee of Twenty -.five (,�;�2.5.00)
Dollars per quarter.
Section 18. Every person practicing as a physician or
surgeon or maintaining an office for the practice of medicine or
surgery., within the corporate 1ir,jits of said City shall pay a
license fee of Five ('��5.00) Dollars per quarter.
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Section 19. Every person practicing as a dentist or
maintaining an oflice for the practice of dentistry or dental
surgery, within the corporate limits of said City shall pay a
license fee of Five (w5.00) 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 ('1.00) Dollar per ouarter
for each pump maintained or operated. in such business.
Section 21. Every person, firm or corporation conduct-
ing, maintaining or operating what is known 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 roump,
shall pay a license fee of Twenty 020.00) 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. firm or corporation
which it owns or controls in whole or in part, or which owns or
controls in whole or in part the firm or corporation so engaging in,
such businesg, and shall pay a license fee of Five (',,;15.00) Dollars
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 inter-
est, ownership nor control.
Section 22. Every person, firm or corporation conducting
or carrying on a clothes cleaning or due business or works Shall
pay a license fee of 42.50 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 family
or by partners where no salary is paid_, no license fee shall be
required nor paid.
Section 23. Every person, firm or corporation conduct-
ing or carrying on a tailor shop,.or, engaged in the tailoring
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business shall pay a license fee of x`2.50 per quarter, save that
where.'.such business is-carried on and all work thereof done solely
by' the 'proprietor thereof or by partners where no salary is,paid,
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, �iihether.for a fixed price or on percentage, shall pay a
license fee of Twenty Dollars per year; provided that nothin(- in
this.section shall be construed to require a license fee from.any
person who furnished 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 pe'rson practicing as a veterinary
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 the business of a fish peadler.within said City shall pay 'a
license fee of Five Dollars per quarter.
Section 21. Every person, firm or corporation, who
at a fi—ed.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, *
who, 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 m no fixed place of business, sells-or 'Offers to sell,
or buys or offers to buy, or who collects or offers 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, J.
unless the average monthly sales of such person, firm or corpor-
ation in such business amount to Sig;. 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 59 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 shall be issued except upon the payment of the full quart-
erly license fee.
Section 32. Every person, firm or corporation sell-
in; or offering to sell goods „vrares or merchandise at public
auction in a public store room or store building shall pay a
license fee of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars per ,year; provided
that nothing in this section contained shall be deemed to apply
to or prohibit any merchant 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 the selling, or offering for sale, at public
auction, of real estate or of live stock, or household goods, so
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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.
avery 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 en-
gaged 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 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
forbidden to be used by the statutes of the State 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 1.2.50 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 placo of
business shall close at tvielve o'clock midnight.
Section 37. Every person, firm or corporation carry-
ing on the business of advertising b y posting, sticking, tacking,
affixing or painting bills or signs to or upon posts, fences, bill-
boards, advertising sign boards, buildings or other structures, or
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the business of advertising by distributin posters, dodgers, or
printed advertisements of any kind, from a fixed and permanent
place of business shall pay a 'license fee of Five Dollars per
quarter.
Section 68. Every person, firm or corporation
carrying of 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 V1.50 per day or Twenty -rive
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 Ishall
apply to the distribution nor posting by a printer who has a fixed
place of business in said City of any advertising signs, dodgers or
other advertisements printed or prepared by him at such place of
business.
Section 39. Por each ball, dance or party where a
charge is made or money received for attendance or admission, a
license fee of Tug :1ollars shall be paid for each dance or party,
or if a quarterly license is issued, Ten Dollars per c-uarter;
Provided that no license shall be required for charitable, private
social, religious, fraternal or school dances.
Section 40. every person, firm or corporation en-
gaged in the business of conductins; a creamery shall pay a license
fee of Ten Dollars per cuarter.
Section 41. :';very person, :firm or corporation having
no i _ed wild permanent place of business in the said City, who
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solicits or receives orders :o-r cleaning or dyeing, shall pay a .
license fee of t�rrenty -five dollars per cuarter, or a daily license
of Five Dollars per day.
Section 42. Every person, firm or cor- poration con-
ducting or carrying on the business or a cigar stand or cigar store,
shall pay a license fee of Five Dollars per cuarter.
Section 45. Every person, firm or corporation con-
ducting the business os a cigar factory for the manufacture of
cigars shall pay a license fee of "'2.50 per quarter, save that
where such business is carried on and all work thereof done solely
by the proprietor thereof, no license fee shall be required nor
paid.
Section 44. Every person, firm or corporation con-
ducting or carrying on the business of selling cigars or tobacco,
vahen the same are sold only as a side line and in conjunction with
some other business for which a license is paid under this Orain-
gnce, shall pay a license fee of Three Dollars per cuarter in
addition to any other license.
Section 45. Every person, firm or corporation con-
ducting or carrying on the business of storing or housing vege-
tables, fruits, butter, eggs, or other perishable commodities by
creating an artificial temperature by mechanical or other means,
shall pay a license fee of Five Dollars per quarter.
Section 46. For every person, firm or corporation con-
ducting, 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 Hundrea persons,
Ten Dollars for each performance of such circus shall be pain.
For every person, firm o-r corrporation conductin 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
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r_aore than Five Hundred and less than two thousand persons,
Twenty -five Dollars for each performance shall be paid. For
every person, firm or corporation 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 tyro t
thousand or more than two thousand persons Fifty Dollars for each
performance shall be paid. A performance under this section shall
mean a show or exhibition between the hours Of six o'clock in the
forenoon and twelve o'clock noon of any day, and between twelve
o'clock noon and six o'clock in the afternoon of such day, and
between six o'clock F...., 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 show shall be paid.
Section 47. For each and every dray, cart, wagon or
other vehicle for the delivery`of freight, goods or other commod-
ities for hire, a license.fee of Three Dollars per quarter shall
be paid; provided that each such dray, cart, Aragon or other vehicle
shall be designated by a number to be furnished by the City Col-
lector as he-reinbefore provided.
Section 48. Every person, firm or corporation. con-
ducting 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 fortune telling,
ast_ology, palmistry, phrenology, card reading, cartomancy, clair-
voyance, 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 ex-
hibition of his art therein, or who gives an exhibition thereof
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at any place vihere a feeds 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 no license 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 50. Every person, firm or corporation en-
gaged 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 en-
gaged in the business of conducting a boarding house, eating house,
chop house, lunch counter, coffee or refreshment saloon or
restaurant, shall pay a license fee as follows:
n7here the average monthly receipts are under the sum
of ;'500.00 the sum of X5.00 per quarter.
if7here the average monthly receipts are 'r50C.00 or
over but under 'A000.00 the sum of y"7.50 per quarter.
Where the average monthly receipts are y ?1000.00 or
over, the sum •of V12.50 per quarter.
Section 52. Every person, firm or corporation con-
ductin;; or carrying on the business o selling
other sort drinks, tamales or sandwiches, from
or stand, shall pay a license see of per
wagon, hand cart, other vehicle or stand shall
a number affixed to the same, which shall be fi
Collector.
ice - cream, soda or
any wagon, hand cart
quarter, and. such
be designated by
zrnished by. tle City
Section 5�3. every person, firm or corporation en-
gaged in the business of manufacturing or selling ice shall pay a
license zee of Fifteen dollars per quarter.
Section 54. Every person eng',.ged in or carrying on
the business of a junk dealer shall pay a license fee of Five
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Dollars per quarter, and every person ca-rryinn on the business of
junk collector, for himself or any other person, shall pay a
license fee of five Dollars per quarter.
A junk- dealer is defined to be any person Navin-, 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 of industry, paper, metal, or
other articles commonly known as junk, and a jun."'- 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 junk dealer or junk
collector must be designated by a number to be furnished by the
City Collector, and placed upon such wagon or vehicle as in this
ordinance provided.
every junk dealer and junk shop keeper shall keep a regu-
lar register showin the date, the names of all persons from whom
he purchases or trades for any article or thing whatsoever, and the
name or description of such article or thing he purchased or traded
for. He shall also keep a register sho,Fring the names of all per-
sons to whom he shall sell or trade any article or thing, a,,Jd the
name or description of such article or thing so sold or trades and
the date of such sale or exchange.. Such register shall at all
times be open to the inspection of any police officer.
Ro junk dealer or junk shop keeper 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 con-
sent of the parent or guardian of such minor.
Section _5. :Every public lauundry ii!here washing is
done for hire or compensation must pay a license fee of Ten
Dollars per quarter.
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Section 56. {very livery and feed stable shall pay
a license fee of Four Dollars per quarter.
;section 57. Every feed stable shall pay a license
fee of Two Dollars per quarter.
Section 56. Every person, firm or corporation operating
a lumber yard or dealing in lumber roust pay a license fee of
Thirty Dollars per quarter.
:section 59. 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 thing whatsoever, save as in this ordinance otherwise specif-
ically provided, whether on commission or otherwise, shall pay to
the City the following license fee:
Where the average monthly sales are under the sum of
4 "600.00 the sum of �'�2.50 per quarter.
C;here the average monthly sales are Sr0-00.00 or over,.but
are under C '600.00, the sum of `A.00 per quarter.
Where the average monthly sales are ti�600.00 or over, but
under 5900.00, the sum of 4{',6.00 per quarter.
,there the average monthly sales are s ;900.00 or over, but
are under 51,200.00, the sum of A .00 per quarter.
Where the average monthly sales are y�1,200.00 or over, but
are under :;2,000.00, the sum of ?12.00 per quarter.
Where the average monthly sales are X2,000.00 or over, but
under ; 3,500.00, the sum of '16.00 per quarter.
,,'here the average monthly sales are =,rj , 500.00 or over, but
are under -:5,000.00, the sum of w20.00 per quarter.
Where the average monthly sales are „5,000.00 or over, but
are under ';?10,000.00, the sum of ;325.00 per quarter.
,,The-re the average monthly sales are y�10,000.00 or over, the
sum of 5� ,50.00 per quarter.
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Section 60. Every person, firm or corporation conduct-
ing a drug store or engaged in the business of sellin drugs shall
pay a license fee of Five Dollars per quarter, unless the average
monthly sales of such person, firm or corporation in such business
amount to Six Huno_red Dollars Viper month or over, in which case such
person, firm or corporation shall pay the merchandising; license
required to be paid by Section 59 of this Ordinance.
Section 61. Every person, firm or corporation who sells
in the City of San Luis Obispo any bankrupt, assigned or damaged
stock of goods, wares, merchandise, jovielry, 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 section shall not apply to any stock of goods
owned by any person actually conducting a reg-ala-r place of business
in this City which stock has been damaged by fire or water result
ing from fire in the said City of San Luis Obispo.
Section 62. 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 kinds
of goods or wares whatever where such business is not permanently
located in said City, shall pay a license fee of :6100.00 per
quarter or 5 ,50.00 per week.
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very person, firm or corporatioi, in the City of San
Luis Obispo who sells or offers to sell or engages in the business
of selling any kincd of goods, cares or merchandise whatever, who
shall hereafter 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 X200.00 in favor of said City, conEitioned that he will in
good faith be permanently located in said City in sjch mussiness
for the perioa of six months, and in delau.lt of which con(Ation he
will :orfeit to said_ City the sum of %,200.00. Said boncl shall
be in such forria and of such security as may '),, approved by the
Council of said City anc. in case saiC_ person, firm or corporation
shall in good faith permanently engage in such business for the
period oi: siy_ months after the giving of such bond, said. bond
shall be null and void. Otherwise said sum of '200.00 shall be
forfeited to said City.
Section 63. :every person, firm or corporation keeping
or operating taxicabs or motor vehicles for hire or carrying pas-
sengers for hire, either entirely �rrithin the corporate limits of
said City or partly t-rithin and partly outside said limits and not
betweeia fixed. termini, shall pay an annual license fee of Twenty -
Five Dollars per year, for each vehivle used, maintained or oper-
ated in such bu.i.ness, or a daily license zee of Two Dollars per
day for each vehicle used, maintained or operated in such business.
Then 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.
Section 64. Every person,i.rm or corporation oper-
atin- a passenger stage or stages, carrying - passengers for hire
partly Uithi.n and partly outside the corporate limits of said
City, between fig -ed_ termini, shall pay a license fee of Ttlro
Dollars per quarter for each vehicle used or operated in such
• business.
Section 65. Every person, firm or corporation en-
gaged in the business of operatin3`freight stages or carrying
freight for hire either entirely or partly within the corporate
lir,lits of said City, shall pay a license fee per (uarter for each
truck or vehicle used or operated in such business of �2.00 and
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-1.00 ii -1 addition for each ton by which the capacity of such truck
or vehicle shall exceed two tons.
Section 66. For every merry -go- round, roller coaster,
ler-ris Maeel 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 music in connection there-
with shall be allowed after the hour of nine o'clock P. L_.
Section 67. Every person, firm or corporation engaged
in the business of publishing a newspaper shall pay a license fee
of `7.50 per quarter, and every person, firm or corporation engaged
in the job printing business shall pay a license fee of t�5.00 per
quarter, which shall be in addition to any other license.
Section 66. Every person, firm or corporation engaged
in the business of hauling, selling and delivering crude oil,
petroleum, distillate, kerosene, gasoline, refined oil or any other
product of an oil yell must pay a license fee of Five Dollars per
quarter for each vehicle used or operated in said business.
Section 69. 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
articles of personal property, whether on commission or otherwise,
for the purpose of sale, barter or exchange or othert,iise, (except
such as.are sold by auctioneers at public sale under license, and
by itinerant vendors) must First obtain a license from the City
Clerk 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 70. Every person in said City conductin, or
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carrying on as.an itinerant vendor the business of selling spec-
tacles, eyeglasses,'drugs, nostrums, ointments, or any appliances
for the treatment of disease, injuries, defective eyesight, or
deformities, shall pay a license fee of ;x25.00 per day, which
license is hereby designated as "9.n itinerant vendor's license."
The term "Itine-rant vendor ", as used in this Ordinance
shall include all persons who carry on the business of selling
Spectacles or eyeglasses or nostrums or ointments.or drug~, 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
entertainment or any performance, lecture or public harangue for
attracting persons to whom any such glasses, drugs, nostrums, oint-
ment 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 conditions.; or the
charging of an admission fee, or the giving or gratuitous delivery
of any of the tr.jares.,in this section mentioned to a person or persons
who may purchase from such itinerant vendor or vendors a ticket,
consultation, opinion, examination, or articles of merchandise
other than articles included within those mentioned in this section,
or any scheme, trick, 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 othervrise he carries on such
business in the Manner described in this section.
Section 71. Every pawn broker must pay a license fee
of Ten Dollars per quarter.
Section 72. :Overt' person, firm or corporation manag-
ing, conducting; or carrying on the business of showing or letting
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the use of any phonograph, tallin7 machine, l'linetescope, lung
tester, muscle tester, galvanic battery, weighing machine, ball,
l.nife or rind; throwing, and all devices similar in character, or
a- mustment, game or test of shill, strength, physical endurance or
capacity of any kind not in this Ordinance otherwise provided for,
and for participation in which a fee is charged or which is con-
ducted for profit, a license fee of ;�.00 per day, per
cJeek or 50.00 per month must be paid.
Section 73. Every photogra 7her who has a fixed and
permanent gallery or place of business within said_ City shall pay
a license see of „4.00 per quarter.
Section 74. .every travolling or transient photographer
who has no fixed and permanent place of business within said City
shall pay a license fee of .,,;;.00 per day or ;;10.00 per wee'_ =.
Section 75. For
every
rope
or wire dancing, magic,
theatrical entertainment, or
other
show
or exhibition where an
admission fee is charged or a collection taken up, or where vol-
untary subscriptions 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 shoos or other ar�quse-
ment 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 perman-
ently.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, x,;3.00 ,for each performance or exhibition;
for one month, :25.00 per month; for three months 9'40.00; for one
year 575.00.
Nothing in this section contained shall be construed
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to prevent exhibitions or entertainments wholly for the benefit
of churches or schools or other charitable or private social
entertainments., for any benevolent, religious or literary society
of the City without a license therefor. bone of the aforesaid
provisions 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 eyhibition, 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 76. Every person, firm or corporation who
keeps or conducts any public warehouse where goods, wares or
merchandise or grain or commodities of any kind are stored (except
household goods or effects), for hire, shall pay a license fee of
Thyenty 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 X2.00 per
quarter.
Section 77. Every person, firm or corporation conduct-
ing a planing mill or moulding mill shall pay a license fee of
p7.50 per quarter.
Section 78. Every person, firm or corporation conduct-
ing or carrying on the business of a sawing, sizin.D or surfacing
mill shall pay a license fee of ;)7.50 per quarter..
Section 79. Every person, firm or corporation'conduct-
ing or carrying on a machine shop or engaged in the business of
manufacturing or repairing 'machinery or vehicles, shall pay a
license fee of 4`5.00 per quarter, save that where said business
is conducted and all work thereof done.solely by the proprietor
thereof, no license fee shall be required.
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Section 80. For each skating rink a license fee of
��20.00 per quarter must be paid.
Section 81.. For each pistol or shooting gallery a
license fee of :;115.00 per quarter must be paid.
Section 82. Each undertaker, firm, establishment or
business must pay a license fee of ��15.00 per quarter.
Section 83. Every person, firm or corporation con-
ducting an amusement parlor shall pay a license fee of :;32.00 per
quarter in addition to any other license required by this Ordinance;
provided, no minor under the age of tvienty -one years shall be a1-
lowed to frequent, remain in or visit any place of business licensed
under this subdivision unless accompanied by parent or legal guard-
ian, and said place of.business shall close at 12 o'clock midnight.
Section 84. .Every person carrying on the business of
periodical or magazine agent solicitinb, orders or subscriptions
shall pay a license fee of N1`.G0 per clay.
Section 85. Every person, :firm or corporation peddling
or selling on the public streets any peanuts, candy or po1:corn
shall pay a license fee of 1.00 pe-r month or .J.50 per quarter.
Section 86. :�!,verpy peddler of goods, iliares or rrerchand-
ise except as hereinbefore provided shall pay a license -fee of
� 2.00 per day or =; 10.00 per creek or X60.00 per quarter; provided,
that no person or persons shall 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, except as provided in sections ^86
and 67 of this Ordinance.
Section 87. Every person, firm or corporation, who
in saiC. City,. as a permanent and mgular business, peddles fruit
or vegetables within said City, shall pay a license fee of ,;5.00
for each iiagon, 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 vehicles used for the convey-
ance 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.
Section 88. Every person who conducts or carries on
the business of selling and delivering milk or cream by wagon, cart
or other vehicle to more than ten customers shall pay a license fee
of-w5.00 per quarter for each Aragon, 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 con-
spicuous place thereon.
Section 89. 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 see of 4;25:00 per quarter or a daily license of :;'5.00 per
day.
Section 90. Every person, firm 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 91. Every person, firm or corporation engaged
in the business of conducting 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 cuarte-r.
For the business of keepin; 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
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For the business of keeping or conductin; such motel
of more than fifty rooms, '.1 vienty -:Give dollars per quarter.
Every person, lira or corporation engaged in the bus-
iness of conducting or keeping a lodging- house, where the average
majority of the guests entertained are not transient guests pay-
ing 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 zee shall be charged.
For the business of keeping or conducting such lodging -
house of three rooms or over `but less than twenty rooms, a quarter -
ly License fee of twenty -live cents io-r each guest room in said
lodging -house contained shall be charged.
For the business of keeping or conductin;; such lodgicg-
house o' twenty rooms or over'', a quarterly license fee of thirty-
live cents for each guest room in said lodging -house contained,
shall be charged.
Uection 92. Every person, firm or corporation engaged
in the business of selling candies, confectionery or soft drinLs
at a fi-.ed place of business in said City shall pay a •license fee
of Five Dollars per quarter, unless the average monthly sales of
such person shall amount to Six Hundred Dollars, or over, in which
case, such person, firm or corporation shall pay the merchandising
license provided to be paid by section 59 of this Ordinance.
Section 93. "'very 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 ;.1.00, and fifty cents in addition for each chair over two
which is maintained or operated in said shop.
section 94. Every person, firm or corporation engaged
in the business of hauling, transporting, taking away or collect-
ing -arba-e within the corporate limits of said City shall pay a
license fee of Five Dollars per quarter.
Section 95. Every person, firm or corporation en-
gaged in the business of conducting, operating or maintaining
a baEery shall pay a license fee of Five Dollars per quarter.
Section 96. Every person engaged in the practice of
osteopathy or maintaining an office for the practice of osteo-
pathy in said City shall pay a license fee of Five Dollars per
quarter.
Section 97. Every person engaged in business or
maintaining an office for the practice of neorology or chiro-
practics shall pay a license fee of Five Dollars per ouarter.
Section 98. Every -person engaged in business as a
chiropodist shall pay a license fee of Five Dollars per quarter.
Section 99. Every person, firm or corporation con-
ducting, operating, maintaining or managing a hospital or sani-
tarium for profit shall pay a quarterly license fee of .;7.50
per quarter.
Section 100. All 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 period
for which the same were issued respectively.
Section 101. The City Collector shall, on the third
l.ionday of the first month of each quarter fixed for the payment
of licenses, present a �jiritten report to the Council in such
form as the Council may require, of all persons, firms or cor-
porations who have failed, neglected or refused to pay the license
fees -required by this Ordinance.
Section 102. T?o license issued- under any of the pro-
visions of this Ordinance shall authorize any business or occupa-
tion other than as herein mentioned to be done, transactedd or
carried on; and no such license shall be in any way or manner
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assignable or transferable or authorize any business to be done
at any other place than as therein mentioned without the per-
mission of the City Council, and when such permission shall be
granted, the City Collector shall record such change or transfer
on the proper register.
Section 103. Ordinance Ro. 22 (New Series) of the
City of San Luis Obispo, California, adopted and approved on
the 27th day of December, 1912, and amended by Ordinance No. 59
(new Series) of said City, is hereby repealed.
Section 104. This Ordinance is hereby declared to
be urgent and necessary for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, health and safety, and shall ta_ie effect and be
in force from and after its final passage.
Section 105. This Ordinance, together with the Ayes
and Does shall be published for.two days in the "Lorning Tribune"
a newspaper printed, published and circulated in said City of
San Luis Obispo.
Introduced and passed to print this 8th day of 1:1,rch,
1920, by th following vote: -
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Finally passed this day of
1920, by the following vote:-
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