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ORDINANCE NO. ~ t!) 0
AN ORDINANCE PERTAINING TO OCCUPATIONAL LICENSE FEES;
PROVIDING FOR FEES, PENALTIES, EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS
ORDINANCE; AND, OTHER MATTERS RELATING THERETO.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CLERMONT,
LAKE COUNTY, FLORIDA:
SECTION I - I. TERM; TRANSFER.
No license shall be issued for more than one (1) year, and all
licenses shall expire on September 30th of each year.
The license of a business may be transferred with the approval
of the Council when there is a bona fide sale and transfer of the property
used in the business, provided all current personal property taxes have
been fully paid as provided in Section I -3 hereinafter.
A certificate of the Council's approval of the transfer shall be
certified by the City Clerk and affixed to the license. If such transfer
must also be approved by any agency or department of the State or
Federal Governments and same is not so approved the Clerk's Certi-
ficate of Transfer shall then be removed from the license and held for
30 days and thereafter destroyed.
Any transferred license shall not be valid for a period of time
exceeding the time for which it was originally issued.
SECTION 1-2. TIME TAX PAYABLE; FRACTIONAL PERIOD; LATE
PENALTY.
All licenses shall be payable qn or before the first day of Oct-
ober of each year unless otherwise provided by this Ordinance. Any
person who was not liable for a license during the first half of the
license year, ,may be issued a license during the second half of the
license year upon the payment of one-half of the amount fixed as the
price of such license for one year.
In addition to the penalities imp,osed herein under Section II-1
then shall also be imposed the additionaI penalties of:
(a) Ten percent (10%) 0tçþ.e amount of the license
if not paid by 5 o'clock P. M. on October 30th
(if on. a Saturday Or Sunáay one additional bus-
iness day shall be allowed as a grace period);
(b) Beginning N9Y~JTIber 1st a.!l additional penalty of
oneper cent (1%) per month for each month delin-
quent
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provided, however, any new license due only for the second half
of the license year the penalties provided hereinabove shall be
assessed for only the period of April 30th to September 30th.
SECTION 1-3. APPLICATION; FORM; REQUIREMENTS; PERSONAL
PROPERTY TAXES.
Written applications for licenses may be required of any per-
son applying for a license herein, which license application shall be
in the form prescribedjby the Clerk and approved by the Council.
When so required same must show in detail the information
required thereon by the City. Also the assessor may require any
person to make sworn affidavit before him on the full amount and
true value of the personal property of such applicant (form for both
may be combined). Any person refusing to make affidavit as requir-
ed by the assessor shall not be permitted to reduce the valuation of
such personal property as made by the assessor for that year.
No license shall be issued to any person to engage in or
manage any business, profession or occupation unless and until
all current or delinquent personal property taxes levied and assessed
by the City against personal property pertaining to or used in con-
nection with same have been fully paid. The transferee of any lic-
ense shall be as fully liable for said taxes as if he had been the owner
of said personal property as of the date of assessment and levy there-
on. The City shall have a lien thereon for said taxes until same are
paid which shall be enforceable at law or in equity.
SECTION 1-4. EXEMPTIONS.
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(a) All confirmed cripples, deaf and dumb persons or invalids
physically incapable of manual labor , persons of sixty-five years of
age and over with no more than one employee or helper and who use
their own capital not in excess of five hundred doUars shall be allowed
exemption from payment of the license tax herein provided, however,
that the exemptions provided for by this section shall be allowed only
upon the presentation of a certificate that the applicant claiming ex-
emptions is a confirmed cripple or invalid when such fact is not ob-
viously apparent, which certificate shall state the nature and extent
of disability being specified therein; and in case the exemption is be-
ing claimed by a person of sixty -five years of age or Over, proof of
the right of such exemption shall be made, and any person entitled to
exemption under this section shall upon written application therefor
furnish the necessary proof as aforesaid for the issuance of a license
and it shall have plainly stamped or written across the face thereof
that it is issued under this section, and the reason for the exemption
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shall be written thereon. Like licenses not exempt under the laws of
the State of Florida shall not be exempt hereunder.
(b) All farm and grove products and products manufactured
therefrom except intoxicating liquors, wine or beer shall be exempt
from license tax when they are being offered for sale or sold by the
farmer or grower producing such product.
The producer of the aforesaid farm products shall be ex-
empt from any wholesale or retail peddler's license tax in the City,
when the same is being offered for sale or sold by the farmer or grow-
er producing such products, after the farmer, or grower of such pro-
ducts have procured a certification or affidavit made before a county
judge, justice of the peace, or other judicial officer of the county and
state in which such products were raised, grown or produced, stating
that the products were raised, grown or produced in the county where
such judicial officer resides by the person offering the products for sale.
(c) Nothing herein shall be construed to require a license for
practicing religious tenets of any kind.
(d) Businesses conducted solely for the benefit of public schools,
private schools, non -profit corporations and charitable institutions shall
be exempt from license taxes herein provided.
SECTION 1-5. POSTING.
It shall be the duty of all persons carrying on any business, pro-
fession or occupation mentioned in this Ordinance to keep their license
conspicuously posted in their place of business, or on machines, vehicles
or movable units.
SECTION 1-6. REVOCATION.
Any license or permit issued under the provisions of this Ord-
inance may be revoked after two days Notice and Hearing by the Mayor
or City Council when a business other than that designated in the license
or permit is conducted or where such business is conducted in violation
of any City Ordihance;of the City or criminal law of the State of Florida
or of the United States.
SECTION 1-7. PERMIT IN ADDITION; FORM; DISPLAY1NG.
All businesses licensed hereunder which operate from machines,
vehicles or movable units shall, in addition to obtaining a license there-
for,have issued at the same time a permit for each separate machine,
vehicle or movable unit, which permit must be displayed on the machine,
vehicle or unit for which it is issued and shall be in substantially the
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following form:
PERMIT
"City of Clermont
Lake County, Florida
City License No.
No.
has been issued for this permit.
Fee paid:
Date of Issue
This Permit Expires
Business for which this Permit was issued.
Person, firm or corporation to whom issued.
Collector of Taxes.
This card must be displayed on the machine, vehicle or unit for which
it is issued. "
and shall pay an additional fee of 50¢ for each Permit.
SECTION 1-8. COIN-OPERATED MACHINES; EXCEPTIONS.
Every person who operates for profit any machine, contrivance,
or device which is set in motion or made or permitted to function by
the insertion of a coin or slug or as described in Section 205.63, Flo-
rida Statutes, shall pay a license tax as prescribed in Section 1-20 of
this Ordinance.
SECTION 1-9. ROAD AND TENT SHOWS - EXCEPTIONS.
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All circuses, carnivals, tent shows, acrobatic troupes, ballets,
musical comedy and vaudeville troupes, all forms of raod shows and
other similar types of entertainment and all other forms of profession-
al histrionic forms of entertainment performing for the public for money,
or other things of value, or where such entertainment be offered with-
out charge, but in connection with and as an attraction to the sale of
any goods, wares or other commodity commonly known or referred to
as "patent medicines" shall be required to pay to the City a license fee
as prescribed in Section 1-20 of this Ordinance for each day they op-
erate, exhibit or perform in the City. Such license shall be required
of the above, whether the exhibition or performance be sponsored by
or given under the auspices of any charitable, religious, or other
similar nonprofit organization, provided, however, that the provisions
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of this Ordinance shall not apply to the performance of any strictly
amateur and nonprofessional actors, performers or musicians, pro-
vided further such license may be waived at the discretion of the
Council.
SECTION 1-10. SAME-APPLICATION; WHEN FEE PAYABLE.
The license as herein provided shall be obtained from the City
Clerk of the City upon application for the same, for the period of time
or number of days desired, which application must be accompanied by
the tender of coin or currency of the United States of America in an
amount equivalent to the prescribed fee per day for every day to be
embraced within such permit or license.
SECTION 1-11. SAME- REVOCABLE; CHANGES; FILING OATH.
When the Clerk of the City shall have issued licenses as here-
inabove prescribed, the same shall be irrevocable except that upon the
sworn statement of seven or more citizens of the City charging that
such production so licensed is indecent, unwholesome, offensive to
public decency, morality, or that the~same offends against the Gov-
ernment of the United States of America, or that the same amounts
to any act or acts of disloyalty to the United States of America, then
and upon the filing with the City Clerk such sworn statement or state-
ments, the Council shall be authorized to cancel any such permits so
issued, upon the tender or return to the holder of such license of all
unearned monies so paid to procure the issuance thereof.
SECTION 1-12. SAME - ADVERTISING BY BILLS, POSTERS, ETC.;
LICENSE FEE.
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It shall be unlawful for any person to distribute or cause to be
distributed, to post or cause to be posted, any advertising material,
billing, advertising, or soliciting patronage for any carnival, tent
show, acrobatic troupes, ballets, musical and vaudeville troupes, and
all forms of road shows as well as all other forms of professional
histrionic entertainment and amusement performing for money or
other thing of value, or where such entertainment be offered without
charge, but in connection with and as an attaction to the sale of any
goods, wares or other commodity commonly known or referred to
as "patent medicines", where such production or performance shall
be held, staged or pro duced in a temporary enclosure and outside
of the corporate limits of the City, unless such person shall first have
made application to the City Clerk of the City for a permit to so dis-
tribute or post said advertising material within the corporate limits
of the City, such application to be accompanied by the payment of the
fee as prescribed in Section 1-20 of this Ordinance.
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SECTION 1-13. TRANSIENT ROLLER SKATING RINK - DEFINITION.
The term "transient roller skating rinks" as herein used is
defined as any platform, arena, tent, enclosure or other structure
no permanently attached and fixed to realty on which the same be
located, and wherein and where on the entertainment and amuse-
ment of roller skating is offered to the public for money or other
thing of value.
Sanitary flush toilets must be furnished with separate facil-
ities for male and female of the Negro and the White races.
The Council must approve the location of the skating rink
and it cannot be located in a residential area as defined under the
City's zoning law.
SECTION 1-14. SAME - LICENSE REQUIRED.
All transient roller skating establishments doing business
in the City shall be required to pay to the City the license fee pro-
vidéd in Section 1-20 of this Ordinance.
SECTION I-IS. SAME - APPLICATION FOR LICENSE; TENDER.
The license as herein provided shall be obtained from the City
Clerk of the City upon application for the same for the period of time
and number of days desired, which application must be accompanied
by the tender of coin or currency of the United States of America in
an amount equivalent to the license fee prescribed in Section 1-20 of
this Ordinance.
SECTION 1-16. SAME - REFUSAL TO ISSUE LICENSE; REVOCATION.
In all cases the City Council may refuse to issue licenses or
permits for transient roller skating rinks, or may revoke any license
or permit so issued when, in the judgment of the Council the transient
roller skating rink is a nuisance. It shall be deemed a violation of
this Ordinance for any transient roller· skating rink to operate within
the city limits of the City without having first obtained a license as
herein provided, or to operate such transient roller skating rink
without such license, or after such license has been revoked in the
manner as herein provided.
SECTION 1-17. RECREATIONAL DEVICES AND GAMES NOT OTHER-
WISE: LICENSED; LICENSE FEE.
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Every person who operates for profit any game, amusement,
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or recreational device, contrivance, or facility within the corporate
limits of the City when such game, amusement, or recreational de-
vice, contrivance, or facility is not otherwise licensed by Ordinance
of the City shall pay a license tax of five dollars on each such game,
amusement, or recreational device, contrivance, or facility.
SECTION 1-18. AUTO TRANSPORATION COMPANIES; LICENSE RE-
QUIRED; LICENSE FEE.
Every auto transporation company, as defined in Chapter 323,
Florida Statutes, maintaining an office or receiving and/or discharg-
ing passengers and/or freight within the City shall not be required
to pay to the City a license tax, however, any auto transporation com-
pany not otherwise exempt under said Chapter 323, Florida Statutes,
shall pay to the City a license tax as required under Section 1-20 here-
of and shall be paid and procured in the manner provided in Section
1- 2 hereof.
SECTION 1-19. BANKRUPTCY GOODS, ETC.; LICENSE REQUIRED.
Every person engaging in or carrying on any mercantile bus-
iness in the City, the principal purpose of which is to sell or deal in
that class of goods, wares and merchandise brought into the City from
other places and known as or being or represented to be bought or
otherwise acquired at any bankruptcy sale, receiver's sale or trustee's
sale, or such as have been or are represented to have been damaged
by fire, storm or other similar cause, before engaging in or carrying
on such business shall procure from the City Clerk an occupational
license therefor, for which he shall pay a license tax as prescribed
in Section 1-20 of this Ordinance, and no such license shall be issued
for less than a ten day or more than a thirty day period.
SECTION 1-20. SCHEDULE OF FEES.
No person shall engage in or manage, or operate any business,
profession or occupation hereinafter set forth within the corporate
limits of the City unless an occupational license therefor shall have
been procured from the City Clerk of the City, which license shall
be issued to each person upon receipt of the amount as provided in
the schedule hereinafter set forth opposite the respective trade or
profession, which license shall be signed by the Clerk of the City
and it shall have the official seal of the City affixed thereto.
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The following annual, unless otherwise provided, license
taxes shall be paid to the City as herein provided by the person man-
aging or transacting the several businesses, trades occupations or
professions, namely:
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Item
Description
Amounts
( 1) ABSTRACT company or agents, or abstractor
of title $ 25.00
( 2) ACCOUNTANTS, CPA's, and auditors, each
25.00
( 3) ADVERTISING:
(a) Trade inducement agency 25.00
(b) Outdoor signs, each (see also Building
Code or Bill Board Ordinance). Prohibited
(c) Signs or vehicles for profit 15.00·
(d) Sound trucks:
(1) For profit, per day 5.00
(2) Not for profit -0-
(3) Political candidates -0-
(4) Local Schools, colleges, Churches -0-
(5) Not classified (with permission of
Council with or without license) per
day: 5.00
(e) Carnivals, tent shows, acrobatic troupes,
musical or vaudeville troupes, patent
medicine shows, road shows, and all other
forms of professional histrionic enter-
tainment and amusement when perform-
ing out side of City (See Section I -9 of
this Ordinance for permits to advertise.
See Section I -4( c) of this Ordinance for
exemptions), each: 100. 00
( 4) AGENCY:
(a) Commercial
(b) For the collection of rents or accounts,
not including real estate brokers or ag-
ents, paying neither lawyers nor other
license tax to City
(c) Any agency or other business not specif-
ically provided for herein
25.00
25.00
25.00
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( 6 )
( 7 )
AMBULANCE service (when not connected with
mortician) 25. 00
AMUSEMENTS (see also coin-operated machines).
(a) Parks (by permission of City Council).
(b) Carnivals, tent shows, not including
circuses, acrobatic troupes, ballets,
musical or vaudeville troupes, patent
AlRCONDITIONING (commercial refrigeration) See Contractors
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... medicine shows, all other road shows,
and all other professional and histronic
forms of entertainment and amusement,
each, per day (in addition to advertising
license) $100.88
( 8 ) ANIMAL Exhibitions 25.00
( 9 ) APARTMENT Houses See Hotels
( 10) APPLIANCE Company, sale and repair except
when sold with general merchandise. (Also
see Merchants). 20.00
( 11) ARCHITECTS, each 25.00
( 12) ARTIFICIAL stone, manufacturers or sales.
(Also See Stone)
( 13) ASTROLOGlSTS, fortune tellers, palmists,
clairvoyants, card readers, phrenologists,
spiritual readers and advisors, whether
making charges or accepting donations. Prohibited
( 14) AUCTIONEERS:
(a) Resident, each, per year 25.00
(b) Transient, each, per day 25.00
( 15) AUDITOR or auditing companies. Public
accounting or bookkeepers, each 25.00
( 16) AUTOMOBILES:
(a) Dealers in new or used cars with
accessories and repairing and fill-
ing station 40.00
(b) Dealers in new or used cars, no re-
pair 25.00
(c) Filling Stations. (See Filling Stations)
(d) Body shop and/or paint shop 20.00
(e) Garage, repair, storage 20.00
(f) Accessories, parts and supplies, retail
(See Merchants)
(g) Accessories, parts and supplies,
wholesale 25.00
1 ( 17) AUTO loan or finance Company (See Loan
companies). 50.00
( 18) AUTO transportation companies. (See also
Section I -18 of this Ordinance), per year 25.00
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( 20) BAKERY and confectionery:
(b) Within City 20.00
(b) With place of business outside City.
(See Retail Sales). 20.00
( 21) BANKRUPTS or damaged goods. (See Section
1-19) per day 25.00
( 22) BANKS, bankers or trust companies (See also
Loan Companies.) 50.00
( 23) BARBER SHOPS:
(a) One Chair 10.00
(b) Each additional chair 2.50
(Also see bootblacks.)
( 24) BEER and wine (See Ordinance No. --Y
( 25) BEAUTY PARLORS:
(a) One operator or chair 10.00
(b) Each additional operator or chair 2.50
( 26) BICYCLES:
(a) Keeping bicycles for hire or shop re-
pair of same or both 10.00
(b) Bicycles, sales only. (See also
Merchandise. ) 10.00
( 27) BILL POSTERS (See Advertising)
( 28) BILUARDS or pool tables: (For public use for
profit):
(a) One table 25.00
(b) Each additional table 7.50
( 29) BOARDING Houses See Hotels
( 30) BOATS & Motors, Sales & Service 20.00
n (b) Boats for hire, $1. 00 per boat,
minimum 25.00
( 31 ) BONDING companies 25.00
( 32) BOOK agents or canvassers for books.
(Other than religious.) Prohibited
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( 33) BOOK stores, not including outside mag-
azine and book agents. (Also see
Magazines. ) 20.00
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( 34) BOOKKEEPERS (Bookkeeping agencies) each 25."00
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( 35 ) BOOTBLACKS:
(a) One to two seats 2.50
(b) Three to five seats 5.00
( 36) BOTTLING COMPANIES, manufacturing or
selling soft or carbonated drinks 20.00
( 37) BOWLING alley, each alley 10.00
(Merchant's license for other merchandise
also required.)
( 38) BROKERS:
(a) Dealing in stocks and bonds, includes
agents for brokers 25.00
(b) Real Estate 25.00
(c) Dealing in merchandise, wholesale 25.00
(d) Others 25.00
( 39 ) BUILDING & Loan Associations 50.00
( 40) BUILDERS (or designers) 25.00
( 41 ) BUILDING materials:
(a) Sand, brick, lime, cement, lumber and
other building materials, excluding grav-
el and sand, including cabinet and shop
work 30.00
( 42) BUILDING trades, each 15.00
( 43) BUTCHER shops, meat and fish (including
dair_y:! products) (independent or sub-
leased) 20.00
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( 44) CABINET makers or carpenter shop 20.00
( 45 ) CAFES and restaurants: (Lunch counters,
also see dinning rooms)
(a) Seats for one to ten persons 10.00
(b) Seats for eleven to twenty persons 15.00
(c) Seats for twenty-one to thirty persons 20.00
(d) More than thirty 25.00
(e) Lunch counter (without seats or tables) 5.00
.. ( 46) CANDY:
(a) Wholesale, unless included i'IwrÌ1erch-
andise license 20.00
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.. ( 47) CANE racks, knife racks, lifting maÇhines,
striking machines, weighing machines,
each per year 5.00
(See shuffle boards and weight machines).
( 48) CANNING factories 30.00
( 49 ) CANVASSERS or solicitors 20.00
( 50) CARNIVALS (See Amusements)
( 51 ) CARPET '& Rug Cleaners, not connected with
dry cleaners or laundries 20.00
( 52) CASH REGISTERS, agents for sale of or
dealers in
( 53) CEMENT:
(a) Supply company (Also See contractors)
(b) Manufacturers of precase cement products
( 54) CERTIFIED public accountants or auditors
( 55) CIRCUSES, each day. (See Amusements also)
( 56) CIGARETTES (See tobacco dealers, also coin-
operated machines).
( 57) CITRUS:
(a) Fresh fruit packers
(b) Fresh fruit processing
(c) Fresh fruit gift box shippers
(d) Pulp or feed plants
( 58) CIVIL Engineers and Surveyors, each
( 59) CLAIRVOYANTS (See Astrologists)
( 60) CLEANERS (See Dry Cleaners)
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( 61) COIN-OPERATED machines. (Owners or
operators of same for profit.)
(a) Music boxes, jook organs, each
(b) Merchandise vending machines, gum,
peanuts, ice, nuts, mints, candy, soft
drinks, and any other merchandise, ex-
cept cigaretts and Florida Citrus Juices
(c) Penny-in -the-slot (First Machine)
Penny-in-the-slot (Each additional)
(d) Pinball machines, each
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20.00
20.00
20.00
See Auditors
100. 00
30.00
30.00
20.00
30.00
25.00
Prohibited
5.00
5.00
1. 00
.50
100.00
.. (e) U. S. Postage Machines or Drinking Cups -0-
(f) Weighing machines (See Subsection (c)
above.) No exception if located in licensed
business. Exempt if owned by non -profit
group, association, or corporation:where-
ever located.
( 62) COLD STORAGE plant:
(a) Connected with ice plant, in addition to
wholesale ice manufacturers license.
(See Ice Manufacturer) 20.00
(b) Not connected with ice plant 20.00
( 63) COMMON Carriers. (See Section 1-18 of this
Ordinance. )
( 64) CONCRETE (Manufacturers of concrete block) 20.00
( 65) CONTRACTORS:
(a) General building: Each person who enters
into contracts for the construction of build-
ings or structures and who performs the
work himself or sub-lets to subcontractors
any or all of the units of the work in con-
nection with the construction or repair of
any building, shall be termed a general
contractor and shall be required to pay an
annual license tax of 25.00
(b) Subcontractors and special contractors:
Each person who employs laborers to work
under his supervision or who works in any
manner whatsoever under a contract or cost-
plus basis agreement or understanding, or
for compensation in the form of a bonus or
commission additional to regular day wages
at !:he prevailing scale for ordinary workers,
or any trade engaged in or represented by
him and performing labor, which when com-
pleted results in the completion of any part
or portion of a building or structure, shall
be classed as a subcontractor and shall be
required to pay an annual license, as follows:
(1) Air conditioning equipment, installers
or contractors 15.00
(2) Artificial stone and marble workers
and seters 15.00
.. (3) Brick and stone masons or workers 15.00
(4) Carpenters and builders 15.00
(5) Cement and concrete workers 15.00
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(6) Composition floor contractors
(7) Decorators, interior
(8) Electricians and electrical con-
tractors, master or employing.
(See Electrical Code also.)
(9) Floor sanders and cleaners
(10) Glazers and glass setters
(11) Painters, paper hangers and sign
painters
(12) Pipe fitters
(13) Plasterers and stucco contractors,
including lathing
(14) Plumbers and plumbing contractors
(See Plumbing Code also)
(15) Refrigerator system, installers &
contractors
(16) Roofing and sheet metal workers or
contractors
(17) Sprinkler system contractors
(18) Store fixtures and front installers or
contractors
(19) Tent and awning contractors or bu-
ilders
(20) Tile and terrazzo workers and setters
(21) Steel workers, contractors and welders
(22) Other building trade occupations not
specifically mentioned.
( 66)
( 67)
CONVALESCENT homes
15.00
15.00
15.00
15.00
15.00
15.00
15.00
15.00
15.00
15.00
15.00
15.00
15.00
15.00
15.00
See Hotels
COTTAGES, rental, including Duplexes:,where
two or more are operated as a unit or where
grouped together, per living unit See Hotels
( 68) CRATES, vegetable or fruit, manufacturers of
( 69) CREDIT ASSOCIATIONS, firms or corporations
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( 70) DAIRY:
(a) Each person selling milk or cream in
the City, having two tio~five cows
(b) More than five and not exceeding ten
(c) More than ten
( 71) DAMAGED, bankrupts' or trustees' goods,
(See Section 1-19), per day
( 72) DANCE HALL (Operating for profit.)
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25.00
20.00
5.00
10.00
20.00
25.00
100. 00
.. ( 73) DANCING CLUBS, or groups holding dances
for profit, per night 5.00
( 74) DANCING SCHOOLS or classes 10.00
( 75) DEALERS, Second hand goods 20.00
( 76) DECORATORS, interior See Contractors
( 77) DELIVERY service when operated as a
separate business 10.00
( 78) DENTAL LABORATORY 20.00
( 79 ) DENTISTS, each 25.00
( 80) DIAPER SERVICE, local or out of town 20.00
( 81) DINING ROOM in connection with Hotel or
Rooming House See Restaurants
( 82) DISCOUNT HOUSES 20.00
( 83) DIVINE HEALERS (See Astrologists) Prohibited
( 84) DOCTORS:
(1) Chiropodists 25.00
(2) Chiropractors 25.00
(3) Naturopath 25.00
(4) Oculists" 25.00
(5) Opticians 25.00
( 6) Optometrists 25.00
(7) Osteopath 25.00
(8) Physicians 25.00
(9) Other Doctors or Physicians 25.00
( 85) DRAFTMEN and Designers (independent bus-
iness), each 20.00
( 86) DRESSMAKING SHOP - Dressmakers 5.00
( 87) DRUGS or Sundry Store 20.00
( 88) DRUGGIST, each 25.00
( 89 ) DRY CLEANER and laundry plant:
(a) Located in the City 20.00
(b) Located outside the CiW and doing
.. business inside the City 30.00
( 90) DRY CLEANER and Tailor only:
(a) Local 20.00
(b) Outside City 30.00
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( 92) DUPLEXES See Hotels
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( 93 ) ELECTRICAL machines or supplies - dealers 20.00
( 94) EMBALMERS See Undertakers
( 95 ) EMPLOYMENT AGENCY 20.00
( 96) ENGINEERS, each 25.00
( 97) ENGRAVERS and lithographers 20.00
( 98) ELECTRICIAN, master or employing. See Contractors
(Also See Electrical Code.)
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( 99 ) ELECTRIC light and power companies 100. 00
(100) EXHIBITIONS:
(a) Freak or other curiosity, for profit,
per week, when not included in amuse-
ments. (Upon approval of Council only) 100. 00
(b) Wrestling or boxing and other similar
exhibitions or matches, for each ex-
hibition or match (Upon approval of
the Council. ) 25.00
( 101) EXPRESS companies or agents 25.00
(102) EXTERMINATORS of insects, rodents or pests 25.00
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(103) FACTORIES (See specific headings)
(104) FEEDS, hay and grain:
(a) Dealers or agents, retail 20.00
(b) Dealers or agents, wholesale 20..00
(105) FERTILIZERS, dealers in or agents taking
orders for 20.00
(106) FILLING STATIONS 20.00
( 107) FINANCE companies (See Loan companies)
( 108) FISH and oysters, when as separate business 20.00
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(109) FORTUNE TELLERS (See Astrologists) Prohibited
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(11 I) FRUIT--dealer or agent. (For exemption see
Section I -4(b) of this Ordinance);
(a) Wholesale, per person or vehicle 25.00
(b) Retail, per year 20.00
(112) FRUIT stand, cart, truck or wagon, not in-
cluding push carts. (See peddlers; for
exemptions see Section I -4(b) of this
Ordinance) .
(113) FRUIT, push cart, each 5.00
(114) FUNERAL director See Undertakers
(115) FURNITURE See Merchants
(116) FLORIST:
(a) Located in City 20.00
(b) Without permanent place of business
in City 35.00
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(117) GAMES, automatic, recreational devices,
contrivances or machines when not other-
wise licensed. (Also see Coil Operated
Machines) 1O.00r
(118) GARAGES See Automobiles
(119) GARBAGE collectors, per year 20.00
(Upon approval of Council)
(120) GAS companies, requiring ten per cent
utility tax 20.00
(121) GASOLINE and oil, wholesale dealers or
distributors 30.00
(122) GRAVEL and sand, dealers in 10.00
(Also see Building Materials)
(123) GREEN growers and dealers, vegetables,
fresh fruit and nuts, wholesale (See
Section I -4(b) of this Ordinance for exemption).
.. (124) GUNS, dealers in guns, pistols, bowie knives
or other deadly weapons, when no other
stock is carried 20.00
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.. (125) HAT cleaning and blocking. (Not in connection with
dry cleaners 10.00
(126) HAWKERS and street vendors of drugs,
medicines or preparations, per day 25.00
(Not including medicine shows.)
(127) HAY, grain and feed, retail and wholesale See Merchants
(128) HIDES, dealer in, other than junk dealers 20.00
(129) HOTELS, Apartments, Duplexes, Boarding
Houses, Nursing and Convalescent Homes,
furnished rooms (does not permit dinning
room without restaurant license.)
(a) 2 rooms or more, per room 1.50
(b) 2 apartments or more, per apartment 3.00
(130) HOUSE movers and bond required 20.00
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(131) ICE CREAM and soda fountain:
(a) Parlor 20.00
(b) Carts or wagons, selling at retail 10.00
(c) When wrapped sandwiches, cakes,
etc. sold _ 15.00
(d) Parlors or store (not including soda
fountain) 5.00
(e) Manufacturers (wholesale) 15.00
(132) ICE manufacturers, and deliveries not in-
cluding cold storage 20.00
(133) INCOME tax consultants, each § 25.00
(134) INSURANCE agents for all type of insurance
sold and for all insurance companies
represented 25.00
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(135) JEWELERS and watch repairers:
(a) Watch repairs and jewelry 20.00
(b) Not including watch repairing 20.00
(c) Watch repairing only 10.00
.. (136) JOB PRINTERS:
(a) When not operating with newspaper 20.00
(b) Together with newspaper publishing 40.00
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(137) JUNK dealers. (See Dealers - second-hand
goods. )
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(138) KEY shops and lock and trunk repair
10.00
(139) KINDERGARDEN. (See Nursery - Children's)
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(140) LANDSCAPING. (See Nursery Stock).
(141) LAUNDRY:
(a) Mechanical or hand, located inside
of City 20. 00
(b) Out of City. (See Dry Cleaners.) 30.00
(142) LAUNDERETTE See Washing
(143) LAWYERS, each 25.00
(144) LETTER service, multigraphing or mimeo-
graphing 5.00
(145) LINEN supply:
(a) Resident of City 20.00
(b) Nonresident 30.00
(146) LIQUOR dealers. See State Laws
(147) LOAN companies, auto 50.00
(148) LOAN companies (See Building & Loan Ass'n.)
50.00
(149) LOCKSMITH See Key Shops
(150) LUMBER, only, dealer, retail. (Also See
Building Materials.) 20.00
(151) LUNCH and sandwich stand:
(a) No seats 5.00
(b) Up to ten seats. (See Cafes and Restaurants.)
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(152) MACHINERY, dealers in or agents for itinerant
dealers
20.00
20.00
(153) MACHINE shops and foundries
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.. (154) MANICURISTS 5.00
( 155) MANUFACTURERS and Processors (Not
Citrus) 20.00
(156) MARKET, vegetable, independentlyop-
erated 20.00
(157) MA TTRESS company and repair: 20.00
(158) MEAT markets. (Also see Fish Markets
and Butcher Shops.) 20.00
(159) MEDICAL technician:
(a) When employed by Hospital, or in
Doctor's Clinic - full time Exempt
(b) Independent business, local or out
of City 25.00
(160) MEDICINE shops, per day See Amusements
(161) MERCHANTS, all merchandise unless
specifically mentioned 20.00
(162) MERCHANDISE vending machines J. (See
Coin -operated Machines.)
(163) MERCHANDISE peddlers and canvassers 25.00
( 164) METAL SHOPS 20.00
(165) MILK vendors, each truck unless paying
dairy license. (Also see Dairy.) 10.00
(166) MONUMENTS, tombstones, or marble works 20.00
(b) Agents 20.00
(167) MOVING picture shows:
(a) Less than fifty seats 10.00
(b) Fifty to three hundred 25.00
(c) Over three hundred 30.00
(d) Drive-Ins 30.00
(168) MOVERS (See Auto Transporation companies)
(169) MUSIC boxes. (See coin-operated machines.)
Marble games, pinball, etc. automatic, for
.. games of amusement, entertainment, pleas-
ure or information (telephone coin boxes ex-
cepted. )
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.. (170) MUSIIGIANS,street Prohiþited
(171) MUSIC installations; wires, service 20.00
(172) NEON signs. See Advertising
(173) NEWSTANDS, when not included in
merchant's license 5.00
(174) NEWSPAPER publisher. . See Job Printers
(175) NURSERY - Children's Day, for profit 15,00
(176) NURSERY stock or forest trees, agents
for, dealers in, including landscaping
and floral gardens::
(a) Resident 20.00
(b) With permanent place of business
in City 30.00
(177) NURSES:
(a) Registered - Private duty Exempt
(b) Practical Exempt
(178) NURSING HOME. (See Hotels.)
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( 179) OFFICE supplies, furniture, and business
machines, agents, sales or repairs 20.00
(180) OIL companies or agencies, wholesale 30.00
(181) OPTICIANS See Doctors
(182) ORGAN grinder or street musician Prohibited
(183) OSTEOPATHS See Doctors
(184) OUTDOOR advertising signs See Advertising
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(185) PAINTING and/or paper hanging. (Also,
see Sign Painter, Contractors.) 15.00
(186) PALMISTS. (Also see Astrologists) Prohibited
4 (187) PARKING lot. (When operated as a sep-
arate business.) 10.00
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(188)
(189)
(190)
(191)
(192)
(193)
( 194)
(195)
(196)
(197)
(198)
(199)
(200)
(201)
PATENT medicine peddlers. (See hawkers
and vendors, amusements.)
PATHOLOGISTS:
(a) Office in City
(b) When employed by Hospital or in
Doctor's Clinic full time
PA WNBROKERS, year or fraction thereof
PEDDLERS
PHONOGRAPHS, radios and musicial
instruments
PHOTOGRAPHERS: (Also See Portraits.)
(a) With permanent place of business
in City
(b) With temporary place of business
in City, per day
($250.00 performance bond required.)
PHRENOLOGISTS. (See Astrologists)
PHYSICIANS
PINBALL machines. (See Coin-operated
machines. )
PLANING mills
PLUMBERS, contractors, master and
employing
PLUMBING supplies, when not included in
merchant's license
PORTRAITS
POULTRY markets, not in connection
with any other business
(202) PRINTERS, publishers of newspapers,
magazines, etc. (Religious books ex-
empt.) (See Job Printing)
(203) PROFESSIONS, not otherwise specified .
(See specific headings.)
(204) PROPRIETARY medicines or medical oint-
ment, manufacturer of, not to include
drug stores paying tax as licensed
merchants
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Exempt
50.00
50.00
20.00
20.00
10.00
Prohibited
See Doctors
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40.00
See Contractors
20.00
See Photographers
20.00
25.00
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(205) PUBLIC stenographer
(206) PUBLISHERS of news, periodical, includ-
ing job printing. (Also see Job Printers.)
(207) PUSH CARTS for cold drinks, etc. (Also,
see ice cream, fruit stands, etc.
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(208) RADIO, television, dealers and repair, when
not connected with other merchandise.
(Also see Merchants. )
(209) RADlOLIGlST
(210) RAILROAD companies
(211) REAL ESTATE dealers, brokers, each
(212) REAL ESTATE, salesmen
(213) REFRIGERATORS:
(a) Sales and service
(b) Repair only
5.00
20.00
25.00
25.00
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Exempt
20.00
10.00
(214) RENTAL agents. (See Real Estate dealers, brokers.)
(215) REPAIR shops not enumerated herein
(216) REPTILE exhibitions
(217) RESTAURANTS. (See Cafes and Restaurants.)
(218) ROLLER skating rinks:
(a) Transient (See Section 1-13) per day
(b) Permanent (when structure a part of
realty) .
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(219) SALESMEN or agents, retail, not specifically
mentioned (or not employed by licensed
business) .
(220) SASH, door and blinds, manufactures of
(Also see Building Materials.)
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(221) SERVICE stations. (See Filling Station,
Automobiles. )
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20.00
5.00
50.00
10.00
20.00
.. ( 222) SEWING machine repair and sales 10.00
(223) SHEETMETAL shop See Metal Shop
(224) SHOES:
(a) Repair only 10.00
(b) Sales only 20.00
(c) Sales and repair 20.00
(d) Manufacture§ 20.00
(225) SHOOTING gallery: (Not to be operated
after 10 p.m.)
(a) Portable, after Council's approval
of location 50.00
(b) Permanent (at least 12 months lease
of location and approval of location
by Council.) 25.00
(c) Connected with other licensed business
and approved by Council 25.00
(226) SHOWS. (See Amusements, theaters.)
(227) SLOT machines, for sale of candy, gum or
other merchandise, distributing coqfect-
ions, playing music, weighing or similar
devices, not run in violation of the crim-
inallaw or City Ordinancés. (See Coin-
operated machines, amusements.)
(228) SHUFFLE board and all devices used by
persons for source of profit to them-
selves, such as throwing at wooden
figures, or any other objects, with
rings or any other devices of like
nature, and striking an object to test
lungs, lung testers, etc., not other-
wise provided for in this section,
ea.eh per day 5.00
(229) SIGN See Advertising
( 230) SIGN painters 15.00
(231) SKA TING rinks. (On permission of Council.
Also see SubSection 212 above).
(232) SODA fountain See Ice Cream
4 (233) STEAM cleaners and dye works See Dry Cleaners
(234) STONE manufacturers and dealers:
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(a) Artificial stone, tiling, terracotta,
marble, granite
(b) Agents for. (Also See Building Materials)
20.00
(235) STORAGE. See Warehouses
(236) STOREKEEPERS. See Merchants
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(237) TAILORS. (Also See Dry Cleaners.) 20.00
(238) TAX consultants. See Income Tax Consultants
(239) TAXI See Taxie Ordinance
(240) TELEGRAPH company 20.00
(241) TELEPHONE company 100. 00
(242) TENT shows See Shows, Amuse-
ments, circuses
(243) TERMITE exterminators (Resident or
None -resident) 25.00
(244) THEATERS (See Moving Pictures, Amusements, Shows)
(245) TIN shops
See Metal Shops
(246) TOBACCO dealers. (Also See Merchants, Cigarettes,
Coin -operated Machines.)
(247) TOMBSTONE salesmen or agents.
(Also see Monument Works.) 20.00
(248) TOURIST camps 20.00
(249) TRADE SCHOOL 15.00
(250) TRANSIENT merchants having no business
house in City doing retail sales, when not
otherwise mentioned herein. (Also see
specific headings.) 20.00
(251) TYPEWRITERS, dealers or agents. See Merchants
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(252) UNCLASSIFIED:·
All persons, firms or corporations doing bus-
iness in the City or having agents or represent-
atives established here, and not specifically en-
umerated in this list, shall pay a license tax as
for merchandise. See Merchants
(253) UNDERTAKERS, embalmers and funeral
directors, each location
25.00
20.00
(254) UPHOLSTERS (Also see Mattress Repair)
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(255) VEGETABLES and fruit stands, separate bus-
iness. (See Fruit Stand, Push Cart; fee ex-
emptions see Section I -4(b) of this Ordinance).
(256) VENDORS of confetti, balls, balloons and other
specialties on stree, a day (Also, see 5.00
Push Carts.)
(257) VENDING machines.
See Coin -operated
Machines
(258) VETERIARIAN with office in City
25.00
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(259)
( 260)
WAREHOUSES and storage rooms
20.00
WASHING machines:
(a) Retail sales and/or repairs not
connected with other business
(b) Retail sales and/or repairs con-
nected with other business
(c) Rental (not connected with other
business)
(d) Rental connected with other bus-
iness
(e) Launderette, each machine
20.00
See Merchants
20.00
See Merchants
5.00
(261) WATCHMAKERS and jewelers (including
repairing. )
See Jewelers and
Watch Repairer
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(262) WATCH repairing only
See Jewelers
(263) WATER, dealer in mineral or spring
water
20.00
25.00
(264) WELDING shops
(265) WEIGHING machines.
See Coin -operated
Machines
(266) WOOD dealers
5.00
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(267) YARD service:
(a) Mowing, spraying, fertilizing
(b) Supervision only
(c) Nursery
5.00
5.00
See Nursery and
Landscaping
SECTION Il-1. PENALTIES.
Any person, firm or corporation found guilty of violating any
of the provisions of this Ordinance shall, upon conviction, be punish-
ed by a fine not less than the amount of $100.00 and nor more than
$300.00 or by imprisonment in the City Jail not exceeding ninety days,
or by both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the Judge
of the Municipal Court.
Each day such violation is committed:or permitted to continue
shall constitute a separate offense, and shall be punishable as such
hereunder.
SECTION III -l.S EP)\ RABILITY.
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or any
portion of this Ordinance is for any reason held invalid or unconsti-
tutional by any Court of competent jurisdiction, such portion shall
be deemed a separate, distinct and independent provision and such
holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions hereof.
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PASSED by the City Council of the City of Clermont on its first
reading on #P¡/G'M 13;:: I? r¡ ,1961.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Clermont on its second
reading on ~JIJ ¡/ E: Iv[ ì3 j3' tV ? ' 1961.
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PASSED by the City Council of the City of Clermont on its third
reading on A) f} I) pr M Ið ¡: f\ r¡ ,1961.
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fr:~sident of the City é()uncil
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RECEIVED AND APPROVED by me, this
1961.
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CERTIFICATE
I HEREBY CERTIFY the foregoing Ordinance No;{t>O was posted
as requited by the Charter and/or Ordinances of the City of Clermont in
effect at the time of the passage and approval thereof.
DATED
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