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O-55-133 ORDINANCE NO. 133 . AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR AN OCCUPATIONAL LICENSE TAX FOR ALL ELECTRICIANS OR ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS; REQUIRING EXAMINATION AND PAYJ.1ENT OF ALL PERSONAL PROPERTY TAXES AS A CONDITION PRECEDENT TO THE ISSUANCE OF THE LICENSE; REPEALIID PARAGRAPH 109 6F SECTION 7, CHAPTER XI OF THE REVISED GENERAL ORDIN- ANCES OF THE CITY OF CLE~~NT RELATING TO OCCUPATIONAL LICENSE TAXES OF THE CITY OF CLERMONT; PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS RELATING HERETO, INCLUDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION HEREOF. BE IT ORDAINED AND ESTABLISHED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CLE~NT, FLORIDA: SECTION 1. Hereafter all electricians or electrical contractors performing any labor and/or furnishing any material in the original installing, altering or repairing of any electrical wiring, circuits or upon any part of a system of electrical wiring or circuits in any structure or upon any property wi thin the 11mi ts of the City of Clermont, Florida, is hereby required to first obtain an occupational license . tax of Twenty Dollars ($20.00) before performing any labor upon, or furnishing any material for any electrical wiring or circuits, which said electrician or contractor will install in or cause said material to become a part of the electrical wiring or circuits in any building or upon any property in said City. Provided further said electrician or electrical contractor may have as many apprentice electricians, journeymen electricians or helpers as desire which the City will include under the foregoing license tax fee. The licensed electrician or electrical contractor will be solely responsible for all work performed by said apprentice electricians, journeymen electricians, helpers or any person or group of persons employed by him and working on any premises in the City of Clermont in which the electrical wiring, circuits or materials are being inserted in electrical wiring or curcuits or shall' become a part of electrical wiring of circuits in any building or upon any property in the aforesaid City. ~Ii SECTION 2. All electricians or electrical contractors making applicaticn for an occupational license under this ordinance as a condition precedent to the issuance of said license under this ordinance, each are hereby required to undergo an examination based upon the National Electric Code and any amendments thereto, then in full' force-and effect in the City of Clermont, as provided by an examination ordinance of said City, and shall also have paid to the Tax Collector of this City all personal property taxes duly levied and assessed by said City and then delinquent or then due and payable to said City. . SECTION 3. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be fined not more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) and not less than double the amount of the license required herein, or by imprisonment in the City Jail. for not less than three (3) nor more than sixty (60) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Provided further that each day said violation is continued by operating as an electrician or electrical contractor without an occupational license as required, herein shall be a separate offense. SECTION 4. Each of the provisions of this ordinance are severable, and if any provision herein shall be declared to be invalid the remaining provisions shall not be affected but shall remain in full force and effect. ¡¡Ii . SECTION 5. This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval; and, all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed particularly paragraph 109 of Section 7, of Chapter XI, as amended of the Revised General Ordinance of the City of Clermont relating to Occupational License taxes in the City of Clermont. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PASSED by the City Council of the City of Clermont at a Regular Meeting held on February 1, 1955. /S¡{(~~ President of the City Council ATTEST: :~ ~ ~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - RECEIVED and approved by me this February 1, 1955. Aff!/J .4!rà Mayor - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - .