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ORDINANCE 6121, )1.5 ORDINAN°aCE NO. , 612 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING "EL SEGUNDO CITY CODE, 1958," BY AMENDING "CHAPTER 16 - LICENSES, " OF SAID CODE, AS HEREINAFTER SET FORTH; AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 382, AND ALL OTHER ORDINANCES IN CON- FLICT HEREWITH. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That "The Code of the City of E1 Segundo, California, 1958, " and in particular Chapter 16, is amended by the deletion of Sections 16. 92 to 16. 143 includive, and by amending Sections 16. 1 to 16. 91 to read as follows: "SEC. 16.1 LICENSE REQUIRED - GENERALLY. It shall be unlawful for any person to commence or con- duct in the city, any business specified, named, desig- nated or referred to in this chapter without first having procured a license from the city so to do as provided in this chapter, or without complying with each and all of the requirements or provisions of this chapter and any other ordinance of the city now existing or which may hereafter be adopted by the city council, and which re- fers or relates to such business. The commencing or conducting of any such business without having first pro- cured such license or without having complied with any and all such requirements or provisions shall constitute a separate violation of this chapter for each and every day that such business is so commenced and conducted. SEC. 16.2 LICENSE - TAX IMPOSED FOR REVE- NUE PURPOSES. The fee herein provided is exclusively a tax imposed for revenue purposes and imposed only with the intent of the city to have each commercial activity, as herein provided, sustain its just share of the burden or ex- pense of local government. SEC. 16.3 LICENSE - BUSINESSES FOR WHICH NO LICENSE IS TO BE ISSUED. No license shall be issued for any business which is prohibited within the city by this chapter or by any ordinance of the city. SEC. 16.4 LICENSE - EXEMPTION OF CERTAIN SOLDIERS, SAILORS AND MARINES. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, every soldier, sailor or marine of the United States of America, who has received an honorable discharge or release from active duty under honorable conditions from such service and who is physically unable to obtain a livelihood by manual labor, and who is a voter of this state, shall have the right to peddle and vend any goods, wares or merchandise owned by him, except spiritous, malt, vinous or other intoxicating liquor, with- out payment of any license fee; and, the director of finance shall issue to such soldier, sailor or marine without cost -1- f 5) " a license therefor, upon presentation of proper and suffi- cient credentials; provided, however, that no such busi- ness shall be commenced or continued by any such soldier, sailor or marine without first procuring the license herein referred to. SEC. 16. 5 LICENSE -EXEMPTION OF CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS. The provisions of this chapter shall not require the payment of a license fee to conduct any business wholly for the benefit of charitable purposes; a license fee shall not be required for the conduct of an amusement, enter- tainment, concert, or similar activity if the receipts thereof, immediately are to be appropriated to an established local church, school or other approved agency and used for a reli- gious, charitable or civic purpose within the city; nor shall any license fee be required for the conducting of any enter- tainment, dance, concert, exhibition or lecture by any reli- gious, charitable, fraternal, educational, military, state, county or municipal organization or association, if the re- ceipts of any such entertainment, dance, concert, exhibition or lecture immediately are to be appropriated wholly for the proper and lawful purposes and objects of the association; provided, however, that nothing in this section contained shall be deemed to exempt any such institution or organiza- tion from complying with any ordinance of the city, and shall require a permit from the city council to conduct, manage or carry on any such lecture, entertainment, dance, concert, exhibition, show or business. SEC. 16.6. LICENSE - EXEMPTIONS DUE TO CON- STITUTIONAL PROVISIONS. Nothing contained in this chap- ter with reference to the payment of license fees shall be deemed or construed as applying to any person commencing or conducting any business which is exempt from the pay- ment of license fees or license taxes by municipal corpora- tions under or by virtue of the constitution or laws of the United States of America. SEC. 16.7 LICENSE - EXEMPTION TO APPLICANTS RECOMMENDED BY VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION BU- REAU. Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this chapter, the city council reserves the right to waive the pay- ment of any license fee required under this chapter from any licensee who is recommended in writing to the city council by the vocational rehabilitation bureau of the state depart- ment of education, as worthy of consideration, and who, after personal interview of the applicant by the city council sitting as a committee of the whole, may be extended such a privilege by the city council. In case any such privilege is so extended, the city council may fix such conditions as to the city council may seem proper or desirable in connec- tion with the business, occupation or activity•to be so licen- sed and conducted by any such applicant. SEC. 16.8 LICENSE - EXEMPTION PERSONS UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE. Upon application therefor, and subject to any administrative requirements the city manager may prescribe, the director of finance is authorized to issue license without payment of any license fee to any person under age of eighteen years where the following conditions are pre- sent: (a) minor person conducting business is currently en- rolled in school not above high school; (b) business activity is conducted only outside of school hours or during school Wz i vacation; (c) business activity produces not more than $1, 000 in gross receipts during any calendar year, and any profits therefrom, accrue only to applicant; (d) only applicant and others under age of eighteen years shall be employed in the business; and (e) applicant has filed with the director of finance the written consent of parent or legal guardian, to issuance of license. SEC. 16.9 LICENSE - EXEMPTION UPON FILING VERIFIED STATEMENT WITH DIRECTOR OF FINANCE. Any person claiming a license exemption shall file a veri- fied statement with the director of finance upon an applica- tion form therefor, approved by the director of finance, stating the facts upon which such exemption is claimed. The director of finance shall, upon a proper showing con- tained in the verified statement, issue a license or per- mit to such person claiming exemption under this section without payment to the city of the license tax required by this chapter. In addition to the above, the applicant shall obtain from the director of finance an identification card to be carried on his person when conducting such business. SEC. 16. 10 STATEMENTS TO BE FILED BY NEW AND EXISTING BUSINESSES AS A GUIDE TO DETERMINE AMOUNT OF LICENSE FEE. In all cases where the amount of license fee to be paid under the provisions of this chapter by any person is based upon the number of persons employed, or upon the number of wagons or other vehicles used, or upon the amount of the maximum admission fee charged, or upon the number of tickets or instruments sold or issued, or upon the number of tables or other devices used for any business, enterprise, game or activity, or upon the number of rooms or units in any building or structure, or upon the seating capacity of any enclosure, hall, room or building, such person shall before obtaining a license for his business, and within fifteen days after the beginning of each license period, if such business is established and in operation dur- ing any part of the fifteen days, file with the director of finance for his guidance in ascertaining the amount of license to be paid or deposited for such person a written statement, certified as true by the applicant, showing the average daily number of persons employed by such person during the li- cense period next preceding the date of such statement, or the number of wagons or other vehicles, used, or the amount of maximum admission fees charged, or the number of tic- kets or instruments sold or issued, or the number of tables or other devices used for any business, enterprise, game or activity by such person, or the number of rooms or units contained in such building or structure, or the seating capa- city of any such enclosure, hall, room or building, as the case may be at the date of such statement. No such statement shall be conclusive upon the city, or upon any officer thereof, as to the matters therein set forth, or otherwise, and the same shall not prejudice the right of the city to recover any amount that may be ascer- tained to be due from such person in addition to the amount shown by such statement to be due in case such statement should be found to be incorrect. If any person hereby required to make any such state- ment shall fail to do so, such person shall be required to pay a license fee at the maximum rate prescribed in this -3- f}} — 0,i9 and accounting practices of the city may from time to time require. SEC. 16.14 HOW AND WHEN LICENSE FEES PAY- ABLE. All license fees under this chapter shall be paid in advance in lawful money of the United States of America at the office of the director of finance in the city. Unless other- wise specifically provided, all annual license taxes under the provisions of this Code shall be due and payable in advance on the first day of January of each year; provided, that the license taxes covering new operations, commenced after the first day of February, 1964, may be prorated on a monthly basis com- mencing with the first day of the month in which the license is �- operative for the balance of the license period. SEC. 16.15 MISTAKE IN DETERMINATION, COLLEC- TION. No error or mistake on the part of the director of fin- ance, or otherwise in the determination, statement or collec- tion of the amount of any license fee shall prevent or prejudice the collection by or for the city what shall be actually due from any person commencing or conducting any business subject to a license under this chapter. SEC. 16.16. TRANSFERABILITY. All licenses granted or issued under this chapter shall be personal to the respective licensee therein named, and except as hereinafter provided, the same shall not be transformed or assigned. It is provided, how- ever, that where there is any change in the name of any licensed business; or, such business is sold or transferred in its entirety to a new owner; or, in case of a change in ownership of the busi- ness, that such new owner or changed owner may obtain a new license for the then unexpired term of the old license, upon sur- render of such old license and the payment of a transfer fee of three dollars. The same applies to a change in location or ad- dress. SEC. 16.17 DUPLICATE LICENSES. The director of finance may on receipt of an affidavit filed in the office of the director of finance by or on behalf of any licensee, stating that any license issued under this chapter has been lost or destroy- ed, issue a duplicate of such license to the licensee therein named. A charge of fifty cents shall be made for each such duplicate license issued, which sum shall be paid into the trea- sury of the city to the credit of the general fund. SEC. 16.18 EXHIBITION OF LICENSE - DISPLAY IN PLACE OF BUSINESS: PERSONS NOT HAVING FIXED PLACES OF BUSINESS. Every person having a license issued under the provisions of this chapter and commencing or conducting the business therein mentioned at a fixed place shall keep such license conspicuously posted and exhibited in the place of busi- ness while the same is in force. Every person having such a license and not having a fixed place of business shall carry or transport such license with him at all times while conducting such business. SEC. 16.19 EXHIBITION OF LICENSE - APPLYING FOR RENEWAL; REQUEST OF POLICE OFFICER. Every person having a license issued under the provisions of this chapter shall exhibit the same to the director of finance, or his authorized deputy, when applying for a renewal thereof, and when ever requested to do so by any police officer of the city or by any inspector or officer thereof authorized to issue or inspect licenses or collect license fees. <I-- -5- SEC. 16.63 DRY CLEANING AND PRESSING BUSI- NESS. Dry cleaning and pressing business or agency, loca- ted at a fixed place of business, twenty -four dollars per year. Soliciting dry cleaning and pressing business when not in connection with such fixed place of business licensed hereunder, forty -eight dollars per vehicle used per year. SEC. 16.64 FOOD CATERERS - VEHICLE. Food caterers - vehicle, forty -eight dollars a year per vehicle. SEC. 16. 65 GARAGES. Repair garages, when not in conjunction with the sale of new or used motor vehicles, twenty -four dollars per year. SEC. 16. 66 HOME OCCUPATIONS. Home occupa- tions as defined by the Zoning Ordinance of the city, six dollars per year. SEC. 16.67 HOTELS, MOTELS, AUTO - COURTS, APARTMENT HOUSES AND LODGINGHOUSES. Hotels, motels, auto - courts, lodginghouses, twenty -four dollars per year where same has less than fifteen rooms, forty - eight dollars per year where same has fifteen or more rooms but not more than forty -nine rooms, and ninety- six dollars per year where same has fifty rooms or more. Apartment houses and apartment house complexes, eight dollars per year for the first three dwelling units; two dollars per year for each additional dwelling unit with maximum fee of ninety -six dollars. (An apartment house complex is defined as two or more individual buildings of multiple dwelling units located on contiguous property under the same ownership.) SEC. 16.6.8 ICE MANUFACTURE AND ICE DISTRI- BUTION. Ice manufacture and ice distribution from a fixed place of business or from a vehicle, twenty -four dollars per year. SEC. 16.69 JUNK. COLLECTORS. Junk collectors, twenty -four dollars per year for each vehicle used. Junk collector, as used herein, is defined to be a person com- mencing or conducting the business of going from house to house, or from place to place, gathering, collecting, buy- ing, selling or otherwise dealing in old rags, sacks, bottles, cans, paper or other articles, commonly known as "junk "; provided, however, that any person licensed under the pro- visions of this section shall not solicit for "free will offer- ings" of such materials as are herein above enumerated or referred to under the guise or representation that the same are being collected by or for any charitable or other organi- zation entitled to obtain a free permit as provided for under other provisions of this chapter. It is provided, however, that the provisions of this chapter relating to junk collectors shall not apply to official collectors of the city or collectors specially authorized by the city council to make such collec- tions as a public service. SEC. 16. 70 LAUNDRIES. Laundries having a fixed place of business outside the city, twenty -four dollars per year for each vehicle used in the city. SEC. 16.71 LAWN SERVICE, WNDOW CLEANING. Lawn service, gardening service, window cleaning service and similar service, twelve dollars per year. SEC. 16. 72 LIBRARY (RENTAL). Library (rental), twelve dollars per year. -13- i n SEC. 16.73 LINEN AND TOWEL SUPPLY: CLEAN- ING TOWEL AND CLEANING RAG SUPPLY. Linen and towel supply service and cleaning towel or cleaning rag supply service employing one vehicle, twenty -four dol- lars per year; employing more than one vehicle, sixteen dollars per year for each additional vehicle. SEC. 16. 74 LOANS. Loan, finance or moneylend- ing business, forty -eight dollars per year. SEC. 16. 75 LOCKSMITH WITHIN CITY. Locksmith with established place of business in the city, twelve dollars per year. SEC. 16.76 LUMBER OR BUILDING MATERIALS. Lumber or building materials (new or used), forty -eight dollars per year. SEC. 16.77 MANUFACTURING BUSINESSES OR ESTABLISHMENTS. Manufacturing businesses or establish- ments, (both light and heavy), shall pay an annual license fee in accordance with the following schedule: Less than twenty -five employees, twenty -four dol- lars per year. Twenty -five and less than fifty employees, thirty - six dollars per year. Fifty employees or over, forty -eight dollars per year. For the purposes of determining the number of em- ployees in fixing the classification for any manufacturing business or establishment hereunder, an employee shall be deemed to be any person who is on the payroll of such busi- ness or establishment, whether full time or part time, and in whatsoever capacity he or she may be serving. It shall be the duty of the owner of such manufacturing business or establishment to truthfully state, in writing, to the license collector the number of employees employed by such business or establishment at the time that the license for such business or establishment is applied for. Such number of employees shall determine the license fee brac- ket for the purpose of issuing such license. SEC. 16.78 PEDDLING - GENERALLY. Peddling services not otherwise mentioned in this chapter, twenty - four dollars per year. Any license applied for under this section and sections 16. 79 to 16. 81, inclusive, of this Code, shall be subject to special permit from the city council. SEC. 16. 79 PEDDLING -FOOD. Peddling food, foodstuffs and food products, other than from catering food trucks, twelve dollars per year on foot and twenty - four dollars per year where sold from a vehicle, subject to special permit from the city council. SEC. 16.80 PEDDLING - MAGAZINES AND MER- CHANDISE. Peddling any goods, wares, magazines or merchandise not otherwise provided for in this chapter, twenty -four dollars per year, whether on foot or from a vehicle, subject to special permit from the city council. -14- i 0 ' ' t c SEC. 16.81 PEDDLING - POPCORN AND SOU- VENIRS. Peddling popcorn, peanuts, gum candy con- fections or toys, such as balloons, flags, pennants, banners, canes, buttons, badges, horns, musical or noise - making instruments, serpentines, souvenirs and similar articles, on foot, two dollars and fifty cents per day, and from a vehicle, five dollars per day, per vehicle, subject to special permit from the city council. SEC. 16.82 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES. Physi- cians, surgeons, dentists, chiropractors, chiropodists, osteopaths, optometrists, occulists, engineers, archi- tects, accountants, real estate brokers, attorneys and other services listed by the department of Vocational Standards in the California State Business and Profes- sional Code or as otherwise in this Code provided, twenty - four dollars per year where not more than two are en- gaged in a joint business with an additional twelve dol- lars for each additional /associate or employee. licensed SEC. 16.83 REST HOME, CONVALESCENT HOME, GUEST HOME, CHILD CARE NURSERY AND FOSTER FAMILY HOME. Rest, convalescent and guest homes and child care nursery, twelve dollars per year; and fos- ter family care home, two dollars per year; all are sub- ject, however, to the inspection and written approval of: (a) The Social Welfare Board of the State of California; (b) The health officer; (c) The chief of the fire department; and (e) The director of building safety. SEC. 16.84 SCHOOLS (PRIVATE). Schools (pri- vate) not otherwise provided for in this chapter, twelve dollars per year. SEC. 16.85 SMALL INCOME BUSINESSES. Upon the filing of an application for a small income business license and an affidavit stating, among other things, that the volume of contemplated business would be so small that the regular business license fee therefor, would im- pose a hardship of unfair proportions; and upon the city council's finding and determining that such representa- tions are true and correct, the city council may order the issuance of a small income business license which shall be for the current fiscal year, and shall be issued upon payment of a twelve dollar license fee. SEC. 16.86 STREET STANDS. Street stands for the selling of any goods, wares or merchandise on any portion of the public streets within the city, twelve dol- lars per month; provided, that no license shall be issued for any such stand until a permit has been obtained from the city council, and that the application for such permit must be accompanied by the written consent of the owner or occupant of the premises abutting immediately upon that portion of the street which the applicant desires to use; and further provided, that the city council shall have the right to grant or refuse such permit under this section in its discretion. SEC. 16.87 TAXICAB OR AUTOMOBILE FOR HIRE. Taxicab or automobile for hire, twenty -four dollars per -15- year, plus two dollars per year for each operator li- censed; provided, that before any such license to operate such business shall be issued, the person commencing or operating such business shall have first obtained special permission to do so from the city council; and provided further, that before any such operator of any such car shall be licensed so to do, he shall first be fingerprinted by the police department and obtain spec- ial permission from the chief of police to act as such operator. The special permission from the chief of police issued to any operator may be suspended, cancelled or revoked by the chief of police at any time for any rea- son which to the chief of police in the exercise of a sound discretion appears proper as being in the public interest. The permit cards to be issued by the chief of police to such operators may be substantially in the following form: THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT . . . . . . . . . is a licensed taxicab driver as defined in section 16. 87 of the El Segundo City Code, 1958. .............. Chief of Police Expires . . unless sooner re- voked, suspended or cancelled. SEC. 16.88 THEATRES AND SHOWS GENERALLY. Theatres, motion picture shows, playhouses, events, and all other shows or exhibitions, (except those conducted in the open or under canvas), not otherwise provided for in this chapter, twenty-four dollars per year. Any such li- cense, however, shall not include the right to conduct a cafe, restaurant or lunch counter. SEC. 16.89 TRANSIENT FOOD VENDOR. Tran- sient food vendor twenty -four dollars per day, subject to special permit from the city council. SEC. 16.90 TRANSIENT MERCHANTS. Transient merchant, which shall include all merchants doing busi- ness at a fixed place of business for a period of less than thirty consecutive days, and who do not deal exclusively in food or foodstuffs for human consumption, two dollars and fifty cents per day. SEC. 16.91 WHOLESALE BUSINESS. Wholesale business located at a fixed place of business; less than twenty -five employees, twenty -four dollars per year; twenty -five and less than fifty employees, thirty -six dollars per year; fifty employees or over, forty -eight dollars per year. SECTION 2. REPEALS. Ordinance No. 382 and all ordinances amendatory thereto, and all ordinances or parts of ordi- nances in conflict with this ordinance and in particular Ordinance Nos. 385, 426, 471, 523, 524, 539, 572 and Section 1 of Ordinance No. 582, are hereby repealed. -16- w J SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. That this ordinance shall take effect January 1, 1964. SECTION 4. That the City Clerk shall certify to the pass- age and adoption of this ordinance; shall cause the same to be entered in the book of original ordinances of said city; shall make a minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the meeting at which the same is passed and adopted; and shall, within fifteen days after the passage and adoption thereof, cause the same to be published once in the El Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, pub- lished and circulated within said City of El Segundo, and which is hereby designated for that purpose. PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 28th day of October , 1963. ATTEST: ...1it -17- STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ) CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, ) I,..F.TIwic .V.. CazAS.Qw......... City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of the said City is five; that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. .612....... is a full, true and correct original of Ordinance No. 0612...... of the said City of El Segundog California, entitled: "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING "EL SEGUNDO CITY CODE, 1958, " BY AMENDING "CHAPTER 16 - LICENSES, " OF SAID CODE, AS HEREINAFTER SET FORTH: AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 382, AND ALL OTHER ORDINANCES IN CON- FLICT HEREWITH. "; which was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council, approved and signed by the Mayor of said City, and attested by the City Clerk of said City, all at a regular meeting of the said Council held on thee. , .. ?Vttio o day of.... QgtPb.q:C„ , , 19..6 .. , and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen. KirnaQrt,. Swansnn,..Tandy. acid Maydar. Baker4....... NOES: Councilmen, ............. ............................... . ABSENT: C9unc "1inau.FreAerir_k........... o ............... o o a o a ... o ... o I do hereby further certify that pursuant to the provisions of Section 36933 of the Government Code of the State of California, that the foregoing Ordinance No.Q14.... was duly and regularly published according to law and the order of the City Council of said City in the El Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated within the said City and that the same was so pub- lished therein on the following date, to wit:, . o ...... , , .... _.o ................. . (SEAL) 4071 -A Q City Clark of the City of El Segundo, California. By... oIoa000 .00000000..00....o.....00000so Deputy ,40)1-3 Affidavit of Publication STATE or CALI! omu ) COUNTY or LOB ANGELES) n CITY or EL szouNDO ) ......................... . ...._.. ... _........ being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is, and at all of the times hereinafter mentioned was, a citizen of the United States of America, over the age of eighteen years, and a resident of the County of Los Angeles, state ad California; that he was, At,r and during all of the time of the publication of the instrument hereunto attached the ............ _ J1.. ..r» Editor of EL SEGUNDO HERALD, a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated weekly in the City of El Segundo, in said County and State; that said newspaper has been so published and circulated at regular intervals of one week for more than one year immediately preceding the publication of the instrument hereunto annexed; that said newspaper is, and was, at all of the times herein mentioned, s newspaper of general circulation within the meaning of section 4480 of the Political Code of the State of California; that as provided by said section, said newspaper Is published for the dissemination of local or telegraphic news and intelligence of a general character, having a bons fide subscription list of paying subscribers; that said newspaper is not and was not at any of the times herein referred to, devoted to the interests, or published for the entertainment or Instruction of a particular class, profession, trade, calling, ram or denomination, or for any number of such classes, pr ofessions, trades, callings, races or denominations, and that said newspaper is not devoted to or published for, nor was it at any of the tines herein mentioned devoted to or published for the purpose, whether evowed or otherwise, of entertaining or instructing such classes, professions, trades, callings, races or denomin- ations, or any of such classes, professions, trades, callings, rams or denominations. That the ,notice, order, ordinance, resolution or instrument hereunto attacked on page ........... mumbeted hereof in all respects, including subject matter, and size and arrangement of type, is a full true and correct copy of the said notice, ordinance, resolution or instrument, in words and figures exaoMy as published; that the same was set and printed in type not smaller than nonpareil and that the body of the same was preceded with words printed in black -face type not smaller than nonpareil, describing and expressing in general terms the purpose and character of the notice, order, ordinance, resolution or instrument Intended to be published, As will apRear from an inspection of the said annexed instru- ment, that the ............................................ ....................................-.»......._.................-....»......-.......»._.__...... ............................... of which the a--ed L a printed copy ss hereinabove stated, was published and printed in said news- paper at least ..........1 ............... week ......... by .. ....................... ....... consecutive publication ........, commencing on the A D. daY of ...:..................... "'t ... :. ..:........ and ending on the ... ............................... day of . ................... ... . ..... ............................... _.- ........... . --.. A. D. 19.._:: . , and as often during said time as said newspaper wrs regu- larly issued, to- wit: _._.... ....... ._._..... _.. _..__ _..._.._._ ..... . ......................... I.......... _. :), .................................... _ .... .._.._......__......_......_.......... ....- _._._....._ ...... _ ..... :_� ...._... _ ... .. .............................. _._........----•--•----•••._..--- •-- ....--- ._.._._...._... - -- .............:�...t��. ` 1`�'��?;1�.a„2�,� Subscribed �7mid sworn to b9fore we this . - - - -- day of _. /.( :ltd 7: j.�.L.r:� —_ A. D. City clerk of the City of t1 Segundo, Counts of IM Angeles, Stale of California. By...._ ....................................................................................- Deputy City Clark of said City. ,10 SEC. 16.20 LICENSE TAGS FOR VEHICLES RE- QUIRING LICENSE UNDER PROVISIONS OF CHAPTER. In all instances in which a license is required under the provisions of this chapter and a vehicle is used in the con- duct of such business, the licensee shall request and the director of finance shall furnish the licensee with a suit- able license tag or plate therefor, which tag or plate shall be attached to the outer left front side of the vehicle. The sum of fifteen cents for each such tag or plate shall be paid by the licensee. SEC. 16.21 REVOCATION; APPEAL. All licenses issued under this chapter are granted and accepted by all parties receiving licenses, with the express understanding that the city council may revoke the same at any time, if satisfied that any of the conditions of the license or terms of this chapter have been violated, or that the license was obtained by fraudulent representation, or that the holder of any such license is an unfit person to be trusted with the privileges granted by the license; provided, however, that no license shall be revoked without first giving the holder an opportunity to appear before the city council in his own behalf. On the revocation of the license, no part of the money in the hands of the city shall be returned, but such license fee shall be forfeited to the city. When the license of any person is revoked for any cause, no new or other license shall be granted to the same person within six months from the date of such revocation. SEC. 16.22 PENALTY FOR DELINQUENCY. A penalty of ten per cent of the amount of such license shall be added to each license which shall remain unpaid at the expiration of fifteen days from and after the date upon which such license becomes due, and each succeeding seven days or major fraction thereof, an additional ten per cent shall be added to a maximum of one hundred per cent. The penalty of any such license shall not be deemed to be in lieu of, or in satisfaction of any other penalty which may be provided in this chapter. SEC. 16.23 LICENSE FEE TO BE DEBT TO CITY. The amount of any license fee imposed by this chapter shall be deemed a debt to the city, and any person com- mencing or conducting any such business without having a license hereunder so to do shall be liable to an action by the city in any court of competent jurisdiction for the am- ount of the license fee imposed by this chapter on such business. SEC. 16.24 COMPLAINTS AGAINST VIOLATORS OF CHAPTER. It is hereby made the duty of the chief of police to cause a complaint to be made against all persons violating any of the provisions of this chapter, and as soon as he has knowledge of the same, to deliver to the direc- tor of finance the names of all persons not paying a license whom he believes should be charged with the payment of a license fee. SEC. 16. 25 BOTH CIVIL AND CRIMINAL ACTION AUTHORIZED FOR FAILURE TO PAY. The conviction and punishment of any person for commencing or conducting any business without a license as required by the provisions of this chapter, or without a special permit from the city -6- 'I!")v1 council when required, shall not excuse or exempt such person from the payment of any license fee due or un- paid hereunder at the time of such conviction, and nothing contained in this chapter shall prevent a criminal prosecu- tion for any violation of any of the provisions of this chap- ter. SEC. 16.26 ENFORCEMENT OF CHAPTER. All police officers of the city and all others authorized shall have and exercise their power to enter, free of charge, any place of business for which a license is required and provided, and to demand the exhibition of such license for the current term from any person engaged or employed in the transaction of such business, and such person then and there shall exhibit such license. SEC. 16. 27 AMOUNT TO BE PAID. The respective amounts or rates of license fees to be paid to the city by persons commencing or conducting any business subject to a license under the provisions of this chapter shall be as in this chapter designated, and such respective amounts or rates of license fees are hereby respectively designa- ted, fixed and established for the respective businesses to which the same respectively relate. Such respective amounts or rates of license fees for such respective busi- nesses are hereinafter set forth, designated, fixed and es- tablished in the following sections of this chapter pertain- ing to such amounts, rates or fees. SEC. 16.28 BUSINESSES GENERALLY. All other businesses not specifically mentioned, twenty -four dollars per year. SEC. 16.29 ADVERTISING - BILLBOARDS OR SIGNBOARDS. Every person engaged in the business of contracting, maintaining, using or leasing billboards or signboards, or posting, sticking, tacking, affixing or painting bills or signs, or both, upon the same, twelve dollars per annum for each such billboard or signboard, payable in advance. SEC. 16.30 ADVERTISING - PORTABLE SEARCH- LIGHTS. Advertising by means of portable searchlights or arc lights or light - producing apparatus or equipment, twenty -four dollars per year or seven dollars and fifty cents per quarter. The license shall be subject to com- pliance with all requirements of the traffic ordinances and regulations of the city. SEC. 16. 31 ADVERTISING -PORTABLE SIGNS ON VEHICLES. Advertising by means of portable signs mounted on wagons or vehicles when not in connection with any business licensed under section 16. 32 of this Code, twenty -four dollars per year or seven dollars and fifty cents per quarter. The license shall be subject to compliance with all requirements of the traffic ordinances and regulations of the city. SEC. 16.32 ADVERTISING - SOUND TRUCKS, LOUDSPEAKERS. Advertising by means of sound trucks, portable loudspeakers or sound - producing apparatus or equipment, thirty -six dollars per year or ten dollars per quarter. The license shall be subject to compliance with -7- all requirements of the traffic ordinances and regula- tions of the city. SEC. 16. 33 AGENTS, SOLICITORS AND SALES- MEN. Agents, solicitors and salesmen selling or solicit- ing, or taking orders for the sale or furnishing of any paintings, pictures, portraits, photographs, orders for advertising or for any goods, wares, merchandise or service at retail, not otherwise provided for herein, when not in connection with any fixed place of business within the city licensed under this chapter, eighteen dol- lars per day or thirty -six dollars per half year or forty - eight dollars per year for each agent, salesman or soli- citor. Such activities are limited to the hours of 8: 00 a. m. to 6: 00 p.m. SEC. 16. 34 AMUSEMENTS -GENERALLY. Amuse- ments where an admission, fare, fee or charge is charged or made, or a collection or contribution is received (and which are not otherwise provided for in this chapter) such as exhibitions, shows, games, rides, tent performances, merry -go- rounds, carousels, chute -the- chutes, shooting galleries, ferris - wheels, pig slides, ball games, dart games, roller coasters, grunt derbies, whip rides, skooter rides, sideshows, illusions and other amusements or con- cessions similar in character to those, or any of those here- in above named, five dollars per day or fifty dollars per month, subject to special permit from the city council. SEC. 16.35 AUTOMOBILE AND TRUCK WRECK- ING OR DISMANTLING. Automobile, truck wrecking or dismantling, and automobile, truck wrecking or dismant- ling yard and outdoor yards of similar character, two hun- dred dollars per year, subject to special permit from the city council. SECTION 16.36. AUTOMOBILE SALES - IN CON- JUNCTION WITH REPAIR GARAGE. New and used car sales, and either when conducted in connection with a garage, where repairs, painting and other similar ser- vices are provided, forty -eight dollars per year; pro- vided, however, that a separate license must be obtained for each place of business within the city. SEC. 16. 37. AUTOMOBILE SALES -NOT IN CON- JUNCTION WITH REPAIR GARAGE. New and used car sales, and either when not in conjunction with a garage at which repairs, painting and similar service is provided, twenty -four dollars per year; provided, however, that a separate license must be obtained for each place of busi- ness within the city. SEC. 16.38 BAKERY BUSINESS. Bakery business at a fixed place of business within the city, twenty -four dollars per year, and when not in connection with such fixed place of business licensed hereunder, forty -eight dollars per vehicle used, per year. SEC.. 16. 39 BANKRUPT STOCK SALES AND FIRE SALES. Bankrupt stock sales, fire sales, damaged goods sales and sales of similar character (not at auction), eight- een dollars per month, sixty dollars per quarter or two hundred dollars per year, subject to special permit from the city council. WC SEC. 16.40 BARBERSHOPS. Barbershops, twelve dollars per year for the first chair and three dollars per year for each additional chair. SEC. 16.41 BEAUTY PARLORS. Beauty par- lors and similar businesses, twelve dollars per year for the first operator and two dollars per year for each additional operator. SEC. 16.42 BEVERAGE BUSINESS. Beverage business (except alcoholic beverages as defined in the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act of the state) when not in connection with a fixed place of business licensed hereunder: (a) Twelve dollars per vehicle used per year where only water, plain, distilled or carbonated, is sold at retail. (b) Twenty -four dollars per vehicle used per year where beverages other than those herein above specifically referred to are sold at retail. A license under this subsection shall include the right to sell water as contemplated under subsection (a) of this sec- tion. SEC. 16.43 BILLIARD AND POOLROOMS. Billiard rooms and poolrooms, twenty -four dollars per year, which shall include the right to sell cigars, tobacco, soft drinks, chewing gum and confections, subject to first obtaining a special permit as provided by sections 23. 1 and 23. 2 of this Code. SEC. 16.44 BOWLING ALLEYS. Bowling acade- mies, bowling alleys, bowling centers and similar busi- nesses, twelve dollars basic plus one dollar per lane, maximum forty -eight dollars per year. A license granted under this section shall include the right to sell bowling equipment, paraphernalia and bowling apparel, but shall not include the right to conduct a cafe, restaurant, lunch counter or refreshment or confectionary stand or conces- sion, or any other type of business, except as specifically authorized above. SEC. 16.45 BUILDING MATERIAL WRECKING YARDS. Building material wrecking yards, secondhand building material yards, junk yards and used equipment, used material and outdoor yards of similar character, one hundred dollars per year, subject to special permit from the city council. SEC. 16.46 CHRISTMAS TREE SALES. Christ- mas tree sales, twelve dollars per year. SEC. 16.47 CIRCUS OR WILD WEST SHOW. Cir- cus or wild west show, not including any sideshows, first day, one hundred dollars and forty -eight dollars per day thereafter. Side show, fifty dollars per sideshow for first day and twenty -four dollars per sideshow, per day, for each day thereafter. Any license applied for under this section shall be subject to special permit of the city coun- cil. SEC. 16.48 CLOTHING OR OTHER MERCHAN- DISE CLUB. Clothing club, jewelry club, or other mer- chandise club, two hundred dollars per year. ..g- SEC. 16. 49 COIN - OPERATED DEVICES - MER- CHANDISE AND SERVICES GENERALLY. For conduct- ing the business of placing, maintaining and operating or offering for operation vending machines or vending de- vices, vending or delivering merchandise of any charac- ter or providing a service, which for the coin or coins inserted, delivers merchandise or provides a service, - the license fees shall be as follows: Each machine or device which permits the use or operation thereof, by: (a) a one cent coin, one dollar per year; (b) a coin or coins totaling two cents and not exceeding five cents, two dollars per year; (c) a coin or coins totaling six cents and not exceeding ten cents, four dollars per year; (d) a coin or coins totaling eleven cents and not exceeding fifteen cents, six dollars per year; (e) a coin or coins totaling sixteen cents and not exceeding twenty -five cents, ten dollars per year; (f) a coin or coins totaling twenty -six cents or more, sixteen dollars per year. , Automatic laundry and dry cleaning one dollar per machine per year. SEC. 16.50 COIN - OPERATED DEVICES -WITH AMUSEMENT FEATURE. For each coin or token opera- ted machine or device having an amusement or skill fea- ture connected therewith, twenty -four dollars per year. Licenses granted under this section shall be revocable at any time .at the pleasure of the city council for any rea- son which the city council may deem appropriate. SEC. 16.51 COIN - OPERATED DEVICES - SEAL OR STICKER TO INDICATE PAYMENT OF LICENSE FEE. Every machine or device licensed under the pro- visions of this chapter conspicuously must have affixed thereto a legible and current official seal or sticker issued by the license collector of the city for such ma- chine or device licensed; the seal shall include the year of issuance and the number of the license under which it is issued. SEC. 16.52 CONCRETE, SAND AND GRAVEL BUSINESS. Mixed concrete, sand and gravel business, located at a fixed place of business within the city, forty - eight dollars per year. SEC. 16.53 CONCERT OR OPERA. Concert, opera entertainment, minstrel or other show, exhibi- tion or performance not exceeding two performances during any one calendar month, two dollars per month, subject to special permit from the city council. SEC. 16.54 CONTRACTOR -GENERAL, ELEC- TRICAL AND PLUMBING. Every person commencing or carrying on the business of contracting in any of the following trades shall pay a license fee of forty -eight dollars per years general building contractor, general building contractor (speculative), electrical contractor, and plumbing contractor. A general building contrac- tor, as used in this chapter, is a contractor or person whose principal contracting business is in connection with any structure built, or to be built, for the support, shelter and enclosure of persons, animals, chattels or movable property of any kind, requiring in its con- :31111M 4:•'3 J struction the use of two or more unrelated building trades or crafts or to do or to superintend the whole or any part thereof. A general building contractor (speculative), as used in this chapter, is a contractor or person who builds or constructs a building or structure on prop- erty owned, possessed or controlled by him for the purpose of selling or disposing of the same during, or subsequent to, construction or erection thereof. Nothing contained within this chapter shall be construed to permit any general building contractor or any general building contractor (speculative) to operate, in addition to his regular business of gen- eral building contracting or general building contract- ing (speculative), any one specialized building trade business or subcontracting business, for which a sub or specialty contractor's license is required, without the payment of an additional fee as prescribed for the business by section 16. 57 of this Code. It is further provided, that any architect or en- gineer who, in addition to his regular professional duties of designing and superintending the design and erection of any building or structure, also acts in the capacity of a general building contractor or general building contractor (speculative) as herein defined, or who subcontracts or employs labor to perform any or all of the work involved, either acting for himself or the owner of the building, shall pay the same fee as a general building contractor or general building contractor (speculative), as the case may be. The provisions of this section do not include anyone who merely furnishes materials or supplies without fabricating them into or consuming them in the performance of the work of a general building contractor or general building contractor (speculative). Every person who represents or claims that any such work being done or performed by him is being done or performed by the hour or by the day's work must fur- nish to the license collector, or his authorized deputy, if asked, an affidavit from his employer or from the owner of the building or structure being erected or con- structed, stating the nature of the work, the wages, fee or commission being paid and the location of the work. Any person holding a state contractor's license will be considered a contractor, if he superintends or contracts for a fee the erection or construction of any building or structure in the city and shall be required to pay the same license fee as a general building contractor. SEC. 16. 55 CONTRACTOR - LATHING AND PLASTERING. Lathing and plastering contractor, thirty -six dollars per year. SEC. 16.56 CONTRACTOR - REPAIR WORK, ALTERATIONS, MINOR CONSTRUCTION OR IMPROVE- MENTS. Every person commencing or carrying on the business of minor construction, alterations, improve- ments or repair work, or one undertaking any project -11- by one or more contracts, the aggregate contract price for which, for labor, materials, and all other items is less than five hundred dollars, shall pay a license fee of twelve dollars per year. This type of license shall not be issued or apply in any case wherein the work of con- struction is only a part of a larger or major operation, whether undertaken by the same or a different contractor, or in whi ch a division of the operation is made on con- tracts of amounts less than five hundred dollars for the purpose of evading the obtaining of a license or the pay- ment of a license fee under this chapter or any of the provisions thereof. Wherein repairs to damages resulting from acci- dent or fire do not exceed one thousand dollars total valu- ation, a general license covering the activities of all trades involved in repair work may be issued to the prime contractor for the one project for a license fee of twenty - four dollars. SEC. 16.57 CONTRACTOR - SUBCONTRACTORS OR SPECIALTY CONTRACTORS. A subcontractor or a specialty contractor for the purposes of this chapter is hereby defined as one whose operation is the performance of construction work requiring special skill, and whose principal contracting business involves the use of a speci- alized building trade or craft, not herein otherwise pro- vided. Every person commencing or carrying on the work of a subcontractor must secure a separate city license and must pay for the same a license fee of twenty -four dollars per year. SEC. 16.58 DAIRY PRODUCTS. Milk, cream or dairy products sales, when not in connection with a fixed place of business within the city, forty -eight dollars per year per vehicle used. SEC. 16.59 DANCES - PUBLIC. Public dance where an admission fee or per dance fee is charged, one hundred dollars per year, subject to special permit from the city council. SEC. 16.60 DANCES - SEMIPUBLIC. Semipublic dance where any cafe, restaurant or any similar estab- lishment affords its patrons the privilege or opportunity to dance without charge for such dancing, one hundred dollars per year, subject to special permit from the city council. SEC. 16.61 DANCING SCHOOL OR ACADEMY; TALENT SCHOOL. Dancing school or dancing academy or talent school or talent academy, twelve dollars per year. SEC. 16.62 DRIVE -IN THEATRES. Drive -in theatres, one hundred dollars per year, but such license shall not include the right to conduct a cafe, restaurant, lunch counter or refreshment or confectionery, or like stand or concession, or any other type of business, as the city council hereby requires that a separate license to cover such additional activity must be obtained. -12-