HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 502
ORDINANCE NO. 5
AN ORDINANCE AMMINO SECTION 2 OF ORDINANCE NO. 441 BRING AN
ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE LICENSING OF CERTAIN OCCUPATIONS,
INDUSTRIES, TRADRS, AND PURSUITS AND PROFESSIONS IN THE CITY OF
LAUREL, AND REQUIRING PAYMENT OF A LICENSE FEE, ESTABLISHING
"THE PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY FWD", PROVIDING FOR THE
ENFORCEISNT OF THIS ORDINANCE, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR TUB
VIOLATION TMWF AND DECLARING AN EFRGENCY.
BE IT ORDAIN$D BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITT OF LAUREL:
3RMION I. All ordinances or portions thereof in conflict with
this ordinance and in particular Section 2 of Ordinance No. 441
are hereby repealed.
LICENSES IN GENERAL
SECTION 2. LICENSES. No person, firm, association, or corpora-
tion, shall conduct, operate, transact, engage in, or carry on
any of the industries, pursuits, trades, professions, vocations,
or businesses, with the City of Laurel, hereinafter specified
and enumerated, without first applying for and obtaining a
.license'tberefore from said City of Laurel as herein provided;
and, if such application for licenses be granted, shall pay
therefor as follows (provided that any mixed business conducted
under one roof), with the exceptions of the business of selling
cigarettes, selling beer and liquor or holding public dances,
shall pay the maximum licenses required for any one of such
businesses if conducted under separate roofs and in distinct
and separate buildings and should any dispute arise as to the
Application of this provision, it shall be decided and controlled
as;provided in Section et seq of this ordinance; however, in the
e9"t that a license shall be requested after the commencement
of the regular license year that the license fee herein
inn prated shall be..,pro-rated quarterly, the applicant paying
only that poyrtioa of the license fee commencing with the nearest
quarter previous to bin application:
Accountants: $35.00 per year.
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Apartments: $2.00 per artment per year.
Auto Second Hand Dealers: $35.00 per year.
Auto Rash Rack: $35.00 per year.
Auto Rrscking: $35.00 per year.
Bake Shop: $35.00 per year.
Banking: $35.00 per year.
Blacksmith: $35.00 per year.
¦owli Alib s: $35.00 per year.
Boxi fthibitions: Bvvsry boning match or boxing exhibition
where admission is charged shall pay a fee of $10.00 per day.
Carnival estreer,„.Tent Hhow, oor so-called roundups:
Other than circuses, menageries, dog and pony shows, and wild
animals shows, the sun of $25.00 per day; provided that said
license shall apply whether any of said activities operate within
the city limits of the City of Laurel, or outside and within three
miles of said city limits; and provided none of said named amuse-
ments shall operate in any location other than designated in the
license.
Circuses llo Aeries: Dog and pony shows, wild animal shows,
including bride shows, transported on more than 25 railroad cars
4125.00 per day;'same transported on less than 25 railroad cars,
$75.00 per day; it being provided that if transportation is made
by truck that the City Treasurer shall determine the number of
railroad cars that would be required to transport equipment, and
license shall be paid according to the number of railroad cars
that would be necessary; and provided, further that said license
shall apply whether any of said activities operate within the
city limits of the City of Laurel, or outbids and within three
silos of said city limits; and provided none of said named
amusements shall operate in any location other than designated in
the license.
Cabins: $2.00 per cabin per year.
Cafes or Restaurants: $45.00.per year.
Card Tables: $10.00 per table.
Chiropractor: $35.00 per year.
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Ci arettes: $5.00 per year.
Contractors: (building) $35.00 per year.
Contractors: (painting) $35.00 per year.
Contractors: (house moving and excavation) $35.00 per year.
Coal Dealers: $35.00 per year.
Cre e : (wholesale milk and milk products) $50.00 per year.
Commission Merchants and Wholesale Grocers: Handling fresh
fruits, vegetables, 0998, meat and other perishable products, at
a fixed place of business, $35.00 per year.
Confectionar : (retail) $35.00 per year.
Cold 9torM : $35.00 per year.
Dairies: (retail sale and delivery products including whole-
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sale delivery to retail outlets) $100.00 per year.
Public Dance Halle: $50.00 per year, or $5.00 per dance; pro-
vided however, that no such license shall be required from religious,
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charitable, or duly chattered fraternal organizations, or other
similar organisations; such public dance halls being defined as
any public dance hall, public dance, dance, cabaret, beer parlor,
restaurant, cafe night club, or any other place maintained for
promiscuous and public dancing, the rules for admission to which
are not based upon personal selection or invitation; it being pro-
vided, that the fact that no admission charged in made shall not
affect the nature thereof; and it being provided that the license
fee so required for such public dance shall be in addition to any
other license paid under this ordinance.
Dry goods: $35.00 per year.
Dogs, Male: The owner of each and every male dog kept or
staying within this City shall pay a tax of $3.50 per year.
Dogs, „Female: The owner of every female dog, which is kept,
or stays in the City, shall pay a tax or license of $10.00 per year.
The whole of such dog tax shall be paid to the City Treasurer at
his office on demand or notice from the Chief of Police, and a fail-
ure to pay such tax for the whole period of 10 days after such
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notice, shall be taken as conclusive evidence of abandonment of
ownership of any dog assessed to any person. Bvery dog, whether
sale or female, found witdntbe City, abandoned or without an owner
or person having charge of the now and responsible for the tax
thereon, or for which the owner thereof has neglected for the period
of 10 days after said notice to pay the tax, thereon, shall be sub-
ject to be killed by the Chief of.Police or any policeman of.this
City,. or other person, on the order.of the Chief of Police and it
is hereby made the duty of the Chief of Police and policemen co-
operating with the City Treasurer,,to notify every owner of a dog
kept within this City, of, and demand and collect the payment of
such tax, and to put to death.every Abandoned dog staying or kept
within this. City, for which no owner can be found after diligent
inquiry,.and every,dog for which no tax is paid, by the owner or
ease person for the owner, after said notice. Provided, that the
provisions of this section shall not apply to the dog or dogs of
stre ors, travelers, and persons visiting the City, and sojourning
therein for a period not exceeding 30 days.
REMm,; $35.00 per year.
Doctors •,Dentists: $35.00 per year.
Dr CleanIM : $35.00 per year.
Dray h Dolizery Busyness for Sire. $35.00 per year.
=leotrie h L bt Power: $100.00 per year.
sleetric Uri $38.40 per year.
Elevator: •$35.00 per year.
Fortune Teller: $5.00 per DAY.
Feed B Grain: $35.00 per year.
Farm_Maehinery: $35.00 per year.
Flower Balesi Florist iho s: $35.00 per year.
F"Son Food: (sholessle) $35.00 per year.
Funeral Homes: $35.00 per year.
Furniture Dealers: $35.00 per year.
Gas 2Mgnl? (natural) $100.00 per year.
Garage., (repairs, oil, accessorips) $35.00 per year.
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Groceries: $45.'00' per year.
Hucksters: Any person engaged or employed in the business of
buying and selling or selling on commission, any fruits, vegetables
or other farm produce at retail to consumers by going from house to
house the sue of $35.00 per year.
Itinerant Merchant: Hach itinerant merchant, before conducting
any business as herein defined with the corporarate limits of the
City of Laurel, Montana, shall make application to the City Treasurer
of said City ;or license, which license, when issued, shall not be
transferable, specifying in paid application his name and residence,
the number of days or the period of time he will be engaged in said
City in the conduct of such business, the article or articles to be
sold or offered,for sale, and the manner of conducting said business,
and shall pay for license $100.00 per year or any.part of a year;
all licenses expiring on December 91st of each year.
Insurance dales; $35.00 per year.
interior Rloorator: #35.00 per year.
Junk.8 : $95.00 per year.
Jewelr Store: 935.00 per year.
LaundrZ: $35.00 per year.
La_ ?ndr;E Louts:, ;35.00 per year.
jd!Lber: (building materials) 935.00 per year.
L er ard: $35.00 per year.
Loan ; njprance: $35.00 per year.
Machine Ems: 995.00 per year.
Hotel: ",.00 per unit per year.
Noon SIR!: $35.00 per year.
Noveltt*s: $35.00 per year.
Qptoeetrist: $35.00 per year.
Outdoor 15111n Advertisi : $95.00 per year.
Pawnbrokers : 9100.00 per year.
Paint, Wall Peer: (retail or wholesale) 995.00 per year.
Pot 8 0 : $35..00 per year.
Photo ra her: $35.00 per year.
Physician: $35.00 per year.
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M sio Thor : $35.00 per year.
Print i Office: (publish-newspaper) $35.00 per year.
Ply $35.00 per.year..
Radio: (retail sales) $35.00 per year.
Radio: (repair) $35.00 per year.
: 42.00 per room per year.
Retail Meat Market: $45.00 per year.
Second Mad Store: 5.00,per year.
Service Stations: $35.00 per gear.
oboe hop: #85.00 per year.
eiau ?ter use: $35.00 per year.
80f t Rrifto h Fountain : $35.:00 per year.
Soft Mater service ; $35.00 per.
,year .
Theater; $35.00 per year.
Tani Service: $35.00 per year.
T 1e hoe.:,$100.00 per year.
Touris Cabins: $2.00 per,cabin per year.
Tin i?,n = $85.00 per year.
Trailer Courts: $2.00 per stall per year.
Truckin : (petroleum products) $50.00 per year.
Transient Retail Merchants: $40.00 per year. Such transient
retail merchant being defined as every person, firm or corporation,
hieself,.or itself, or representing any other person, firm or aor--
poration, who or which brings into temporary premises, to the City
of Laurel, a stook of goods, wares or articles of'merchandise or
motion, or other,articles of trade,, and who or which solicits) sells
or offers to sell, or exhibits for sale, such stock of goods, wares
or articles of merchandise or notions or other articles of trade at
retail, is with the meaning of this ordinance, a transient retail
MGrabaat, and such definition shall continue to apply until such
pars", firm or corporation shall be continuously engaged at such
particular places in the city for a period of one year. "Temporary
premiss" within the meaning of this ordinance shall mean and in-
elude any hotel, rooming house, store room, building or any part of
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any building whatsoever, tent, vacant lot, freight, station, rail-
road car, or any public or quasi-public place, tesporaAly occupied
for such business.
Wholesale
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Wholesale
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Wholesale
includi o a
Passed by
$35.00 per year.
Beer: $35.00 per year.
CaP.M : $35.00 per year.
Ossoline i Oils: $35.00 per pear.
Soft Drinks: $35.00 per year.
Distributors of food Food Products Confectionaries
ern and like products:: $35.00 per year
the City Council of the City of Laurel, Montana, and
approved this 21st day of August, 1956.
PZT2R D. TH M N, Mayor
Tillie 8ohendorf
City Clerk