The services and professions shall include those individuals involved in clerical, technical, paraprofessional or other support activities whether employed on a full-time or part-time basis and whether employed directly or as independent contractor. Examples of businesses in this category include: legal services, medical services, insurance services, accountancy, mortgage brokerage, real estate, travel agency, appraisal, beauty salon, auto service and repair.
Every person engaged in any service or profession shall pay an annual fee in accordance with Section 5.08.010.
A. Every person engaged in the EXTERMINATOR, FUMIGATOR or PEST CONTROL (insect) business shall pay an annual fee as established from time to time by the city council by resolution. Every such person or business shall present a license from the State Board of Pest Control at the time of application for a license.
B. Every person engaged in a PRIVATE PATROL profession, including night watch service, private police officer, police patrol service or any other service the purpose of which is to afford police or fire protection within the city, in addition to that provided by the city, to the public for hire or reward, shall pay an annual fee in accordance with Section 5.08.010. Every firm or business so engaged shall have obtained a license from the state to be engaged in the business prior to application for a city license. Every person operating a patrol system or employed as a patrolman within the city shall also obtain a permit from the city describing the area to be patrolled. The registration shall contain, among other things, an accurate description of the area in which operations are permitted and the names of all patrolmen permitted to such permittee.
C. Every person engaged in the TELLING OF FORTUNES, forecasting of futures, or furnishing of any kind of information not otherwise obtainable by the ordinary process of knowledge, by means of any occult, psychic power, faculty, force, clairvoyance, clairaudience, cartomancy, psychometry, phrenology, spirits, tea leaf, or other such reading, mediumship, seership, prophecy, augury, astrology, palmistry, necromancy, mind reading, telepathy or other craft, science, cards, talisman, charm, potion, magnetized article or substance, crystal gazing, oriental mysteries, or magic, of any kind or nature, shall pay an annual fee as established from time to time by the city council by resolution.
Such license shall only be renewed where there have been no unfavorable reports from the law enforcement agency and the business continues to be in compliance with all requirements established in its permit to operate. (Ord. 802-96 § 5; Ord. 685-91 § 6 (part))