Title 5 BUSINESS TAXES, LICENSES AND REGULATIONS
Chapter 5.08 BUSINESS REQUIRING ANNUAL LICENSE
5.08.130 Miscellaneous.
Persons involved in the businesses detailed in this section shall all pay
an annual fee in accordance with Section 5.08.010.
A. Every person involved
in the business of distributing HANDBILLS such as any circular, poster,
pamphlet, leaflet, folder, brochure, print, broadside, bulletin, or other
written, printed or typed notice or advertisement.
B. Every person engaged
in the business of ALARM SYSTEM which includes any device, whether known as a
burglary, robbery or intrusion alarm, direct dial telephone device, audible or
silent alarm or by any other name, which is used for the detection of an
unauthorized entry into a building, structure or facility, or to signal the
commission of an unlawful act.
Such alarm system shall include those devices
which emit a signal within the protected premises only, are supervised by the
proprietor of the premises where located, and are otherwise known as
"proprietary alarm systems." Auxiliary devices installed by a telephone company
to protect telephone company systems which might be damaged or disrupted by the
use of an alarm system are not included.
C. Every person engaged as an
AMBULANCE DRIVER/OPERATOR not pursuant to a contract with the
city.
Ambulance operator means any person who, for any monetary or other
consideration, or as an incident to any other occupation, transports in one or
more ambulances one or more persons from any location in the city to any
hospital or other place giving first aid or medical treatment, regardless of the
location of such hospital or other place.
D. Every person engaged in the
business of FOOD ESTABLISHMENT to include cafe, public eating place or hawker,
namely those businesses or occupations as defined in the county health code
adopted by reference in Chapter 8.04 of this code.
A public eating place
also includes all places where sandwiches, lunches and food or drinks of any
kind are prepared for sale or gift to the public, whether sold or given or
consumed on the premises and whether prepared or not. Included are drive-in or
take-out restaurants.
E. Every person engaged as a HOUSE NUMBER PAINTER who
paints upon public curbs, streets, roadways, sidewalks or other public property
house numbers or house addresses or other printed or painted
material.
F. Every person involved in the business of lending money on
pledged personal property as a PAWNBROKER in the city.
G. Every person
involved in the business of SECONDHAND DEALER. "Secondhand dealer" means a
person, other than a used car dealer, who deals in secondhand books or magazines
or is engaged in conducting the buying, selling or otherwise dealing in
secondhand goods, wares and merchandise.
H. Every person involved in the
business of SOLICITOR. "Solicitor" is any person engaged in the business of
going from house to house or place to place, other than commercial business
houses, or at, on or along the public streets, sidewalks or public places,
selling or taking orders for or offering to sell or take orders for goods, or
for services to be performed in the future. (Ord. 685-91 § 6
(part))
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