Needles Municipal Code Art. 12-II Schedule Of Fees

The amounts necessary to be paid and the rates of licenses for the businesses named in this article, shall be and the same are hereby fixed and established, and the same shall be paid by persons engaged in such businesses. (Ord. 215 N.S.)

For every person engaging in, conducting, managing or carrying on the business of advertising agency, the license fee shall be sixty dollars per year. (Ord. 215 N.S.)

For every person engaged in, managing, conducting, operating or carrying on the business of advertising by lease, operating or maintaining billboards in the city, the license fee shall be ten dollars per year for each billboard place as so leased, operated or maintained within the city.

No billboards shall be erected or placed upon any location until a permit so to place such billboard has been secured from the building inspector.

No license shall be required under this section from any person maintaining a regular place of business within the city and advertising his own merchandise by a sign or billboard located or attached to his own building, and no license shall be required under this section from owners of real estate or their agents in advertising their property for sale or lease by means of billboards located upon the property advertised for sale or lease, or advertising signboards.

The size, dimension and location of billboards shall be in accordance with the rules and regulations established and adopted by the city council. (Ord. 215 N.S.; Ord. 219 N.S.; Ord. 6-AC.)

For every person engaging in, conducting, managing or carrying on the business of painting, manufacturing, erecting or constructing commercial signs, or submitting a bid thereon, the license fee shall be thirty dollars per year. (Ord. 215 N.S.)

For every person engaged in conducting, managing or carrying on the business of advertising by means of an electric sign, where such business is operated from other than a fixed place of business in the business or industrial zone, and which business is not upon the tax rolls of the city, the license fee shall be sixty dollars per year for each vehicle used in such business. (Ord. 215 N.S.)

For every person engaged in conducting, managing or carrying on the business of advertising by distributing circulars or samples in the city, the license fee shall be ten dollars per day.

No license shall be required from any person maintaining a regular place of business within the city and advertising his own merchandise and paying a regular license fee under another section of this chapter. (Ord. 215 N.S.)

For every person engaging in, conducting, managing or carrying on the business of operating an ambulance or invalid coach, the license fee shall be sixty dollars per year; provided, that this section shall not apply to any person carrying on a business which is taxed under the gross receipts provisions of this chapter, and where the ambulance or invalid coach service is an incident of such business.

For the purposes of this section, the term “invalid coach” is defined to mean and include a vehicle to transport the sick and infirm from place to place, such vehicle not being an emergency vehicle. (Ord. 215 N.S.)

Temporary Event Vendor License. This section regulates individual vendors participating in temporary events. Nothing in this section shall eliminate or replace any permit, license, approval, or authorization otherwise required for the operation of an event, festival, carnival, circus, concert, exhibition, or other activity regulated by Sections 12-30 through 12-37 of this Chapter. The Temporary Event Vendor License applies only to individual vendors participating in such events and shall not authorize the organization, promotion, or operation of the event itself.

1. License Required. Any person selling, offering for sale, displaying, or providing goods, merchandise, food, beverages, crafts, services, or other products at a temporary event within the City shall obtain a Temporary Event Vendor License.
2. Temporary Event Defined. For purposes of this section, a Temporary Event shall include any festival, fair, farmers market, swap meet, Route 66 event, nonprofit event, community celebration, or similar gathering conducted for a limited duration within the City.
3. Duration. The license shall be valid only for the event, location, and dates specified in the application and shall automatically expire upon conclusion of the event.
4. A person holding a current and valid City business license shall not be required to obtain a Temporary Event Vendor License for activities otherwise authorized under that business license.
5. Issuance of a Temporary Event Vendor License shall not exempt any person from obtaining any permit, registration, certification, or approval otherwise required by federal, state, county, or local law.

For every person engaged in, conducting, managing or carrying on a boxing, wrestling or sparring exhibition, where admission is charged, donations made or collections taken from such exhibitions, the license fee shall be ten dollars per day. (Ord. 215 N.S.)

For every person engaged in conducting, managing or carrying on a circus or menagerie, having a seating capacity of one thousand or less, the license fee shall be fifty dollars per day; and having a seating capacity in excess of one thousand, the license fee shall be seventy-five dollars per day.

For every sideshow conducted in conjunction with a circus or menagerie and under the same management, the license fee shall be five dollars per day.

For every parade or procession conducted in conjunction with a circus or menagerie, and under the same management, the license fee shall be five dollars per day.

For every parade or procession conducted by or under the management of a circus or menagerie, where such circus or menagerie is conducted outside of the city, the license fee shall be twenty-five dollars per day.

For every person engaging in, conducting, managing or carrying on a carnival, the license fee shall be fifty dollars for the first day; and fifty dollars for each succeeding day.

For every person engaging in, conducting, managing or carrying on a side show or after-show to a circus, and not conducted under the same management, and when separate admission is charged, or donation of money in any manner received therefor, the license fee shall be twenty-five dollars per day. (Ord. 215 N.S.)

For every person engaging in, conducting, managing or carrying on any place of amusement, entertainment or exhibition for the purpose of holding lectures, concerts, theatricals or any other form of entertainment or exhibition, except outdoor festivals as hereafter defined in section 12-35, for profit, and not otherwise paying a license under another provision of this Chapter, the amusement license fee shall be ten dollars ($10.00) per day.

Processing fees shall not apply to Vendors at Approved Community Events that are exempt pursuant to Section 12-5(g).

For every person engaging in, conducting, managing or carrying on a public dance hall or a public place where dancing is the chief form of amusement, or is incidental to some other form of business, the license fee shall be sixty dollars per year.

For every person engaging in, conducting, managing or carrying on a single or occasional dance, where object is advertisement or gain, where gain is derived through admission fees, collections, donations or any other means, the license fee shall be five dollars per dance. (Ord. No. 215 N.S., § 27; Ord. No. 6-AC.)

For every person engaging in, conducting or managing or carrying on a merry-go-round, the license fee shall be five dollars per day. A day shall be considered to end at 12:00 P.M. midnight. (Ord. No. 215 N.S., § 27; Ord. No. 6-AC.)

“Outdoor festival” means any music festival, dance festival, “rock” festival or similar musical activity, at which music is provided by paid or amateur performers or by prerecorded means, which is held at any place other than in a permanent building or permanent installation which has been constructed for the purpose of conducting such activities or similar activities and to which members of the public are invited or admitted for a charge or free of cost.

1. License Requirement. No person shall operate, maintain, conduct, advertise or sell or furnish tickets for an outdoor festival in the city unless he shall first obtain a license from the city to operate or conduct such festival.
2. License Application. Application for a license to conduct an outdoor festival shall be made in writing to the clerk of the city council at least sixty days prior to the time indicated for the commencement of the planned activity and shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable application fee of one hundred dollars and shall contain the following information:
3. The name, age, residence and mailing address of the person making the application. If the application is made by a partnership, the names and addresses of the partners must appear. Where the applicant is a corporation, the application must be signed by the president, vice president and secretary thereof and must contain the addresses of such corporate officers; a certified copy of the articles of incorporation shall be submitted with the application.
4. A statement of the kind, character or type of festival which the applicant proposes to conduct, operate or carry on.
5. The address or legal description of the place where the proposed festival is to be conducted, operated or carried on. Additionally, the applicant must submit proof of ownership of the place where the festival is to be conducted or a statement signed by the owner of the premises indicating his consent that the site be used for the proposed festival.
6. The date or dates and the hours during which the festival is to be conducted.
7. An estimate of the number of customers, spectators, participants and other persons expected to attend the festival for each day it is conducted.
8. The applicant shall provide names and addresses of anyone contributing, investing or having a financial interest greater than five hundred dollars in producing the festival.
9. At the time of making application the applicant and such other interested parties as determined necessary by the city clerk shall arrange to be fingerprinted by the office of the chief of police.
10. Festival Plans. A detailed explanation of the applicant’s plans to provide security and fire protection, water supply and facilities, food supply and facilities, sanitation facilities, medical facilities and services, vehicle parking space, vehicle access and onsite traffic control and, if it is proposed or expected that spectators or participants will remain at night or overnight, the arrangements for illuminating the premises and for camping or similar facilities. The applicant’s plans shall include what provisions shall be made for number of spectators in excess of the estimate, provisions for cleanup of the premises and removal of rubbish after the event has concluded. A plot plan showing arrangement of the facilities including those parking, egress and ingress shall be submitted with the application.
11. Processing Application. Upon receipt of a complete application and the application fee, the clerk of the city council shall set the application for public hearing at a regular meeting of the city council, not less than fifteen days nor more than thirty days thereafter, and shall give not less than ten days written notice thereof to the applicant. He shall promptly give notice of hearing and copies of the application to the chief of police, health officer, planning commission and the director of building and safety, who shall investigate the application and report in writing to the city council not later than the hearing, with appropriate recommendations related to their official functions as to granting a license and conditions thereof.
12. Consideration of Application by City Council. Based upon the testimony of the witnesses and evidence presented at the hearing, including the reports of the department heads, the city council shall grant the license, deny the license, or set conditions which must be met, or security given that they will be met, before a license may be granted. If conditions are imposed by the city council, the applicant shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the clerk proof that all conditions have been met before the license may be issued by the clerk.
13. Issuance; License Fee; Nontransferable License. When the city clerk certifies that conditions have been met, the city clerk shall, upon payment of one hundred dollars per day of operation, issue a license specifying the name and address of the licensee, the kind of festival licensed and the number of days’ operation authorized. The licensee shall keep such license posted in a conspicuous place upon the premises at which the festival is conducted. No license issued pursuant to this section shall be transferable or removed to another location.
14. Licensing Conditions. At the hearing required under section 12-35 (d), the city council may establish conditions which must be met prior to the issuance of any license under this section, except that the council may take a matter under submission before determining which conditions shall be imposed. Where the council takes a matter under submission, written notice of any conditions imposed as prerequisite to the issuance of a license must be mailed to the applicant within fifteen days of the original hearing. The conditions which may be imposed by the council pursuant to the city’s general police power for the protection of health, safety and property of local residents and persons attending festivals in the city, are as follows:
15. Police Protection. Every licensee shall employ at his own expense, police protection. The number and type of officers shall be determined and specified by the chief of police to provide for the preservation of order and protection of property in and around the place of the festival. Funds to employ this specified number of law enforcement officers at the current hourly salary rate shall be deposited with the city at least ten days prior to the specified

expense, police protection. The number and type of officers shall be determined and specified by the chief of police to provide for the preservation of order and protection of property in and around the place of the festival. Funds to employ this specified number of law enforcement officers at the current hourly salary rate shall be deposited with the city at least ten days prior to the specified date the activity is to occur. A minimum of three law enforcement officers for every five hundred persons or fraction thereof expected to be in attendance shall be required.

Where the chief of police specifies the employment of off duty peace officers to meet the requirements of this section, such peace officers shall be under the complete direction and control of the chief of police. The chief of police must be satisfied that the requisite number of peace officers will be provided at all times of operations, plus any specified time prior to and following the event, before a license is issued. 2. Water Facilities. Every licensee shall provide from a water purveyor operating under a permit as required under section 4011 of the State Health and Safety Code an ample supply of potable water for drinking and sanitation purposes on the premises of the festival. Location of water facilities on the premises must be approved by the health officer prior to issuance of a license.

The minimum supply of water to outdoor festivals shall be fifteen gallons of water for each person in attendance per day. All water shall meet U.S. Public Health Service Standards. Public and private flush type water closets, lavatories and drinking facilities shall be required as determined by the health officer. Sewage and drainage systems relating to such facilities shall meet the requirements of the Health and Safety Code, the San Bernardino County Code titles 3 and 6, and Needles City Code chapter 17, and be subject to the prior approval of the health officer and chief building inspector. 3. Food Concessions. Where the proposed festival is to be held a substantial distance from public eating places, food handling places or like establishments, the applicant shall be required to demonstrate that food will be available at the premises for each day of operation to adequately feed the number of persons expected to be in attendance. Concessionaires must be licensed and operate under a valid health department permit pursuant to local ordinances and state laws. Every licensee shall provide at least one flush type water closet and lavatory for each sex in a closed facility for employees of each food concession or operation within the enclosure area of such food operation unless otherwise approved by the health officer. Under no circumstances shall the health officer allow such flush type water closets and lavatories to be located more than fifty feet from food concession or operation. All lavatories required in conjunction with food concessions and food operations shall be provided with hot and cold water under pressure which shall be dispensed by an approved type mixing faucet.

All sewage, sink waste and waste water from water closets, lavatories, sinks operated in connection with food concessions or food operations shall be disposed of to a public sewer or a sewage disposal system approved by the health officer and chief building inspector. 4. Sanitation Facilities Required. Every licensee shall provide at least one enclosed flush type water closet facility marked “Men” and one such facility marked “Women” on the premises of a festival on the basis of one flush type water closet for each forty males and one for each forty females expected to be in attendance. Urinals may be substituted for the required flush type water closets for men on the ratio of one urinal and one flush type water closet per sixty males.

Lavatories provided with cold water under pressure, soap and paper towels shall be provided on the basis of one lavatory for each seventy-five persons expected to be in attendance. 5. Access and Parking Control. Every licensee shall provide adequate ingress and egress to festival premises and parking areas therefor. Necessary roads, driveways and entranceways shall exist to insure orderly flow of traffic into the premises from a highway or road which is a part of the city system of streets or which is a street or highway maintained by the county or the state. A special accessway for fire equipment, ambulances and other emergency vehicles shall be required. The chief of police must approve the licensee’s plan for ingress and egress before a license shall be issued. Additionally, any applicant shall be required to show that traffic guards are under his employ to insure orderly traffic movement and relieve traffic congestion in the vicinity of the festival area. 6. Hours of Operation. All festivals which are subject to license under this section shall close and cease operation continuously between the hours of 2:00 A.M. and 6:00 A.M. of each and every day. 7. Illumination. Every licensee planning to conduct a festival after dark, or planning to allow persons who attend the festival to remain on the premises after dark, shall provide electrical illumination to insure that those areas which are occupied are lighted at all times. The director of building and safety must approve an applicant’s light plan as a prerequisite to issuance of a license hereunder.

A licensee shall be required to illuminate specific areas on the premises in accordance with the following scale of lighting intensity:

8. Overnight Camping Facilities. Every licensee authorized to allow persons who attend the festival to remain on the premises overnight shall provide camping facilities and overnight areas that meet the requirements of the California Administrative Code title 25 for mobile home parks, special occupancy trailer parks and campgrounds including travel trailer parks, recreational trailer parks, temporary trailer parks incidental camping areas and tent camps. Such areas and facilities shall be approved by the health officer and chief building official prior to the issuance of any license.
9. Bonds. Any licensee may be called upon to post an indemnity bond or a performance bond in favor of the city in connection with the operation of a festival. Bonds required by this section must be approved by the city attorney prior to the issuance of a license. An applicant may be required to submit a surety bond written by a corporate bonding company authorized to do business in the state by the department of insurance, in a penal amount determined by the city council. Such bond shall indemnify the city, its agents, officers, servants and employees and the city council against any and all loss, injury and damage of any nature whatsoever arising out of, or in any way connected with the festival, and shall indemnify against loss, injury and damage to both person and property. Additionally, the city may demand that applicant provide corporate surety bond written by a corporate bonding company authorized to do business in the state, indemnifying the city and the owners of property adjoining the festival site for any costs necessitated for cleaning up or removing debris, trash or other waste from, in and around the premises. Such bond shall be in an amount determined by the city council.
10. Fire Protection. Every licensee shall provide, at his own expense, adequate fire protection as determined by the fire protection agency or agencies having jurisdiction where the event is to be conducted. If the event is located in a hazardous fire area as defined by the city Fire Code, a suitable number of fire guards shall be employed by the licensee who shall be approved by the chief of the responsible fire protection agency or agencies. Flammable vegetation and other fire hazards shall be removed in a manner in such quantity as determined by the fire chief. First aid fire extinguishment equipment shall be provided as directed by the fire chief.
11. Financial Statements. Each licensee shall be required to provide a financial statement to give assurance of the ability of the promoters or applicants to meet the conditions of the permit.
12. Communications. Licensee shall be required to establish a communication system for public use where ordinary communications are not available.
13. Number of Admissions. The number of persons admitted and the number of admission tickets shall be limited to that number authorized by the city council. The number shall be based upon recommendations of the chief of police, health officer, director of building and safety, planning commission and street department and other pertinent information. Admission shall be limited to those persons holding tickets and applicant shall demonstrate to the city council an adequate procedure or plan for preventing persons without tickets from entering or otherwise gaining unauthorized admission to the event.
14. Miscellaneous. Any applicant may be required to meet any other condition prior to receiving a license to conduct a festival which is reasonably calculated as necessary to protect the health, welfare and property of local residents and persons attending a festival.
15. Grounds for Denial of License; Notice of Denial. After holding the required public hearing the city council may deny issuance of the license if it finds any of the following:
16. That the applicant fails to meet the conditions imposed pursuant to this section.
17. That the proposed festival will be conducted in a manner or location not meeting the health, zoning, fire or building and safety standards established by the ordinances of the city or the laws of the state.
18. That the applicant has knowingly made a false, misleading or fraudulent statement of material fact in the application for license, or in any other document required pursuant to this section.
19. That the applicant, his employee, agent or any person connected or associated with the applicant as partner, director, officer, stockholder, associate or manager has previously conducted the type of festival being applied for which resulted in the creation of a public or private nuisance.
20. That the applicant, his employee, agent or any person associated with the applicant as partner, director, officer, stockholder, associate or manager has been convicted in a court of competent jurisdiction, by final judgment of:
21. an offense involving the presentation, exhibition or performance of an obscene production, motion picture or play; or of selling obscene matter; or
22. an offense involving lewd conduct; or
23. an offense involving the use of force and violence upon the person of another; or
24. an offense involving misconduct with children; or
25. a felony offense.Where the application is denied, the clerk of the city council shall mail to the applicant written notice of denial within fourteen days of the action, which notice shall include a statement of the reasons the application was denied.
26. Revocation of License. The city council shall have the power to revoke any license, or to revoke and reinstate any license upon suitable conditions, when the following causes exist:
27. The licensee fails, neglects or refuses to pay to the city clerk the fee prescribed by this section.
28. The licensee, his employee or agent, fails, neglects or refuses to fulfill any or all of the conditions imposed pursuant to this section.
29. The licensee allows the festival to be conducted in a manner which violates any law or regulation established by the ordin

n the following causes exist:

1. The licensee fails, neglects or refuses to pay to the city clerk the fee prescribed by this section.
2. The licensee, his employee or agent, fails, neglects or refuses to fulfill any or all of the conditions imposed pursuant to this section.
3. The licensee allows the festival to be conducted in a manner which violates any law or regulation established by the ordinances of the city or the laws of the state.
4. The licensee allows the festival to be conducted in a disorderly manner or knowingly allows any person to remain on the premises of the festival while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, or any narcotic or dangerous drug.
5. The licensee, his employee or agent, is convicted of any of the offenses enumerated under section 12-35(h).
6. Notice of Intent to Revoke; Hearing. Notice of intent to revoke any license shall be given and the licensee shall be entitled to a hearing. The clerk of the city council shall give notice, setting forth the causes for revocation and shall state the time and place at which the matter of revocation will be heard before the city council. Such notice shall be mailed not later than ten days prior to the date set for the hearing. The city council shall hear all interested parties and may revoke a license only for one or more causes enumerated by section 12-35(i).
7. Violations; Remedies of City. It shall be unlawful for any licensee, employee, agent or person associated with such licensee, to do any of the following:
8. Conduct or operate a festival without first procuring a license to do so.
9. Sell tickets to a festival without a license first having been obtained.
10. Operate, conduct or carry on any festival in such a manner as to create a public or private nuisance.
11. Exhibit, show or conduct within the place of festival any obscene, indecent, vulgar or lewd exhibition, show, play, entertainment or exhibit no matter by what name designated.
12. Allow any person on the premises of the licensed festival to cause or create a disturbance in, around or near any place of festival by offensive or disorderly conduct.
13. Knowingly allow any person to consume, sell or be in possession of intoxicating liquor while in a place of a festival except where such consumption or possession is expressly authorized under the terms of this section and under the laws of the state.
14. Knowingly allow any person at the licensed festival to use, sell or be in possession of any narcotic or dangerous drug while in, around or near a place of the festival.Any of the above enumerated violations shall constitute a criminal act and shall be punishable pursuant to ordinances of the city and the laws of the state. It is provided, however, that the city retains any and all civil remedies, including the right of civil injunction for the prevention of such violations and for the recovery of money damages therefor. (Ord. No. 215 N.S., § 27; Ord. No. 6-AC; Ord. No. 31-AC.)

For every person engaging in, managing, conducting or carrying on, maintaining or operating a certain amusement device known as a penny arcade, the license fee shall be one hundred dollars per month. (Ord. No. 215 N.S., § 27.)

For every person engaging in, managing, conducting or carrying on a skating rink, the license fee shall be thirty dollars per year or any fraction thereof.

For every person engaging in. managing, conducting or carrying on the profession of appraiser in the city, the license fee shall be thirty dollars per year; provided that any person licensed to practice law, or any real estate broker or salesman, who has paid a license fee under this chapter, shall be exempt from paying a further fee as an appraiser. (Ord. No. 215 N.S., § 27.)

For every person engaging in, managing or carrying on the business of selling at auction real estate or any chattels, goods, wares or merchandise, the license fee shall be sixty dollars per year.

For every person engaging in, managing or carrying on the business of selling at auction real estate or any chattels, goods, wares or merchandise a single time, the license fee shall be five dollars per day. A day shall be considered to end at 12:00 P.M. midnight. (Ord. No. 215 N.S., § 27; Ord. No. 6-AC.)

For every person engaged in, managing, conducting or carrying on the business of selling, constructing and repairing awnings in the city, and operating from other than a fixed place of business in the business or industrial zone, and which business is not in the tax rolls of the city, the license fee shall be thirty dollars per year. (Ord. No. 215 N.S., § 27.)

For every person engaging in, managing, conducting or carrying on the business of a check room for the checking or storage of parcels and other personal property, and receiving a fee or compensation, the license fee shall be thirty dollars per year; provided, that no license fee shall be charged under this section for any person operating or conducting a check room as an incident to, and integral part or, another business which is subject to a license fee under some other section of this chapter.

For every person engaging in, managing, conducting or carrying on the business of operating or renting cold storage lockers for the purpose of storing food stuffs, the license fee shall be thirty dollars per year for the first one hundred or less lockers, and the additional sum of five dollars per year for each additional one hundred lockers, or fraction thereof. (Ord. No. 215 N.S., § 27.)

For every person engaging in, managing, conducting or carrying on the business of a collection agency, the license fee shall be thirty dollars per year, or fraction thereof. (Ord. No. 215 N.S., § 27.)

For every person engaging in conducting, managing or carrying on a dancing academy, where instruction is given or received, the license fee shall be fifteen dollars per year.

For the purposes of this section, a “dance academy” is defined to be a regularly established place of business where instructions in dancing and dancing lessons are given or taught, and a fee charged for such instruction or lessons. (Ord. No. 215 N.S., § 27.)

For every person engaged in, managing, conducting or carrying on the business of dressmaking, where the person so engaged in such business employs one or more employees or furnishes the materials from which the garment is made, the license fee shall be fifteen dollars per year. (Ord. No. 215 N.S., § 27.)

For every person engaged in, managing, conducting or carrying on the business of cleaning, sponging, pressing or dyeing clothing from other than a fixed place of business in the business or industrial zone, and which business is not upon the tax rolls of the city, the license fee shall be one hundred dollars per year; provided, that no more than one vehicle is used in such business in the city; and for each additional vehicle so used, the license fee shall be fifty dollars per year. (Ord. No. 215 N.S., § 27.)

For every person who engages in, manages, conducts or carries on, or practices, or who professes to practice, the profession or art of palmistry, phrenology, card reading, fortunetelling, hypnotism, mediumship or other similar professions or arts, and who demands or receives any fee or donation, or collects money for such practice, exercise or exhibition of his art therein, or who gives an exhibition thereof at any place within the city, the license fee shall be ten dollars per day. (Ord. 215 N.S., § 27.)

For every person engaging in, conducting, managing or carrying on a business of operating or driving any vehicle used for the purpose of pumping cesspools, or removing or collecting rubbish, manure, waste material or refuse material of every kind, for each vehicle not having a fixed location in the city, the license fee shall be sixty dollars per year. (Ord. No. 215 N.S., § 27; Ord. No. 6-AC.)

As to refuse and garbage generally, see Ch. 16 of this Code.

For every person maintaining, conducting or managing a hospital, no license fee shall be charged. (Ord. No. 215 N.S., § 27.)

For every person moving a house or other structure, the license fee shall be five dollars per day during the period of time such house or structure is upon the public street or highway.

No license shall be issued until a permit is first obtained from the city clerk. (Ord. 215 N.S.)

For every person engaging in, managing, conducting or carrying on the business of cleaning buildings, rooms or furnishings by compressed air or vacuum cleaner by means of any machine drawn, hauled, carried or propelled by hand power or the sale of janitorial supplies, the license fee shall be thirty dollars per year; provided, that if the person desiring to engage in such business applies for a license for a six months period only, the license fee paid for such six months period shall be twenty dollars.

For every person owning, operating, managing or conducting a laundry without the city, who carries on or engages in the business of collecting or delivering laundry or soliciting orders for laundry business in the city, the license fee shall be one hundred dollars per year; provided, that no more than one vehicle is used in such business in the city; and for each additional vehicle so used the additional sum of fifty dollars per year.

Every such person shall pay an additional license fee of one hundred dollars per year for each laundry office or agency maintained within the city in any location other than a place of business which pays a license fee under another section of this chapter.

When laundry work is done or performed by the members of one family in a location in the city, other than in the business or industrial zone, no license fee shall be charged. (Ord. 215 N.S.)

1. For every person engaging in, conducting, managing or carrying on the business of key making, grinding or sharpening or knives, scissors, cutlery, lawnmowers or mechanical tools from a fixed pace of business, the license fee shall be thirty dollars per year.
2. For every person engaged in, managing, conducting, or carrying on the business of key making, grinding or sharpening of knives, scissors, cutlery, lawnmowers or mechanical tools, where the person conducting such business travels from place to place or from house to house, or operates from a wagon or other vehicle, the license fee shall be ten dollars per month.

For every person engaged in, managing, operating or carrying on the business of pawnbroker, the license fee shall be two hundred dollars per year. (Ord. 215 N.S.)

As to pawnbrokers generally, see Ch. 10 of this Code.

For every person engaged in, conducting, operating or carrying on or managing the business of selling, giving away or peddling tickets, checks or coupons to be used in payment or part payment for picture frames, pictures, portraits, photograph enlarging or retouching of the same, who does not maintain a fixed place of business within the city where such articles are kept or made, the license fee shall be one hundred dollars per year per person; provided, that should any person so engaging in such business desire to secure a license for a quarter year only, then the license fee for the quarter year is the sum of fifty dollars per quarter per person. (Ord. 215 N.S.)

For every person engaged in, managing, conducting or carrying on the business of solicitor or taking orders for goods, wares or merchandise sold to consumers, by or through solicitors direct to the consumer, whether the soliciting is done for immediate or future delivery, the license fee shall be five dollars per day.

For the purpose of this section, a solicitor is defined to be and include every person, whether principal or agent, who goes from house to house, or from place to place, in the city, selling or taking orders or offering to sell or take orders for goods, wares or merchandise, or any article for future delivery, or for services to be performed in the future or for the making, manufacturing or repairing of any article for future delivery.

This section shall apply only to solicitors who demand, accept or receive payment of deposits of money in advance of final delivery, and shall not apply to any employee, agent or representative of any person paying a license fee under another section of this chapter. (Ord. 215 N.S.)

For every person soliciting orders for, or canvassing for orders for, or distributing advertising matter concerning, automobiles, or demonstrating the use of automobiles at a temporary place of business, or from place to place, the license fee shall be one hundred dollars per year, or fraction thereof. (Ord. 215 N.S.)

For every person soliciting from house to house, or upon the streets of the city, the sale of any patent medicines, drugs or lotions of any kind, the license fee shall be twenty-five dollars per day. (Ord. 215 N.S.)

For every person engaging in, conducting, managing, or carrying on the business of extermination of termites, cockroaches and other pest extermination control, the license fee shall be thirty dollars per year. (Ord. 215 N.S.; Ord. 6-AC.)

1. For every person engaged in the occupation of real estate broker and engaged in or carrying on the business of leasing or selling real estate on commission, or making loans for other on commission, collecting rents as agents for others, in the transfer or sale of real estate in whatsoever manner the transactions are conducted, or profit determined upon, other than those carrying on the business of banking, the license fee shall be forty-five dollars per year for each broker.
2. For every person engaged in or carrying on the occupation of real estate salesman, who does not hold a state real estate broker’s license, the license fee shall be thirty dollars per year. (Ord. 215 N.S.)

For every person engaged in, managing, conducting or carrying on the business of secondhand store as a secondhand dealer, the license fee shall be thirty dollars per year.

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, “secondhand dealer” is defined to be any person who carries on, conducts, maintains or engages in the business of buying or selling or exchanging or otherwise dealing in or acquiring any article or things that have been used or sold before.

When any person is engaged in any business licensed under the provisions of this chapter, and as an incident to such business accepts secondhand goods, wares or merchandise as part payment upon any new merchandise, such person shall not be required to obtain a license under the provisions of this section, for the doing of such acts shall not be considered as dealing in secondhand merchandise within the meaning of this section. (Ord. 215 N.S.)

As to secondhand dealers generally, see Ch. 10 of this Code.

For every service station engaged in managing, conducting, operating or maintaining service station retail operations within the city, the license fee shall be based on gross receipts as provided for in section 12-68. Retail dealers may exempt federal and state fuel tax and excise taxes in determining gross receipts. (Ord. 368 N.S.; Ord. 6-AC.)

For every person engaged in, managing, conducting or carrying on the business of operating busses or passenger-carrying vehicles for hire in the city, the license fee shall be thirty dollars per year; provided, that no more than one vehicle is used in such business, if more than one vehicle is used then the additional sum of fifteen dollars per year for each additional vehicle so used. (Ord. 215 N.S.; Ord. 6-AC.)

As to taxicabs, see Ch. 21 of this Code.

1. For every person engaging in, managing, conducting or carrying on the business of hauling or transporting goods, wares, merchandise, freight or baggage, or any other commodities not specifically licensed by other sections of this chapter, within or from the city, and operating from a fixed place of business in the business or industrial zone, which business is upon the tax rolls of the city, the license fee shall be forty-five dollars per year; provided that no more than one vehicle is used in such business in the city; and for each additional vehicle so used the additional sum of fifteen dollars per year.
2. For every person engaged in managing, conducting or carrying on the business of hauling or transporting goods, wares, merchandise, freight or baggage, or any other commodities not specifically licensed by other sections of this chapter, within or from the city, and operated from other than a fixed place of business within the city, the license fee shall be sixty dollars per year; provided, that no more than one vehicle is used in such business in the city; and for each additional vehicle so used, the additional sum of thirty dollars per year. (Ord. No. 215 N.S., § 27; Ord. No. 219 N.S., Ord. No. 6-AC.)

1. As used in this section, “bingo” means a game of chance in which prizes are awarded on the basis of designated numbers or symbols on a card which conform to numbers or symbols selected at random.
2. Bingo games may be conducted in the city subject and pursuant to the following provisions:
3. Bingo games shall be allowed only for the benefit of organizations exempted from the payment of the bank and corporation tax by Section 23701 of the Revenue and Taxation Code and by mobile home park associations and senior citizens’ organizations; and provided that the receipts of such games are used only for charitable purposes.
4. It is a misdemeanor for any person to receive or pay a profit, wage or salary from any bingo game authorized by Section 19 of Article IV of the constitution of the State of California. Security personnel employed by the organization conducting the bingo game may be paid from the revenue of bingo games as provided in subdivisions (9) and (10) of this subsection.
5. A violation of subdivision (2) of this subsection shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed ten thousand dollars, which fine shall be deposited in the general fund of the city. A violation of any provisions of this section, other than subdivision (2) of this subsection, is a misdemeanor.
6. No minor persons shall be allowed to participate in any bingo game.
7. An organization authorized to conduct bingo games pursuant to subdivision (1) of this subsection shall conduct a bingo game only on property owned or leased by it, or property whose use is donated to the organization, and which property is used by such organization for an office or for performance of the purposes for which the organization is organized. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to require that the property owned or leased by or whose use is donated to the organization be used or leased exclusively by or donated exclusively to such organization.
8. All bingo games shall be open to the public.
9. A bingo game shall be operated and staffed only by members of the authorized organization which organized it. Such members shall not receive a profit, wage or salary from any bingo game. Only the organization authorized to conduct a bingo game shall operate such game, or participate in the promotion, supervision or any other phase of such game. This subsection does not preclude the employment of security personnel who are not members of the authorized organization at such bingo game by the organization conducting the game.
10. No individual, corporation, partnership, or other legal entity except the organization authorized to conduct a bingo game shall hold a financial interest in the conduct of such bingo game.
11. With respect to organizations exempt from payment of the bank and corporation tax by Sections 23701d of the Revenue and Taxation Code, all profits derived from a bingo game shall be kept in a special fund or account and shall not be comingled with any other fund or account. Such profits shall be used only for charitable purposes.
12. With respect to other organizations authorized to conduct bingo games pursuant to this section, all proceeds derived from a bingo game shall be kept in a special fund or account and shall not be comingled with any other fund or account. Proceeds are the receipts of bingo games conducted by organizations not within subdivision (9) of this subsection. Such proceeds shall be used for charitable purposes, except as follows:
13. Such proceeds may be used as prizes.
14. A portion of such proceeds, not to exceed twenty percent of the proceeds before the deduction for prizes, or one thousand dollars per month, whichever is less, may be used for rental of property, overhead, including the purchase of bingo equipment, administrative expenses, security equipment and security personnel.
15. Such proceeds may be used to pay license fees.
16. No bingo game shall be operated until and unless such organization shall have received a license authorizing it to conduct a bingo game. A license fee shall be fifty dollars renewable each fiscal year. If an application for a license is denied, one-half of the license fee shall be refunded to the organization. Said fee is not subject to proration. An additional fee of one percent of the monthly gross receipts over five thousand dollars derived from bingo games shall be collected monthly by the city.
17. No persons shall be allowed to participate in a bingo game unless the person is physically present at the time and place is which the bingo game is conducted.
18. The total value of prizes awarded during the conduct of any bingo game shall not exceed two hundred fifty dollars, in cash or in kind, for each separate game that is held.
19. The application for a license to conduct a bingo game shall be upon a form prescribed by the city clerk and shall be accompanied by written evidence of the exemption of the organization from the payment of the bank and corporation tax by Section 23701d of the Revenue and Taxation Code, or by written evidence that the organization is otherwise authorized to conduct bingo games under subdivision (1) of subsection (b) to this section. (Ord. 207-AC.)