HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances - No. 119-. . ORD,?ZANCE NO. 119 :-
OR THE PURPOSE' OF~REVENUE AND REGULATION EVERY KIND-OF
D, TRANSACTED OR CAR~IED ON~WIIPHIPJ,
FOR THE CAF~EYING ON
ORDINANCE WNDING ORDINANCE No. 82, ENT~T~D. "AN ODIN~CE
F NESS HEREIN SPECIP THE CORPORaLTE LIMITS OF Tm C TY OF LODp,STATE OF CALIFORNI+,
FIXING THE RATE' OF LICENSEITAX UPON THE
COLLECTION'OF SAID LICEISE TAX AND PUMIS
OF SUCH BUSINESS WITE~OUT A LICENSE, AND' REPEALUG CERTAIN ORDINANCES."
, PROVIDING FOR TEE
The Board of Trustees of the City of Lodi do ordain as
follows 2
Section 1.- Section 8(b) of said Ordinance No. 82, is
hereby amended to read as follows:-
Section 8 (b). When the licen$e tax in this ordinance
provided is per day, the same shall be due and payable each day in
advance; when such licenee tax is per week, the same shall be due
and payable each week in advance; when such license tax is per month,
the same shall be due and payable on the first day of each month
in advance; when such tax is per quarter, the same shall be due and
payable on the first day of January, April, July and October in
advance; and when such license tax is per year, the same shall be
due and payable in advance at the time specified in this ordinance,
and when no time is specified the same shall be due and payable on the
first day of April in advance.
Provided when a license tax is per quarter 8r per year a
license may be issued for a fractional period in the first instance
and a pro raw license fee charged, therefor1 , in all cases where a
permanent business is to be conducted.
Section 2.- Sutdivision 1 of Section 14 of said Ordinance
No. 82 is hereby amended to read as follows:-
Subdivision 1. Every person who solicits or takes order8
for goads, wares or merchandise, articles or commodities of any kind
( except newspapers and periodicals, and except those .who sell only
to merchants, or traders for re-sale, md excepting those who have in
the City of Lodi a fixed place of business, regularly kept open with
some one in charge thereof for the transaction of the particular
business engaged in during the hours customary for the transaction
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ef such business) shall pay a license tax of $ 25.00 per day.
Section 3.- Subdivision 2 of Section 14 of said Ordinance
No. 82 is hereby amended to read as follows:-
Subdivision 2.- Every person who conducts an exhibition
solely or principally of dumb animals [ excepting circuses) shall
pay a license tax of # 25.00 per day.
Section 4.- Subdivision 3 of Section 14 of said Ordinance
No, 82 is hereby amended to reaa as follows:-
mery person who carries on, practices or Subdivision 3.-
professes to practice the business or art or astrology, palmistry,
phrenology, life-reading, fortune-telling, cartomancy, clairvoyance,
clairaudience, crptal-gazing, hypnotJsa, medimiship, phrobhesy,
augury, divination, magic or necromancy, and demands or receives a
fee for the exercise or exhibition of his art therein, directly or
indirectly, either as a gift, donation, or otherwise, or who gives an
exhibition thereof at any place where an admission fee is charged,
shall pay a liaense. tax a.f $ 250.00 per month.
Procided that no person shall be required to pay any fee
or take out any license for conducting or participating in any
religious ceremony or service when such person holds a certificate Crp
' ordination, or endorsement as a medium, healer or clairvoyant from
any bQna fide church or religious association having branches or
churches in other states and communities and which has a creed or
set of religious principles that is recognized by all such churches or
branches; provided further, that the fees, gratuities, emoluments and
profits thereof shall be regularly accounted for and paid solely ts
er far the benefit of said churcla 8r religious association.
Section 5. Subdivision 4 of Section 14 of Ordinance Ne. 82
is hereby amended to read as fellows:-
Subdivision 4.- Every resident auctioneer shall pay a
license tax or $ 5.00
pay a license tax of #100.0oper day.
per quarter. Every itinerant auctioneer shall
Section 6, Subdivision 7 Qf SeCtien 14 of Qrdinance No. 82
is hereby amended to read as follows:-
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, ,, * in or upon any public street, alley, or Qth6r place, doorway Of
any room or building unenclosed, or vacant lot or parcel of land,
within the Business Ristrict, which €or the purposes of this
Ordinance is defined to be that portion of the City of Lodi bounded
on the North by Lockeford Street, on the East by Stockton Street, f
on the South by Xalnut Street and on the West by Church Street; This
Snctioa 10. Subdivision 16 of Sectiori 14 of Orcinance
No. 82 is hereby amended to rncd 2s folloa8:-
Subdivision 1G.- 7very pereon conductincs i lriveli ag
threatrice1 S!~OW a:id. shotwiiig either in a tent or other P?LB.CC not
hnvihg a. theatre license ebsll pe:7 5 license ts+of $ 15.00 per
day.
Section 11. - 3 new subdivision to be numbered Subdivision
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20 is hereby added to said Section 14 of Ordinance Xo. 82.
Subdivision 20.- 4ny person, firm or corpor:-tt.ion who
exhibits a collection of miscelleneous shows, games of skill,
mechanical amusement dericas or tootks for dispensing of food or
refreshments, commonly known a.ad desipatsd 2s a "Carnival" shall
pay a license im of $ 150.OOper dzy.
When aq7 of the sbove shone are conducted separately
either as to location or manzpenent, ezch shall be individually
licensed at the rate of $ 20.00 per &t?.y.
Section 12.- This ordiri;mce sha.11 be published once in
the Lodi Sentinel, ~3 neme per published ia the City of T.odi, on6
shall be in force and take effect thirty dags after its passage,
anproval and publication.
I hereby sip md 3pyroT-e the foregoing Ordinmce this
MQ*dayJof APr%.&, 8. D. 1321.
I do here y certify that the foregoing 0rd.nrince ?lo.
was introdwed 2nd reac et A reyuler meting of the Board of Trustees
of the City of Lodi, on the 21st day of Alarch, A. D. 1921, and
mas thereafter duly adopted at a regular--"-"" meeting of sqid
Board of Trustees, held ori the qth. d6y of April 4. D. 1921,
by the Sollowing vote:
Ayes- Trustees- Crose, Hickok, Hale, nich and Ikbntgoornery
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