HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances - No. 272The City Council of the City of Lodi does ordain
as follows:
There is hereby added to Ordinance No. 221 of the
City of Lodi a section to be known as “Section 9-a“ and
which shall read as follows:
“Section 9-a. Every person hereafter applying
for a new license in the City of Lodi (that is, for a
license to conduct a business, which has not thereto-
fore, under a license in effect at the time of filing
such application, been conducted at the location in
said city where such applicant proposes to operate ) shall
pay to the City Clerlg,in addition to any license fee or
tax required to be paid hereunder, the sum of Two
Hundred and Fifty Dollars (#250,00), or shall file with
the City Clerk a Bond in safd sum, executed by two
responsible free-holders residing in the City of Lodi,
or executed by a surety company, licensed to do business
in this state, conditioned as hereinafter mentioned.
If such license be denied said sum of Two Hundred Fifty
Dollars ($260.00), or said bond, shall be returned by the
Clerk to the applicant; but, if such license be granted,
such sum, or such bond, shall be retained by the Clerk,
as a guaranty, and conditioned, that such licensee will
faithfully and honestly pay all sums of money which such
licensee may thereafter owe or contract or incur (in the
operation of such business) for a period of -R%X
six months
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ORDINANCE NO. 272
An Ordinance Amending Ordinance No. 221 of the City of
Lodi, Relating to Business Licenses within said City,
by adding thereto a Section to be Known as “Section
9-att and by Amending Subdivisions 1 and 9 and 18 of
Section 13 thereof, and by Amending Section 18 thereof.
continuously next succeeding the granting of such license.
If after the end of such xxwiqma period, said licensee
shall file with the Clerk of said city an affidavit
stating that such licensee has fully paid all such obli-
gations, said sum of Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00)
shall be returned to the licensee, in full, or all liabil-
ity thereafter to be incurred on said bond shall be
exonerated; otherwise, the City Clerk shall apply such
money to payment of such attachments or executions, as may
have been levied against said money, and return the balance
to the licensee, or retain said bond as security for pay-
six month
ment of any judgment which may be recovered against such
licensee for violating any condition of such bond and
which may be enforced by any proper legal process."
Subdivision 1 of Section 13 of said Ordinance No.
221 is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Subdivision 1: A 'Solicitor' within the meaning of
this ordinance is defined to be any person who goes from
house to house or from place to place in the City of Lodi,
selling, soliciting, or taking orders for, or offering to
sell, or take orders for, goods, wares or merchandise, or
any article for present or future delivery, or for ser-
vices to be performed or for the making, manufacturing or
repairing of any article or thing whatsoever.
Each and every person who shall engage in business
as a solicitor within the City of Lodi (except those
otherwise licensed by said city, and except those who sell
only to merchants or traders for resale) shall pay to said
City a license tax of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per day."
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Subdivision 9 of Section 13 of said Ordinance No.
221 is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Subdivision 9. Every itinerant merchant, hawker,
or peddler who vends goods, wares or merchandise (except
agricultural of his own production) and every itinerant
merchant, hawker, peddler, vendor, fakir or advertiser
who sells or advertises goods, wares or merchandise of
any kind by music, singing, dancing, jugglery, tricks ,
sleight-of-hand, buffoon, displays, shows or performances,
or by speeches, declamation or oratory, or by any
performance calculated to draw a crowd about the person
advertising or selling as aforesaid, shall pay a license
tax to said City in the sum of Fifty Dollars per day;
and no person, firm or corporation shall vend any goods,
wares or merchandise of any kind whatever in or upon any
public street, alley or sidewalk, doorway or any room or
building uninclosed, or vacant lot or vacant parcel of
land, within the business district of said City, which
for the purpose of this ordinance is defined to be the
"Commercial District Zone", as such zone is now, or may
hereafter be, established by ordinance Number 238 of the
City of Lodi, or any amendment or amendments thereto.''
Subdivision 18 of Section 13 of said Ordinance No.
221 is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Subdivision 18. Any person, firm or corporation,
who or which shall, in the City of Lodi, keep or conduct
any grocery store, butcher shop, hardware store, dry
goods store, drug store, or other place where merchandise
is exhibited for sale, or sold, or who, by truck, vehicle
or otherwise, shall sell or deliver any merchandise or
laundry, or who or which shall build, alter or repair any
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building or structure, or who shall install or affix
any pipes, plumbing fixtures or plumbing supplies,
sheet metal, lumber or other building material, shall
pay an annual license tax of Two and 50/100 ($2.50)
Dollars per year, except as herein, in said Ordinance
No. 221, as amended, otherwise provided."
Section 18 of said Ordinance No. 221 is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Section 18. If any section, sub-section, paragraph,
clause, phrase, word or other part of said ordinance
No. 221, or of said ordinance as hereby amended, or of
any part of this ordinance, is or shall be declared to
be unconstitutional or invalid for any reason, the
remainder of this ordinance and of said ordinance No.
221 and of said Ordinance No. 221 as so amended, shall
nevertheless be valid, the City Council of the City of
Lodi hereby declaring that it would pass and adopt each
section, sub-section, paragraph, clause, phrase, word
or part of this ordinance and of said ordinance No. 221
as amended hereby, regardless of any other part of either
or any thereof."
Approved this 2nd day of July, 1941.
A est: "&-
Mayor of thk City 6f Lodi
W Certified to have been regularly introduced June 4,1941,
amended June 18, 1941 and finally passed, adopted and
ordered to print July 2, 1941 by the following vote:
Byes; Councilmen, Bull, Riggs, Graffigna & Steele
NOES: Councilman, VJeihe.
Absent: Ccuncilmen, None. n
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