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AN ORDINANCE: FIXING AND REGULATING TIE LICENSE TAXES, APED MANNER
AND FORM OF GRANTING AND ISSUING SAME ON TIP, VARIOUS LINES OF BUSINESSES,
OCCUPATIONS, PROFESSIONS, TRADES AND CALLINGS IN THE CITY OF PADUCAH,
KENTUCKY, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR NON-PAYK:r]NT THEREOF AND FOR VIOLA-
TION THEREOF, AND MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO ENGAGE IN ANY SUCH LINES OF
BUSINESS, OCCUPATIONS, PROFESSIONS, TRADES AND CALLINGS i'IITHOUT FIRST
PAYING THE LICENSE TAX AND PROCURING LICENSES AS PROVIDED HER.^.^^.IN.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COITIISSION I?S OF THE CITY OF
PADUCAH, KENTUCKY;
SECTION 1.
That on and after the first da;T of January, 1923, and on the
same day in each succeeding year hereafter, it shall be unlewful for any
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itperson, firm, company or corporation to engage in any business, occupa-
tion, profession, trade or calling hereinafter mentioned, in the City of
Paducah, Kentucky, until such person, firm, company or corporation have
first paid the amount of license tax to the Commissioner of Public Finance,
and have obtained from him license as hereinafter specified and required;
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iiif any such license tax be not so paid and the license procured on or
before the first day of February in each year hereafter, there shall be
added to such license tax a pen"lty of Ten (10) Per Centum thereof, and
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any and all such persons, firms, companies or corporations paying, or
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offering to pay such license taxes, after same have become delinquent,
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i shall also pay said Ten (10) Per Cent penalty thereon; provided, that
such penalty shall not be added to sny such license tax where the person,
firm, company or corporation, so lirble for same, shall not be engaged in
business, occupation, profession, trade or calling in said City until
after the first day of February in the year in which said license tax
shall be due and payable. Said license taxes and penalties may be recov-
ered as other delinquent taxes.
All such licenses shall have printed or stamped on the face of
same, in large fiF_.ures, the year for which same are issued, and it shall
be the duty of the person procuring or having such license to keep same
posted or otherwise exposed in some conspicuous place in his or their
place of business, where the same shall, at all times, be within the pub -
lie view.
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i! No person, firm, company or corporation to whom any license is
issued, as herein provided for, shall be authorized to do any business
thereunder, other than that specified in such license.
SECTION 2.
Each license shall state the name of the person, firm, company
or corporation to whom it is issued, and no such license shall be assign-
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able or transferable, nor shall any such license authorize any person,
firm, company or corporation, other than the one mentioned in the
license, to do any business, or to follow any occupation, profession,
trade or calling, other than that provided in such license.
SECTION 3.
All licenses granted under this ordinance, except as otherwise
herein provided, shall expire on the .31st day of December of each and
every year, and no license, except as otherwise herein provided, shall
be issued for a less period of time than one month, nor for a fractional
part of a month, nor for a less fee than One (1) Dollar. No portion of
any license tax shall be refunded to any person, firm, company, or cor-
poration, or to anyone else for their use or benefit.
SECTION 4.
An advertisement of any kind by any person, firm, company or
corporation, that he, they or it, is engaged in any calling, occupation,
trade, business or profession,, for the carrying on of which a license is
required under this Ordinance, shall be conclusive evidence of the lia-
bility of such person, firm, company or corporation for such license tax
as provided in this Ordinance.
SECTION 5.
'very person., firm, company or corporation desiring to procure a
'license, as herein provided, shall, when required, make application, in
writing, to the Commissioner of Public Finance, giving and disclosing
the information necessary to enable the Commissioner of Public Finance
to determine the amount of license tax to be paid, the character of bus-
iness to be conducted, and such other facts as may be necessary or pro-
per to determine whether the applicent for such license shall be granted
the license applied for, and in order to ascertain any facts necessary
to determine the amount of license tax to be paid, the Commissioner of
!Public Finance may require e�!ch applicant, so applying, to furnish such
information, under oath, as may be required by the Commissioner of Publi
Finance.
SECTION 6.
Upon violation of any provision of this Ordinance by any person,
firm, company or corporation holding a license to engage in any business,
occupation, profession, trade or calling, as herein provided, such
license may be revoked by the Board of Commissioners.
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SFCTION 7.
Each person, firm, company or corporation, carrying on or con-
ducting any business, trade, occupation, employment or profession, for
which a license is required under the provisions of this Ordinance, or any!
other ordinance not repealed by this Ordinance, where a fine has not been
provided for, without first having obtained a license to carry on and
conduct such business, trade, occupation, employment or profession, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor; and, upon conviction in the Police Court of
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the City of Paducah, shall be fined not less than Five ($5.00) Dollars
nor more than One Hundred (+;100.00) Dollars, and each day that such busi-
ness, trade, occupation, employment or profession is carried on without
such license shall be considered a separate offense.
SECTION 8.
Every persoi, firm, company or corporation, before engaging in
any business, occupr,tion, profession, trade or calling, hereinafter men-
tioned and described, shall pay the license tax hereinafter provided, and
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set opposite the name of the business, occupation, profession, trade or
calling. The businesses, occupations, professions, trades and callings
for which license taxes are required, together with the amount of such
license tax, except as otherwise specifically set out, are as follows:
A.
Abstractors of Title ........................................ .$ 25,00
Adding 1achine Agency.. ......................... 25.00
Advertising Agents and Bill Posters..........................
50.00
Advertising in Street Cars...............................50.00
Agricultural Implement Dealer ....................... 25.00
Architect ................... • 25.00
Each and every person whose business it i.s to plan,
design and superintend the construction of houses
and buildings for pay, shall be deemed an Architect.
Attorney -at -(law .......... .... 25.00
And each member of law firm.. 25.00
Auction Nouse for year or part thereof ....................... 100.00
For goods, wares and merchandise, but shall not
apply to Tobacco nor to a licensed business house
closing out a stock of goods on hand.
Auctioneer (per day). .. 3.00
Auctioneer (per year).................................25.00
Automobile Dealer or Agent ...................... 50.00
Automobile Garage ......• ........ 5
• • • 0.00
Automobile Supplies and Accessories,DealerorIdanufaeturer.. 50.00
Automobile Repair Shop,not operati.ne garage or selling
supplies .• 25
Automobile Paint •
Shop......... .00
• 25.00
Awning or Tent P?anufacturer orHanger ....................... 25.00
Agents maintaining office in Paducah, each.. 15.00
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And not affected by any other provision of this
Ordinance.
Automobile for hire, passenger --
For first automobile.. ....................... 20.00
For each additional automobile ........................ 10.00
Automobile truck, for hire, each automobile truck used as•a
moving van or for hauling of freight or express....... 20.00
(See Transfer Business).
Athletic Fxhibition or tournament, each ...................... 10.00
Auto Filling Station on Street or Sidewalk ................... 10.00
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B.
Bakery or Baker or store for sale of products of bakery .......... $ 20.00
Balls, public, each .............................................. 4.00
Banks or Trust Company ........................................... 100.00
Barber Shop, first chair.. 7.50
Each Chair Additional ..................................... 3.00
Each bath tub ............................................. .3.00
Bicycle Shop.. .. 10.00
Billiard or Pool Hall, first table ...............................25.00
Each additional table ..................................... 15.00
Blacksmith... ........................................... 10.00
Bath House, public, each tub ..................................... 3.00
Boarding House (Private).... .................. 3.00
Boarding House (entertaining transient guests) ................... 10.00
Bootblack stand .................................................. 5.00
Book Binder.. .. ................. 15.00
Bill Poster, bill distributor or sign advertising ................ 50.00
Book Store (See merchant, Retail).
Boat Store and Supplies .......................................... 100.00
Bottlers.. ........................................... 50.00
Bowling Alley, first alley ....................................... 25.00
Each additional alley.....................................15.00
Broker Lumber .................................................... 25.00
Broker Tobacco ................................................... 25.00
Broker Merchandise.. ..................................... 25.00
Broker, Stock or Bucket Shop.... ... .. ............. 2000.00
(A stock broker or bucket shop shall be, in the meaning
of this Ordinance, one who buys, sells, solicits or
receives or delivers orders for the purchase or sale of
futures, dealing in margins, or part payment of the
price in advance, on wheat, corn, cotton, pork, lard,
railroad stocks or bonds as a business).
Broker, Commission, owner of seat on Stock Exchange .............. 500.00
Bucket Shop (See Broker, Stock).
Broom Manufacturer .. ...... ...............................I... 25.00
Butter, Eggs and Poultry, wholesale .............................. 25.00
Butcher Shop...... ........................................... 25.00
Band, Orchestra or Drum Corps .................................... 10.00
Beauty Parlor .................................................... 10.00
(Including complexion specialists, hair dressers,
manicurists, masseurs, chiropodists and beauty sbhools).
Business or Commercial College or School ................... ... 20.00
Burglar Alarm or Watchman Service or Agency ...................... 50.00
Building Material and supplies, not operating a mill, or yard,
or factory......................... ..................... 25.00
Boot and Shoe Dealer (See Merchant, Retail).
Burial Association, doing a burial insurance business............ 50.00
Broker, Live Stock and Dealer....... .............. 20.00
Barge or Boat Builders not operating Dry Docks or Ways ........... 20.00
C.
Carpet Cleaners and Renovators and Upholsterers .................. 10.00
Candy Makbr Retail orWholesale ................................ 20.00
Canning Factory.. ........................................... 50.00
Carriage or Buggy Dealer......... ......... 20.00
Cash Registers, Adding machines, Typewriters, Computing Scales,
.Etc. ........... .. ........ ...... .. 25.00
(Selling from samples in any public place or to conduct
a place of business for the purpose of displaying such
articles from which sales may be made).
Chiropodist (See Beauty Parlor).
Cattle Dealer, on street ......................................... 20.00
Carnival or Street Fair, per day................................. 25.00
Circus charging less than 25V admission, per day ................. 25.00
Circus charging 25X and under 50V admission, per day ............. 100.00
Circus charging 50¢ or,over admission, per day ................... 150.00
Circus Side Shows, per day ....................................... 25.00
Circus Parade only ............................................... 150.00
Cigarette Dealer... .... .. ............................... 25.00
Cigar and Tobacco Dealer, �Retail .. . 15.00
Cigar and Tobacco Dealer,+7holesale .............................. 25.00
'Clairvoyant, Fortune Teller, Palmist, Faith Doctor or
Phrenologist, per day......... ... ..................... 10.0(
Clothes Cleaners, Pressers, Dyers or Renovators .................. 10.0(
Confectionery.................................................... 20.0(
Corn h?ill........................................................ 20.0(
Cobblers and Shoe Repairer.. . ................................ 10.0(
Collection or Credit Reportingngency ............................ 25.0(
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Coal Peddler.. ... ... .... ... $ 6.00
Coal And Fuel Dealer --
For conducting a business where four teams or less
are used.. ..................................... 50.00
For each additional team.. ... ........ 10.00
... ... ......
Coal Oil or Gasoline Peddler, each wagon or other vehicle........ 6.00
Coal Oil or Gasoline Dealer, wholesale ........................... 200.00
Cold Storage Plant.. ................................ 100.00
Collection Agency or Claim Agent ................................. 25.00
.Cross Tie Dealer ................................................. 50.00
Contractors --
General Building.. ................................... 25.00
General Street and Cement .................................. 25.00
Stairbuilding.............................................. 15.00
Bricklayer ................................................. 15.00
Electrical ................................................. 15.00'
Plasterer .................................................. 15.00
Painter .................................................... 15.00
Carpenter .................................................. 15.00
Roofer ..................................................... 15.00
Tinner..................................................... 15.00
Steamfitter................................................ 15.00
Hot Water Fitter ........................................... 15.00
Commission Merchant .............................................. 25.00
D.
Dance, Public each..... ......................................
4.00.
Dancing Teacher, per month... .... .........................
5.00
Dentist, each or e,.ch member of firm .............................
25.00
District Idessenger Company or Service...... .... .......
50.00.
Distributors, house to house, handbills, posters, advertising
matter and samples for advertising purposes, per day.......
3.00
Dogs(each male) .................................................
1.00
Dogs (Each Female) ...............................................
2.00
Detective Agency.. �
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25.00
Dry Cleaner, Renovator or Presser ................................
10.00
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Dye House.. ..... .......... ...................
10.00
Druggist, or Apothecary (See Merchant, Retail).
Druggist, Wholesale ..............................................
100.00
Dry Goods, ''Wholesale... .. .. ... ........................
100.00
Dry Goods, Retail (See Merchant, Retail).
Diamond MLerchant (See Merchant, Retail).
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Electric Light Fixtures and Supplies, Dealer in (See Merchant,
Retail).
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist, each and each member
of firm...... .. ............... ......
... ............. . ...
25.00
Express (each wagon for light hauling, drayage or parcel or
package delivery ..........................................
6.00;
Employment Bureau or Agency.. .. .. ......... .........
25.00,
Engineer (each person or each member of firm engar�ed in the
practice of civil, consulting, mechanical, mining,
electrical, heating, chemical or utility engineering).....
25.00
Exhibitions in buildings, per week.. .........
25.00
Any person or firm or corporation desiring to give any
sort of exhibition, where said exhibition is given in
this City, shall make an application in writing, stating_
the character of the entertainment and the price of
admission to the same, and if the said exhibition is
not immoral or hurtful, a license of Twenty-five (5225.00)
Dollars per week for each week said exhibition shall
continue shall be paid, unless said exhibition or
entertainment shall be for the benefit of some charitable
institution or purpose or American Legion, in which event
no license fee shall be required, but the Board of
Commissioners shall have the power to revoke said license
whenever they shall deem the said entertainment or exhibi-
tion to have become a nuisance or in any way hurtful or
offensive to public morals, but no exhibition of any
character shall be given wit pout permission from the Board
of Commissioners.
F.
Feed Dealer (Stock) Retail ....................................... 20.00
Feed Dealer (Stock)Wholesale.................................... 50.00
Feed Stable.. .......................................... ..... 20.00
Feather Renovator, per day. . .. .. .... .. 10.00
Fire Arms, Dealer not dealing in (See Merchant,Retail).
Fire Arms, .Dealer dealing in pistols ............................. 50.00
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Fish Dealer .............................. ........... ......b 20.001--==-=
Flour triill...................................................... 50.001
Florist or Nursery .............................................. 50.00
Fortune Teller, per year ........................................ 50.00
Foundry... . .............................................. 25.00'
Foreign Meat Dealer ............................................. 50.00
Fresh Meat, Retail .............................................. 25.00
Fresh Bleat, Wholesale... ....................... 50.00
Fresh Meat, Peddler, (each wagon or car) ........................ 25.00
Fruit Dealer, Retail ............................................ 20.00
Fruit :Dealer, Wholesale.. ........................ 50.00
Furniture Dealer (See merchant, Retail).....
Flying Dutchman or tsierry-Go-Round, per day ...................... 5.00
Flour, 'Wholesale, Dealer ........................................ 25.00
G.
Grain Dealer, Wholesale ......................................... 50.00
Grain Elevator....... .. .. .. �
.. ............. 50.00
Gravel or Sand Dealer Selling River Gravel or Sand .............. 100.00
Gravel or Sand Dealer, Selling Pit Gravel or Sand ............... 25.00
Gun Locksmith.. .. .... .. ....................... 10.00
Groceries, Retail. (See Merchant, Retail).
Groceries, Nholesale............................................ 100.00
H.
Halls, Public, for hire.. .. .. ........................
Hardware, Retail (See Merchant, Retail)....
Hardware, 7lholesale.............................................
Hawkers, each wagon or cart not selling meat ....................
Hay and Grain, Retail ...........................................
Hay and Grain, i`/holesale........................................
Hat Cleaners and Renovators ................. ... ............
Hide and Fur Dealers (per year or any part thereof) .............
Hitching or Vlagon Yard............... ........................
Hotel (Containing 50 or more bed rooms) ..... ...............
Hotel (Containing 25 and less than 50 bed rooms) ................
Hotel (Containing less than 25 bed rooms) .......................
Horse Shoer or Blacksmith...... .... .............
Huckster, each wagon or cart, not selling meat ..................
Hypnotist or Magnetic Healer, per day ...........................
Harness or Saddlery, Repair Shop..... ..... ............
Harness, or Saddlery, Retail (See 31:7erchant, Retail).
Harness, or Saddlery, t9holesale.................................
House to House Agents, to canvass from place to place, whether
on foot or by vehicle, and sell or take orders for the
sale of any rugs, carpets, mattings, furniture, stoves,
blankets, lace curtains, clocks, jewelry, dress goods,
kimonas, cloaks, clothing, bedspreads, comforts or win-
dow shades, where such sales are mode conditionally, or
the title retained in the seller In order to secure payment
ofof the purchase money ....................................
Hand Organ or Street Piano ......................................
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Ice Dealer (Agent Foreign Company) ..............................
Ice Dealer (Not Manufacturer) .........................
Ice Dealers--P,lanufacturers, each plant ..........................
Ice Cream Parlor. ........................................
Ice Cream Dealer, Wholesale ................ ........ ........
Installment Dealer (Selling goods or merchandise on partial
payments and retaining a lien on property sold)..........
Insurance Company, Life, Accident, IIealth, Tornado, Plate Glass,
Indemnity, Burglary, or any other character of insurance -
For the first line of insurance .............. ..... .....
Each additional line carried by any company, after the
first line.. ..... .. .............................
Insurance Agent, Broker or Solicitor, per year ..................
Any person, firm or corporation enga:eed in the business
of soliciting, placing or writing any form of insurance
shall be deemed an Agent, Broker, or Solicitor and shall
pay the above license, independent of any and all
licenses or fees which may be paid by the company or
companies represented by him or them. This does riot
include solicitors engaged by Insurance Companies writ-
ing industrial insurance in the City of Paducah,
Kentucky.
Insurance, Fire Insurance Company.
Every fire insurance company doing business in this City
shall, on the 31st day of December in each year, or
within thirty days thereafter, return to the Commissioner
of Public Finance for deposit, a statisment, under oath, of
20.00
100.00
20.00
20.00
50.00
10.50
50.00
20.00
100.00
50.00
25.00
10.00
20.00
10.00
10.00
100.00
50.001
10.00
50.001,
50.001
100.00
5.00
25.00
50.00
50.00
10.00
25.00
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Iall premiums received in this City during the year ending on the
131st day of December, and shall, at the same time, pay into the City
'Treasury a tax of Two Dollars upon each One Hundred Dollars of said
,premiums so ascertained, less return premiums allowed on cancelled
policies, and any fire company doing also a Tornado, Wind or Cyclone
business, shall include in the statement above referred to, the
premiums received for such business, and the same shall be included
i�in the total business and the tax paid on same, as above set out;
provided, however, that the minimum tax under this Section shall be
Twenty -Five Dollars. any company failing or refusing, for thirty
days, to return the statement required under the oath of some
1principal officer or local agent, and to pay the tax herein re-
quired, shall forfeit Fifty Dollars for each offense. And the
Board of Commissioners may revoke the license of such Company
u without notice.
INSURANCE, P,?utual or Reciprocal Fire Insurance Companies.
Every Reciprocal, Mutual and every other similar kir_d of insurance
comp any, corporation, firm or association, exchange or concern
writing any insurance in the City of Paducah, Kentucky, and which
has received premiums on risks written in said City, shall file a sworn
statement, either by the manager or the president or secretary of
such insurance company, corporation, firm, association, exchange
or concern or by the local resident anent thereof showing the
various lines written and declaring the net premiums received,
Such sown statement shall be made within thirty days after the
31st day of December in each year, to the Commissioner of Public
Finance of the City of Paducah, Kentucky, and shall at the same
time pay into the City Treasury a tax of $2.00 upon each $100.00
of said premiums so ascertained less returned premiums allowed
on cancelled policies. The term premium as used herein shall
include all payments in whatever form collected or paid, made
or received for any character of insurance or similar protection
named in this Ordinance. The minimum tax under this Ordinance
shall be $25.00. Any Reciprocal, Mutual Company, Corporation,
Firm, Association, Exchange or Concern failing or refusing for
thirty days to return the statement required to be filed as
set out herein end failing to pay the tax required herein, shall
forfeit $50.00 for each and every offense and the Board of
Commissioners may revoke the license of such company, corporation,
firm, association, exchange or concern, without notice.
INSURANCE, Mutual or Reciprocal Indemnity Compenies .................$50.00
It shall be the d,fty of each Reciprocal, Mutual or
Indemnity Company, firm or corporation, which has received
premiums on risks in the City of Paducah, Kentucky, to file
a s:rorn st atement by the 1.7annger or President or Secretary
of such Company, corporation, firm, association, exchange or
concern or by the local resident agent thereof, showing the
various lines written and setting out the net premiums
received; such sworn statement shall be made within thirty
days after the 31st day of December in each year to the
Commissioner of Public Finance of the City of Paducah,
Kentucky,and such statement shall be accompanied by the
tax of 0.00. The term premium as used herein shall
include all payments in whatever form collected, paid or
received. Any company, corporation, firm or association,
exchange or concern failing or refusing for thirty days to
return the statement required under oath as set out herein
and pay said.license, shall forfeit $50.00, and the Board of
Commissioners may revoke the license of such company -.aithotit
notice.
Iron Foundry.. ..............................................
25.00
Iron Lforks, Malleable ..............................................
50.00
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Jewelers, Retail (See Merchant, Retail) ............................
Jewelers,"tholesale................................................
100.00
Junk Dealer........................................................
50.00
JunkCollector...... ................ ............. .... .......
6.00
The purpose of this ordinance, is, any person who has
no established place of business, but who uses or drives
a vehicle about the City for the purpose of collecting
or buying rags, scrap iron, copper, zinc, lead, tin,
brass, pewter, plate ware, bones, hides, feathers, furs,
wool, tin or other odds and ends of any kind of fabric
or metallic substance.)
K.
KnifeRack, per day ................................................ 3.00
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laundry, Hand or Steam ........................................... 50.00
Livery and Feed Stable ......................................... 20.00
Lime and Cement Dealer. ... .. 25.00
Lumber Yard or Planing Mill..... 50.00
'lunch or other Vending Stand on wheels..... 10.00
..... ................
(No license shall be construed as eiving the holder
thereof the right to conduct his stand on any partic-
ular street of the City, and such stand shall at all.
times be under the strict supervision of the Gommis-
sioner of Public Safety and subject to removal from
place to place by order of said Commissioner or of
the Board of Commissioners of the City. )
Live Stock Dealer..... ... 20.00
lunch Stand on Private Property
lunch Room .................... 5.00
................................... 10.00
M.
Manufacturer, Automobile Supplies and Accessories ................ 50.00
MaltBeveraa-e,"lholesale......................................... 100.00
Manufacturers --
Each person, firm or corporation engaged in the manufacture
of drugs, poultry or stock remedies or any other wares not
specifically provided for, who are not under five-year
tax exemption, shall pay an annual license of ............... 50.00
hiarble Yard ...................................................... 25.00
Machine Shop ................................................ 25.00
Merchant, Retail --
Each person, firm or corporation conducting a retail
mercantile store or business whose average stock in trade
is less than $1000.00, shall pay an annual license of........ 10.00
If the average stock in trade is ---
61000.00 or over and less than $2000.00, the license shall
be .................. ••. 15.00
If the average stock in trade is $2000.00 or over and less
than $5000.00, the license shall be ......................... 25.00
If the average stock in trade is $5000.00 or over and less
than $10,000.00, the license shall be .................. • 40.00
If the average stock in trade is $10,000.00 or over and less
than $20,000.00, the license shal.l be.. • 50.00
If the average stock in trade is Y?20,000.00 or over and less
than $40,000.00, the license shall be ........................ 75.00
If the averaee stock in trade is 440,000.00 or over and less
than $60,000.00, the license shall be ........................ 100.00
If the average stock. in trade is?60,000.00 or over, the
license shall be........... 150.00
Each person, firm or corporation,conducting•any•kind
of a retail store or business of any kind or character
not specifically mentioned in this ordinance shall pay
an annual license as set out in this provision regulat-
ing Merchants, Retail.
iderchant Tailor (See Merchant, Retail).
Merry -Go -Round, per day ...................................... 5.00
Messenger Service ........................................ 50.00
Milk Dealer or Dairy ................... • 3.00
Money Lender ...................................................•.. 100
.00
Mone- Lender on Chattels... ...... • 100.00
Musical Instrument, Dealer (See Merchant,Retail).
Medicine ----Every vendor of medicines or nostrums, who shall
sell same from house to house, or on the streets
or other highways of the City, per week .............. 25.00
Millinery ---(See Merchant, Retail).
I.Till Supplies or Boat Stores ................... 100.00
I:loving Van or Wagon, each ........................................ 10.00
N.
Newspaper, daily ........................................
•• 50.00
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Newspaper, weekly .................................... .......
•••••• 10.00
Nursery Agent or Salesman....... ...... ••� 25,00
Newspaper Agency (Selling daily or weekly• papers) ................ 25.00
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Organ or Piano Dealers ( See P.Ierchant, Retail).
Osteopath, each anal each member of firm ........................•• 25.00
Oculist, Aurist, Optician or Optometrist, each, and each member
of firm........ ....
Optician Itinerant, per .day „• • • •""' 25.00
... 5.00
Oil and Gasoline Dealers, Wholesale.... 200.00
Oil. Stock. Salesman, p;r year or any part thereof ................. 50.00
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Palmist per day ..................................................
Pawnbroker..
Painter, Roof ....................................................
Painter, Contractor..
IIPaint Dealer, Retail (See Verchant, Retail).
Paint Dealer, Wholesale..
Paper Hangers, Contractor. ...
Playing Cards and Dice, Dealer ................. ............
Peddler, each wagon, or vehicle .................................°.
Each peddler, vender or deliverer of goods or
merchandise not sold previous to the time of
delivery. No peddler shall sell his goods, wares or
merchandise within 300 feet of the City Market House,
Physicians, Chiropractor, Surgeon, Osteopath or Veterinary
Surgeon, each one or each member of firm .................
Photographers Studio or Picture Gallery ..........................
Photographers, Itinerant, per week.....
.. .........................
Printers, Job ..
Peddlers, solicitors and vendors -who go�about �the City on foot
and solicit the sale of jewelry, diamonds, watches,
clothing, wearing apparel, furniture or other commodity
or personal property, whether owned by them or by
others, per week........
Peddler, Goal, each wagon........ .....•.........................••
..............................
Picture or Picture Frame .Dealer (See Nerchant, Retail),
Piano and Organ Dealer (See Merchant, retail).
Paper Dealers, Wholesale....
Plumbing Shop or Contractor....
Pool or Billiard Table--
For first table..
For each additional table, .°...°
Pole .Dealer, Telegraph, Telephone or•Electric Light or •Power
Poles, maintaining yard or office .. .............
Poultry, Eggs fl ""'
and Butter, Retail (See ITerchant, Retail).
Poultry, Eggs and Butter, Wholesale.,
Popcorn or Peanut Stand, "'°'°'°"°""
Pottery Clay Products, Manufacturer. .....°°•°..•.....,
Pressing Club ................... .
Produce, Wholesale.. ...
Produce Retail (See Merchant, Retail). ""
Public Hall, for hire....
Picture Shows or YOving Picture Theatre Houses --
If the seating capacity be 125 or less ...................
If the seating capacity be more than 125 and less than
250..
If the seating capacity be more than 250 and less than
500.: ....,
If the seating capacity be more than 500. and less than
750..
If the seQting�capacity be more than 750and less •than
�
1000.. ......,
If the seating capacity be more than 1000 ...............
.
(License payable semi-annually, one-half
on January 1st and one-half on July 1st.)
Plumber or sewer tapper, not operating shop............
(Subject to all provisions and rules of sewer depart-
....
ment.)
R.
Real Estate Agent, Dealer or Broker..
............... ..
(Any person who attempts to negotiate sales of real
estate for others on commission or for compensation
shall be deemed a real estate broker within the
meaning of this Ordinance whether any such sale
be actually consummated or not).
Rental Agency, engaged in the collecting of rents only on
commission or for compensation ........,•..,.,,,
Restaurant or Cafe, with rooms (See Hotel)
Restaurant or Cafe without rooms..
Rooming House (Renting more than two rooms). •..•.•..
Rubber Stamp or Stencil Agency, ............
Repair Shop, for any kind of repairing, not specifically set
out under this ordinance .................................
10.00
150.00
15.00
15.00
100.00
15.00
25.00 !
20.00
25.00
20.00
6.00
25,00 !
6.00
6.00
i
50.00
25.00
25.00
15.00 !
50.00
25.00
10.00
50.00
10.00
50.00
20.00
50.00
100.00
200.00
300.00
400.00 j
500.00
15.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
6.00
5.00
5.00
S.
Scrap Iron Dealer.,
II Scales, Public ................................................... 50.00
Second Hand Dealer.. 10.00
Ij ........... ............ 25.00
. ...................
(Any person whose exclusive business shall be to Q-
and sell miscellaneous articles of second hand or
�I personal property.),....
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Shoe Shine Parlor, or Stand .............._....... .. .... :A 5.00 = -
Sewing 1,4achine Agency............ .. .. ......... 50.00
(Persons, firms or corporations keeping offices or
places of business whero sewing machines are dis-
played, demonstrated, offered for sale or. sold).
Sewing Machine Agent .......................................... 20.00
Shoe Repair Shop (See Cobbler)
Sheet Iron and Metal [Yorks or Company ......................... 50.00
Shooting Gallery or Baby Racks ................................ 20.00
Shows, Exhibition on Boats, per day ........................... 10.00
SignPainter.. ...................................... 15.00
Skating Rink (Per Vleek)....................................... 10.00
Skating Rink (Per Year). .. ...... .. .... ....... 100.00
Soft Drink or Beverage, Manufacturer or Bottler, other than j
those made from malt or cereal, wholesale..:... ...... 50.00
Soft Drink or Beverage, other than those made from malt or
cereal, retail ........................................ 10.00
Soda .`later Fountain........ 25.00
Soft Drink Agent or Agency, ,lholesale, othor than malt........ 50.00
Stock or Bond Salesman...... .............................. 50.00
Steamboat or Marine days or Docks ............................. 100.00
Steamboat Agent or Agency. 10.00
Stock live, Dealer on or off street ........................... 20.00
Stock Yards, Live Stock....... ......................... 25.00
Storage Building or Warehouse, Public ......................... 25.00
(Not Cold Storage).
Surgeon --(See Physician).
Shoe Dealer --(See T„erchant, Retail).
Storage House for cold storage ................................ 100.00
T.
Taxicab--T.,otor Power, first.. .............................. 20.00
Each additional taxicab.... 10.00
Tailor, Busheling, repairs or pressing only ................... 10.00
Tents and Awnings......... ....... ...... ..... 25.00
Theatre or Opera House, seating capacity over 500, not showing
moving pictures.. .... 250.00
Theatre or Opera House, seating capacity less than500, not
sho^ring moving pictures... .. .... .. ....... 100.00
Theatre or Opera House Picture lrivileKe for each performance. 5.00
(No license shall be issued for a less period of time
than six months).
TinShop.. ................................................. 15.00
Tobacco Broker ................................................ 25.00
Tobacco Manufacturer .......................................... 50.00
Tobacco Warehouse, Storage .................................... 50.00
Tobacco Rehandler....... ...... 50.00
Transfer Business, Passenger and�Baggage ....................... 50.00
Transfer Business, Freight .................................... 50.00
Typewriter Agent or Dealer .................... 25.00
Trunk Dealer or Repairer (See Merchant, Retail)..
Theatrical or Booking Agency, dramatic, musical or film....... 20.00
Teams for Hire, each .......................................... 6.00
U.
Upholsterer.. ... .......... .. ....... .............. 10.00
Undertaker, Funeral Directors and Embalmers ................... 50.00
V.
Veterinary Surgeon, each one. or eachmember of firm........... 25.00
Vending T:":achines, automatic, operated by coin for vending
candy, chewing gum, nuts or other articles, including
weighing machines operated by coins --
For each machine operated by pennies ....................... 2.00
For each machine operated by nickels ....................... 5.00
I7.
•,7agon, Mloving Wagon or Van .................................... 10.00
1.7agon or Hitching Yard ........................................ 20.00
Wagons or 'reams for hire --
Each 1 horse wagon or 1 animal ............................. 6.00
Each 2 horse wagon or 2 animals ............................ 6.00
Each 3 horse wagon or 3 animals ............................ 8.00
Each 4 horse wagon or 4 animals ............................ 9.00
Warehouse, Grain .............................................. 50.00
yarehouse, Tobacco .. ................................... ... 50.00
Warehouse, Public Storage ..................................... 25.00
Aall Paper Dealer (See I,erehant, Retail).
Each person, firm or corporation enPa7ed in any occupation,
profession, or trade of whatever name or character, and not hereinbefore
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enumerated, shall pay an annual license of :25.00.
SECTION 9.
It shall be the duty of each person, firm, company or corporation,
owning any dog or dogs, after paying the license tax herein required, to
apply to the Commissioner of Public Finance for a numbered Dog Tag, which
tag shall be placed upon a dollar or otherwise securely fastened about the'
neck of such dog or dogs.
SECTION 10.
I?o license herein provided for shall authorize or entitle any
holder hereof to conduct any business, or to en Page in any occupation,
profession, trade or calling, in any manner or at any time, in violation
of any ordinance of the City of Paducah, or of any law of the State of
£entucky or of the United States.
SECTION' 11.
I£ any person, firm, company or corporation shall misrepresent any
.,i
material fact as to the nature of busir:ess in his application for such
license, or any other fact necessary or proper to determine the amount of
the license tax to be charged or paid, such license so procured by reason
of such misrepresentation may be revoked bar the Board of Commissioners at
any time.
SECTION 12.
All moneys derived from license taxes under the provisions of this
Ordinance shall be paid to the Commissioner of Public Finance, and b,� him
placed to the credit of the General Revenue Fund of the City of Paducah,
and shall be used and expended in defraying the current and incidental
expenses of said City.
SECTION 13.
Should any section, or part of section, or any provision of this
Ordinance be declared by the Corm st, for any reason, to be invalid, such
decision shall not affect the validity of this Ordinance as a whole, or
any xart thereof, other than the particular section or provision of the
Ordinance so held cr declared to be invalid.
SECT ION 14.
All ordinances and parts of ordinance which have been heretofore
adopted, in conflict herewith, are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby)
repealed, but this Ordinance shall not be construed as repealing any pro-
vision or provisions for licenses or license fees or license taxes con-
tained in any other existing ordinance or ordinances of the City of
Paducah, or providing for any license or the payment of any license fee on'.
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any business, trade, profession or occupation not herein specifiea]Iv !
provided for.
SECTION 15.
This Ordinance shall be in force and effect from and inelud-
i
ing the first day of January, 1923.
RB30RDED DECE1,11BME 30th, 1922.
PUBLISHED " 30th, 1922.
mayor.