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AN ORDINANCE FIXING AND REGULATING THE LIC'"NSE TAXES,
AND MANNER AND FORM OF GRANTING AND ISSUING SANTF ON CERTAIN OCCUPATIONS,
PROFESSIONS, TRAD-S AND CALLINGS IN THF CITY OF FAUUCAH, KFNTUrKY iiND
PROVIDING PFNALTIFS FOR NON-PAYMENT THFRT'OF AND FOR VIOLATION TF -FF! -,OF,
AND MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO ENGAGE IN ANY SUCH LINE, OF BUSINESS,
OCCUPATIONS, PROFESSION,, TRADES AND CALLINGS "WITHOUT FIRST PAYING THE
LICENSE TAX AND PROCURING LICENSES AS PROVIDED HFFEIN.
BE IT ORDPINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF
THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY;
SECTION 1.
That on and after the 1st day of January, 1930, and
on the same day in each succeeding year thereafter, it shall be unlawful
for any person, firm, company or corporation to engage in any business,
occupation, profession, trade or calling hereinafter mentioned, in the
City of Paducah, Kentucky, until such persons, firms, companies or
corporations have first paid the amount of license tax to the City of
Paducah and have obtained licenses as hereinafter specified and required.
If 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 penalty of ten (10) per centum thereof, and
any and all such persons, firms, companies or corporations paying, or
offering to nay such license taxes after the same have become delinquent,
shall also pay said ten (10) per cent penalty thereon; provided that said
penalty shall not be added to any such license tax where the persons,
firm, company or corporation, so liable 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
recovered as other delinquent taxes. All other provisions of
ordinances now in force regulating the issuing of such licenses, and the
manner of keeping and displaying same and the holding and transferring
of same, and limiting the occupation, business, trade, profession
and calling for which licenses may be issued ^nd the use of such
licenses on account thereof, shall continue and be in force as to any
and all of the licenses authorized in this ordinance.
SECTION 2.
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Upon/violation of any of the provisions of this
ordinance by any person, firm, company or corpora ion holding a license
to engage in any business, occupation, trade, profession or calling as
herein provided, such license may be revoked by the board of Commissioners
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SECTION 3.
Each person, firm, company or corporation, carrying on
or conducting any business, trade, occupation, employment or
profession, for which a license is reouired un,'er this 6r any other
ordinance of the City of Paducah not repealed by this or any other
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 deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction in the Police Court, shall be
fined not less than Fice ($5.00) Dollars, nor more than twenty
($20.00) Dollars; and each day that such business, trade, orcupstion,l
employment or profession is carried on without such license, or after
such license has been revoked, shall be considered a separate offense
SECTION 4.
The tusiness, occupations, professions, trades, callings
and employments for which license taxes are reouired under this
or'inance, together with the amount of such license tax, except as
otherwise specifically set out herein end in otter license
ordinances not hereby renealed,aae as follows:
Fresh Meat, Peddler (each vehicle) for a year or any
part thereof .................................. $
25.00
Every Vendor of medicines or nostrums, who srsll sell
same from house to house, or on the street
or other highways of the city per day ..........
10.00
Peddler, each wagon or vehicle not selling meat or
groceries
Each peddler, vendor or deliverer of goods
or merchandise not sold previous to the
time of delivery, for year or any part thereof....
25.00
No peddler shall sell his goods, wares or
merchandise within 300 feet or the
City Market House...
Peddlers, solicitors and vendors wro go about the city
on foot and solicit the sale of ,jewelry,
diamonds, watches, clothing,wearing apnarel,
furniture or other commodity or personal
property, ^vrether orned by them or by
others, per day ...................................
10.00
SECTION 5.
No license herein provided for shall authorize or entitle
any holder hereof to conduct any business, or to engage in any
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occupation, profession, trade or calling, in any manner or at any
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time, in violation of any ordinance of the City of Paducah, or of
any lay., of the state of Kentucky (r of the United States.
SECTION 6.
All moneys derived from license taxes under the
provisions of this ordinance shall be paid to the City of enducah
and placed to the credit of the General Revenue Fund of said city,
and shall be used in defraying the current nnO incidental expenses
)f said city.
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SECTION 7.
All. ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith, are, to the extent of such conflict only,hereby repealed,
but this ordinance shall not be construed as providing for any license
or the paymetit of any license fee on any business, trade, profession,
or occiznation not herein specifically provided for.
SECi'ION 8.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from
and including the first day of January, 1930.
Signed__._ e
Mayor
Passed by the Board of Commissioners December 30, 1929
Recorded by Hunt Crossland, Clerk, December 31, 1929