exhibitions may be issued for the period of one year, or for any shorter time. SECTION 9. [When due penalty for delinquency.] All licenses which shall become due on the first day of January or July, shall be considered. delinquent if not paid within fifteen (15) days thereafter; or, for every month or fraction of a month a license shall remain delinquent, after the fifteen days allowed from the first day of January or July, as aforesaid, there shall be added to the whole amount of such license a penalty of two per cent., which shall be collected in the same manner as the license. But the addition, if any penalty to a license shall not exempt the person from whom said license may be collectable from any penalty to which he or she may be liable for violating any of the provisions of this act. SECTION 10. [Licenses may be revoked.] If at any time it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the mayor that any licensed person has violated any of the provisions of this act, then the said mayor shall revoke his or her license, and such licensed person shall cease to have any authority thereunder. In SECTION 11. [Proceedings when license depends upon receipts.] all cases where the rates of license depend upon the receipts or the profits of the business, or upon the amount of business done, or upon the number of vehicles used, or upon any other matter peculiarly within the knowledge of the applicant for the license, such applicant may be examined in regard to such matters, and may be required to subscribe to a sworn statement or affidavit, that he has to the best of his knowledge and belief, truly answered all questions touching the amount of license for which he or she applies or is liable. If any person applying for a license shall make any false statement in regard to his or her business, with intent thereby to procure a license at less rates than those provided in this act, he or she shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in section 2 of this act, and may be adjudged also to forfeit his or her license. SECTION 12. [Conviction not to cxempt.] The conviction and punishment of any person for transacting a business without a license shall not excuse or exempt such person from the payment of a license fee due or unpaid at the time of such conviction. SECTION 13. [Dance houses and ball rooms.] Keepers of public dance houses or ball rooms shall pay a license fee of three hundred ($300) dollars per annum, or ten ($19) dollars per night; provided, however, that no license shall be issued without the consent of the mayor. SECTION 14. [Scavengers.] Every person, company or corporation who shall empty, clean or remove the contents of any privy vault, or in any manner engage in the business of scavenger, shall pay a license fee of twenty-five ($25) [dollars] per annum. SECTION 15. [Intelligence office.] Each keeper of an intelligence office or employment office shall pay a license fee of fifty ($50) dollars per annum; provided, however, that no license shall be issued without the consent of the mayor. SECTION 16. [Pawnbrokers.] Each keeper of a pawnbroker or loan office shall pay a license fee of one hundred and twenty-five ($125) dollars per annum, and each keeper of a påwnbroker's or loan office, or other person or corporation engaged in carrying on the business commonly known as a chattel mortage broker, or loaning money, and to secure the payment of same takes chattel mortgage or other security of like nature on household goods, shall pay a like license fee of one hundred and twenty-five ($125) dollars per annum. SECTION 17. [Billiard and pool tables.] Each proprietor of a billiard or pool table shall pay a license fee of fifteen ($15) dollars for one such table and ten ($10) dollars for each additional table per annum. SECTION 18. [Bowling alleys.] Each proprietor of a bowling alley shall pay a license fee of twenty-five ($25) dollars for one alley and fifteen ($15) dollars for each additional alley per annum. SECTION 19. [Peddlers.] Peddlers or hawkers of produce or goods from vehicles drawn by animal power shall pay a license fee of twenty-five ($25) dollars per annum, and those selling goods from vehicles drawn by hand or carried by one or more persons shall pay a license fee of five ($5) dollars per annum. Peddlers or hawkers of meat, fish, game, poultry, oysters, vegetables, fruit, candies, groceries, produce or dairy products from stands, shall pay a license fee of fifteen ($15) dollars per annum; provided that any person selling agricultural produce of his own raising shall not be liable for a license for selling or peddling the same in any mode or manner in the markets, public streets or alleys of said city. SECTION 20. [Circuses and menageries.] For each circus.or menagerie the owner thereof shall pay a license fee as follows: For the first day two hundred and fifty ($250) dollars and for each succeeding day one hundred and fifty ($150) dollars. For each side-show, concert, musical or minstrel entertainment, or exhibition of monsters or freaks of nature, twenty-five ($25) dollars for the first day, and fifteen ($15) dollars for each additional day; provided, however, that no license shall be issued without the consent of the mayor. SECTION 21. [Sewerage connections.] [Sewerage connections.] No connection shall be made with any sewer or drain without the payment of a license fee of five ($5) dollars and an agreement, in writing of the person applying therefor, that he will immediately indemnify and save harmless such city from all loss or damage that may be occasioned in any wise by accident by the want of care or skill on his part in the prosecution of work, or that may be occasioned by reason of any opening made by him or caused to be made in any street, lane, avenue, market-place, or common in the making of any connection with any public or private sewer, as aforesaid; and, further, that he will promptly at the proper time replace and restore the street over such opening to as good condition as he found it previous to opening the same; provided, that no license shall be issued except by consent of the board of control. SECTION 22. [Theatres, concert halls, etc.] Every proprietor or lessee of any theatre, concert hall, or any place of amusement, entertainment, or exhibition, shall pay a license fee, if issued for one year, of one hundred and fifty ($150) dollars; if issued for three months, of fifty ($50) dollars; if issued for one month, of twenty-five ($25) dollars. SECTION 23. All vendors of gunpowder shall pay a license fee of fifteen ($15) dollars per annum. All keepers or owners of gunpowder magazines shall pay a license fee of fifty ($50) dollars per annum. SECTION 24. [Shooting galleries.] All keepers of shooting galleries shall pay a license fee of thirty ($30) dollars per annum, exclusive of the license fee for gunpowder. SECTION 25. [Livery and sale stables.] All keepers or owners of livery, sale or boarding stables shall pay licenses as follows: For those whose gross receipts for the hiring, boarding and sale of horses and carriages amount to more than fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars per annum, twenty-five ($25) dollars per annum. For those whose gross receipts amount to less than fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars per annum, fifteen ($15) dollars per annum. SECTION 26. [Dancing and riding academies.] Keepers of dancing and riding academies or schools whose gross receipts are less than six thousand ($6,000) dollars per annum, shall pay a license fee of fifty ($50) dollars per annum; and those whose gross receipts are more than six thousand ($6,000) dollars per annum, shall pay a license fee of seventyfive ($75) dollars per annum. SECTION 27. [Use of streets for building material.] Each applicant for the use of streets or other spaces belonging to the city, for the purpose of depositing building material thereon or for any other purpose, shall pay a license fee for each permit, as follows: For the use of twenty (20) feet or less, one dollar; for the use of more than twenty (20) feet and less than forty (40) feet, two ($2) dollars; for the use of more than forty (40) feet and less than seventy-five (75) feet, four ($4) dollars; for the use of more than seventy-five (75) feet and less than one hundred (100) feet five ($5) dollars; for one hundred (100) feet and over, ten ($10) dollars; provided, that no license shall be issued except by consent of the board of control. SECTION 28. [Hacks and vehicles.] The owners of all vehicles of every kind used upon the streets of the city, shall pay annual license fees as follows: For each sulky, three ($3) dollars. For each cab or hack, owned by private party or parties and used generally or entirely for private use, fifteen ($15) dollars. For each cab or hack used generally for public use, from stands, (so-called) on the streets, ten ($10) dollars. For each cab or hack used in other manners than above mentioned, five ($5) dollars. For each buggy or vehicle with two seats or more, drawn by more than one animal power, ten ($10) dollars. For each single buggy or private carriage, drawn by one horse, three (3) dollars. For each hotel coach or carriage, ten ($10) dollars. For each furniture car, ten ($10) dollars. For each two horse omnibus, ten ($10) dollars. For each four horse omnibus, fifteen ($15) dollars. For each six horse omnibus, twenty ($20) dollars. For each cart drawn by one horse, three ($3) dollars, drawn by two horses, six- ($6) dollars. For each wagon (with springs) drawn by one horse, three ($3) dollars. For each wagon (with springs) drawn by two horses, six ($6) dollars. For each wagon (with springs) drawn by three horses, nine ($9) dollars. For each wagon (with springs) dawn by four horses, twelve ($12) dollars. For each wagon (with springs) drawn by five horses, fifteen ($15) dollars. For each wagon, dray, truck or drag (without springs) drawn by one horse, three ($3) dollars. For each wagon, dray, truck or drag (without springs) drawn by two horses, six ($6) dollars. For each wagon, dray, truck or drag (without springs) drawn by three horses, nine ($9) dollars. For each wagon, dray, truck or drag (without springs) drawn by four horses, twelve ($12) dollars. For each wagon, dray, truck or drag (without springs) drawn by six or more horses, fifteen ($15) dollars. Provided that none of the provisions of this act shall be held to apply. to farmers marketing the products of their farms; nor shall any farmer be liable whatever to vehicles or any license whatever for marketing, selling or peddling the products of their farms in cities of the second grade of the first class; nor shall any of the provisions of this act be held to provide to gardeners, fruit growers or florists who reside out of the city; nor to any person living without said city and engaged in hauling goods or merchandise to and from said city; all others, however, and dairymen living without said city, shall pay a license upon their vehicles used upon the streets of said city, as follows: For each one-horse wagon, three ($3) dollars per annum. For each three or four-horse wagon, ten ($10) dollars per annum. And be it further provided that all persons or firms using any vehicles except cabs, hacks, sulkies, buggies, and carriages, upon the streets of any such city, for which annual license fees are required by law to be paid, shall exhibit in a conspicuous place upon the left side of the harness of an animal attached to same, a metal plate sign, furnished or to be furnished by the director of accounts, indicating the year for which such license has been taken, and the number and character of such license. And the director of accounts in cities of the second grade of the first class is hereby required to furnish with every license issued for every such vehicle used upon the streets of any such city, one metal plate sign, having printed, painted or stamped thereon the year for which the license has been taken out, together with the character and number of the same. SECTION 29. [Storage of petroleum.] Storage of petroleum, or the products of petroleum, shall be subject to such rules and regulations as are or may be adopted by the city council, and shall pay a license fee of fifty ($50) dollars per annum; provided that no license shall be issued without the consent of the director of fire service. All persons selling goods described in this section shall not be subject to license fee if the same is sold by them from wagons in retail way, and in that case they shall be subject to the fees heretofore named for wagons, trucks, drays or drags without springs. SECTION 30. [Bicycles.] The license tax on every bicycle shall be seventy-five ($.75) cents per annum. Provided, whenever a bicycle check issued by the director of accounts has been lost, taken or stolen unknown to the owner of such bicycle, he may on payment of twenty-five ($.25) cents and on making and subscribing to an affidavit, receive from the director of accounts a duplicate bicycle check for the remaining portion of the then current year. SECTION 31. [Street car advertising.] Any person or persons, firm or firms engaged in the street car advertising business or any other kind of advertising business where space is rented, bought or sold, or in any other manner, shall pay an annual license fee of two hundred ($200) dollars per annum. SECTION 32. [Money payable to director of accounts.] All moneys due or to become due and payable to the director of accounts for the improvement of streets and the occupation of stalls and benches, market gounds and ground for market purposes, and all moneys due or to become due and payable for street car licenses, or for percentage of gross earnings, to the director of accounts or to any other municipal officer, except as hereinafter provided shall from and after the passage of this act be made payable to the director of accounts, who. shall daily deposit the same with the city treasurer to the credit of the proper funds and take his receipt therefor. SECTION 33. [Dogs.] The license tax on every dog shall be two ($2) dollars per annum; provided whenever a dog check issued by the director of accounts has been lost, taken or stolen by parties unknown to the owner of such dog, he may on payment of fifty ($.50) cents and on making and subscribing to an affidavit, receive from the director of accounts a duplicate dog check for the remaining portion of the then current year. SECTION 34. [Street musicians.] Street musicians shall pay a license fee of twenty-five ($25) dollars per annum for each instrument used, but no license shall be issued except by consent of the mayor. SECTION 35. [Bill posters.] Bill posters, advertising sign painters and street car advertisers shall pay a license fee of twenty-five ($25) dollars per annum. SECTION 36. [Second-hand articles and junk dealers.] Every dealer in second-hand articles and keepers of junk shops shall pay a license fee of twenty-five ($25) dollars per annum. SECTION 37. [Astrologers, fortune tellers, seers, etc.] Astrologers, fortune tellers, clairvoyants, palmisters, seers, etc., shall pay a license fee of three hundred ($300) dollars per annum. SECTION 38. [Auctioneers.] Auctioneers shall pay a license fee as follows: First-Those whose sales amount to one million ($1,000,000) dollars or over per annum, seven hundred and fifty ($750) dollars per annum. Second-Those whose sales amount to six hundred thousand ($600,000) dollars and less than one million ($1,000,000) dollars per annum, five hundred ($500) dollars per annum. Third-Those whose sales amount to three hundred thousand ($300,000) dollars and less than six hundred thousand ($600,000) dollars per annum, two hundred and fifty ($250) dollars per annum. Fourth-Those whose sales amount to one hundred and fifty thousand ($150,000) dollars and less than three hundred thousand ($300,000) dollars per annum, one hundred ($100) dollars per annum. Fifth-Those whose sales amount to seventy-five thousand ($75,000) dollars and less than one hundred and fifty thousand ($150,000) dollars per annum, fifty ($50) dollars per annum. Sixth-Those whose sales amount to less than seventy-five thousand ($75,000) dollars per annum, twenty-five ($25) dollars per annum. |