0074 (Imposing Licenses and Taxes)r
ORDINANCE NO 74
AN OR UI NJ N CE IMPOE' I NG LI CEN 3 .LS AN .D OTHER TAXES PROVIDING
FOR TH E P ACkENT THEREOF .eN D PRES CRI SING Ps NALTI IS FOR IX IN G
BIB INESS 7.7ITF OUT LISCENSE OR OTHER FAILURE TO COMPLY `.' TH
TEE{ E PROVISIONS THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED by 'the City Council of the City of
Okee chobee, Florida;
Section 1.- No person, firm or corporation shall engage
in or' rcgnage any business, profession or occupaton mentioned
in this ordinance within the corporate limits of the City of
Okeechobee, Florida, unless a City Liqfcense shall have been
pit) cured from tine Tax Collector of said City and attested in
the name of' the City Clerk and the corporate seal of said City
'impressed thereon by the City Clerk , Whose fee for attes_t.in,g
and placing the seal thereon shall be twenty -five cents, paid
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by the person or persons, firm or corporation takini out said
license.
Section 11.h11 licenses shall be payable on or before
the first t-iay of January of each year, (except tie year of
the passage of this ordinance, to wit A. D 1924, when they
shall be payable on or before- the thirtieth day of January
of said year) and. no license small be issued _'"_or any fractional
portion of a year except as otherwise provided in this ordinance
nd - except that any license net otherwise Specified may be
issued after the first day of July to expire January first
upon payment of one -half of ; alount fixed as a price of
such license for one year.
3)ection 111. All lid censer may be transferred with the
approval ofthe City Clerk, with business for which thy were
taro out when 'there is a bona -fire sale and transfer of the
Property used and employed. in the business as stock in
trade but such transferred license shall mot be good for
any longer time or for any other place than that for
which it was originally issued..
Section IV. The payments of a license under this
ordinance shall not legalize gambling or the sale of
litoxicating
Section V. The fee for licenses to conduct a hotel
or rooming house in this. City shall be:
For hotels or rooming houses containing five rooms
ani less than ten rooms ,'1; 1.00; for hotels or rooiing
houses co ntaining ten rooms and less than twenty rooms,
2.00; for hotels or rooming houses containing twenty
rooms and. less than thirty rooms 3.00; for hotols
and rooming houses containing thirty rooms and less
1);
than forty rooms 3.75; for hotels or rooming houses
containing forty rooms and Jess than fifty rooms ) 5.00;
1! for hotels or rooming houses containing fifty rooms and.
or rooming houses
I, less than sixty rooms :.1) 6.25; for hotelscontaining
1; sixty rooms tnd less than seventy-five rooms 7.50;
for hotels or rooming houses containing seventy five rooms
and less than one hundred. rooms 10.00; for hotels ard
rooming houses containing one hundred rooms and less than
11 one hundred and fifty rooms: 12.50; for hotels and
or rooming houses
rooming houses/containing one hundred. and fifty rooms and
less than two hundred. and fifty rooms 15.00; for hotels
or rooming houses containing two hundred and fifty rooms
and leas than three hundred rooms 0 17.50; for hotels
or rooming houses containing three hub.dred zoo= or more
•ri; 25.00.
Restaurant or lunch counter, The license fee for •
11 conducting a restaurant # or lunch counter in this City
shall be:
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For restaurants having acoomodations for less than
tieent y persons, 1.00; for restaurants having accomodations
for twenty persons and less than fif ty persons 2.50; and
for restaurants having acco i odati ons for more than fifty
persons ' 3.75.
Boarding Hoes ea, lodging hous es and hotels
three
Having aceomodations for AN hundred and here lodgers
or boarders shall pay a license tax of ' 100.00
Having aceomodations for two hundrr d and less than
three hundred lodgers or boarders shall pay a license tax of
56.00.
Having accomodations for one hundre d and less two hundred
boarders or lodgers, shall pay a license tax of 5 0.00.
Laving accornodations for for seventy -five and less than
one hundred lodgers or boarders, shall pay a license tax of
25.00.
Having aceomodations for fifty and less than seventy
five lodgers or boarders, shall pay a license tax of 12.50.
Having ac corno dat ion s for twenty -dive and less than fifty
baorders or lodgers, shall pay a license tax of? 7.50.
Having acco:nodatiors for fifteen and less than twenty -
five lodgers or boarders, shall pay a license tax of 5.00.
Having aceomodations for tern and less fifteen lodgers
or boarders, shall pay a license tax of 2.50.
Accomodatiens for lodgers or boarders shall consist
of and mean the number of' beds habitually kept for such lodgers
or boarders and not the number of rooms in the Mouse . Provided
that widows owning property valued at five thousand dollars
or less shall not be required to pay a license tax for conduc-
ting a boarding house.
Bottling Plants, Owners or :Tanagers of every bottling
plant, bottling soft drinks or beverages of any character what
ever, which said plant operates a machine for filling, capping,
co rking or sealing bottles of any style or character shall
pay annually a license tax of r4 . 104401/jot i -4 t2,
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of $ 5.00 for each of such machin_ s having one filling head;
and t 7.50 for each of such machines have two filling heads;
and ten dollars for each of such illa.chines having
three filling heads, and five dollars for each additional
filling head on, such machines as may have more than three
filling heads.
Wood Yards, each person owning or operating a wood yard
shall pay a license tax of ; 2.50.
Gasoline dealers, Gasoline dealers, wholesale, shall
pay a license tax of $ 5.00.
Packing Houses, each person owning or operating a p aokii
house of any kind shall pay a license tax of 5.00.
Doctors, Every physician, Chiropnactor or Osteopath,
engaged in the practise of his profession in t1n City of
Okeechobee shall pay a license tax of 5.00.
Plumbing Contractors, all plumbing contractors shall
pay a license tax of $ 10.00.
Filling Stations, every person owning or operating
a gasoline or oil filling station, not paying a license as
a garage shall pay a license tax of : , 5.00.
Vulcanizing Shtps , every person owning or operating
a vulcanizing shop, not paying a license as a garage or
filling station shall pay a license tax of ; 2.50
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Section VI . Any firm, pe rson, association or corporation
that carries on, conducts or manages or acts as business
agent for any business or profession for which a license is
required, without first obtaining such license shall be
ppnished by a fine hot less than double the amount required
try such license and not more ti an five hundred dollars, or
by iripris onment not more than sixty days, or both. The
payment of all license taxes may be enforced by a seizure and
sale of the property by the Tax Collector of said City, it is
hereby made the duty of the Tax Collector and Clerk of said
City to report to the Mayor all persons, firms or corporations
doing business within said City without first paying a license
lax as required by this ordinance, and it shall be the duty
of the Tviayor to have the parties failing or refusing _ to pay
such license tax to be brought before him to be dealt with
in accordance with this ordinance.
Section VII. This ordinance shall be taken in connection
with, and enforced in accordance with Ordinance number four,
and shall be supplementary thereto, and all portions #1 # **
of Section number five of Ordinance number four in conflict
wi th this ordinance are hereby repealed..
Section VIII. This ordinance shall be in full force and
effect imrre diately upon its passage and approval by the mayor.
Read a first and a second time and passed in open session
ttial a third reading this ���'- day of
A. D. 1924.
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Pres sent of Counci
Approved by me this 2 5 ti day of
A. D. 1924.