0205 (Insurance Agent Licenses)ORDINANCE NO. c, °S_
AN ORDIT4ANCE IMPOSING LICENSES ON ALL INSURANCE COMPANIES
OR AGENTS OF SAIr COMPANIES DOING BUSI?:E `3 OR .:AINTAINING
AN AGENCY IN THE CITY OF OKEECHOBE'°:, FLORIDA., PROVIDING
FOR THE ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTION OF SAID LICENSES AND PREg
SCRIBING PENALTIES FOR DOING BUSINESS WITHOUT FIRST OBTAINING
A LICENSE OR OF FAILURE TO COMPLY '; iTH THE PROVIBIONS OF THIS
ORDINANCE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE ,AY OR AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA:
Section 1. No 'person, firm or corporation shall
enFege in, manage or operate any insurance, agency or write
insurance within the corporate limits of the Citr of Okee-
chobee until such company or agent shall have procured from
the Tex Collector of the C ty of Okeechobee a license authorizing
such person or persons, firm or cornor-tion to carry on the
business of insurance within the said City of Okeechobee.
Section 2. All licenses stall be payable. on or before
the first day of January of each year, and no license shall be
issued for any fractional portion of s year except tb t any
Person annlying for a license after= the first day of July to
expire the followirg January first shall be entitled to obtain
a license upon payment of one -half of the amount fixed es the
price of such license for one year.
Section 3. All licenses may be transferred with the
approval of the City Clerk when there is a bona fide sale
and transfer of the agency but such transferred license shell
not be good for any longer time or for any other place then
that for which it was originally issue''.
Section 4. Each insurance company or a.p.ent of any
insurance company engaged in the business of insurance wit} in
the corporate limits of the City of Okeec obee shi ^11 pay a
license tax of 810.00 per annum.
Section 5. Any person or , -)ersons dealing in in-
surance within the said City of Okeechobee without first
obtaining a. license for each company represented shall be
deemed guilty of the violation of this ordinance and upon
conviction shall be punished by fine not to exceed 450.00
or by imprisonment not to exceed 30 days or both such fine
and imprisonment in the discretion of the Mayor.
Section 6. All ordinances or parts of ordinances,
in conflict herewithbe, and the same are hereby repealed.
Section 7. This ordinance shall take effect immediately
upon its passage by the City Council and approval by the Mayor
or upon its becoming a law without such approval.
CITY OF OKEFCHOBEE, FLORIDA
9 i
BY '
resident C ity ounci�
The foregoing ordinance having been unanimously
passed and adopted by the City Council, is hereby approved,
this J sx day of December, A. D. 1941.
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