0120 (License o TStreet Tax )ORDINANCE NO. /D
AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING LICENSE OR STREET
TAX IN CERTAIN CASES IN THE CITY OF OKEE-
CHOBEE, FLORIDA; MAKING IT A VIOLATION OF
THIS ORDINANCE TO OPERATE ON THE STREETS
OF SAID CITY WITHOUT HAVING PROCURED SUCH
LICENSE AND PROVIDING PENALTY FOR THE VIO-
LATION THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA.
Section 1. Any person, persons, firm, firms, associa-
tion or corporation selling any goods, wares or merchandise
for human use or consumption within the corporate limits of
the City of Okeechobee, Florida, when and where such goods,
wares or merchandise are retailed or wholesaled from con -
veyances which use the streets of said city for delivery to
the retailer or the consumer of such goods, wares, merchan-
dise or other articles for human use or consumption, which
said person, persons, firm, firms, associations or corpora-
tions do not have regularly established and licensed places
of business within the corporate limits of the City of Okee-
chobee, Florida, be and the same are hereby required to pay
a license fee and /or street tax in the sum of $2,101
per annum.
The license or street tax herein provided for shall be
due and payable on the first day of January of each and every
wear and no part year or proportionate license or tax can be
paid or accepted, except that after the first day of July of
each and every year one -half of the amount provided for in
the preceding paragraph of this section may be paid and ac-
cepted for the remainder of such year, and further provided
that for the current year, to-wit: 1927, one -half of such
amount provided in Section One (1) of this Ordinance shall
be collected and paid.
Section 2. Any person, persons, firm, firms, associa-
tion or corporation operating and selling any such goods,
wares or merchandise as and in the manner set out in Section
One of this Ordinance without having first procured and paid
the license or street tax hereinbefore provided for, shall
be guilty of a violation of this Ordinance and, upon convic-
tion thereof, shall be subject to a fine of not exceeding
One Hundred ($100.00) or imprisonment in the City Jail for
not exceeding sixty days, or by both such fine and imprison-
ment in the discretion of the Mayor.
Section 3. This Ordinance shall take effect immediately
upon its passage and approval by the Mayor.
Read a first time in open, regular session of the City
Council of the City of Okeechobee, Florida, and by unanimous
vote passed to a second reading.
Read a second time and by unanimous vote passed to a
third and final reading.
Read a third time and passed in open, regular session of
the City Council this 6th day of September, A. D. 1927.
(Corporate Seal)
President of City Council.
Approved by me thi_ ' day of
September, A. 1 92 .
Mayor.