0127 (Requiring License or Street Tax)ORDINANCE NO. ifir2
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AN ORDINANCE REQ,LJIRING LICENSE OR STREET
TAX IN CERTAIN CASES IN THE CITY OF OKEE-
CHOBEE, FLORIDA: MAKING IT A VIOLLI ION OF
THIS ORDINANCE TO OPERATE ON THE STRETS OF
SAID CITY WITHOUT HAVING PROCURED SUCH
LICENSE AND PROVIDING PENALTY FOR THE VIOL
ATION THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA.
Section 1. Any person, persons, firm, firms, association or
corporation selling any goods, wares or merohandise for human
use or comsumpt ion within the corporate limits of the City of
Okeechobee, Florida, when and where such goods, wares or mer-
chandise are retailed or wholesaled from conveyances which use
the streets of said City for delivery to the retailer or the
consumer of such goods, wares, merchandise or other articles
for human use or consumption, which said person, persons, firm,
firms, associations or corporations do not have regularly es-
tablished and licensed places of business within the corporate
limits of the City of Okeechobee, Florida, be and tne same are
hereby required to pay a license fee and /or street tax in the
sun of Ten ( : 10.00 ) dollars per annum.
The license and/or street tax herein provided for shall
be due end payable on the first day of January of each and
every year, and no part year or proportionatet 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 tne current year ; to -wit 1930, tne license provided for herein
may be paid in lieu of that amount provided for in Ordinance number
one hundred twenty of the Ordinances of the City of Okeechobee,
Florida.
Section 2. Any person, persons, firm, firms, association or
corporation operating and selling any such goods, wares or mer-
chandise 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 viola-
tion of this ordinance and, upon convictinn thereof, shall be
subject to a fine of not exceeding One Hundred ( 0 100.00) dollars,
or imprisonment in the City jail for not exceeding sixty days,
or by both such fine and imprisonment in the descretion of the
Ma y or .
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 consent passed
to a second reading.
Read a second time and by unanimous consent passed to a third
and final reading.
Read a third time and passed in open, regular session of the
City Council this 1st day of April, A. D. 1930.
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( Corporate seal )
Approved by e - this 1st --d.ay of April, A. D. 14
1930.
Mayor.