HomeMy WebLinkAbout1906 Amending Ordinance 1553 - Business Licenses OROIN CE NO.
O OIN CE S CT ON OF OR, IN.CE
NO. 1553
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ~ORT TOWNSEND, IN REGULAR SESSION
ASSF~BLED, DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 10 of Ordinance No. 1553'is here and hereby
amended to read as follows:
"On and after the first day of January, 1982, no' persons,
whether subject to the payment of a tax or not, shall engage
in any business or activity in Port Townsend, a municipal
corporation, for which a license fee or tax is imposed by this
ordinance without having first obtained and being the holder of
a valid and subsisting license so to do, to be known as a
"Business License" issued under the provisions of this ordinance
as hereinafter provided, and without paying the license fee
or tax imposed by this ordinance. The fee or tax for the
"Business License"Shall be the license fee or tax imposed by
this ordinance, and in addition the sum of ~ dollars, as
a license fee which shall accompany the application for the
license. Application for the license shall be made to and
issued by the Clerk-Treasurer on forms provided by him.
The license shall be personal and nontransferable. In case
business is transacted at two or more seoarate places by one
taxpayer, a separate license for each place at which business
is transacted with the public shall be required but for such
additional licenses no additional fee shall be required. Each
license shall-be numbered, shall show the name, place and
character of business of the taxpayer~ such other information
as the Clerk-Treasurer shall deem necessary, and shall at all
times be conspicuously posted in the place of business for which
it is issued. Where a place of business of the taxpayer is
changed, the taxpayer shall return to the Clerk-Treasurer the
license and new license shall be issued for the new place of
business free of charge.
No person to whom a license has been issued pursuant to this
chapter shall suffer or allow any other person for whom a
separate license is required to operate under or. display ~is
license; nor shall such other person operate under or display
such license".
Section 2. This ordinance shall take effect upon its
passage, approval and publication in the form and manner provided
by law.
Read for the first, second, and third times, passed by the
Council and approved by the Mayor on Dece~er 15, 1981.
ATTEST:
City Clerk Treasurer
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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