96ORDINANCs 10. q 6. ,
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION SIX. OF
ARTICLE XV OF 9RDINANCE NO. 75, AS
AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NO. 84 OF THE
TCWN OF EDGEWATER, FLORIDA SO AS TO
PRESCRIBE THE AMOUNT OF LICENSE TO
BE PAID TO THE TOPJN OF EDGEWATER FOR
ALL TYPES OF BUSINESS CONDUCTED IN OR
OPERATING IN THE TOWN OF EDGEWATER,
FLORIDA, EXCEPTING DEALERS IN A:ILK,
WATER, ICE, NEWSPAPERS, AND AGRICULTURAL
PRODUCE RAISED BY THE SELLER AND SOLD
BY HIM.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN COUP:CIL OR THE TOWN OF EDGEWATER,
FLORIDAi-
Section 1. That Section 6 of Article XV of Ordinance No. 75
as amended by Ordinance No. 84 of the Town of Edgewater, Florida,
be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
Section 6 A^ EVery person, firm, corporation, association, or
co -partnership operating, establishing or maintaining a store or
mercantile establishment, fruit stand, filling station, or other
business, and practicing a profession in the Town of Edgewater,
Florida and any such person, firm, corporation, association or
cc -partnership which individually or through agents or employees
conducts a business in the Town of Edgewater, Florida though
maintaining its store or business place elsewhere, shall pay the
license fee herein prescribed for the privilege of opening,
establishing, operating or maintaining such stores or mercantile
establishments or other business or profession or for the privi-
lege of individually or through agents or employees conducting
business in the Town of Edgewater, Florida. The license fee here-
in provided shall be annually paid and shall be in addition to the
filing fee of twenty-five cents hereinbefore set forth in this
Article.
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The license fees herein prescribed shall be as follows:
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Hawkers of Eedicine $12.50
Ice Cream Carts or :Wagons $ 7.50
Lumber Dealers $ 5.00
iv;edicine Street Venders -$12.50
/ Merchandise Peddlers $12.50
Nurserymen. Non-resident $ 5.00
Oil Dealers $ 2.50
Peddlers of all kinds $12.50
Gypsies, Peddling by $12.50
Soap Peddlers $12.50
Spice Peddlers $12.50
Stores and Soft Drink Stands $ 5.00
Wood Yards $ 2.50
Agents. Bill Posting $ 5.00
Auctioneers $ 5.00
Automobile Garages $ 5.00
Barber Shops $ 5.00
Battery charging and repair when oper-
ated solely as such business $ 2.50
Beauty Shops, and Parlors and Manicuring 85.00
Bill Posting $5.00
Boats for hire up to 5 boats, $ 2.50
Over five boats $ 5.00
Boot and Shoe Repair Shops $ 2.50
Cafes, rtestaurants, seating capacity 12 or les -$2.50
seating capacity over 12----$5.00
Carpet Renovators '5.00
Circulars, Distributing $ 5.00
Collection Agents $ 5.00
Dry Cleaners $ 2.50
Gasoline Stations $ 2.50
Furniture Repair Shops $ 2.50
Laucnhes for Hire $ 5.00
Laundries $ 5.00
Locksmiths $ 2.50
Manicurists operating solely as such -$ 2.50
Sanitariums -$ 5.00
Sign Boards $ 5.00
Public Stenographers $ 2.50
Tinsmiths $ 5.00
Typewriter Repairing $ 5.00
Undertakers $ 5.00
Upholstery Renovators $ 5.00
Well Boring, Digging or Drilling as contractor $ 5.00
Artificial Stone , Cement, Concrete ?;ianufa cturers $ 2.50
Bakeries $ 2.50
Brickyards or Factories $ 2.50
Cement, Concrete or :,rtificial Stone $ 2.50
arufact .rers, Paint $ 2.50
Manufacturers, Sash, Doors, Blinds $ 2.50
Saw Mills -$ 2.50
Upholsterers $ 7.50
Junk Dea'ers $25.00
Pawn Brokers _ -$50.00
Buyers of Old Gold, Silver and Jewelry z';5O.00
Accountants $ 5.00
Architects 5.00
Attorneys $ 5.00
Chiropractors-only when maintaining an
office in Edgewater $ 5.00
Civil Engineers $ 5.00
Dentists $ 5.00
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Doctors, only when maintaining an office
in Edgewater $ 5.00
Electrical Engineers $ 5.00
Engineers. Surveyors $ 5.00
Masseurs $ 2.50
Osteopaths- only when maintaining office in
Edgewater --- $ 5.00
Piano Tuners $ 2.50
Other Professions not herein specifically
listed $ 5.00
Certified Public Accountants -- $ 5.00
Surveyors $ 2.50
Real Estate Brokers $ 5.00
Bui.ding Contractors $ 5.00
Contractigg Painters $ 2.50
Electrical Contractors : 2.50
Contracting Plumbers $ 5.00
Contractors not herein specifically listed $ 5.00
Paperhangers $ 2.50
Roofers $ 5.00
Alleys, Baseball and Bowling $2.50 per
device
Amusement Parks $2.50 per
device
Amusement Parlors $2.50 per
device
Cane Racks - $2.50 per
device
Games and Detices $.2.50 per
device
merry-go-rounds $2.50 per
device
Pool Tables $2.50 per
device
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Apartment Houses, with beds for less than 10 $ 1.25
with beds for over ten $ 2.50
Boarding Houses, with beds for less than ten $ 1.25
with beds for over ten $ 2.50
Lodging Houses, with beds for les than ten $ 1.25
with beds for over ten $ 2.50
Tourist Camps, with beds for less than ten - $ 1.25
with beds for over ten $ 2.50
Clairvoyants $25.00
Fortune Tellers - 4'25011,0
Mental healers $25.00
Palmists $25.00
Dance Halls, Public $50.00
Maintaining or operating Citrus Groves or other
agricultural enterprises for others and pack-
ing, processing or canning agricultural produce
not grown by licensee, excepting non profit
cooperative associations $ 5.00
Plus 500 for each person in excess of 5
persons employed but not to exceed $25.00.
Trading, Bartering, Buying, Renting or Selling
intangible personal property ---$ 5.00
Schools, Colleges or other educational or train-
ing institutions for profit $ 5.00
Bctcept persons giving instruction in their
homes without assistants.
Renting advertising apace in or on any boat, car ,
bus, truck, or other vehicles For each boat, car,
bus, truck, or other vehicle $ .50
Billboares:
$5.00 for every 100 square feet of space, but
not to exceed : 25.00 for space available for
advertising.
Shows of all kinds incluuing circuses, vauaeviiie,
minstrels, theatricals or any exhibition giving
performances under tents or temporary structures
of any kind when the admission charge including
reserved seats is 500 or more , per day $12.50
When the admission charge including reserved seats
is 250 and less than 500 , per day $ 7.50
When the admission charge including reserved seats
is less than 250 per day $ 5.00
Itinerant theatrical shows or travelling plays
or minstrels in buildings $ 7.50
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Section 6 B. Before any person shall sell or be engaged in the
business of selling goods, wares, merchandise , or other personal
property, such sales b: ing advertised as bankrupt, insolvent, in-
surance, assignee , trustee, testator, executor, administrator,
receiver, auction, syndicate , railroad or other wreck,wholesale
or manufacturer's or closing out sale , or as goods damaged by
smoke, fire , water, or otherwise , such person shall pay a license
tax of One Hundred and Twenty-Five Dollars; but the provisions
hereof shall not apply to bona fide sales of general assignees
for the benefit of creditors or bona fide trustees selling under
power of sale in any deed of trust or mortgage or lien, executors
and administrators selling goods of their decedents, or to any
officer selling the 'property under legal process , or to regularly
licensed auctioneers, selling bona fide at lcubiic outcry in the
usual course of their business , or bona fide merchants in selling
or disposing of stocks of merchandise who were the original owners
of said stocks of merchandise, and license having been already
paid by the merchant prior to the bankruptcy proceedings. The
license required by this section shall not be trnasferable . The
use of any of the descriptive words or phrases referred to in this
section. as a part of a trade or firm name shall be construed to
require the obtaining of the license herein provided for.
Section 6 C. Each person who shall travel from place to place
purchasing junk, shall pay a license tax of Five Dollars and he
shall, before leaving, submit to the "arshal a list of the junk
he has purchased, together with the name of the person from whom
purchased, together with his permanent address.
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Section 6 D. Every person engaged in the operation of any
business of such nature that no license san be properly re-
quired of it under any other provision of this Ordinance ,
shall pay a license tax of Ten Dollars; providddi that no
license shall be required for the growing or producing of
agricultural and horticultural products.
Section 6 E. None of the provisions of this Section shall
apply to salesmen or dealers selling } ilk, Water, Ice, News-
papers or agricultural produce raised by the seller at retail
in the Town of Edgewater, and no license shall be imposed upon
any person, firm or corporation engaged in any of said businesses,
in the capacities herein designated.
This Ordinance was read a first time in full and passed by the
unanimous vote of the Town Council of the Town of Edgewater,
Florida, at a regular meeting of said Town Council, on the 1st
day of April, 1941.
Upon motion duly made , seconded and unanimously carried, the
requirement of reading this `-rdinance upon second reading was
waived and this ordinance was ordered put upon its final passage
at a regular meeting of the Town Council of the Town of Edgewater,
held the 1st day of April, A. D. 1941. Said Or Eance was passed
at said regular meeting upon its final passage with the unani-
mous vote of the Town Council of the Town of Edgewater, Florida,
and approved as provided by law this 1st day of April, 1041,
the vote of the Council being as follows:
Mayor-Councilman
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Coun ilman
Councilman
AT-EST:
Town Clerk
Approved this day of 2 A.D. 1941.
Mayor.