Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-01-07
ORDINANCE No. ISL.
An Ordinance Providing for . Bud-
ness License Tax.

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the City Of Abilene, Kansas:
Sectionl. That 1t shall be unlawful for
any person or persons, firm or corporation to
transact, engage In or pursue any business
or vocation or to do any act to make any ex-
hibition hereinafter named described or
specified, In the said City Of Abilene, Kansas,
without having paid such sums and obtained
license so to do, as hereinafter provided or
| required.
Section z. That u semi-annual license tax Is
hereby levied and shall be charged and col
lected for every license granted for every
business, occupation or object hereinafter
named or specified, as follows:
section3 All telephone companies twelve
dollars and fifty cents tsls5O)
Section L. All transient and nonresident
auctioneers, ten dollars $4,000,
Section s. All bowling and ten-pin alleys.
irrespective OF the number Of pins, pistol and
shooting galleries, merry-go-rounds and
skating Kinks, ten dollars $1,000
Section 0, All opera houses, the sum OF
twelve dollars and fifty cents (s12.5O); and all
public halls, the sum of six dollars and
twenty-five cents $685.
Section I. All fire and life insurance COM
panies, loan companies and building assOcia-
lions, the sum Of two dollars and fifty cents
H2tO.
Section s, A license tax of twenty-five dol
lars a25OW Is hereby levied and shall DO
charged and collected for each circus or me-
nagerle parade within the city limits: Pro-
vlded, however, that when any circus or me-
nagerio shall take out Il license to exhibit
within the city, no additional license shall BIO
charged for parade,
Section 0. A license tax OF three dollars
$500 per day is hereby levied upon street
peddlers, hawkers fakirs and all itinerant
and transient dealers by RETAIL except by
auction, and upon all transient shooting gal
lerles; Providing, that this section shall not
BIO construed to apply to persons peddling or
selling books, maps, pictures or any other
literary work, or farm products grown or
raised by himself.
Section 10. That license tax OF ten dol
lars $4,000 per day Is hereby levied upon
aucti0neers offering ut public vendue any
stock or assortment Of merchandise Of any
kind, or my person dIsposlng OF any bank
rupt stock OF clothing or merchandise Of any
description, within this city, whether at re-
tail or by auction, public sale or otherwise.
brought to this city, or offered to BIO sold or
disposed of thereat, by any corporation or
person. Provided, this section shall not apply
to merchants residing in the city, who shall
have been engaged In business In the city for
six months or MORE
Section II, That license tax per day 10
hereby levied upon all shows, theatres con-
certs and other exhibitions and entertain
mcnts, excepting clrcuses or menageres ex-
hlbted or given In the city for pay, as fol-
lows; Five dollars $500 for the first day or
night; two dollars and fifty cents R25N for
this section shall not apply to public exhlbi-
billions or other entertainments given exclu-
siycly by citizens Of Abilene nor TO literary,
scientific or charitable entertainments Of
any kind whether given by the citizens of
Abilene or not
Section II, That license tax OF twenty
five dollars (s25.OO) per day is hereby levied
upon each and every circus and menagerle
exhibited for pay, but when circus and
menagcrIe shall be combined under one
management one license only will DO re-
quIred for both
Section H. That u license tax Of three dol
lars $500 per day Is hereby levied upon all
transient corn doctors, eur doctors and eye
doctors.
Section II, That license tax of two dol
lars and fifty cents $3.50 per day Is hereby
levied upon oil lung and muscle testers, de-
velopers, monographs and batteries.
Section 10, All persons, firms or corpora
Iions, professions or businesses aforesaid, or
50 to engage, shall, on or before
so to engage, apply to the city
clerk for n license therefor and the appl-
can't shall pay to the treasurer the amount
required for the license wanted and there
upon the treasurer shall give him n receipt
therefor, designating therein for what pur-
pose the same was paid and for what TING
lhe license Is 10 run; such receipt shall then
DO delivered 10 the city clerk who, upon pay
ncnt Of n fee Of twenty-five cents, shall Is
sue aud deliver TO such person n license for
he purpose and for such time as are desig-
iated In said receipt, but such license shall
not be In full force and effect until signed by
he mayor and clerk, cOunterslgned by the
treasurer and the corporate seal of the city
Iflxed thereto.
Section 49, All seml-annual licenses shall
Drc on the last day of June and the last
lay OF December after the same are issued
10 license shall be issued until the amount
rescribcd therefor shall be paid and no II
ense shall In any case be assigned or trans
erred.
Section II, Whoever shall violate or neglect
r refuse TO conform TO or observe the
rovlslons Of this ordinance, or any part
hereof by carrying ON or engaging In any
usIness, occupation or profession named in
his ordinance without first having taken
at license, shall be deemed guilty ofa
llsdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof,
hall be fined In a sum not to exceed one
undred dollars 900 and the costs Of prose-
ntlon
Section 49, An ordinance entitled IAN
rdlnance fora Business License Tax, pass
! by this council December Z 1884, and ap-
roved by the mayor December 10, 1894, and
i ordinances and parts OF ordinances In
,nnct herewith are hereby repealed.
Section 10. This ordinance shall take eff
cL and be In fOrce from and nfler lis nnhli-