Arizona republican., 1898-02-05
ORDINANCE NO. 267.

 An Ordinance Providing for the Li-
 censing of Hotels, Inns, Lodging
 Houses, Taverns, Dining Rooms and
 Restaurants.
 The Common Council of the City of Phoenix do ordain as follows:
 Section 1. For the purpose of de termining the amount of Ecens3 tax that shall be charged to and collec ed from the keepers of any inn, hotel, lodging house and tavern, the hotels, inns, taverns and lodging houses shall be and are hereby classified as fol- lows, that is to say:
 An inn, hotel, lodging house or tav- ern of the first class shall be one, hay ing for the use of dodgers or guests 20 or more rooms.
 An inn, hctel, lodging house CT tav- ern of the second class shall be one, having for the use of lodgers or guests not less than if cen nor more than 19 roIoms.
 An inn, hotel, lodging house CT tav- ern of the third class shall be One having for the use of lodgers or gues 8 not less than ten nor more than four teen rooms.
 Sec. 2. Each keeper of any hotel inn, lodging house or tavern in the city of Phoenix shall pay a quarterly license tax as follows:
 For a first class inn, hotel, lodgi5 g house or tavern ten QO dollars per quarter.
 For second class inn, hotel, lodging house or tavern, seven and fiji. " hundredths 0.5OD dollars per quarter. For a third class inn, hotel, lodg ng house or tavern, five (5) dollars per quarter.
 Section 8. The proprietors and mana gers of every restaurant, eating house, chop house, dining room or other place serving meals 10 the public shall pay a quarterly license tax of ten Q0) dollars.
 Such quarterly license tax shall be paid whether such restaurant, eating house, chop house, dining room or other place serving meals to the pub lie, be operated in connection with any inn. hotel, lodging house or tav- ern or not. If it be run aId operated in connection with any inn, hotel, lodging house or tavern, then the li- cense tax in this sec,ion provided for shall be in addition to that for such inn, hotel lodging house or tavern, as provided for in the second section of this ordinance.
 Sec. 4. Nothing in this ordinance shall be construed to exempt any keeper of bar or saloon in connec- tion with any inn, hotel, lodging house or tavern or dining room or restau- rant as above described, from the pay ment of the license tax therefor as heretofore, by other ordina nces, pro- vided for the payment of ,ail liquor dealers license tax, but the same shall be in addition to the other license taxes provided for in this ordinance
 Sec. 5. The license taxes herein provided for shall be payable for the quarters then next ensuing in ad- vance on the first day of May, Au- gust, November and February of each year hereafter.
 Provided, however, that a propor- tionate part of such license tax for the quarter ending April 30, 1898, equal to the proportion that the time that shall elapse after this ordinar ce shall have taken effect and said 3Oth day of April, 1898, bears to the whole of the quarter ending on said 3Oth of April, 1898, shall be collected and payable.
 Sec. 6. Any person, persons, firms corporations or associations who shall | engage, within said City of Phoenix, i in any of the businesses or occupa- l tions hereinbefore described, without 1 first having paid the license tax i above provided, shall upon conviction ] thereof, at the suit of said city, be i fined in any sum not less than the 1i- cense tax then due and all the costs of such suit and not more than three hundred dollars or be imprisoned in i the city jail for a period of not more than three hundred days. i Sec. z. This ordinance to take ef- i feet and be in force from and afte, it's passage and publication according to law.
 Passed by the Common Council this 1st day of February, A. D., 1898.
 Approved this 1st day of February A. D., 1898. F. B. MOSS,
 Attest: Acting Mayor.
 T. A. JOBS, City Recorder.
 First published in The Arizona Re publican, official ely paper, February 5 1898