Arizona republican., 1898-02-13
ORDINANCE NO. 267.

An Ordinance Providing for. the E-
 censing of Hotels, Inns, Iodg ng
 Houses, Taverns, Dining Rooms and
 Restaurants.
 Tie Common Council of the City of Phoenix do ordain as follows:
 Section 1. For the purpose of de termining .he amount of license tax that shall be charged to and collec ed from the keepers of any inn, hotel, lodging house and tavern, he 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 .av- ern of the first class shall be ohe. hay ing for the use of dodgers or guests 20 or more rooms.
 An inn, hotel. lodging house CT tav- ern of the second class shall be one, having for the use of lodgers or guests not less than fifteen nor more than 19 rooms.
 An inn, hotel. lodging house or tav- ern of the third class shall be one having for the use of lodgers or gues 8 teen rooms.
 Sec. 2. Each keeper of any hotel, inn, lodging house or tavern in the I license tax as follows:
 For a first class inn, hotel, lodgir g house or tavern ten Q0) dollars per quarter.
 For a second class inn, hotel, lodging hundredths (7.5W dollars per quarter. For a third class inn, hotel, lodg ng house or tavern, five (5) dollars per quarter.
 Section 3. The proprietors and managers of every restaurant, eating house, chop house, dining room or other place serving meals to 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 and operated in connection with any inn, hotel, lodging house or tavern, then the li- cense tax in this section 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 a 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 l heretofore, by other ordinances, pro- vided for the payment of re;ail liquor 1 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- year hereafter.
 Provided, however that a propor- tionate part of such license tax fol 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 3Ott
 day of April, 1898, bears to the whole
 of the quarter ending on said 3Oth ot April. 1898, shall be collected ani payable.
 Sec. 6. Any person, persons, firms
 corporations or associations who shal
 engage, within said City of Phoenix
 in any of the businesses or occupa
 tions hereinbefore described, withou first having paid the license ta,
 above provided. shall upon convictic1 thereof, at the suit of said city, b' , fined in any sum not less than the Ii cense tax then due and all the cost!
 Of such suit and not more than thre'
 hundred dollars or be imprisoned il
 the city jail for a period of not nor than three hundred days 1, Sec. z. This ordinance to take ef feet and be in force from and afte
 it's passage and publication accordlni
 to law
 II Passed by the Common Council thl