Arizona republican., 1898-02-14
ORDINANCE NO. 267.

An Ordinance Providing for the Li-
 censing of Hotels, Inns, Lodg 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 Ecensa tax that shall be charged to and collec ed from the keepers of any inn, hotel, lodging house and tavern, he hote4s, inns, taverns and lodging houses shall be and are hereby classified as fol- lows, that is to say:
 An inn, hotel. lodging house CT tav- ern of the first class shall be one. hay ing for the use of lodgers or gusts 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 UT 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 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, lodgi- g house or tavern ten Q0) dollars per quarter.
 For second class inn, hotel, lodeing house or tavern, seven and fiji y- hundredths G.50) dollars per quarter. For a third class inn, hotel, lodg g house or tavern, five (5) dollars Der quarter.
 Section g. The proprietors and managers of every restaurant, eating house, chop house, dining room or other place serving meals to the publ c shall pay a quarterly license tax of ten (1O) 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 a1d operated in connection with any inn, hotel, lodging house or tavern, then the 1i- 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 cf 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 heretofore, by other ordinances, pro vided for the payment of retail liquor 1 dealers license tax, but the same shall 1 be in addition to the other license taxes provided for in this ordinance. 1 Sec. B. 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- I tionate part of such license tax fo1 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 o1 April, 1898, shall be collected anG payable.
 Sec. 6. Any person, persons, firms corporations or associations who shal euSdSe, "4tHlH Sdlu City or PnOenlX
 in any of the businesses or ooeupa-
 tions herednbefore described, withou
 first having paid the license ta1
 above provided, shall upon convicti01
 thereof, at the suit of said city, bt tined in any sum not less than the li
 cenSe' tax then due and all the cost: of such suit and not more than three
 hundred dollars or be imprisoned il the city iai1 for neriod of mt mort
 than three hundred days Sec. 2. This ordinance to take eff feet and be in force from and afte it's passage and publication according to law.
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