Live Oak daily Democrat. (Live Oak, Fla.) 190?-190?, 1907-10-12
ORDINANCE NO. 65.

Payment Thereof, and Prescribing
Penalties for Doing Business With
ont "a License, or Other Failure to
Comply With the Provisions There
of.
Ee il ordained by the Mayor and
CITY Council of the City of Live Oak,
Florida:
section l. That no person, firm or
corpOration shall engage in, manage
or conduct any business, profession
Or occupation mentioned in this
Ordinance within the City of Live
Oak. Florida. unless a City License
,IaU have been first procured from
10 Tax Collector of the city, which
lid license shall be issued To each
prr ON. firm or corporation on receipt
Of the amount hereinafter provided.
together with the City Clerks fee of
twenty-five cents for every license
issued by him. and said license shall
ne signed by the Tax Collector and
Mayor. and shall have the seal of the
City of Live Oak thereon. Every
word importing the singular number
only, may extend to and embrace the
plural number. and every word i'm
porting the plural number may be
applied and limited to the singular
number. and every w1rd importing
The masculine gender only may be eX-
tended and applied to females as
well as males. Whenever the word
oath" is used in this Ordinance, 1t
may be held t. mean affirmation,
and the word swear shall be held
to- include affirm.
Sec = No license shall be issued
for more than one year, and all
10 G~t.t Agf-
Of October of each year. but fraction
al license, except as hereinafter pro-
vided. may be issued to expire on that
dag at "a propoFtioBaie rate. All
licenses may be transferred, with the
approval of the Mayor, with the bust
ness FIR which they were taken out.
when there is a bona fide sale and
transfer of the property issued and
employed in the business as stock in
trade; but such transferred license
shall be held to be good only for the
length of time for which it was
originally taken out; provided, that
the original license shall be Surrend-
cred to and filed with the City Clerk
At the time application for transfer
is made, and such transfer after be-
ing approved shall be of the same
force and effect as the original
license
Sec. 3. All licenses shall be pay
able on or before the first day OF
October of each year, and no license
shall be issued for any fractional por-
ton of year, except that any license
not otherwise specified in this Ordin-
ance, may be issued after the first
day OF April to expire October first
upon payment of One-half the amount
fixed as the price of such license for
one year.
Sec. f. That the following
enumerated individual license taxes
shall be paid to the City of Live Oak
by the persons engaged in, managing
or transacting the several occupa-
tons, businesses or professions
named, to-wit:
Schedule a"
AuctiOneers. five dollars C$5);
each individual conducting the bust
ness of abstracting titles, seven dol
lars and fifty cents ($7.50); agents
or agencies for the purpose of solicit
ing orders for or making sales, ex
changes or deliveries of. or perform
ing any other service relating to OF
connected with any of the persons
articles, commodities or transaction!
named below, tO-wit:
Agents for bicycles, five $50 dol
lars; agents for typewriters, five
(S5) dollars; agents for building anC
loan associations. local. five (S5I
dollars: agents for building and LOAF
associations. foreign, one hundred
(S10O) dollars; agents for clalm
and collections, not taxed as banker
or lawyers, five $50 dollars; agent
for cIothiers or dealers, not taxed a
merchants. five $50 dollars; agent
for monuments and tomb-St"neS
local. two dollars and fifty cent
(s2.50); agents for monuments an
tomb-stones, travelling, seven dollar
and fifty cents (S7.5O); each agen
or member of agencies for real estate
including renting and rent collecting
i've (S5) dollars; agents for safes, 10
sale or exchange, twelve dollars an
fifty cents i312.50); agents for sew
ing machines. five ($5) dollars
agents for steamships or steamboat
twelve dollars and fifty cent
(S125O); agents for sailing vessels
five (S5) dollars; analytical chemist:
five (S5) dollars; persons. firms
corporations operating amusemen
parks. with merry gO-rounds. role
coasters, and other amusement place
and devices usually found therein
twenty-five (S25) dollars ;architect'
i've $50 dollars: brokers dealing /
bonds and stock, twelve dollars an
fifty cents (s12.50; brokers dea
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