Live Oak daily Democrat. (Live Oak, Fla.) 190?-190?, 1907-10-04
ORDINANCE NO. az.

PenaItIeS Tor DO1nS BUSINESS VIM
out q License, or Other Failure to
Comply With the Provisions There
OF.
Be it 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
shall have been first procured from
the Tax Collector of the city, which
said license shall be issued to each
person. 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
be 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 word importing
the masculine gender only may be ex-
tended and applied to females as
we'll as males. Whenever the word
oath" is used in this Ordinance. it
may he held to mean affirmation,
and the word swear" shall be held
to include affirm.
Sec. 2 No license shall be issued
for more than one year, and all
licenses shall expire on the first day
of October of each year, but fraction
al license, except as hereinafter pro-
vided, may be issued to expire on that
day at prOpOrtiOnate rate. All
licenses may be transferred. with the
approval of the Mayor, with the bust
ness for 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 il 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 a 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. 4. 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 $50;
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 or
connected with any of the persons,
articles, commodities or transactions
named below, tO-wit:
Agents for bicycles, five $50 dol
lars; agents for typewriters, five
($5) dollars; agents for building and
loan associations, local, five $50
dollars; agents for building and loan
associations. foreign, one hundred
tsl00) dollars; agents for claims
and collections, not taxed as bankers
or lawyers, five (S5( dollars; agents
for clothiers or dealers, not taxed as
merchants, five (S5) dollars; agents
for monuments and tomb-StoneS.
local. two dollars and fifty cents
tS2.50); agents for monuments and
tomb-stones, travelling. seven dollars
and fifty cents (S7.50); each agent
or member of agencies for real estate,
Including renting and rent collecting
five { So dollars; agents for safes, for
sale OF exchange, twelve dollars and
fifty cents ($12-50); agents for sew
ing machines. five ($5) dollars;
agents for steamships OF steamboats,,
twelve dollars and fifty cents
tl2.50l; agents for sailing vessels,
Ave (s5) dollars; analytical chemists.
i've (S5) dollars; persons, firms or
corporations operating amusement
parks, with merry-go-rounds, roller
coasters. and other amusement places
and devices usually found therein.
twenty-five $3.50 dollars architects.
i've (S5) dollars: brokers dealing IN
bonds and stock. twelve dollars and
fifty cents C$12.5O); brokers deal
ing In futures, fifty (s50) dollars;
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