Arizona republican., 1914-09-26
LEGAL NOTICE
ORDINANCE NO. 23

'Nh'AN<AANNE 4NO.
 AN ORDINANCE FOR LICENS- ING THE CARRYING ON OF GER TAIN PROFESSIONS, TRADES. CHALLENGES, BUSINESSES AND OC- CUPATIONS CARRIED ON WITH IN THE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF PHOENIX.
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE, COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF PHOENIX, as follows:
 Sec. l. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, whether as member or members, agent or agents, clerk or clerks, employe or employees. either for themselves or for any other person or persons. firms, associations or bodies corpor- ate, or otherwise, or as officers of any corporation, to carry on any trade, calling, profession, business or occupation in this ordinance specified without having first procured a li- cense from the city so to do, and each and every day or fractional part of day that such trade. call ing, profession, business or occupa- tion in this ordinance specified is conducted or carried on without such license shall constitute violation of this ordinance. Any such person or persons, agent or agents, clerk or clerks, employe or employees who shall, for themselves or for any oth- CT person or persons, firm, associa- uon or body corporate or otherwise. officers of conduct or carry on any trade, call ing, profession or occupation afore- said, without having first procured a license therefor, shall for each vo- lation of this ordinance be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof by any court hav- ing competent jurisdiction thereof, except in cases where a different punishment is prescribed by this or dinance, shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dol lars, or imprisonment in the city jail for a term of not more than two hundred days, or by both such fine and imprisonment; and the amount of such license fee shall be deemed debt to the city of Phoenix. and such person, agent, clerk, employe, firm, association and body corporate. or either of them. shall also be la- ble to an action in the name of the city of Phoenix in any court of com petent jurisdiction for the amount of the license fee of such trade, call ing, profession, business or occupa- ton as he or they shall or may be engaged in, together with all costs of suit
 The language used in this ordin- ance shall be defined as follows:
 (a) The term merchant" shall in clude all persons, firms, associa tions or corporations not otherwise speci- fically licensed in this ordinance. who, at any fixed place of business, manufacture, buy. sell or deal in any goods. wares or merchandise and shall also include bakeries. butcher shops and meat markets. flour and grist mills, the grinding of grains and manufacture or sale of grain products. ice factories each general agency for any life insurance com- pany or companies, the manufacture or sale of petroleum, crude or re- fined. and petroleum products. pub fishing, printing and binding busi- nesses, places or establishments, plumbing including the manufacture or sale of plumbing or heating sup plies. pipes, tools. fixtures, appli- ances and devices, sanitariums or sanitoriums, manufacturing Or re- pairing boots, shoes or footwear, tin shops. sheet metal shops. tin or sheet metal dealers. upholstering of fur niture, automobiles and other ve- hicles, and shall also include all con- tractors. electrical and otherwise.
 Merchants are divided into eight S) classes, as follows:
 Class 1, those whose quarterly sales do not exceed the sum of $500.
 Class 2, those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of $1,500, but do not exceed the sum of s5,0O0.
 Class 3, those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of s5,000, but do not exceed the sum of $10,0O0
 Class 4. those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of s10,000, but do not exceed the sum of s15,OOO.
 Class 5, those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of $15,O00, but do not exceed the sum of s20,0O0.
 Class 6. those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of s2O,O0O, but do not exceed the sum of s3O,O0O
 Class '. those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of s3O,OO0 but do not exceed the sum of s400OO.
 Class 8, those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of s4O00O
 (b) A transient merchant with in the meaning of this ordinance shall include:
 CD Every person, firm, associa- tion or corporation, who either in person or by agent, sells or offers to sell, at some fixed place of busi- ness, any goods, wares or merchant dise in this city without any mani fest intention of permanently con- tinuing in business.
 @ Every person who, not for or in connection with a business duly licensed under this ordinance, so- licits orders from house to house for future delivery of goods, or who shall deliver goods previously solicited by solicitor. at retail, or an order for future delivery.
 tc) As used in this ordinance, the term. ''peddlers" shall include so- licitors and other vendors not hay ing Darmanent place of buSineSs in