Arizona republican., 1914-09-24

TAIN PROFF,SSlONS. TRADES. CALLTNGS, 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 a 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 a 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- ton or body corporate or otherwise or as officers of any corpora tion, conduct or carry on any trade call sf,rr said, without having first procured a license therefor, shall for each vio- lation of this ordinance be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof by any court hay 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 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
 
 or either of them, shall also be lia ble to an action in the name of the city of Phoenix in any court of com potent jurisdiction for the amount of the license fee of such trade. call ing, profession, business or occupa- tion 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, associations 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, anG shall also include bakeries, butcher shops and meat markets, flour an6 grist mills. the grinding of grains and manufacture or sale of graiI products, ice factories, each genera 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 plies, pipes, tools, fixtures, appli- ances and devices, sanitariums ol 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 eigh (S) classes, as follows:
 Class 1, those whose quarterly sales do not exceed the sum o1 s1.5OO
 Class 2. those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of s1,5OO, but do not exceed the sum of s5,0OO.
 Class 3, those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of $5,OOO, but do not exceed the sum of s1O.OOO.
 Class 4, those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of $10O00 but do not exceed the sum of st5,0OO.
 Class 5, those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of $15,O00. but do not exceed the sum of s2O,0OO
 Class 6. those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of s20,000, but do not exceed the sum of s3O,O00.
 Class ', those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of $3O,0OO but do not exceed the sum of s4O,OOO.
 Class 8, those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of s4O,OOO
 (b) A transient merchant with in the meaning of this ordinance shall include:
 CD Every person. firm, associa. tion or corporation, who either 1T person or by agent, sells or offers to sell, at some fixed place of busi- ness, any goods wares or merchan- disc in this city without any mani fest intention of permanently con- tinuing in business.
 @ Every person who, not for ol in connection with a business duly licensed under this ordinance, so. licits orders from house to house fol future delivery of goods, or who shal deliver goods previously solicited by a solicitor, at retail, or an order fol future delivery.
 Co As used in this ordinance, the term. peddlers" shall include so- licitors and other vendors not hay ing a permanent place of business ir Phoenix and not herein otherwise specifically licensed to sell any class of goods whatsoever