Arizona republican., 1914-09-29

TAIN PROFESSIONS, TRADES, CALLINGS, 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- tion or body corporate or otherwise, or as officers of any corporation, conduct or carry on any trade, call ing, profession or occupation afore- said, without having first procured a license therefor, shall for each vio- lation of this ordinance be deemed guilty of 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 a debt to the city of Phoenix, and such person, agent, clerk, employe, firm, association and body corporate, 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 petent 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, 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 con- 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 SUD- 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 l, those whose quarterly sales do not exceed the sum ot s1,5O0.
 sales exceed the sum of S1,5OO. but do not exceed the sum of $5,0O0.
 Class 3, those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of s5,000, but do not exceed the sum of s1O,OOO.
 Class 4, those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of $10000 but do not exceed the sum of s15,000.
 Class ,, those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of s15,000, but do not exceed the sum of s20,000.
 Class 6, those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of s20.00O, but do not exceed the sum of $3O,000.
 Class ', those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of s3O,O00 but do not exceed the sum of $4O,O00.
 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. ton 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. tinuings 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, ''pedders" 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
 (d) As used in this ordinance the