Arizona republican., 1914-09-28
LEGAL NOTICE
ORDINANCE NO. 2s

ORDINANCE NO. 23
 AN ORDNANCE FOR LICENS- ING THE CARRYING ON OF CER- 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. 1. 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 liz 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 COT 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 a 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 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 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 sor- 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 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 nfture. 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 $1.500.
 Class 2, those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of $1,50O, but do not exceed the sum of $5.000
 Class 3, those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of 5000, but do not exceed the sum of $10.00O.
 Class 1. those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of $10.000, but do not exceed the sum of s15,0OO.
 Class 5. those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of $15,00O, but do not exceed the sum of s2O.000
 Class 6. those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of S20,00O, but do not exceed the sum of $30,0o0.
 Class 2, those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of $30,000 but do not exceed the sum of s40,O00.
 Class 8, those whose quarterly sales exceed the sum of $40,O0O.
 (b) A transient merchant" with in the meaning of this ordinance shall include:
 tD 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 merchan- disc in this city without any mani fest intention of permanently con- tinuing in business
 (2) 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.
 (c) As used in this ordinance. the term. "peddIerS shall include so