The Coolidge examiner., 1946-01-04
ORDINANCE No. 8

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUN-
Gil OF THE TOWN OF COOL
.IDGE. ARIZONA, PROVIDING
FOR THE LICENSING OF GER
TAIN PURSUITS. BUSINESSES.
INDUSTRIES AND OCCUPA-
TIONS CARRIED ON WITHIN
THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF
THE TOWN OF COOLIDGE,
ARIZONA. AND PROVIDING
PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLA
TION OF THE PROVISIONS
HEREOF. REPEATING ALL
ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF
ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT
HEREWITH. AND DECLARING
AN EMERGENCY.
BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE
COMMON COUNCIL OF THE
TOWN OF COOLIDGE. ARIZONA,
as follows:
Section /. That every person,
firm. partnership. individual. or
corporation, who shall engage in
any OF the trades, callings, profess
sions occupations. or businesses
named In this Ordinance. shall pay
a license tax to the Town OF Cool
idge in accordance with the fol-
lowing schedule:
(al Commission merchants. soda
fountains and confectioners, gro
cery keepers, drug stores, variety
stores. fuel. feed and seed dealers.
butcher shops. bakeries. dry goods
merchants, shoe merchants, furni-
/ ture dealers. hardware merchants,
beauty parlors and facial shops.
dealers in lumber. dealers in coal.
ice or wood. implement or tractor
dealers. general merchandise, auto
mobile service stations. dealers IN
petroleum products. motor vehicle
or implement parts. motor vehicle
repair garages, storage garages,
dealers in jewelry, clock. watch
and jewelry repairing. repairing
and recapping tire dealers. keepers
of eating houses dealers in curios,
manufacturer or dealers in soda
water. millinery establishments.
telegraph companies. telephone
companies. tailoring. cleaning and
pressing Establishments, sales
stables. second hand dealers, bar
Der shop keepers dealers in fruit.
nuts and confections. electric light
companies, gas companies, laun-
dries. banks. money brokers, and
moving picture theaters. auto and/
or trailer parks and courts shall
pay a quarterly license tax based
upon their aggregate volume OF
sales: those whose aggregate vol
ume Of sales are Fifteen Hundred
Isl. 500 .0O) Dollars or less per quar-
ter, shall pay a license tax of $500
per quarter; those whose aggre-
gate volume OF sales per quarter
is more than Fifteen Hundred
(S1.50O. .00) Dollars per quarter,
shall pay in addition to the base
rate of $500, an additional 60c for
each one thousand dollars, or frac-
ton thereof. of their aggregate
sales per quarter.
The Town Clerk shall make dill
gent inquiry as to all persons.
firms. partnerships. individuals or
corporations in the Town of Cool
! idge liable to pay a license tax
hereunder and the aggregate vol
ume of sales of each, and require
each person firm, partnership, in
| dividual, or corporation TO state in
| writing the probable amount OF
business which they. or the per
sons. firms, partnerships ,individ-
uals or corporations they represent
| will do in the next succeeding
quarter. Such statement shall be
based on the amount of business
done by them in the preceding
quarter, but if no business was
done. then the statement shall be
for the probable amount of busi-
ness expected to be done in the nex'
succeeding quarter, and therupoT
such person, firm, partnership, in
dividual or corporation must pro
cure a license tax for the term de,
sired. Where an underestimate
has been made by the applicant th'
license for the next quarter shai
include the amount in default, plui
1919 interest on the amount in de
fault.
Except in accordance with thu
order of court having jurisdiction
it shall be unlawful for any tow
clerk or other person charged wit
any duty connected with or relatinl
to the assessment or collection o