Hallsville License Fees ordinance (§ 605.030)

A. No person shall pursue, conduct, carry on, operate, engage in or deal in within the City any of the following trades, callings, professions, occupations, privileges, vocations, things, objects, subjects, businesses or places of business mentioned in this Section without first paying the license tax therefor according to the following schedule and obtaining the license therefor:

1. Agricultural machinery and implements: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

2. Architects: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

a. This Subsection shall not apply to a building contractor paying a license as such who may also occasionally design and make plans for houses or other buildings.

3. Automobile accessories dealers: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

4. Automobile agents and dealers: fifteen dollar ($15.00) per year.

5. Automobile paint shops: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

6. Auto parking stations or lots: five dollars ($5.00) per year.

7. Automobile wash racks: five dollars ($5.00) per year.

8. Bakeries: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

9. Banks, banking corporations and trust companies: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

10. Barbershop: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

11. Billiard and pool tables: five dollars ($5.00) per year.

12. Bill posters and distributors: five dollars ($5.00) per day or twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per year.

a. "Bill posters and distributors" are hereby defined to be any persons engaged in the business of posting on signboards, walls or other places bills, posters or other advertising matter, or distributing in public places, or from store to store, or from house to house in the City, circulars, handbills, samples or other advertising matter. Every bill poster or distributor shall procure a license to engage in such business and such license shall authorize the holder thereof to employ such assistants as may be necessary to carry on such business.

13. Blankets, rugs, clocks, kitchen utensils, household articles, any or all: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

14. Bowling alleys, each alley: five dollars ($5.00) per year.

15. Bookstores, art shops, magazines, papers, stationery, sporting goods, any or all: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

16. Blacksmith shops: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

17. Brokers selling or dealing in stocks or bonds: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

18. Brokers selling or dealing in goods, wares or merchandise, grain or produce: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

19. Contractors:

a. Contractors, any or all: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

(1) Every person engaging in the business of bridge contracting, sewer contracting, sidewalk contracting, stone contracting, plaster contracting, cement contracting, electrical contracting, street contracting, or plumbing contracting under a contract to furnish materials or labor other than his/her own materials or labor shall be deemed to be a bridge contractor, stone contractor, cement contractor, street contractor or plumbing contractor, respectively, as the case may be.

b. All other contractors, not otherwise specifically mentioned and classified by this Section: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

(1) However, this Subsection shall not apply to persons paying a license as a building contractor and duly licensed as such.

20. Clothing and men's furnishings: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

21. Cleaning and pressing establishments: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

a. Every person carrying on or engaging in the business of cleaning or dry cleaning clothing or wearing apparel or pressing the same shall be deemed to operate and conduct a cleaning and pressing establishment.

22. Confectioners: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

a. Every person who manufactures, sells or offers to sell or deals in confections, soft drinks, candies, sweetmeats, cakes, ice cream or similar products shall be deemed a confectioner. This Subsection shall not apply to persons paying a restaurant and cafe license tax and duly licensed as such.

23. Carnivals (and circuses): fifty dollars ($50.00) per day

24. Dances: two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per day, or ten dollars ($10.00) per month or fifty dollars ($50.00) per year.

a. All dances open to the public or any part of the public where admission fees are charged shall be required to pay license taxes as provided by this Section. No fraternal organization or society or club giving a dance and assessing the participants, where such dance is not open to the public, shall be required to pay a license tax.

25. Dairies, manufacturing and dealing in milk, butter, ice cream or other milk products, any and all: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

26. Milk distributors: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

a. Every person who shall deliver, sell or offer for sale at retail in the City from a vehicle and over regular routes, any milk or other dairy products not of his/her own production, and who is not in the employ of the person who produced such milk or other dairy products, and who does not maintain a place of business within the City at which milk or other dairy products are offered for sale at retail, shall be deemed a milk distributor.

27. Druggists: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

28. Dyeing establishments: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

29. Express company agencies: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

30. Electrical shops, selling electrical goods, electrical fixtures or electrical supplies: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

31. Furniture and household goods: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

32. Furniture and household goods with undertaking: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

33. Florists: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

34. Furnace dealer: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

35. Fish peddlers: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

a. Any person selling or offering to sell any fish, by going from place to place, house to house or from any stand, booth, wagon, automobile or other vehicle or other temporary location, shall be deemed to be a fish peddler.

36. Garages: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

37. Grocery stores: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

38. Harness and saddlery: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

39. Hairdressing and beauty parlors: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

40. Horse and cattle dealers: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

a. Every person carrying on or engaged in the business of buying, selling or trading horses, mules, cattle, hogs or sheep, or carrying on or conducting sale yards or sale stands or stables where horses, mules, cattle, hogs or sheep are sold or offered for sale shall be deemed a horse and cattle dealer.

41. Hotel keepers and public rooming house keeper: one dollar ($1.00) per room per year.

42. Hardware, tinware, implements and harness, any or all: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

43. Hucksters: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

a. Every person who shall sell or offer for sale in the City from any vehicle any garden or farm produce, milk or other dairy products not of his/her own raising or production, and who is not in the employ of the person who raised the produce or products so sold or offered for sale shall be deemed a huckster.

44. Jewelry stores: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

45. Junk dealers and secondhand dealers:

a. With permanent and established places of business, either or both: ten dollars ($10.00) per day.

b. Itinerants, either or both: five dollars ($5.00) per day

46. Laundries:

a. Hand laundry: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

b. Steam laundry or automatic laundry, employing over 25 persons: fifty dollars ($50.00) per year.

c. Steam laundry or automatic laundry, self service: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

d. Laundry agencies: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

47. Building and loan companies: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

48. Loan agents: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

49. Lumber dealers: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

50. Lunch counters, having a permanent and established business: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

51. Machine shops: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

52. Monument dealers and agents: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

53. Meat markets: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

54. Millinery shops: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

55. Music stores, dealing in musical instruments or musical supplies: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

56. Newspaper offices or printing establishments: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

57. Oil/service stations and oil filling stations: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

58. Oil dealers, selling lubricating oil, grease, kerosene oil or kerosene distillate, any or all, doing business from wagons or trucks, using the streets, each wagon or truck: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

59. Opticians: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

60. Plumbing supplies: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

61. Photographers:

a. Photographers, having a permanent and established place of business in the City: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

b. Photographers, itinerant: five dollars ($5.00) per day.

62. Patent medicine dealers, selling patent medicines or manufactured medicines by public outcry upon the street: twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per day.

63. Produce land poultry dealers, either or both: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

64. Restaurants and cafes: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

65. Real estate agents: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

66. Skating rinks: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

67. Sewing machines, sales of: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

68. Storage warehouses for hire: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

69. Manufacturers: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

70. Soft drink parlors: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

71. Shoe stores: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

72. Tourists camp or camping ground, open to the public for a charge or fee: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

73. Tailoring shops: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

74. Tin shops: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

75. Typewriter and typewriter supply dealers: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

76. Undertaking: twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per year.

77. Women's garments, clothing and furnishings, any or all: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

78. Boarding houses: two dollars ($2.00) per year.

79. Auctioneers, per sale: two dollars ($2.00).

80. Insurance, agents: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

81. Mobile home park: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

82. Feed stores and grain dealers: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.

83. All other merchants doing business in the City other than those specifically mentioned and classified in this Section for each line carried: ten dollars ($10.00) per year.