[CC 1989 §12-1]
Every person engaged in any business, occupation, pursuit, profession or trade or in the keeping or maintaining of any institution, establishment, article, utility or commodity as specified by this Chapter shall procure a license from the City and pay a license fee therefore.
[CC 1989 §12-2]
A. 
No license shall be issued to any person until:
1. 
He/she has paid all license fees required by this Code for the license for which he/she is an applicant.
2. 
He/she has given such bond, if any, as may be required by this Code as a condition precedent to the issuance of the license for which he/she is an applicant, and such bond has been approved by the City Collector.
3. 
He/she has produced for the inspection and approval of the issuing officer evidence of any insurance coverage as may be required by this Code, together with a receipt showing the premium thereon to be fully paid for the period for which the license is sought.
4. 
He/she has produced for the inspection and approval of the issuing officer a certificate showing that he/she has complied with the provisions of the Workers' Compensation law of this state, where such compliance is a condition precedent to the issuance of the license for which he/she is an applicant.
5. 
All persons to be covered by the license applied for have passed the proficiency test, if any, as may be provided by this Code as a condition precedent to the issuance of the license.
6. 
All inspections, if any, as may be provided by this Code as a condition precedent to the issuance of the license applied for have been made and successfully passed.
7. 
All investigations have been made and approvals have been given, where investigation and approval is required by this Code as a condition precedent to the issuance of the license applied for.
[CC 1989 §12-3]
Except as may be provided otherwise in this Chapter, the City Collector shall prescribe the form for all licenses issued pursuant to this Chapter, and all such licenses shall be signed by the City Collector and shall be invalid for all purposes until so signed and validated by him/her.
[CC 1989 §12-4]
Annually, every person making application to the City Collector for a license to do business under the terms of this Chapter shall provide the City Collector with such information as the City Collector may require to determine the type of license to be issued and the amount to be paid therefor.
[CC 1989 §12-5]
Every person who shall engage in more than one (1) of the businesses, trades or occupations named in this Chapter for which a license is required, with the exception of real estate, insurance and loan companies which may be joined under the higher classification, shall be required to obtain a separate license for each business, whether the business be conducted in the same place or not, provided that if a person operates the same identical business in more than one (1) location wherein the license fee required by this Article is based upon gross sales or sales or receipts from such business, one (1) license may be procured based on the total gross receipts of all such businesses which shall cover the conduct of all such business within the City, provided further, that any person not maintaining a regular place of business within the City but engaged in soliciting orders for and selling goods, merchandise or services not for resale shall be required to obtain a license for such business activities.
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Cross Reference—Exceptions for certain professions, see §605.140(CD).
[CC 1989 §12-6]
All licenses granted by the City pursuant to this Chapter shall be carefully preserved and shall be displayed in a conspicuous place in the place of business authorized for the conduct of such business, provided that where a licensee has no established place of business within the City, such licensee shall carry such license on his/her person while engaged in the conduct of the licensed business or activity and shall display such license to any Code Enforcement Officer, Police Officer or prospective customer on request.
[CC 1989 §12-7]
All licenses issued pursuant to this Chapter shall be issued for a period of one (1) year, unless otherwise specified by this Chapter.
[CC 1989 §12-8]
For each month or fraction thereof, except the month of issuance, for any license tax that remains unpaid after becoming due and payable, there shall be added to such license tax a penalty of five percent (5%) per month of the amount of such tax. The penalty herein provided shall be in addition to all other penalties elsewhere provided for the violation of any provision of this Chapter.
[CC 1989 §12-9]
Any new merchant paying an occupation license fee based on a fixed fee shall pay such fee on the commencing of business.
[CC 1989 §12-10]
Every person conducting any business or industrial enterprise for which no license is specified in this Code or by any other ordinance shall procure a license from the City to conduct such business or enterprise at a license fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) per year therefor.
[CC 1989 §12-11]
Merchants who are established and have been in business in this City may be given permission by the City Collector to pay their occupation license on a quarterly basis rather than an annual basis.
[CC 1989 §12-12]
It shall be unlawful for any person who has not first procured and paid for a City license so to do to engage in any business, occupation, pursuit, profession or trade or in keeping or maintaining any institution, establishment, article, utility or commodity for which a City license is required or knowingly to make a false statement in his/her application for an occupation license as to his/her gross annual business or annual gross receipts or as to other conditions or factors on which the license fee is or shall be based.
[CC 1989 §12-13]
It shall be the duty of the Code Enforcement Officer to prevent any person from commencing, carrying on or conducting any business, trade, calling, amusement, entertainment or other activity for which a license is required without first procuring such license and maintaining it in a currently valid status. The Code Enforcement Officer shall report to the proper authorities of the City all violations of this Chapter and the Police Department may make arrests therefor and cooperate with the City Collector and other officials of the City in the strict enforcement of the provisions of this Chapter and all other license provisions of this Code and other ordinances.
[CC 1989 §12-14; Ord. No. 6781 §§3—4, 4-10-1995]
A. 
Every person engaged in any business, occupation, pursuit, profession or trade, or in the keeping or maintaining of any institution, establishment, article, utility or commodity as specified in this Section shall pay the license fee.
B. 
As used in this Subsection, the reference "MR" is to merchants, retail; and the reference "MP" is to manufacturers and processors.
Business
Fee per year
(unless otherwise stated)
Amusement hall/room/billiard
$100.00
Amusement casual (carnivals, rides, etc.)
Daily @ $25.00
Animal care/service
$25.00
Auto and junk salvage
$100.00
Auto and truck sales
MR
Auto and truck wash
$25.00
Auto mechanical or body repair
$25.00
Banks
$100.00
Barber and beauty shops
$25.00
Bed and breakfast/boarding
$25.00
Beer and wine by the drink
$52.50
3.2 beer by the drink
$37.50
Bowling alleys
$50.00
Cleaners and launderers
$25.00
Collection/employment agency
$35.00
Commercial trucking
$50.00
Contractor electrical/plumbing
$50.00
Contractor general
$100.00
Contractor HVAC/Excavating
$50.00
Contractor insulating/roofing/siding
$25.00
Contractor landscaping/tree trimming
$25.00
Contractor other
$50.00
Contractor painting/masonry
$25.00
Contractor paving
$75.00
Day care center
$25.00
Delivery service
$35.00
Engineer/consultant/architect
$50.00
Health care/service
$50.00
Household movers
$35.00
Insurance agencies
$75.00
Liquor special Sunday sales
$150.00
Liquor package sales only
$50.00
Loan company/pawn brokers
$50.00
Manufacturers and processors
MR
Merchant retail
MR
Miscellaneous
$50.00
Miscellaneous commercial services
$50.00
Miscellaneous personal services
$25.00
Monuments and burial vaults
$35.00
Mortuaries
$50.00
Motels/hotels
$100.00
Newspapers/publications
$35.00
Petroleum distributor
$50.00
Photographers
$35.00
Real estate agencies
$75.00
Recycling center
$35.00
Restaurant
MR
Security guard
$35.00
Storage building/area
$25.00
Taxi/bus/limo service
$25.00
Theaters
$50.00
Tool and die/machine shop
$50.00
Trash hauler
$35.00
Upholstering
$25.00
Vending machine
$25.00
Wholesale distributor
$50.00
Special Schedules
Merchant retail
Annual gross sales up to $25,000
$25.00
Annual gross sales $26,000 to $50,00
$50.00
Annual gross sales $51,000 to $100,000
$75.00
Annual gross sales $101,000 to $250,000
$150.00
Annual gross sales $251,000 to $500,000
$250.00
Annual gross sales $501,000 to $999,999
$300.00
Annual gross sales over $1 million
$10.00 per $100,000.00
(Includes: antiques, apparel, appliances, automobile and truck sales new and used, auto parts and accessories, bakeries, barter/trade, building materials, candy/tobacco/newspapers, etc., drugstores, factory outlet, florists, furniture, gasoline/convenience, general merchandise, grocery/meat, hardware, ice cream/frozen dessert, implement and machinery, jewelry, lumber, office supply and equipment, paint/floor covering, restaurant, seed and feed, shoe sales and repair, used furniture/appliance/clothing, etc., variety and any other business with a State sales tax number not covered above selling products to the consumer on which sales tax is charged.)
Manufacturers, processors and factories
1—10 employees
$25.00
11—24 employees
$50.00
25—99 employees
$75.00
100 and over 100
$100.00
(Annual average of full-time employees during previous year. Full-time equals 1,500 hours annually. New businesses to annualize average for months of operation.)
C. 
Hereafter no person following for a livelihood the profession or calling of minister of the gospel, duly accredited Christian Science practitioner, teacher, professor in a college, priest, lawyer, certified public accountant, dentist, chiropractor, optometrist, chiropodist, physician or surgeon in this State shall be taxed or made liable to pay any municipal or other corporation tax or license fee of any description whatever for the privilege of following or carrying on such profession or calling and, after December 31, 2003, no investment funds service corporation, as defined in Section 143.451, RSMo., may be required to pay, or shall be taxed or made liable to pay, any municipal or other corporation tax or license fee of any description whatever for the privilege of following or carrying on its business or occupation in excess of or in an aggregate amount exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) annually, any law, ordinance or charter to the contrary notwithstanding.
D. 
No person following for a livelihood the profession of insurance agent or broker, veterinarian, architect, professional engineer, land surveyor, auctioneer or real estate broker or salesman in this State shall be taxed or made liable to pay any municipal or other corporation tax or license fee for the privilege of following or carrying on his/her profession by a municipality unless that person maintains a business office within that municipality.
[CC 1989 §12-15]
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any transient photographers, merchants, solicitors and vendors, as defined in Subsection (B) of this Section, to engage in such transient business within the City without first obtaining a license therefor in compliance with the provisions of this Section.
B. 
For the purposes of this Section, "transient photographer", "merchant", "solicitor" or "vendor" is defined as any person, firm or corporation, whether as owner, agent, consignee or employee, who does not have an established place of business within a twenty-five (25) mile radius of the City limits of the City.
C. 
(Reserved)[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection (C), regarding obtaining a bond, was repealed 10-28-2019 by Ord. No. 19-015.
D. 
All licenses under this Section shall pay a fee equal to that set forth herein for a non-transient business of the same nature.
E. 
No such license granted shall be transferred without written approval from the City Council. The phrase "without an established place of business" shall mean that the licensee does not own real property in the City and that at the location where the business is transacted, the licensee has a written rental or lease agreement of less than thirty (30) days in duration.
[Ord. No. 19-018, 12-17-2019]
A. 
Definitions. As used in this Section the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
DAY CARE
A Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services licensed, regulated or childcare subsidized facility where care is provided for children by a child care provider for any part of the twenty-four-hour day.
MARIJUANA or MARIHUANA
Cannabis indica, Cannabis sativa, and Cannabis ruderalis, hybrids of such species, and any other strains commonly understood within the scientific community to constitute marijuana, as well as seed thereof and resin extracted from the plant and marijuana-infused products. Marijuana does not include industrial hemp containing a crop-wide average tetrahydrocannabinol concentration that does not exceed three-tenths of one percent (0.3%) on a dry weight basis, or commodities or products manufactured from industrial hemp.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA CULTIVATION FACILITY
A facility licensed by the State of Missouri to acquire, cultivate, process, store, transport, and sell marijuana to a medical dispensary facility, medical marijuana test facility or to a medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY FACILITY
A facility licensed by the State of Missouri to acquire, store, sell, transport and deliver marijuana, marijuana-infused products and drug paraphernalia used to administer marijuana as provided for in this Section to a qualifying patient, a primary caregiver, another licensed medical marijuana dispensary facility, a medical marijuana testing facility or a medical marijuana-infused projects manufacturing facility.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA-INFUSED PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING FACILITY
A facility licensed by the State of Missouri, to acquire, store, manufacture, transport and sell marijuana-infused products to a medical marijuana dispensary facility, a medical marijuana test facility, or to another medical marijuana-infused projects manufacturing facility.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA TESTING FACILITY
A facility certified by the State of Missouri, to acquire, test, certify and transport marijuana.
QUALIFYING PATIENT
A Missouri resident diagnosed with at least one (1) qualifying medical condition.
RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION
A building or facility used for religious worship and associated religious functions (education, fellowship, recreation, etc.), including synagogues and temples.
SCHOOL
Any building or facility which is regularly used as a public, private or parochial elementary and/or secondary school or high school.
B. 
Regulations And Provision. All medical marijuana facilities as herein defined must strictly meet the regulations and provisions of medical marijuana facilities as identified and provided for in Chapter 405 of the Webb City Code of Ordinances.
C. 
License Fees — Generally. All medical marijuana facilities with a permanent business address within the City of Webb City shall pay the following fees:
Medical marijuana cultivation facility
$150.00
Medical marijuana dispensary facility
$450.00
Medical marijuana-infused products manufacturing facility
$150.00
Medical marijuana test facility
$150.00