It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to engage in any business or occupation in the City of Chaffee without having first applied for and obtained a license to conduct such business or occupation from the City Clerk and without paying the license fee therefor, all as provided for in this Chapter.
A. 
All applications for the licenses required herein shall be made to the City Collector on appropriate forms provided for that purpose by the City. All licenses issued by the City Collector shall be in such form as is provided by the City Council; provided however, that such license shall bear the signature of the Mayor of the City Council and the City Collector, the date of issuance thereof and the date of expiration, as well as any additional information that may be required by the City Council.
B. 
Each applicant for a business license under this Chapter shall submit a statement from the Missouri Department of Revenue pursuant to Section 144.083.4, RSMo., stating no tax is due, which statement is a prerequisite to the issuance or renewal of a City business license. The statement required by this Section shall be dated within ninety (90) days of submission of the business license application or renewal application.
[CC 1978 §605.020; Bill No. 88-12(605.020), 6-20-1988]
There is hereby levied a license tax upon the privilege of engaging within the limits of this City in any of the various objects, occupations, professions, trades, avocations, businesses, manufacturers and merchants as specifically listed and described in Chapters 77 and 94, RSMo., and also including those listed in Section 94.110, RSMo., and as may be amended, and by the various additional ordinances of this City.
[CC 1978 §605.040; Ord. No. 597 §§3—4, 6-22-1959; Bill No. 2003-18(605.030), 7-21-2003]
A. 
Every person, persons, firm, association, organization, partnership, or corporation before engaging in any of the businesses enumerated in Section 605.030 hereof shall make application to the City Collector for a license. The license as established herein shall be an annual license which shall expire on June thirtieth (30th) of each year and thereafter each license holder shall, upon paying the required fee, have a renewed license to expire the following June thirtieth (30th).
B. 
For a new business trade, occupation, service occupation or manufacturing concern started within the City for the first (1st) time after July first (1st), amounts due under this Chapter as license tax fees for the remaining portion of that license year shall be the amounts described as follows:
1. 
For any business trade, occupation, service occupation or manufacturing concern listed in Subsection (C)(2) of this Section 605.040, the fee shall be paid on the basis of the remaining months within the license year at the rate of one-twelfth (1/12) of the specified license fee for each month remaining within the license year. For the purposes of this paragraph, any part of a month shall be considered a whole month.
2. 
For any business, trade, occupation or service occupation not listed in Subsection (C)(2) of this Section 605.040, the fee shall be fifteen dollars ($15.00).
C. 
License Fees.
1. 
Except for the specifically enumerated businesses, occupations and manufacturing concerns set forth in the following paragraph (2), the license tax fees shall be based on the amount of gross sales done by the business for the previous year in accordance with the following:
From $1.00 to $35,000.00 license fee
$20.00
From $35,001.00 to $70,000.00 license fee
$30.00
From $70,001.00 to $100,000.00 license fee
$40.00
Over $100,000.00 license fee
$50.00
2. 
The following license tax fees are established for the following specific business, occupations and manufacturing concerns:
Description
Fee
Manufacturing businesses
$50.00
Insurance agents and insurance companies
$30.00
Banks and other financial institutions
$50.00
Street contractors, paper hanger contractors, painting contractors, plastering contractors, sewer contractors, store contractors, brick contractors, cement contractors, sidewalk contractors, bridge contractors and all sub- contractors including carpenters, painters and electricians
$35.00
D. 
Determination Of Business Categories. The City Collector shall initially establish and classify each business, trade, occupation and service occupation within the categories provided in Subsection (E) of this Section. Any business, trade, occupation, or service occupation which objects to the category within which the business has been classified shall have the opportunity to file a written appeal to the City Administrator and to request reclassification. Any such appeal shall be filed with the City Administrator within sixty (60) days after such classification for any appeal to be taken.
1. 
Multiple business activities by single entity. Any applicant which is engaged in more than one (1) business, trade, occupation or service occupation category (as described in Subsection (E) hereinbelow) within the City (whether at the same location or otherwise) shall make separate application for each such category and shall pay the applicable license tax fee.
2. 
Separate license required for each business premises. Applicants which operate or maintain more than one (1) business premises within the City shall obtain a separate license for each such business premises. Applicants which do not maintain or operate a business premises within the City shall designate on the form of application for each applicable business, trade, occupation, or service occupation category a principal business address and in the event of a change of such principal business address during the period of the license, shall notify the City Collector in writing within five (5) business days of the change.
3. 
License not transferable. No license required under this Chapter shall be transferable or assignable.
4. 
Notification of change of location. If the holder of a license to engage in a business, trade, occupation, or service occupation at a particular business premises wishes, before the expiration of the license period, to change the location of the business premises, the holder shall so notify the City Collector in writing. No business, trade, occupation, or service occupation shall be engaged in at the new location until the notice of such change has been given as provided in this Subsection.
E. 
Business, Trade, Occupation, And Service Occupation Categories.
1. 
Abstract agencies and abstracters.
2. 
Architects.
3. 
Artists.
4. 
Auctioneers.
5. 
Auto wrecking shops and automobile repair shops.
6. 
Automobile agencies and dealers and automobile accessory dealers.
7. 
Bakeries.
8. 
Banks.
9. 
Barbershops.
10. 
Beauty parlors and hairdressers.
11. 
Billiard tables and billiard halls.
12. 
Boarding houses, rooming houses, and hotels.
13. 
Bookbinders.
14. 
Bottling works.
15. 
Bowling alleys.
16. 
Brick contractors.
17. 
Bridge contractors.
18. 
Brokers and brokerage houses.
19. 
Building contractors.
20. 
Butchers.
21. 
Canvassers.
22. 
Carnivals, street fairs, circuses, and shows and amusements.
23. 
Cement contractors.
24. 
Cigar and tobacco stands.
25. 
Cleaning and pressing establishments and laundries.
26. 
Cobblers and shoe repair shops.
27. 
Collection agencies.
28. 
Confectioners.
29. 
Dance halls.
30. 
Druggists.
31. 
Dye works.
32. 
Employment offices and agencies.
33. 
Express agents and express companies.
34. 
Florists.
35. 
Gas companies, light companies, power companies, telegraph companies, telephone companies, and water companies.
36. 
Gasoline filling stations.
37. 
Grocers.
38. 
Hospitals.
39. 
Ice plants.
40. 
Insurance agents and insurance companies.
41. 
Land surveyors.
42. 
Linen supply rental service.
43. 
Loan companies and loan agents.
44. 
Lumber dealers and wood dealers.
45. 
Machine shops.
46. 
Manufacturers and manufacturing agents.
47. 
Merchants and wholesale merchants.
48. 
Miniature golf courses.
49. 
Money brokers and money changers.
50. 
Monument dealers and agencies.
51. 
Moving picture shows, opera houses, and theatrical or other exhibitions.
52. 
Museums.
53. 
Newspaper offices.
54. 
Nursery stock agents.
55. 
Painting contractors.
56. 
Paperhanger contractors.
57. 
Photographers.
58. 
Piano and organ dealers and agents.
59. 
Plastering contractors.
60. 
Plumbers and plumbing contractors.
61. 
Porters.
62. 
Printing plants.
63. 
Produce and poultry dealers.
64. 
Radio and electronics repair shops.
65. 
Real estate brokers and agents.
66. 
Restaurants and taverns.
67. 
Rug and carpet cleaners.
68. 
Sewer contractors.
69. 
Shoe shining parlors.
70. 
Sidewalk contractors.
71. 
Skating rinks.
72. 
Steamfitters.
73. 
Stone contractors.
74. 
Storage warehouses.
75. 
Street contractors.
76. 
Subcontractors.
77. 
Tailors.
78. 
Undertakers.
F. 
License To Be Available For Examination. The holder of any license issued under this Chapter shall have the duty to display or otherwise make the license available for examination and shall produce the license for inspection upon request of any City Police Officer, public safety official, Code Enforcement Officer or other official of the City of Chaffee who has enforcement authority of this Chapter.
[CC 1978 §605.050; Ord. No. 597 §5, 6-22-1959]
For the purpose of this Chapter, the term "gross sales" shall mean the gross receipts of the business, occupations or callings for which the license is issued, either for the sale of merchandise or for the sale of services or derived through transactions of the licensee, all as the case might be, whether sales, services, or transactions be for cash or credit.
[CC 1978 §605.060; Ord. No. 597 §6, 6-22-1959]
Within five (5) days after the close of the year ending June thirtieth (30th) for which said license is issued, the licensee shall, in person or by duly authorized officer or agent, make and file with the City Collector in a manner and form to be prescribed by said Collector, and upon blanks furnished by him/her, a statement showing the amount of gross receipts from sales, services, and transactions by such applicant during the past year. Such statement shall be verified by the affidavit of the applicant or his/her duly authorized officer or agent.
[CC 1978 §605.070; Ord. No. 597 §7, 6-22-1959]
All persons obtaining a license as herein provided shall, at any time during regular business hours, permit the City Collector or his/her duly authorized agent to make an inspection and audit of the records and books of such licensee for the purpose of determining the correctness of the affidavit filed by such licensee as provided for in this Chapter. The information and data obtained from such inspection and audit shall not be disclosed by said City Collector or his/her duly authorized agent; provided however, that this Section shall not prohibit the City Collector or his/her duly authorized agent from giving evidence in court in any proceeding brought to collect any license tax provided for in this Chapter, or to punish any licensee for making a false or fraudulent affidavit provided for herein. If the persons who are licensed under this Chapter refuse to give the Collector or his/her duly authorized agent the amount of business that he/she did during the past year for license purposes, his/her license shall be the maximum under this Chapter, which is one hundred dollars ($100.00).
[CC 1978 §605.080; Ord. No. 597 §8, 6-22-1959]
The amount of the daily gross sales for the license year shall be fixed on the amount filed and sworn to by the licensee as provided for in this Chapter, or on the amount determined by the City Collector or his/her authorized agents from the inspection and audit of the licensee's records and books as provided for herein, whichever is the greater.
[CC 1978 §605.090; Ord. No. 597 §9, 6-22-1959]
The value of any goods, wares, and merchandise accepted by any licensee hereunder as part of the purchase price of goods, wares and merchandise sold or transferred by such licensee shall not be considered in determining gross sales, provided however, that the amount realized from the sale by the licensee of such goods, wares, and merchandise so accepted shall be included in the gross sales of the year such goods, wares and merchandise are sold, and provided further, that the provisions of this Section shall apply to the sale by the licensee of any article accepted by such licensee for partial payment of the purchase price. For the purposes of this Section, the value of any article so accepted shall be the allowance or credit given the person offering such article to the licensee as a partial payment.
A. 
Every contractor in the construction industry shall show proof of a certificate of insurance for Workers' Compensation coverage or an affidavit, the form of which shall be developed by the division, signed by the applicant attesting that the contractor is exempt. The City shall not have the duty to investigate any certificate of insurance or affidavit filed pursuant to this Section.
B. 
Any contractor who fails to comply with the provisions of Subsection (A) of this Section shall be denied such a license until he/she furnishes a certificate of insurance.
C. 
It is unlawful for any contractor to provide fraudulent information pursuant to this Section.
D. 
Nothing in this Section shall be construed to create or constitute a liability to or a cause of action against a City or County in regard to the issuance of any license pursuant to this Section.
A. 
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, or physician or surgeon in this City 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 any such license fee in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) annually, any law, ordinance or Charter to the contrary notwithstanding.
B. 
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 City 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 unless that person maintains a business office within the City of Chaffee.
A. 
Any license issued by the City pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter may be revoked by the City Council for any of the following reasons, as well as for any other reasons specified in this Chapter:
1. 
Any failure to comply with or any violation of any provisions of this Chapter, or any other ordinance of the City regulating the business, occupation or activity licensed, or the Statutes of the State of Missouri by any licensee.
2. 
Violation of the terms and conditions upon which the license was issued.
3. 
Failure of the licensee to pay any tax or obligation due to the City.
4. 
Any misrepresentation or false statement in the application for a license required herein.
5. 
Failure to display the license required herein.
Revocation of any license shall be in addition to any other penalty or penalties which may be imposed pursuant to these provisions.
A. 
In any case in which a complaint has been made to the City Council, or in which the City Council have on their own determined that cause may exist for the revocation of a license under the provisions of this Chapter, the following procedures shall be followed:
1. 
The City Council shall set a date for a hearing to consider the question of revocation.
2. 
At least ten (10) days prior to said hearing, written notice shall be mailed to the licensee, by registered mail, return receipt requested, to his/her last known address as shown in the records of the City Clerk advising the licensee of the time, date and place of hearing and of the reason for considering the revocation of his/her license.
3. 
During the pendency of this hearing before the City Council, the licensee shall be permitted to continue the operation of his/her business.
4. 
At the hearing set by the City Council, the City Council shall hear all relevant and material evidence justifying the retention of the license.
5. 
The licensee may be present in person and/or by his/her attorney and may present evidence.
6. 
After hearing the evidence presented, the City Council shall vote on the issue of whether the subject license shall be revoked.
7. 
The affirmative vote of a majority of the City Council shall be necessary to revoke any license.