[Code 1980 §14-31; CC 1990 §14-646; Ord. No. 5503, 6-28-1993]
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 specified in this Section shall procure and pay for a license from the City and such license fees shall be in the respective amounts set out in this Section, except as otherwise provided by this Code or by ordinance. The following businesses and occupations shall pay an annual license fee as indicated; except, that any business or occupation not specifically exempted by this Article or other ordinance from graduated minimum annual license fees shall pay a minimum annual license fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) if there were more than eight (8) and fewer than twenty (20) persons regularly employed or associated in such business during the preceding license year; if there were more than nineteen (19) and fewer than fifty (50) persons regularly employed or associated in such business during the preceding license year, seventy-five dollars ($75.00); one hundred dollars ($100.00) if there were more than forty-nine (49) and fewer than one hundred (100) persons regularly employed or associated in such business during the preceding license year; two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) if there were one hundred (100) or more persons regularly employed or associated in such business during the preceding license year.
B. 
Any person engaged in the business of contracting may elect to pay an annual license fee based upon the number of employees as herein provided or to pay on the basis of gross receipts on the business conducted within the City. The license for a new business shall be based on an estimate of regular employees or associates in such business during the calendar year.
C. 
Businesses or occupations set out in this Section which begin operation during the second (2nd) half of a license year will be charged one-half (½) of the appropriate license fee for the balance of such license year.
BUSINESS OR OCCUPATION
FEE
Abstract agencies and title insurance companies, per year
$25.00
Accounting agencies or bookkeeping services, per year
$25.00
Actuarial firms, per year
$25.00
Advertising and public relations agencies or companies, per year
$25.00
Ambulances, per year
$25.00
Amusement parks, per year
$100.00
Auxiliary bank facilities, per year, per location
$100.00
Barbershops, per barber chair, per year
$5.00
Beauty parlors, per dryer machine, per year
$3.00
Billiard and pool tables, per table, per year
$10.00
Business or correspondence schools, for profit, per year
$50.00
Collection agencies, per year
$25.00
Contractors, per year
$25.00
Country clubs, per year
$100.00
Dancing schools or studios, per year
$25.00
Drive-in theaters, per year
$650.00
Employment agencies, per year
$25.00
Factorors, per year
$25.00
Financial Agencies
Bank or trust companies and bank corporations, per year
$350.00
Banks, individual doing a banking business, per year
$350.00
Commodity futures brokerage companies, per year
$25.00
Stock, bond or brokerage companies, per year
$25.00
Golf courses and driving ranges, per year
$50.00
Health clubs, per year
$50.00
Insurance companies, all types, per year
$250.00
Insurance inspection, rating, claim adjustment, agencies or companies, per year
$25.00
Itinerant vendors, as defined in the Revised Statutes of Missouri Section 150.380, per day
$10.00
Loan agencies or companies, per year
$100.00
Manufacturers' officers, per year
$25.00
Miniature golf courses, per year
Mortgage brokers, per year
$75.00
Mortuaries, funeral directors, funeral homes, per year
$75.00
Motor vehicle dealers, selling new or used vehicles or both, irrespective of the number of vehicles, per unit sold;
Plus gross receipts tax on any sales other than motor vehicles upon which sales tax is paid in accordance with the rate set out in Section 605.293
$1.20
Minimum fee, per year
$150.00
Mutual fund brokers, per year
$25.00
Nursing homes, per bed, per year
$10.00
Office service agencies or companies, per year
$10.00
Offices, not otherwise classified, per year
$25.00
Organizations or associations (except governmental, eleemosynary and non-profit), per year
$25.00
Open-air parks and gardens, where admission is charged, per year
$50.00
Pawnbroker (deleted) See 605.405 et seq.
Penny arcades, per year
$150.00
Printers and publishers, per year
$75.00
Public halls, per year
$100.00
Riding academies and stables, per year
$50.00
Sign companies, per each billboard within the City limits
$100.00
Skating rinks, roller or ice, per year
$100.00
Surveying companies, per year
$25.00
Taxicabs
$30.00
Telegraph companies, per year
$25.00
Theaters, including motion picture houses, with a seating capacity of:
One thousand (1,000) or less, per year
$125.00
More than one thousand (1,000) not to exceed one thousand five hundred (1,500), per year
$150.00
More than one thousand five hundred (1,500) not to exceed two thousand (2,000), per year
$175.00
More than two thousand (2,000), per year
$200.00
Ticket agencies, per year
$25.00
Travel agencies, per year
$25.00
[Code 1980 §14-32; CC 1990 §14-647]
The following businesses and occupations shall be exempt from the provisions of Section 605.347 which provides for graduated minimum annual license fees related to the number of persons regularly employed or associated in such business or occupation during the preceding license year:
Ambulances
Auctioneers and auction sales
Auto dealers
Barbershops
Beauty parlors
Carnivals, locally sponsored
Golf courses and driving ranges
Miniature golf courses
Nursing homes
Skating rinks
Theaters