[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Monaca 12-27-1979
by Ord. No. 720. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The following words and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have
the meanings ascribed to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates
a different meaning:
The Borough of Monaca.
The Borough Manager of the Borough of Monaca.
The operation or conduct, for gain or profit, of any trade, business
(including financial business), profession, vocation, service, construction,
communication, manufacturing or building used for apartments within the territories
or limits of the Borough of Monaca. The term "business" shall not include
the following:
The business of any political subdivision, governmental agency or municipal
or school authority.
The business of any nonprofit organization or association, including
but not limited to charitable, health-care, ambulance and rescue, religious,
beneficial, fraternal, social and recreational organizations and country clubs.
Employment for wage or salary.
Any business or activity upon which the issuance of a permit is withheld
by law.
Any home occupied by its owner having not more than one apartment.
The twelve-month period corresponding to the fiscal year of the Borough.
Any individual, partnership, limited partnership, association or
corporation. The singular shall include the plural and the masculine the feminine
and neuter.
Any place indoors or outdoors where the general public or a limited
or selected number thereof may, upon payment of an established price, attend
or engage in any amusement, entertainment, exhibition, contest or recreation,
including, among other places, theaters, opera houses, motion-picture houses,
amusement parks, stadiums, arenas, baseball or football parks or fields, skating
rinks, circus or carnival tents or grounds, fairgrounds, bowling alleys, billiard
or pool rooms, shuffleboard rooms, riding academies, golf courses, bathing
and swimming places, dance halls, tennis courts, archery or rifle or shotgun
ranges and other like places. The term does not include any exhibition, amusement,
performance or contest conducted by a nonprofit corporation or association
organized for religious, charitable or education purposes.
Any person who is a dealer in or vendor of goods, wares and merchandise
who is not a wholesale dealer or vendor.
Any business that is conducted at one location for less than 60 consecutive
calendar days.
Any person who sells to dealers in or vendors of goods, wares and
merchandise and to other persons. The terms "person," "wholesale dealer,"
"wholesale vendor," "retail dealer," and "retail vendor" shall not include
the following:
Nonprofit corporations organized for religious, charitable or educational
purposes or any associations organized for such purposes.
Agencies of the government of the United States or of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
Any person vending or disposing of articles of his own growth, production
or manufacture for shipment or delivery from the place of growth, production
or manufacture thereof.
Any person who sells to dealers in or vendors of goods, wares and
merchandise and to no other persons.
[Amended 9-10-1996 by Ord. No. 822]
Beginning January 1, 1980, every person desiring to continue to engage
in or thereafter to begin to engage in the business of wholesale or retail
vendor or dealer in goods, wares and merchandise and any person conducting
a restaurant or other place where food, drink or refreshments are sold, whether
or not the same shall be incidental to some other business or occupation or
place of amusement in the Borough shall, prior to commencing business in any
such license year, procure a mercantile license for his place of business
or, if more than one, for each of his places of business in the Borough from
the Borough Manager, who shall issue the same. Such license shall be conspicuously
posted at the place of business or each of the places of business of every
such person at all times.
It shall be the duty of the Borough Manager to prosecute and to collect
and receive the fees, fines and penalties imposed by this chapter. It shall
also be his duty to keep a record showing the amount received by him from
each person paying the fee and the date of such receipt.
