[CC 1961 §28.09(A); Ord. No. 2449 §1, 11-3-1980; Ord. No. 3105 §1, 3-5-1990; Ord. No. 3633 §§1 — 2, 9-20-2004; Ord. No. 3644 §1, 12-20-2005; Ord. No. 4527, 3-18-2019; Ord. No. 4650, 12-15-2020; Ord. No. 4730, 10-3-2022]
Before any person can engage within the City in any of the following miscellaneous service occupations, businesses, trades, or avocations, or operate any of the vehicles named in the pursuit of business for profit and excluding businesses operated wholly for charitable purposes, that person shall obtain a license and pay to the Director of Finance the following license fee:
License Type
Annual License Fee
Abstract Company
$150.00
Advertising Company
$150.00
Agents (not otherwise listed herein)
$150.00
Amusement Parks
$500.00
Artists
$150.00
Auctioneers with offices in the City of Berkeley
$250.00
Banks and Trusts, Savings and Loan Companies
$400.00
Barbershops
$100.00
Beauty Parlors
$150.00
Beauty Colleges
$250.00
Bill Poster
$150.00
Book Binder
$150.00
Bowling Alleys
$500.00
Boxing
$300.00
Brokers (Financial) with offices in the City
$300.00
Business, Professional, or Correspondence School
$300.00
Child Care Center
$150.00
Clinics — Medical, Health Clubs, Hospitals
$300.00
Collection Agency
$150.00
Contractors (General, Concrete, Painting, etc.)
$150.00
Dancing School
$200.00
Detective and Security Agencies
$175.00
Employment Agency
$175.00
Express Company
$150.00
Exterminators
$150.00
Fortunetellers, Palmists
$150.00
Parking Garage, Parking
$100.00
Hotels, Motels (per sleeping room)
$7.00
Additional license fee (per occupied room per day)
$0.85
House Movers
$150.00
Insurance Companies (Claim, Home, Branch Office)
$300.00
Insurance Agency
$150.00
Insurance Agents
$150.00
Loan Company and Loan Agency
$400.00
Medical Marijuana Facilities
See the table at the end of this Section dedicated to these fees as well as Section 605.095 which sets out the annual permit fee for these facilities
Miniature Golf
$150.00
Newspapers
$150.00
Nursing Homes
$200.00
Office Buildings (per square foot of office area utilized)
$0.10
Pawnbrokers
$500.00
Peddlers, Solicitors and Transient Merchants
$200.00
Photographic Studios
$150.00
Pool Halls, Tables, Game Tables
$300.00
Public Halls
$150.00
Printers
$175.00
Real Estate Agents with offices in the City
$150.00
Real Estate Agency with offices in the City
$175.00
Rental Agency, Tools, Trucks, Trailers
$200.00
Sign Painters
$150.00
Shoe Repair
$150.00
Skating Rink
$150.00
Slides
$150.00
Surveying Companies with offices in the City
$150.00
Tailors
$150.00
Telegraph Company (Maybe Mobile Devices)
$150.00
Theaters — Walk-In
$150.00
Drive-In
$200.00
Trash and Garbage Collectors (if located in City)
$250.00
Travel Agency
$150.00
Undertaker
$300.00
Upholsterer
$150.00
Warehouses, all types (per square foot of storage area)
$0.10
All businesses and occupations not listed above or covered by the Merchants or Manufacturers Tax
$150.00
All businesses operated from home
$150.00
Annual License Fee For Medical Marijuana Facilities:
A.
The following license fees shall be charged on medical marijuana organizations doing business in the City:
1.
On the first (1st) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) of sales, or fraction thereof, the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00), which shall be the minimum tax hereunder.
2.
In the excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) of sales, the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00), plus the sum of seventy-five cents ($0.75) for each one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or fraction thereof, in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00).
B.
See also the annual permit fee for medical marijuana facilities set out in Section 605.095, below.
[Ord. No. 4650, 12-15-2020]
A. 
The annual permit fees for medical marijuana facilities shall be established as follows:
License Type
Annual Permit Fee
Medical Marijuana Cultivation Facility
$5,000.00
Medical Marijuana Dispensary (Sales) Facility
$3,000.00
Medical Marijuana Manufacturing Facility
$3,000.00
Medical Marijuana Testing Facility
$5,000.00
Medical Marijuana Transportation Facility
$5,000.00
B. 
Annual license fees for medical marijuana facilities can be found in Section 605.090, above.