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City of Overland, MO
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[Code 1961 §10-1; CC 1976 §14-1]
No person shall engage in any of the various businesses, employments, agencies, amusements or exhibitions or own, manage, operate or control any public buildings, public halls, or any of the other matters hereinafter listed, unless such person shall first apply for and obtain a license so to do.
[Code 1961 §10-1; CC 1976 §14-2]
The application for such license shall be filed with the City Clerk upon forms provided by him/her. The Clerk shall investigate the propriety of issuing such license and who shall then present such application, together with his/her report and recommendation, to the Mayor, or, in his/her absence or disability, to the acting Mayor, who, when convinced of the propriety of such application, shall issue such license upon payment to the City Clerk of the license fee as hereinafter required; provided however, if there is any question in the mind of the Mayor or in the mind of the City Clerk as to the propriety of issuing such license, the application therefor, together with a full report of the facts, shall be submitted to the City Council, in which event such license shall not be issued until approved by said City Council.
[Code 1961 §10-2; CC 1976 §14-3; Ord. No. 2012-36 §§1 — 2, 11-26-2012]
Whoever within this City shall engage in any business, occupation or vocation hereinafter mentioned in this Article without first applying for and obtaining a license so to do as provided by this Article, or after a business license has been revoked pursuant to this Chapter, upon conviction thereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Each day's violation of this Article shall be deemed a separate offense.
[Code 1961 §10-3; CC 1976 §14-4]
Whoever shall obtain a license under the provisions of this Article shall keep the same in a conspicuous place on its, his/her premises so that it may be readily seen by any officer of the City.
[Code 1961 §10-4; CC 1976 §14-5]
All of the annual licenses herein mentioned shall be due and payable on the first (1st) day of August of each year. All licenses provided for in this Article to be issued for the term of less than one (1) year shall be due and payable as and when the licenses are required.
[Code 1961 §10-5; CC 1976 §14-6]
This Article shall not be applicable to any business which is subject to merchant's license tax.
[Code 1961 §10-6; CC 1976 §14-7; Ord. No. 2301 §1, 9-29-1986; Ord. No. 2305 §1, 9-29-1986; Ord. No. 95-83 §1, 10-25-1995]
There shall be levied and collected in each year a license tax in the amount set opposite the designated business or occupation as follows:
A
Abstractors
$25.00
Amusement parks, miniature golf and driving tees
$50.00
Auctioneers
$25.00
B
Balls or dances, public and theatrical exhibitions given for profit and not for educational or charitable purposes
$25.00
Banks, savings and loan companies or lending institutions
$500.00
Baseball parks
$25.00
Barbershops, minimum charge
$10.00
1. First chair, per year
$3.00
2. Each additional chair in use, per year
$2.50
Beauty parlors or hairdressers, per year
$10.00
Each additional operator
$3.00
Bookbinders
$25.00
Bowling alleys, per alley, per year
$10.00
Boxing and sparring exhibitions for profit per day, not for charitable or educational purposes
$25.00
Brokers:
1. Insurance
$25.00
2. Real estate
$25.00
3. Stocks and bonds
$100.00
C
Canvassers
$25.00
Cleaning and dyeing:
1. Agencies, per year
$25.00
2. Plants, per year
$50.00
Cobblers, shoe repairing, per year
$15.00
D
Dance halls
$25.00
Day nurseries
$25.00
Drayage
$25.00
E
Employment offices, per year
$25.00
Examiners of titles
$25.00
Express agents, per man
$5.00
Express offices, per year
$25.00
Established dancing studios
$25.00
Established music studios
$25.00
F
Funeral homes or undertakers
$75.00
G
Garages:
1. In connection with paint shop
$25.00
2. For repair of automobiles only, per year
$25.00
Golf courses
$300.00
H
Hotels and roominghouses
$500.00
I
Insurance agents, per man
$5.00
Insurance companies, per year
$30.00
J
Junk dealers
$50.00
Junk yards
$50.00
L
Laundries
$25.00
Laundry agencies
$25.00
M
Machine shops, per year
$25.00
Menageries, per year
$100.00
Merry-go-rounds, per week
$5.00
Money brokers
$100.00
Money changers
$100.00
Moving and storage companies, combination regardless of warehouse
$50.00
Moving companies, per year
$25.00
Plus each truck (not including interstate or intercity)
$2.50
Museums, per year
$100.00
P
Parades for money-making purposes, per day
$10.00
Parking lots, per year
$15.50
Peddlers and hawkers:
1. On foot or pushcart
$25.00
2. Motor vehicle
$25.00
Photographers, per year
$25.00
Pool and billiard rooms, subject to regulations by other articles:
1. First table
$20.00
2. Additional sum, per table per year
$10.00
Printing plants and newspaper offices, per year
$25.00
Public buildings
$25.00
R
Real estate agents, per agent
$5.00
S
Sand plants, per year
$100.00
Sewing machine repairing
$10.00
Shoe shining parlor or establishment, per chair, per year
$5.50
Shooting galleries, per year
$25.00
Sidewalk contractors
$25.00
Swimming pools, per year
$25.00
T
Tanneries, per year
$200.00
Tailor-made clothing agencies
$25.00
Theatrical or other exhibitions
$25.00
TV repair
$25.00
W
Warehouses, per square foot
$0.10
Watchmakers with inventories not to exceed $200.00
$15.00
Welding shops
$25.00
All other business trades and avocations whatsoever saving and excepting such as are specifically prohibited and suppressed and saving and excepting the business of motion pictures
$25.00
[Code 1961 §10-6; CC 1976 §14-8]
A. 
It shall be the duty of every person engaged in the business of motion pictures within the City, by the second (2nd) Monday of January of each year, to make application to the Clerk of the City for a license hereunder on forms furnished by the City Clerk, such license to be for the calendar year, or portion of the calendar year, in which said license is issued.
B. 
It shall be the duty of said person so engaged in the business of motion pictures to furnish to the City Clerk a sworn declaration, in writing, on said form provided, showing the estimated aggregate amount of all gross receipts and sales which will be made by him/her during the then calendar year, except that any person who engages in the City in the business of motion pictures for the first (1st) time hereafter shall then file the sworn declaration herein provided with respect to the remaining portion of his/her initial calendar year of operation.
C. 
At the time of filing such sworn declaration, such person shall pay to the Clerk of the City the amount of license tax due on the basis of such declaration.
D. 
Within thirty (30) days after the end of such calendar year, each person subject to the provisions of this Article shall file a corrected return, showing the exact amount of such gross receipts and sales, and shall pay any additional tax due for the year last ended under the provisions hereof.
E. 
At the time of filing the above-mentioned corrected return, showing the exact amount of such gross receipts and sales, such person shall be credited with, and there shall be applied on the following year's license tax due, under the provisions hereof, or at his/her option there shall be refunded to said person in cash, the amount of any overpayment.
F. 
It is hereby provided however, that the amount of deposit payment to be made by any person subject to this Article, at the time of filing the aforementioned declaration containing estimates of the aggregate amount of all gross receipts and sales, shall not be less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00).
G. 
There shall be levied and collected by the Clerk of the City a license tax for the business of motion pictures for each calendar year, or portion thereof, based on the aggregate gross receipts of such business, which license tax shall be computed as follows:
1. 
On the first (1st) twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00), or fraction thereof, the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00), which sum shall be the minimum tax hereunder;
2. 
In excess of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00), but not in excess of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00), the sum of one dollar ($1.00) for each one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or fraction thereof, in addition to the amount provided in Subsection (G)(1);
3. 
In excess of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00), but not in excess of one million dollars ($1,000,000.00), the sum of seventy-five cents ($0.75) for each thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or fraction thereof, in addition to the amounts provided in Subsections (G)(1) and (G)(2);
4. 
In excess of one million dollars ($1,000,000.00), but not in excess of two million two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($2,250,000.00), the sum of fifty cents ($0.50) for each one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or fraction thereof, in addition to the amounts provided in Subsections (G)(1), (G)(2), and (G)(3), which sum shall be the maximum tax hereunder, namely one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500.00).
[Code 1961 §10-7a; CC 1976 §14-9; Ord. No. 756 §1, 12-11-1961]
In addition to any other penalties, any person who is required to take out a license, or any person whose license has expired under the provisions of this Article, and notice has been given by the City Clerk, shall, if not paid within thirty (30) days of expiration of such license, pay a penalty of twenty dollars ($20.00), and for every ten (10) days thereafter twenty dollars ($20.00) shall be added as a penalty until the party required to take out such license shall have complied with the provisions regulating licenses in this Article. This penalty shall be collected with the license by the City Clerk and paid into the City Treasury.
[CC 1976 §14-10; Ord. No. 2301 §2, 9-29-1986]
A. 
It shall be the duty of every person engaged in the restaurant business within the City, by August first (1st) of each year to make application to the Clerk of the City for a license hereunder on forms furnished by the City Clerk, such license to be for the calendar year, or portion of the calendar year, in which the license is issued.
B. 
It shall be the duty of such person so engaged in the restaurant business to furnish to the City Clerk a sworn declaration, in writing, on such form provided, showing the estimated aggregate amount of all gross receipts and sales which will be made by him/her during the then calendar year, except that any person who engages in the City in the restaurant business for the first (1st) time hereafter shall then file the sworn declaration herein provided with respect to the remaining portion of his/her initial calendar year of operation.
C. 
At the time of filing such sworn declaration, such person shall pay to the Clerk of the City the amount of license tax due on the basis of such declaration.
D. 
Within thirty (30) days after the end of such calendar year, each person subject to the provisions of this Section shall file a corrected return, showing the exact amount of such gross receipts and sales, and shall pay any additional tax due for the year last ended under the provisions hereof.
E. 
At the time of filing the above-mentioned corrected return, showing the exact amount of such gross receipts and sales, such person shall be credited with, and there shall be applied on the following year's license tax due, under the provisions hereof, or at his/her option there shall be refunded to such person in cash, the amount of any overpayment.
F. 
It is hereby, provided however, that the amount of deposit payment to be made by any person subject to this Section, at the time of filing the aforementioned declaration containing estimates of the aggregate amount of all gross receipts and sales, shall not be less than fifty dollars ($50.00).
G. 
There shall be levied and collected by the Clerk of the City a license tax for the restaurant business for each calendar year, or portion thereof, based on the aggregate gross receipts of such business, which license tax shall be computed as follows: One dollar ($1.00) on each thousand dollars ($1,000.00) of gross sales and receipts, with a minimum annual fee of fifty dollars ($50.00).
H. 
As used in this Section, the term "restaurant" shall include the following:
Any business establishment that serves food for consumption on the premises; any business establishment that sells food for carry-out, including, but not limited to, drive-through establishments and businesses selling ice cream, donuts, hot dogs, hamburgers or the like from a permanent installation.