Every person or persons, partnerships or corporation who shall within the City of Marshfield engage in, conduct, or operate any of the businesses, endeavors, establishments, or professions enumerated below shall pay to the City as a license tax therefor the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each year. Each year licenses shall expire on December thirty-first (31st).
The Board of Aldermen shall have power and authority to levy and collect a license tax on wholesale company, auctioneers, architects, pharmacy, grocers, banks, brokers, wholesale merchants, merchants of all kinds, confectioners, delivery trucks, cigar and tobacco stores, firewood dealers, lumber dealers, real estate agents, loan companies, abstracters, abstract agencies, loan agents, collection agencies, undertakers, landscaper, photographers, artists, patent right dealers, automobile agents and dealers, automobile accessory dealers, auto-related repair service providers, car washes, insurance companies, insurance agents, bars, hotels, boardinghouses, health clinics, telephone companies, street contractors, paper hanger contractors, painting contractors, plastering contractors, and all subcontractors, flour mills, feed mills, express company agencies, barbershops, hairdressing shops, whether conducted in connection with other business or separate beauty parlors, tattoo parlors, pet groomers, pest control services, tax preparation/booking services, burglar alarm/security service providers, IT providers, computer sales/service/repair providers, cell phones sales and service providers, tailors, florists, nursery stock agents, book binders, monument dealers and agencies, manufacturing agents, shoe cobbler shops, storage warehouses, shoe shining parlors, newspaper offices, job printing plants, ready-to-wear clothing agencies, tailor-made clothing agencies, sewing machine agents, piano and organ dealers and agents, coffee and tea dealers and agents, service providers of all kinds and all other vocations whatsoever; and to levy and collect a license tax and regulate peddlers, pawnbrokers, restaurants, butchers, wholesale butchers, masseurs, food trucks, lunch counters, soft drink and ice cream stands and vendors, ice cream parlors, peanut and popcorn stands, and stands of every kind, outdoor advertising, horse and cattle dealers, oil stations, wholesale and retail, inspectors, mercantile agents, manufacturing and other corporations, or institutions, medical/dental equipment manufacturing/repair providers, machine shops, sewer contractors, building contractors, stone contractors, plumbing contractors, brick contractors, cement contractors, sidewalk contractors, bridge contractors, and all subcontractors, laundries, laundry agencies, traveling and auction stores, plumbers, pressing establishments, produce and poultry dealers, bakers and bakeries, bakery delivery trucks, and delivery autos, bottling works, dye works, cleaning establishments, janitorial services, jeweler, engineers, land surveyors, doctors, taxicabs, buses, within the limits of the City, and all others pursuing like occupations; and to levy and collect a license tax, regulate, restrain, prohibit and suppress ordinaries, money brokers, money changers, intelligence and employment offices and agencies, dance studios, fitness centers, martial arts studios, recreation complexes, counseling services, fortune tellers, shooting galleries, gun shops, palmists, museums, zoos, equestrian performances, radiology techs, movie theaters, telescopic views, bowling alleys, billiard tables, pool and other tables, miniature golf courses, theatrical or other exhibitions, boxing and sparring exhibitions, shows and amusements, amusement parks, and the sales of unclaimed goods by express companies or common carriers, solid waste haulers, auto wrecking shops, bill posters, junk dealers, carnival and street fairs, circuses and shows, for parade and exhibition, or both, skating rinks, and all other vocations and businesses whatsoever, and all others pursuing like occupations.