CONTENTS
ARTICLE I. BUSINESS LICENSES
IN GENERAL
§ 6-1. Definitions
§ 6-2. License tax levied.
§ 6-3. Amount of license tax.
§ 6-4. License - Term; not transferable.
§ 6-5. No license to be issued unless city taxes paid.
§ 6-6. Penalty for not obtaining license.
§ 6-7.
§ 6-8. Rummage, garage and yard sales.
§ 6-9. No license to be issued unless business is current on city and state taxes.
§ 6-10. Business licenses - Suspension or revocation.
§§ 6-11 to 6-12. Reserved.
ARTICLE II. PEDDLERS AND SOLICITORS
§ 6-13. Definitions.
§ 6-14. Notice required.
§ 6-15. Solicitors license.
§ 6-15A. Solicitation prohibited in certain areas.
§ 6-16. Transient merchant license.
§ 6-17. Parking vehicle.
§§ 6-18 to 6-22. Reserved.
ARTICLE III. JUNK YARDS
§ 6-23. Definitions.
§ 6-24. License - Required.
§ 6-25. Application for license.
§ 6-26. Investigation of licensee; issuance of license.
§ 6-27. License fee.
§ 6-28. Term of license.
§ 6-29. License not transferable.
§ 6-30. General operating requirements.
§§ 6-31 to 6-35. Reserved.
ARTICLE IV. TAXICABS
§ 6-36. Definitions.
§ 6-37. License - Required.
§ 6-38. Application for license.
§ 6-39. Granting of license.
§ 6-40. Duration of license.
§ 6-41. Renewal of license.
§ 6-42. Transfer of license.
§ 6-43. Change of ownership.
§ 6-44. Additional taxicabs licenses.
§ 6-45. Schedule of taxicab charges.
§ 6-46. Amount of license tax.
§ 6-47. Revocation of license.
§ 6-48. Requiring liability insurance.
§ 6-49. Revocation of license by council upon failure to provide liability insurance.
§ 6-50. Clerk to issue license.
§ 6-51. Replacement of equipment.
§ 6-52. Unconstitutionality clause.
§§ 6-53 to 6-57. Reserved.
ARTICLE
V. EXPLICIT SEXUAL MATERIALS DISPLAY,
SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESS
§ 6-58. Purpose and findings.
§ 6-59. Definitions.
§ 6-60. Displaying of explicit sexual materials generally.
§ 6-61. License required for sexually oriented business.
§ 6-62. License required for managers, servers and entertainers.
§ 6-63. License application: owners, servers entertainers or managers.
§ 6-64. Application processing.
§ 6-65. Standards of conduct.
§ 6-66. Ventilation and sanitation requirements.
§ 6-67. Performances, closed rooms or booths prohibited, when.
§ 6-68. License - posting, revocation, when.
§ 6-69. Signs required.
§§ 6-70 to 6-75. Reserved.
Chapter 6
BUSINESS REGULATIONS AND LICENSES
ARTICLE I
BUSINESS LICENSES IN GENERAL
Sec. 6-1. Definitions.
(a) Confectioner - For the purpose of this Ordinance creamee or drive-in type business shall be known as confectioners. (Ord. 279, §6.)
(b) Gift enterprise - Whoever shall sell any goods, wares or merchandise, or patent medicine, or other valuable things in this city, and as an inducement to such sale shall offer to give anything other than the article sold or offered to be sold, shall be deemed the keeper of a gift enterprise, and shall take out a license as provided by this Ordinance. (Ord. 279, §3.)
(c) Transient merchant - A transient merchant for the purpose of this Ordinance shall be one who engages in the selling of goods, wares, and merchandise from a motor vehicle moving or parked or who otherwise carries their goods from door to door. (Ord. 279, §4.)
Sec. 6-2. License tax levied.
(a) No person, copartnership, firm or corporation, shall hereafter for themselves or itself, engage in or carry on in person or by agent, any of the following named occupations, professions, business or trade, without first procuring a license from the proper authority in the City of St. James, Missouri, to wit:
Menagerie, circus, carnival, theatrical, operatic, minstrel, musical performance, concert lectures, street exhibitions, puppet shows, legerdemain, rope or wire walking, all-night sings, peddlers or transient merchants, bowling or ten pin alley, butcher shops, locker plants, slaughter houses, wood or coal yards, billiard tables, bagatelle tables, pigeon hole tables, pool tables, jenny lind tables, or other game tables, gift enterprise, auction houses or stores, druggist or drug dispenser, vehicles operated in hauling goods and wares, general merchandise stores, furniture dealers, appliance dealers, contractors and builders, undertakers, embalmers, barber shops, hair dressers, printing presses, feed grinders, exchange mills, and grain elevators, clock or watch repair, jewelry repair, gunsmiths, express companies offices, pawn brokers, public halls, brokers, express agents, fortune tellers, horoscopic views, real estate agents or dealers, motels, hotels, boarding houses, nursing homes, restaurants, bakery, scales, photographists or photographers, patent right dealers, confectioner, loan agents, insurance agents, banks, implement dealers, hardware, lumber yards, commission merchants or produce dealers, dry cleaning or tailoring, service stations, electric, radio, and/or T.V. repair, welding, generator shops, plumbers, electricians, fish bait dealers, used car dealers, laundromats, landscape gardeners and dealers, wholesale merchants, tin shop, garages, auctioneers, package store, sign painters, opticians or optometrist, and warehouses, trailer parks, ready-mix, concrete blocks, and telephone exchanges. (Ord. 279, §1.)
(b) Every person, CO-partnership of persons, or corporation, who shall deal in the selling of goods, wares or merchandise at any store, stand or place occupied for that purpose within this city is declared to be a merchant, and shall pay a license tax hereinafter specified, together with all ad valorem tax not exceeding the amount levied on real estate on the highest amount of all goods, wares, and merchandise which they may have in their possession or under their control, whether owned or consigned to them for sale at any time between the first Monday in March and the first Monday in June of each year; provided, that no commission merchant shall be required to pay any tax on any unmanufactured article, the growth or product of this or any other State, which may have been consigned to them for sale, and on which he or they have no ownership or interest other than his or their commission. (Ord. 279, §2.)
Sec. 6-3. Amount of license tax.
Type of Business Daily/Annual Fee Qty Fee
(A) Appliance
dealer
See
furniture dealer
Auction houses and stores
Annaul
$35.00
Auctioneers
Annual
$35.00
Automobile,
used Annual $35.00
(B)
Bait dealers Annual $35.00
Bakery See
restaurant
Banks Annual $35.00
Barber shops and hair dresser
(one chair) Annual $35.00
Additional chairs $5.00
per chair
$5.00
Billiard tables, bagatelle table,
pigeon hole table, jenny lind table, Annual $35.00
Other
tables for gain or hire
Boarding houses and nursing homes Annual $35.00
Bowling alley or ten pin alley Annual $35.00
Brokers Annual $35.00
Builders See
contractors
Butcher shops, locker plants,
and
slaughter houses
Annual $35.00
(C)
Car dealer, used See
automobile, used
Carnival See
menagerie, show
*Child
Care-Category 1 (1-6 children) Annual $35.00
*Child
Care-Category 1 (6-10 children,
Zoning Restrictions Apply) Annual $35.00
*Child
Care-Category 2-Group Child
Care Home (11-20 children)
Annual $35.00
*Child
Care-Category 3-Child Care
Center
(Qty of children per
Directors
State Qualifications) Annual $35.00
(*Must be State Registered/Licensed)
Child
Care-Nursery School-See State Definition Annual $35.00
Circus See
menagerie, show
Clinic,
medical Facility, etc.
Annual $35.00
Clock
and watch repairs Annual $35.00
Coal
yard See
wood yard
Commission
merchants Annual $35.00
Computer
Sales, Services, Electronics,
Web
Services Annual $35.00
Concerts,
lectures, street, exhibitions, Annual $35.00
puppet shows, legerdemain, rope or
wire
walking, all-night sings
Concrete
ready-mix and block dealer Annual $35.00
Confectioners
(Ice Cream Stores) Annual $35.00
Contractors
(provided no license tax shall Annual $35.00
be
levied on day laborer)
(D) Day
Care Provider - See Child Care
Dental,
medical Facility, etc. Annual
$35.00
Drug
dispensing establishment Annual
$35.00
Druggist Annual
$35.00
Dry
cleaning Annual
$35.00
(E) Electrician See
plumber
Electric
shop Annual
$35.00
Embalmer See
undertaker
Exchange
Mill See
feed grinder
Exhibitions
See concerts, menagerie, show
Express
agents Annual
$35.00
Express
companies
Annual
$35.00
(F) Feed
grinders, exchange mills, grain elevators Annual
$35.00
Fortune
tellers Annual
$35.00
Furniture
dealers and/or appliance dealers Annual
$35.00
(G) Garage Annual
$35.00
Gardeners,
nursery, pest control agents
Annual
$35.00
General
merchandise stores Annual
$35.00
Generator
shop See
welding
Gift
enterprise Annual $35.00
Grain
elevator See
feed grinder
Gunsmith See
clock and watch repair
(H) Hair
dresser See
barber shops
Hardware
dealers Annual $35.00
Horoscopic
views Annual $35.00
Hotel
Annual plus $5.00 per room $35.00
(I) Ice
manufacturers and dealers Annual
$35.00
Implement
dealers Annual $35.00
Insurance
agents Annual $35.00
Insurance
companies Annual $35.00
(J) Jewelry
repair See
clock and watch repair
Juke
box (electrical musical machine Annual $35.00
operated as a musical amusement device)
(L) Laundromat
Annual
$35.00
Loan
agents or companies Annual $35.00
Locker
plant See
butcher shops
Lumber
dealer or yard Annual $35.00
(M) Marble
manufacture and dealers Annual $35.00
Message
Services Annual $35.00
Medical
Facilities, Services Annual $35.00
Menagerie,
carnival, circus Annual $35.00
Motel Annual
plus $5.00 per room $35.00
Movie
house Annual $35.00
(N) Nursery See
gardener
Nursing
School
See Child Care
Nursing
home See
boarding house
(O) Optician and optometrist Annual $35.00
(P)
Package store Annual $35.00
Patent
right dealer Annual $35.00
Pawn
broker Annual $35.00
Peddler,
transient merchant, Solicitor Annual $35.00
Photographist
and photographers Annual $35.00
Pin
ball machine Annual/per
machine $35.00
Plumber,
electrician (persons or person Annual $35.00
doing
business as plumbers and electricians
who
sell materials connected with their trade)
Printing
(all printing and job printing presses of Annual $35.00
all
kinds kept in the same room and under
one
management)
Produce
dealers See
commission merchant
Public
halls Annual $35.00
(R) Real
estate agent or dealers Annual $35.00
Restaurants, bakeries Annual $35.00
(S) Scales Annual $35.00
Self
storage warehouses Annual $35.00
Service
station Annual $35.00
Show
(other than a menagerie or circus) Annual $35.00
all shows, menageries or circuses, where
the exhibitions shows under more than two
tents See also theatrical performances
Sign
painter Annual $35.00
Slaughter
house See
butcher shop
(T) Tailoring See
dry cleaning
Tattoo
Services Annual $35.00
Telephone
exchange - all exchanges Annual $35.00
Theatrical
performances, etc. (any theatrical, Annual $35.00
operatic,
minstrel, musical performance or
exhibition)
See also shows
Tin
shop or tin repairer Annual $35.00
Trailer
park Annual $35.00
plus
$5.00 per Trailer
Transient
merchant
See peddler
(U) Undertaker and embalmers Annual $35.00
(V)
Vehicles (upon a license tax on each Annual $35.00
vehicle used and operated in this city
for
the purpose of hauling goods, wares,
and merchandise for parties other than
themselves)
But
this section shall not apply to merchants or other persons who use their own
vehicles
to
deliver their goods, nor persons working for the cit when in city employ.
(W) Warehouse Annual $35.00
Welding
or generator shop Annual $35.00
Wholesale
merchants Annual $35.00
(supplying merchants selling at retail)
Wood
yard and coal yards Annual $35.00
(Ord. 279; Ord. 913)
Sec. 6-4. License - Term; not transferable.
All licenses except as otherwise provided shall extend for the period of one year from the date of purchase or from the date of purchase to the closest first of the month then one year so that all licenses shall expire at the first of each month. The rate fixed for one year's license and no license to be transferred. (Ord. 279, §5.)
Sec. 6-5. No license to be issued unless city taxes paid.
Hereafter no merchant's license shall be issued or renewed to any person, firm or corporation, who shall at the time of making application for such license or its renewal be indebted to the city for taxes therefore duly assessed against such applicant remaining unpaid. (Ord. 209, §1.)
Sec. 6-6. Penalty for not obtaining license.
Any person, firm association or corporation, engaging in any occupation, trade or business set forth in this Ordinance, in which a license is required, without first having procured a license, shall be adjudged guilty of an offense against the city, and be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ord. 279, §8; 1977 Code) (For penalty see Section 1-13.)
Sec.
6-7.
(a) Sales - If any person shall sell or expose for sale at public outcry or auction on any of the sidewalks or streets in the frequented parts of the city, any goods, wares, merchandise, or any property or thing of any description, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ord. 29, Section 3; 1977 Code) (For penalty see Section 1-13.)
(b) Storage - Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to use any street or alley or any part of any street or alley of the City of St. James, Missouri for the purpose of storing or the displaying of any machinery of any kind or character or any other goods, wares or merchandise. (Ordinance 210, Section 3) (See Section 23-390 for penalty for violation of Section 6-7(b).)
Sec. 6-8. Rummage, garage and yard sales.
(a) Individuals who have rummage, garage, or yard sales on their property or rented property will be limited to six sales per year and each sale shall not exceed a three day duration period.
(b) Individuals who exceed the limitations of this Ordinance to continue the sales will be required to purchase a business license and locate the sales in a properly zoned commercial area.
(c) This Ordinance does not apply to churches, church affiliated organizations, schools, and school affiliated organizations.
(d) A no cost permit for temporary rummage, garage or yard sale signs will be issued by the Police Department upon proper application by phone or in person. The applicant shall provide name, address and dates of the sale. In return the Police Department will issue a permit number. This permit number shall be on any sign on city street and road right of way in two inch or greater fon