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ORD 73-14 AMEND ORD 148 & REPEALING ORD 72-3ORDINANCE NO. 73-14 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF WINSLOW, WASHINGTON, REVISING AND AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 148 PROVIDING FOR THE LICENSING OF CERTAIN TYPES OF BUSINESSES AND OCCUPATIONS AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 72-3 The City Council of the City of Winslow do ordain as follows: Section 1: Section 3 of Ordinance No. 148 is hereby revised to read as follows: "Section 3: PERSONS SUBJECT TO TAX. On or after the effective date of this Ordinance, there is hereby levied upon and shall be collected from and paid, as hereinafter provided, by every person, on account and for the privilege of engaging in business activities within the City of Winslow, an annual license fee or occupation tax per calendar year, or any portion thereof, in a sum equal to the amounts set forth for the various business activities as classified in the following schedule: CLASS 1. SIXTY DOLLARS ($60.00) PER YEAR: Auto Parts Auto Sales (new and used) Banking and Finance (except as exempt by law) Building Materials Catalog Stores Clothing Stores Contractors Drug Stores Dry Cleaning Establishments Florists and Nurseries Food Service Funeral Homes Furniture and appliances Grocery Stores Hardware Interior Decorators Jewelry Stores Manufacturing and Processing Mobile Home Parks Radio and TV Sales and Service Service Stations Shoe Stores Taverns Travel Agencies Utilities Variety Stores CLASS 2. FORTY DOLLARS ($40.00) PER YEAR: Accountants Architects Attorneys Dentists Doctors Engineers Insurance Agents and Brokers Mortgage and Escrow Agencies Real Estate Agents and Brokers Rooming house and/or hotel or motel and/or apartment houses except duplexes consisting of not more than two units. Veterinarians CLASS 3. THIRTY DOLLARS ($30.00) PER YEAR: All other business activities except those expressly enumerated in Class 1, 2, 4, 5 or 6. CLASS 4. TWENTY DOLLARS ($20.00) PER YEAR: Individually operated part time home owned or domestic occupations. CLASS 5. TWENTY DOLLARS ($20.00) PER YEAR: Businesses located outside the corporate limits of the City of Winslow which make regular retail sales and deliveries or engage in the sale of consumer services within the City of Winslow. CLASS 6. TEN DOLLARS ($10.00) PER YEAR: All businesses located within the City of Winslow but not doing business on Bainbridge Island." Section 2: Section 5 of Ordinance 148 is amended read as follows: '~Section 5: BUSINESS LICENSE REQUIRED: The 'Business License' referred to herein shall expire on the 31st day of December in the year issued and a new license shall be required for each year. A new applicant shall pay for the license fee applicable to his classification which payment may be on a quarterly basis if the applicant so elects. Applications for the licenses shall be made to and issued by the City Clerk of the City of Winslow on forms provided by the Clerk, on which shall be stated the residence of the applicant, the nature of his business or business activity in which he desires to engage and the place where it is proposed to be con- ducted. If the City Clerk shall find the application to be correct, the license shall be issued upon payment of the required fee. The license issued hereunder shall be personal and non-transferable, and shall at all times be con- spicuously posted in the place of business for which it is issued. Where a place of business of the taxpayer is changed, the taxpayer shall return the license to the City Clerk and a new license shall be issued for the new place of business without charge for said transfer. In case business is transacted at two or more separate places by one person within the City of Winslow, a separate license for each place in which business is transacted with the public shall be required in accordance with said classification. No person to whom a license has been issued pursuant to this Ordinance shall permit or allow any other person to operate any business under or display his license; nor shall such other person operate under or display such license. Section 3: REPEAL OF ORDINANCE NO. 72-3. City of Winslow Ordinance N'o. 72-3 adopted February 7, 1972, relating to licensing of home occupations, is hereby repealed. Section 4: EFFECTIVE DATE. This Ordinance shall become in full effect on ~anuary 1, 1974 but publication in the manner required by law shall be commenced immediately. '\ Mayor ATTEST: (Robert W. Mc~isson / ~ ' Of Beresford, Booth, Lehne, McKisson & Baronsky City Attorney