Ordinance - 594ORDINANCE NO. 594
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WEST COVINA AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 142 RELATING TO
THE LICENSING OF BUSINESS, TRADES AND OCCUPATIONS
The City Council of the City of West Covina does ordain
as follows:
SECTION 1. Subsection (d) of Section 7 of Ordinance
No.142, passed and approved the 25th day of June, 1947, is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"(d) Where a yearly license is provided for herein, the
same shall apply to the calendar year of January 1st to the
following December 31st.11
Subsections (c) and (e) of Section 7 of said Ordinance
No. 142 are hereby repealed.
SECTION 2. Section 12 of said Ordinance No. 142 is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"SECTION 12. The penalty for the failure to secure a
license as required by this or any other ordinance shall be
as follows.:
Whenever the fee required by this ordinance is not paid
Oon or before the date due, a penalty of 10% of the amount due
shall be imposed, and an additional penalty of 10% of the
original fee shall be added at the close of business of the
last day of each calendar month thereafter. Each penalty
shall become part of the license fee required by this ordin-
ance. However, in no case shall the total penalty exceed
50% of the original fee.
All license fees required by this ordinance shall be
deemed delinquent if not paid within thirty days after the
first day when the payment for such license or licenses shall
be prescribed.
In the case of a newly established business at a fixed
place for which a license is prescribed, no penalty shall
be imposed if the fee shall be paid within fifteen days after
the commencement of operation. Otherwise penalty shall be
imposed as in the case of any other business."
SECTION 3. Section 14 of said Ordinance No. 142 is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"SECTION 14. The license collector shall keep a record
in which he shall enter all licenses issued by him, the date
thereof, to whom issued, for what purpose, the location where
the same is to be carried on, the time when the license
expires, and the amount thereof.
He shall make a monthly report to the Council of all
licenses collected.
It shall be the duty of the City Clerk, and he is hereby
directed to enforce each and all of the provisions of this
ordinance, and the Chief of Police and Special Services
Officer shall render such assistance in the enforcement
thereof as may from time to time be required by the City Clerk
and/or the City Council.
The City Clerk in the exercise of the duties imposed upon
him hereunder, and acting through his deputies, the Special
Services Officer, or duly authorized assistants, shall examine
or cause to be examined all places of business in the City to
ascertain whether the provisions of this ordinance have been
fully complied with.
The City Clerk and each and all of his assistants, the
Special Services Officer, and any police officer shall have
the power and authority to enter, free of charge and at any
reasonable time, any place of business required to be licensed
herein, and demand the exhibit of the license certificate.
Any person having such license certificate theretofore issued
in his possession or under his control, who wilfully fails to
exhibit the same on demand shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and subject to the penalties provided for by the provisions of
this ordinance. It shall be the duty of the City Clerk and
each of his assistants to cause a complaint to be filed against
any and all persons found to be violating any of said provisions."
SECTION 4. Said Ordinance No. 142 is hereby amended by the
addition thereto of a new Section 26a reading as follows:
"SECTION 26a. Before any person is granted any license as
a peddler or solicitor of any kind, whether entitled to an
exempt license or not, or as a junk dealer, he shall first
furnish to the City Clerk, or his authorized assistant or
deputy, a clear and acceptable recent photograph of himself and
• be fingerprinted, and such photograph and fingerprints shall
be filed with the permanent records of the Police Department."
SECTION 5. The following numbered subsections of Section 28
of said Ordinance No. 142 are hereby repealed: (1), (2), (3), (4),
(5), (6), (7), (8)2 (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), (14), (16), (17),
(18)2 (19), (20), (21)0 (25), (26), (27)2 (28), (29), (31), (34),
(35) , (36).. (38).. (39) , (41) , (42) , (44) , (45) , (46) , (47) , (48) , (49) ,
(51)2 (53), (54), (55), (57), (58) and (60).
SECTION 6. The first sentence of subsection(43) of Section
28 of said Ordinance No. 142 is hereby amended to read as follows:
t4(43) HOUSE MOVER: For every person engaged in the
business of house moving, the sum of $36.00 per annum or
fraction thereof plus $3.00 per each employee over three in
number."
SECTION 7. Subsection (50) of Section 28 of said Ordinance
No. 142 is hereby amended to read as follows:
11-(50) MOTELS, APARTMENT HOUSES: For the business of
conducting a motel or apartment house wherein rooms or apart-
ments are rented by the day, week, or month, the sum of $36.00
per annum or fraction thereof, where said motel or apartment
house has 5 rental units or less; for each additional unit
40 the sum of $3.00 per unit per annum or fraction thereof."
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SECTION 8. Subsection (56) of Section 28 of said
Ordinance No. 142 is hereby amended to read as follows:
"(56) TAXI For every person operating a taxicab
business, the sum of $36.00 per annum, which shall include
2 taxicabs, plus $12.00 per annum per each taxicab over 2."
SECTION 9. Said Ordinance No. 142 is hereby amended by
the addition to Section 28 thereof of a new subsection (63) reading
as follows:
11(63) ALL BUSINESSES NOT OTHERWISE LISTED: For every
person carrying on any business, trade, profession or occupa-
tion not herein specifically provided for, the sum of $36.00
per annum or fraction thereof, plus the additional sum of
$3.00 per annum for each employee over three in number."
SECTION 10. Wherever reference is made to "fiscal year'}
in said Ordinance No. 142, the same shall be deemed to refer to
the calendar year,,.
SECTION 11. The provisions of this ordinance shall be
operative commencing January 1, 1959. As of that date any prepaid
license for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1958 and ending
June 30, 1959, shall be prorated and the unused portion thereof
shall be applied against the license due for the period beginning
January 1, 1959.
SECTION 12. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage
of this ordinance and shall publish the same as required by law.
Passed and approved this 14th day of October
1958.
ayor
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS.
CITY OF WEST COVINA )
I, ROBERT FLOTTEN, City Clerk of the City of West Covina,
do hereby certify that the above Ordinance No. 594 was regularly
introduced and placed upon its first reading at an adjourned regular
meeting of the City Council on the 29th day of September, 1958.
That thereafter, said ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a
regular meeting of the City Council on the 14th day of October ,
1958, by the following vote, to -wit:
AYES: Councilmen Heath, Brown, Barnes, Pittenger, Mayor Mottinger
NOES: Councilmen None
ABSENT: Councilmen None
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