Ordinance - 598ORDINANCE NO. 598
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WEST COVINA AMENDING ORDINANCE N0: 142 RELATING
TO BUSINESS LICENSES.
The City Council of the City of West Covina does ordain as
Iff ollows:
SECTION 1. Subsection (f) of Section '7 of Ordinance No. 142,
passed and approved the 25th day of June, 1947, is hereby amended to read,
as follows:
"(f) All annual license fees shall be due and payable in
lawfulo'money of the United States in advance on the first day of
January.of each year. Any person doing business for less than
the full year and for which business an annual license fee is
provided shall be required to pay the amount of the license fee
for a full year, except that the fee for any such license issued
on or after July 1st of any year for the remainder of such
calendar year to a person not subject to be licensed by the City
for the conduct of such business during any part of the first
six months of said year shall be fifty percent of the annual
license fee prescribed for such business.
Except as otherwise herein provided, license fees, other
than annual, required hereunder, shall not be prorated and shall
be due and payable in advance in lawful money of the United
States. Any license fee paid, whether erroneously or otherwise,
shall not be refunded."
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 ordinance shall be as follows:
Whenever the fee required by this ordinance is not paid
on or before the date due or within thirty days thereafter,_a
penalty of ten percent of the amount due shall be imposed, and
an additional penalty of ten percent 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 ordinance. However, in no case
shall the total penalty exceed fifty percent of the original fee.
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. Said Ordinance No. 142 is hereby amended by the
addition to Section 28 thereof of a new Subsection (64) reading as follows:
"(64) For every person selling,.peddling or vending meat,
poultry, fish, bakery products, dairy products, lunches, or
groceries or other prepared food products from a vehicle, the sum
of $36.00 per year for each vehicle."
SECTION 4. The provisions of Sections 1, 2 and 3 of this
ordinance shall be operative commencing January 1, 1959 and shall super;-
sede any conflicting provisions in any ordinance adopted prior to the date
of adoption of this ordinance.
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SECTION 5. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of
this ordinance and publish the same as required by law.
Passed and approved this 27th day of October , 1958.
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. 598 was regularly
introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting
of the City Council on the 14th day of October , 1958. That,
thereafter, said ordinance r swas
adop e an passed at a regular
meeting of the City Council on the 27th day of October 1958.,
by the following vote, to -wit:
AYES: Councilmen: Reath, Brown, Barnes, Pittenger, Mayor Mottinger
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT:Councilmen: None
City Clerk
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