License Ordinance
come, per year —
and for each additional
AN ORDINANCE IMPOSINO A U- $1,000.00 or fraction there-
CENSE TAX ON ALL PERSONS. of
FIRMS AND CORPORATIONS BOTTLING WORKS—
WHO ENGAGE IN. PROSECUTE Bottling works using auto-
OR CARRY ON ANY BUSINESS
OR PROFESSION IN THE TOWN
OF CLINTON. S.C.
State of South Carolina,
County of Laurens,
Town of Clinton.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN,
COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF
CLINTON, S. C., IN COUNCIL AS
SEMBLED:
Section 1 That no person, firm or
corporation shall after the 1st day of
January. 1954, engage in, pirosecute
'or carry on any business or profes
sion hereinafter named, within the
corporate limits of the Town of Clih-
ton, without having first paid a spe
cial license tax therefor. The amount
of said special tax shall be the
amount placed opposite each occupa-
tion, business or profession herein-
below named, respectively, and the
amount shall be the cost of said spe
cial tax per annum unless otherwise
specified, to wit: (Note Penalty
Clause at end of list).
matic capping machines,
per year, on sales not over
$10,000.00
On each additional
$1,000.00 of sales ...
Itinerants or those not
having a bottling plant in
the Town of Clinton and de
livering from trucks and
other motor vehicles shall
pay on sales not over $10,-
000.00, per year
On each additional
$1,000.00 over this
BOOTBLACKS—
Bootblacks, first chair, per
year ,
' Each additional chair, per
year
BUS STATIONS OR TERMI-
Bus stations or terminals
where tickets are sold or of
fered for sale, per year
75.00
25.00'
20 00,
65.00
5.00
2.50
ADVERTISING—
Advertising by motor vehi
cle or otherwise on the
'treets, including distribu
tion of handbills, circulars
or other advertising matter
* >r materials, or bill posting,
per year $ 50.00
Per day
Provided, the provisions
hereof shall not apply to
any person, firm or corpor
ation maintaining a regular
place of business in the
Town of Clinton when such
advertising is restricted to
the advertising of said busi
ness by the person having a
license to operate said busi
ness
AGENTS FOR LAUNDRIES—
Pir year „
ARCHITECTS-
P*t year ..
A T CT U >VE£RS—
Whose grot* annua! income
*s $1.000 00 or lest .. .
Whoee gross daily income
is $25 00 or '.<**, per day
AUDITORS OR CERTIFIED
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS, per
year
ALTO FILLING STATIONS—
First pump operated, per
>raf
Ea* 'ft iUflail pU!T!p op-
«rated, per year
Where stuck of accesSQftee
i* kept for sale, an addition-
' ’required, per year
\tTi» WASHING DEPOTS
* **! sHFDS. not connevled
* n ■••.her >usinese a per
50.001
5.001
35.00
50.00'
CARPENTER SHOP KEEPER—
per year ....... 5.00
CANVASSERS OR PEDDLERS—
Canvassers or peddlers, sell
ing goods, wares or mer
chandise of whatsoever
ch-aracter or kind, per year
Per day
CEMENT BLOCK MANU
FACTURERS. per year
5 00 CONTRACTORS. CONSTRUC
TION—
Contractors or firms of such
taking construction c o n -
tracts for more than $5.000..
00, per year
Contractors taking con
tracts for not more than
$5,000.00. per year
CONTRACTORS—
Contractors, transient or
non-resident, for paving,
house building, term it «-
proofing, insulating, heating
plants, plumbing or any
construction work, when
contract doe* not exceed
$5.000 00
and $7$ per $1,000 00 on
excess at $5.000 00
5 00 CHIROPRACTORS AND CH1R
OPOOBTS—
Same as physicians, per
M no * year - JO 00
CIRCUSES—
At discretion of Mayor and |
majority of Town Council
Circuses having one ring
only, per day 100b)
Circus parades, where ex
hibition is held out of the
corporate limit* of the Town
of Clinton 15000
CREDIT REPORTING AGENCY
and $.75 for each addition
al $1,000.00 of gross annual
income.
.75 F
FEED MILL OR FEED MAN
UFACTURER, per year 100.00'
FINANCE COMPANIES or
persons, firms or corpor-
63.00 ations in money lending
business, per year
•75 FLORISTS, per year
' FRESH FISH DEALERS, with
; or without other business,
i whose gross annual income
is $1,500.00 or less, per year
G
GRIST MLLS, whose gross
annual income is $1,000.00
or less, each, per year < 12.50
H
HAWKERS AND PEDDLERS,
selling or offering for sale,
goods, wares and merchan
dise, whose gross daily in
come is $50.00 or less, per
day - —
HOTELS, TOURIST HOMES,
OR ROOMING HOUSES—
Whose gross annual income
does not exceed $5,000.00,
per year
and for each additional
$1,000.00 of gross annual in
come
HORSE OR MULE TRAD
ERS, transient, whose gross
daily income is $1,000.00 or
less, per day
I .
5.00
5.00
35.00
35.00
.75
5.00
INSURANCE COMPANIES—
15 00
30 00
15.00
50 00
15
u-
1000
>t .»r-
MT«»Mv>BltE HEP AIR
rrputr
a n<>*r gru#» Annual
nut exceed IJ.Vmmk!
per your
und for each Additional
S1,000 00 of cm** tnnual in-
exroe
AUTOMOBILE AGENTS OR
IIEALFRS-
till
OR BUREAU, per year
COTTON
Per year
COTTON GfNNI
First gin. per year
Adiitumai gu
por
Life. Fire, Sick Benefit, Cas
ualty, Accident, Fidelity,
Guaranty, Liability, Boiler
or other like insurance com
panies represented by tran
sient solicitor or agent, of
$500.00 gross income or leas,
per week 15.00
INSURANCE COMPANIES
3500 (CASUALTY)—
Insurance companies
dling accident, sick
fidelity, guaranty, plate
(las*, boiler, liability, live
stock, casualty or other like
insurance, of
annual income or
■ year . 15 o«
and for each additional
$100.00 of gross annual In
come. per year ^ 2 00
INSURANCE COMPANIES
(FIRE)—
Fire insurance companies
shall pay a license tax of ,
two (2* • Y per cent on pre
mium* collected on risk*
within the town limits of,
the Town of Clinton per an
num Thu applies to each
and every underwriter* as
sociation or Agency whether
license I* paid by parent
.uropsny or not.
INSURANCE COMPANIES —
(urs>~- * •
Each life insurance com
pany having a grot* annual
premium income of not
more than $500Ci, per year 1500
Having gross annual prr-
MACHINE SELLERS AND
VENDORS dispensing candy,
gum, nuts,, drinks, tobacco
products or other merchan
dise—
One cent in slot machine,
per year — ...
Five cents in slot ma
chine, per year 7.50
Ten cents or more in slot
machine, per year 10.00
Separate, license to be ob
tained for each such ma
chine and in each place of
business where machine is
operated, properly displayed
at all times for inspection.
Operator of saad place of
business to be responsible
for license without regard to
ownership of said machine.
MEDICINE SELLERS—
Per year or fraction of year 100.00
MARBLE YARDS OR
AGENCIES—
Whose gross annual income
is $1,000.00 or less, per
year ^
MECHANICS, working on au
tomobiles who do not main
tain a regular place of busi
ness, per year
MOVING PICTURE SHOWS—
Whose gross annual income
is $10,000.00 or less, per
year —•
and for each additional
$1,000.00 of gross annual in
come — ——
MANUFACTURERS, incor
porated, having capital stock
of $50,000.00 or less, per
year — -
Having capital stock of
more than $50,000.00 and
not more than $100,000.00,
per year - 100.00
Having capital stock of
more than $100,000 00 and
not more than $350,0000.00.
ar -... 250.001
Having capital Mock of
than 3330.000.00 and
not
daily income is $500.00 or
less, per day at Mayor's dis-
. ere tion — -
SALES BARN, whose gross
annual sales is $50,000.00 or
less, per year —
and $.75 per $1,000.00 of
additional gross sales over
$50,000.00.
SHOE SHOPS—
Whose gross annual income
does not exceed $1,000.00,
cen*e issued for a day, i
month, annual rate shall be
50.00 for all licenses issued prior to June
30, 1854, three-fourths of the '
rate shall be charged for all
50.00 issued after June 30, 1914, and prior
to September 30, 1954, and one-half
' the annual rate for all licenses is-
!sued after September 30, 1914, and
prior to December 31, 1954.
, Section 3. That every person, cor
poration or partnership, required by
per year - U 15.00 this ordinance to obtain a license to
and for each additional engage in any business, 4rade, pro-
1 $1,000.00 of gross annual in- fession or occupation, for which a U-
come -75 cense is required, shall at the'time of
STREET TRUCKS— ' applying for such license, or at any.
Doing drayage and hauling | other time as may be required by
n for hire, per year 10.00 the Town Council, furnish to the
T Town Clerk, or auditor of the city,
TAXIpABS, per year 50.00 such other and further information
10.00
15.0(
75.00
.751
75.001
and Ally cents ($ $•) for
each additional $1,000 00 of
capita!
unin-
ia
of
No person, firm or conpor-
ation shall let or hire or op
erate any taxicabs or motor
vehicles transporting pass
engers within the corporate
limits of the Town of Clin
ton without first obtaining a
license therefor from the
Town Clerk.
No taxicab shall be li
censed to operate in the
Town of Clinton unless the
same is registered with the
State Highway Department
fn Laurens County School
District No. 56 and the
Town of Clinton, and unless
such taxicab is returned for
property taxes in Laurens
County School District No.
56 and in the Town of Clin
ton, in Laurens County, S.
C., and unless all delinquent
Town of Clinton property
taxes thereon are paid.
As a condition precedent
to the granting or issuing
of any license for the oper
ation of any taxicab, auto
mobile hacks, or other ve
hicle for hauling or trans
porting pa wengers for hire
within the corporate limits
of the Town of Clinton, the
applicant for such license
shall first be required to file
with the Town Clerk of the
Town of Clinton a policy or
policies of insurance iseued
by a company or companies
in the State
of
as may be necessary for correctly
! ascertaining the license to be assess
ed and collected.
Section 4. Any person, firm, com
pany or corporation prosecuting or
engaging in any business or occu-
| pation or profession or keeping or
| maintaining any establishment
named in this Ordinance without
i first having paid the license tax im
posed thereon, or shall violate other-Rr
wise any of the terms or provisions'^
of this Ordinance, shall upon con
viction, be fined not exceeding one
hundred dollars, or be imprisoned
! not exceeding thirty days with or
.without hard labor at the discretion
of the officer trying the case.
Section 5. Where a license U im
posed by this ordinance upon any
business, profession or occupation,
and such business, profession or oc- •
cupation is carried on or conducted
by an agent, clerk or employee shall
be subject to all the penalties herein
imposed should the said business,
profession or occupation be carried
on or prosecuted without the license
imposed having been paid in the
same manner as if such agent, clerk
or employee were the proprietor of
Section $.
of U-
provnded f<*r
on the
renaming the
of said
for ae-
U-
m
3$J$.
20 ^
w
year
Having
than $I«MMM and
more than $3$MM M. pw
year — *MR]
Having
ferturtng
than
more than $5M.0MM.
year
. and ifty (Mi) corns for«
additional $lj$t$.M of assets
m manufacturing
N
NEWSPAPERS.
year
16.661
mi tarn income at more
than
annual income does net ex
CABINET AND GENERAL
666666 and not more
than
ceed $: 0 noo 00. per year
35 66
REPAIR SHOPS-
$1.00000, per year —,
46 60
and fnr each additional
c Who** grow annual income
Having grass annual
pre-
$1,666.66 at from annual Jn-
is $500 00 or less, per year
26 66,
mium income of more
than
cocne —
.75
abase gross annual income
65J66.66 and not more
then
O
Automckoi e agents or deal-
«* wd* $*"•> per year—
25 00
hawng a sales room or
COLD DRINK STANDS
wrvic* department in the
. ( Per jrqer
$.06
Town of Clinton on which
COAL AND WOOD YARD—
.idditionsl Town Uognse tax
For first $5.660 00 of oust-
i* paid and sOase from an
nem, per year
25.001
nual tn.oroe due* not exceed
For each additional
$5,000 00. per >ear
25 00) $1,000 00 of business or
and for each additional
fractiocyi! part thereof, per
$1,00000 of grays anmial in
year
.75
ti.me
- 4 CORN MILLS—
Automobile agents or deal-
Per year .
12.54,
$10,000 00, par
Having grass annua!
miuro income of more
$10jl00, per year
(This section shall apply
only to premim* collected
or renewed on the lives of
persona routing within the
town limit* of the Town of
Clinton. S. C>
J
60
75.00 i
OIL AND GASOLINE COM-
from annual
not exceed
$30.000JO. per year
and for each additional
$1,00000 of gross annual in-
$0.00
.7$
having no sale* room or
ice department in the
Town of Clinton and whose
«ro?> annua! income does
not exceed $5.000 00, per
year
and for each additional
$1,000.00 of gross annual in
come
AUTO PAINT SHOPS—
Auto paint shops, uphol
stery shop or vulcaniing
shop, per year
B
BALI S AND DANCES—
Balls and dances given for
private monetary gain, per
day
BILL POSTERS—
Bill posters operating regu
lar services by rental of
space on property or boards
owned by company, on gross
income of less than $3,000.00,
(dealers in fruits-
Dealers in fruit*, melon* or
vegetables, selling from car
as retail merchant*
JEWELRY. WATCH AND
CLOCK REPAIRS, whose
•rrat annual income is
100 00
by itinerant
car, per day
dealer*, each
per annum 50.00 i DEALERS
DEALERS OR AGENTS for
sale of fertilizers — Same as
75! merchant*.
DEALERS IN RADIOS, when
not in a general store, per
year
30.00 j DEALERS IN ELECTRIC RE
FRIGERATORS, when not
in general store, per year ...
DELIVERY VEHICLES — All
out of town delivery vehic-
5.00 les delivering merchandise,
including laundry, but ex
cepting ice, which is cover
ed in another clause, per
year
, DENTISTS, per year
: DIAPER SERVICES, per year
Where gross annual in
come is more than $3,000.00 75.00
Transient bill poster, per
day .• 5.00
BROKER IN LUMBER—
Broker in lumber, not car
rying stock, per year 35.00
BLACKSMITH SHOPS—
Blacksmith shop whose an
nual income is $150.00 or
less, per year 15.00
BARBER SHOPS—
Barber shops operating one
or more chairs, per chair,
per year 10.00
BEAUTY SHOPS—
Beauty shop, each operator,
per year 1... 10.00
BUILDING AND LOAN AS
SOC LATONS, per year 50.00
BICYCLE DEALERS—
Bicycle dealer* whose from
annual income is $1,000.00
or leas, per year 10.00
3500
CH1NERY
IN FARM MA-
Same as retail
25.00
30.00
20.00
is $2,000 00 or
merchant.
DRY CLEANERS AND LAUN
DRIES—
Doing business in Clinton:
On gross annual income of
$5,000.00 or less .... 30.00
On each additional $1,000.00
of gross income 75
E
ELECTRICAL AND PLUMB
ING CONTRACTORS—
On gross annual income of
$5,000.00 or less 25.00
and $ .75 per $1,000.00 on
gross annual income in ex
cess of $5,000.00.
ELECTRIC SUPPUES AND
SPORTING GOODS DEAL
ERS—Same as Merchants.
EXPRESS COMPANIES OR
AGENTS, each for business
done exclusively in the
Town of Clinton, S. but
not including business done
to or from points without
the State of South Carolina,
or for the Government of
the U. S..
of groas in
tros* I
$1.000 00 or let*, per year... 15.00
$.00'JEWELERS' itinerant, offer-
mg for sale jewelry, watch
es, clocks, etc., or repairing
same, whose gross daily in
come is $100.00 or less, per
day 5.00
25.00 JUNK DEALERS, for the first
$10,000.00 of business done 50.00
and for business done in ex-
25 00 of $10,000.00, $ .75 for
each $1,000.00.
LAWYERS—
Per year «- 30.00
LUNCH COUNTERS—
Per year — 20.00
M
MERCHANTS, RETAIL—
Retail merchants and all
persons, firms or corpor- »
ations selling a retail at an
established place of business
articles of trade or mer
chandise for which a spe
cial license is not required,
whose gross annual sales do
not exceed $10,000.00, per
year —
and for each additional
$1,000.00 of gross sales over
$10,000.00
MERCHANTS, WHOLESALE—
Wholesale merchants and
wholesale dealers in hay,
grain, provisions, goods,
wares or merchandise, who
carry a stock of goods with
in a warehouse or store
room, whose gross annual
sales do not exceed $25,-
000.00, per year 25.00
and $.75 for each addition
al $1,000.00 of gross sales
' over $25,000.00. The basis
for ascertaining the amount
of the license tax due shall
be the gross amount of all
(cash or credit) for the
20.00
75
1st. 1953. and
list, i$6J.
25.00
20.00
30.00
30.00
25.00
75
OR OCULISTS, on their owa
account or working for oth
ers, per year
F
PAINT SHOP. AUTOMOBILE—
Per year — 35 oo
PAWN SHOPS OB FINANCE
COMPANIES — See Finance
Companies.
POOL ROOM, for each tabic
operated, per year
PHOTOGRAPHERS AND-OR
PHOTO PRINTING, whose
gross annual income is
$2,000.00 or less, per annum
Whose gross annual in
come is more than $2,000.00,
per annum — —
PHYSICIANS, per annum
PRINTING OffTICE, whose
gross annual income does
not exceed $3,000.00, per
year
and for each additional
$1,000.00 of gross annual in
come
PHOTOGRAPHERS, transient.
Itinerant, or non-resident,
j)er year 100.00
PLUMBERS, per year 30.00
R
RESTAURANTS, CAFES,
AND EATING HOUSES,
whose . gross annual income
does not exceed $10,000.00,
per year 25.00
and for each additional
$1,000.00 of gross annual in
come 75
RAILROAD COMPANIES OR
AGENCIES, for business done
in the Town of Clinton, reg
ulated by Act of Legislature,
Section 65-921, S. C. Code
of Laws for 1952 as follows:
Town having population
between 5,000 and 10,000—
For first 1,000 population 25.00
For each additional 1,000
population, or major frac
tion thereof 30 00
REAL ESTATE AGENTS OR
BROKERS, per year — — 30.00
S
SEWING MACHINE AGENTS,
per year : 20.00..
SHOWS, PERFORMANCES,
of all kinds.
bide to be
j t>. -
of not 1«m
for injury to
and in an
of not km than
$16.006 00 for injury to more
Uian one person injured in
dhe accident, and in an
amount of not lam than
65,666 66 for damage* to the
property of any person or
persons. Bnid insurance
•hall be of a type and shall
be carried in a company or
campon im to be approved
by the Town Council of the
Town of Clinton and
be maintained In full
at all times during the
of any
under, and H shall be un
lawful for any taxicab, au
tomobile or vehicle for
transporting or h e u 1 i n g
psssengon for hire to bo op
erated in the Town of Clin
ton at any time without
having such Insurance in
full force and effect
ladies* or
fs, whose annual gross
not exceed
li.ooooo. por year 10.00
and for eech additional $1,-
000 00 of gross income. .75
TELEPHONE COMPANIES,
local, each for business done
exclusively in the Town of
Clinton. S. C., but not in
cluding business done to or
from other points without
the State, or for the Gov
ernment of the U. S., whose
. gross annual income does
not exceed $10,000.00, per
y«»r iso.oo
and .for each additional $1,-
000.00 of gross annual in
come ; 75
TELEGRAPH COMPANIES,
OR AGENCIES, for business
done in the Town of Clinton,
but not' including business
to or from points without
the State, or for the Gov
ernment of the U. S., whose
gross annual income does
not exceed $5,000.00, per
year 50.00
U
UNDERTAKERS, whose gross
annual income does not ex
ceed $5,000.00, per year 35.00
and for each additional $1,-
000.00 of gross annual in
come 75
W
WAREHOUSES—
Warehouses kept for storing
cotton, grain and other com
modities, whose gross an
nual income does not exceed
$2,500.00, per year 25.00
and for each additional $1,-
000.00 of gross income 75
WASKETERIAS—
Per year 20.00
WOODWORKING OR SASH
AND DOOR PLANTS—
Per year 50.00
Section 2. That all licenses issued
and by virtue of THIS ORDINANCE
SHALL BE NON-TRANSFERAHLE
and. except a license for a day, a
week or a month, shall terminate and
end on the 31tt day of December,
1954, but may be revoked at any
time by the Town Council of the
Town of Clinton on satisfactory
cause being shown; and except li-
shall be the amount of
31.
■ ' 1
which a li-
ts required. *all at
of applying for such
j officer qualified to ad minuter oaths,
I and file said statement wtth the
Town Clerk setting forth:
(1) His or her name, style of firm,
of Company, or corporation.
(2) The trade, business, profes-
t*>on or orrupotton for which a li
cense u required
(I) The amount of bmlnoos pro
to be done during the currant
la
such information ie
of
to
Uon. trade, business or profoeslon if
the
ed the previous year. The Town
Clerk shall thereupon assess and col
lect the proper license tax
vided for to Una ordinance, a
such tax being paid, shall issue to
the applicant the proper Mcenee.
Section 6. For any htiainiTaa. trade,
occupation or profession not enum
erated to Section 1 of this Ordinance,
the license shall be fixed by the
Mayor and he is hereby given full
power gnd authority $0 fix same and
such license therefor as shall be fix
ed by the Mayor shall be as bind
ing in every respect as though it
were specifically enumerated os des
ignated in thk Ordinance.
Section 9. The license taxes here
in imposed are levied for the pur
pose of raisingUund* to meet the
annual ordinary Expenses of the
Town of Clinton for the fiscal year
commencing on the 1st day of Jan
uary, 1954, and for the purpose of
paying in whole or in part any legal
indebtedness of the said city incur
red for ordinary expenses thereof
falling due during the said fiscal
year.
All annual licenses must be paid
on or before January 31, 1954, or
penalty of an additional 10 per cent
charge after January 31. If license
is not paid by February 15, 1954, the
business will be closed by the Police
Department and aotion brought in
the Town Court, under Section 4 of
this Ordinance for the misdemeanor
of doing business without license.
Section 10. If any word, clause,
sentence or section of this Ordinance
be declared unconstitutional or in
contravention of any law or laws of
the State of South Carolina, such
shall not affect any otlier word,
clause, sentence or. section thereof.
Section 11. This Ordinance shall
go into effect on the 1st day of Jan
uary, A. D. 1954.
Done and ratified by the Town
Council of the Town of Clinton,
S. C. In Council assembled and the
corporate seal of the said Town, of
Clinton hereto affixed this the 7th
0 i Dec ^ r ’ A - D. 1953, and in
Hundred and Seventy-
ughth year of the Sovereignty and
Independence of the United States
of America.
Attest: J ° E P - TERRY ’ M***-
W. B. OWENS,
Clerk and Treasurer.
(Town Seel)
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