The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, December 19, 1929, Image 11
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iBmSDAY, DECEMBEtt 19, ItM
AN ORDINANCE
lMpoai«f a liceiiae Tax aa Persona
Eafaga In, Prbaecute or Carry
On Any Business or Profession In
Tke TWn of CHnton.
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40.00
10.00
5.00
2.00
15.00
10.00
10.00
25.00
25.00
5.00
State of South Carolina,
County of Laurens,
Town of Clinton.
BE n ORDAINED BY THE
TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN
OP CLINTON:^ ^ '
’ Section 1. That no person,* firm ui*
corporation shall, after the first day
of January, 1930, engage in, prosecute
or carry on any business or profes
sion hereinafter named, within the
corporate limits of the Town of Clin
ton, without having first paid a special
license tax therefor. The amount of
said special tax shall be the amount
placed opposite each occupation, busi
ness or profession herein below named,
respectively, and the amount shall be
the cost of said spMial tax per annum,
unless otherwise specified, to wit:
Agents for laundries, per an-
Rum »•*
Agents for Oil Refining Com
panies, per annum
Architects whose gross annual
income is $1,000 or less, per
annum
Auctioneers whose gross an
nual income is $1,000 or less,
per annum
Whose gross daily income is
$25.00 or less, per day
Auto filling stations, first pump
operated, per annum
E^ch additional pump operat
ed, per annum
Where stock of accessories
and supplies are kept^or sale,
an additional charge required,
per annum 10.00
Auto washing depots or shed
not connected with other bus
iness, per annum
Automobile repair shops whose
gross annual income is $1,000
or less, per annum ....
Automobile hacks, whose gross
annual income is $1,500 or
less, per annum .-
Whose gross daily income is
$100 or less, daily
The licensee shall be allowed
to operate only one automo
bile hack under each license
issued to him.
I Any public service driver or
drivers, either of a hack or
automobile, plying the streets
for hire, who shall be convict
ed in the City Court of trans
porting, having in possession,
selling or otherwise violating
any of the whiskey ordi
nances of the city, or any
public service driver or driv
ers, either of hack or auto
mobile, who shall transport
from place to place within the
City of Clinton, any woman
or women for immoral pur
poses, their license to do
buainess in said city shall be
immediately revoked by the
Mayor and Finance Commit
tee of Council, and no new li
cense shall be granted to
them during the calendar
year to engage in the same
jharacter or kind of business.
Automobile dealers or agents,
whose gross annual income is
$1,500 or less, per annum ....
Balls and dances where admis
sion is charged, per day ....
Butchers, or dealers in fresh
meats whose gross annual in
come k $5,000 or less, per
annum
Dealers in single beef or
hogs, or offering for sale in
wagons may take out special
license by the day at the fol
lowing rates:
Those whose gro^s daily in
come from single beef or hog
amounts to $20 or less, per
day -
Dealers in calves, mutton,
shoat or kid may take out
special license by the day at
the following rates:
Those whose gross daily in
come for each calf, mutton,
shoat or kid is $10 or less,
per day
Provided, however, that the
licensee shall not have the
right to sell under his daily
license mow than one ani
mal.
Bagging and Ties — Bagging
and ties reworked, ijncluding
cotton mill waste products ....
Brokers dealing in stocks and
bonds, per annum
Brokers, merchandise—meaning
a person, firm or corpora
tion who acts as an interme
diary between buyer and sell-
kr'for the consideration of a
commission, with or without
warehouse
Broker in lumber—not carry
ing stock, per annum
Blacksmith shops, whose gross
annual income is $750 or less,
jicr jtimuxxi •••■ ■••• •••• •••• ••••
Blacksmith shops, whose gross
annual income is $1,000 or
leas, per annum
For each additional forge op
erated in a blacksmith shop,
the Ueense shall be increased
per amram according to in-
85.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
.50
25.00
7.50
2.50
5.00
10.00
25.00
5.00
25.00
1.00
.50
15.00
15.00
15.00
25.00
7.50
10.00
shops, opjerating, one
. di«ir, pf^^aanum _ ... —
1 For eadi additiqiial --
Bi^ posters, whose gross an
nual income is $8,000 or less,
(LRzmiKi •••• ««»«
Whose gross annual inc<mie
is more than $8,000, for each
additional $1,000 or less, per
•••• •••% •••• **•«
Whose gross daily in come is
$25 or less, per day
Book agents, whose gross an
nual income is $1J)00 or less,
per annum 10.00
Whose gross v.'eekly income
is $500 or less, per week ....
Whose gross daily income is
" fHOO^dass, per day
'Qiieries{ whose gross innual
income is $1,000 or less, per
annum
Bicycle dealers, whose gross
annual income is $1,000 or
less, per annum
Banks and banking houses with
an investment of $50,000 or
less in the business, per^ an
num 100.00
On each additional $1,000 in
vested 1.00
Bowling alleys or Box ball pro-
prietbrs whose gross annual
income is $1,000 or less, per
annum 25.00
Each alley operated shall be
deemed and taken to be sep
arate business.
Bottling works, whose gross an
nual income is $1,000 or less,
per annum 25.00
Bootblacks, where the fee
charged for shining shoes is
.05, per annum
Where the fee charged for
each shine is .10, per annum
Canvassers or peddlers selling
goods, wares or merchandise
of whatever character or kind
not listed, per year
Per day 1.00
Cotton brokers—cotton brokers,
factors, or merchants or ex
porters, each place of busi
ness 20.00
Chiropractic—same as doctors.
Carpenter shop keeper, per
year 5.00
Contractors or firms of such,
employing, taking or offering
to take contracts not to ex
ceed $50.00 “Exempt”
From $50.00 to- $500.00 per
annum 7.50
From $1,000 to 2,000, per
annum 12.50
From $2,000 to $5,000, per
annum 20.00
Each additional $1,000 or
less 1.00
Circuses, first ring 100.00
Each additional ring .... 50.00
Whose gross daily income is
more than $5^000, per day,
on each additional $5,000 or
less 26.00
Circus parades, where exhibi
tions are held out of the city
limits 250.00
Collection or claim agents,
whose gross annual income
is $1,000 or less, per annum 10.00
Cotton mills, per annum 150.00
Cotton ginners, first gin, whose
gross annual income is $1,000
or less, per annum
Elach additional gin
Cabinet and general repair
shops, whose gross annual in
come is $500 or less, per an
num
Cleaning, dyeing or pressing
clothing, per annum 15.00
Cold drink stands, per annum 5.00
Contractors for moving houses,
whose gross annual income is
$1,000 or less, per annum .... 10.00
Coal companies or agencies,
where the gross annual in
come is $2,500 or less, per
annum 26.00
Conveyancers or scriveners,
whose gross annual income is
$500 or less, per annum 5.00
Cotton seed oil mills with
$100,000 or less invested, per
annum 150.00
On each additional $1,000 in
vested, per annum
Directories — Each and every
person compiling city direc
tories, per annum
Dealers in junk, per day
Per annum ....
Dealers in fruits, melons or
vegetables, selling from car
by itinerant dealers, each
car or fraction thereof
Dealers in stocks and bonds,
per annum
Dealers in , wagons and other
vehicles, other than manufac
turers, with or without busi
ness, whose gross annual in
come is $7,500 or less, per
annum , 10.00
Dealers in pianos, organs, sew
ing machines, iron safes, well
fixtures, and tombstones, not
connected with stores, whose
grross annual income is $1,000
or less, each per annum
Dealers in soap, jewelry, mer
chandise or other goods on
the streets, whose gross daily
income is $100 or less, per
day ...!
• Per annum
Dealers in green groceries, sell
ing from wagon, whose gross
daily income is $50 or less,
per day 22.00
And each wagon operated
shall be deemed a separate
business.
Dealers in green groceries sell
ing from car or common car-
* rier, whose gross daily in
come is $500 or less, per day
25.00
1.00
35.00
15.00
10.00
15.00
10.00
1.00
5.00
5.00
2.00
5.00
10.00
6.00
5.00
1.00
10.00
5.00
15.00
10.00
26.00
20.00
7.50
’2.^'
2.00
25.00
10.00
car pi^raiad shall
* b# dfeteeH a aisf$rate bvXf-
ncss.
Dinner houses whose gross an
nual Income Is $2,000 or less,
per annum ....
Dentists whose gross annual
income is $1,000 or less, per
annum 15.00
whose gross annual income
is more than $1,000, for each
additional $1,000 or less, per
annum
Express companies maintaining
an agency whose gross an
nual income at such agency
arising from business done
wholly within the State of,
South Carolina, is $1,000 or
less, per annum
Electricians whose gross an
nual income is $1,000 or less,
per annum 10.00
Fire insurance companies, on
amount of net premiums col
lected, per annum
Fruit trees or other trees and
plant agents, whose gross >
annual income is $500 or less,
per annum 10.00
Fresh fish dealers without
other business, whose gross
annual income is $1,500 or
less, per annum
Hay, grain» provisiohs or mer
chandise brokers who carry
• no stock of goods in either
warehouse or store room,
. whose gross annual income is
$1,000 or less, per annum ....
Hair dressers or manicurists,
whose gross annual income is
$1,000 or less, per annum ....
Whose gross daily income is
$50 or less, per day
Harness shops, whose gross an
nual income is $1,000 or less
per annum 10.00
Hawkers or peddlers, selling or
offering for sale, goods,
wares and merchandise,
whose gross daily income is
$50 or less, per day
Log dealers, whose gross an
nual income is $2,500 or less,
per annum
Whose gross monthly income
is $600 or less, per month ....
Hotels whose gross annual in
come is $5,000 or less, per
annum 25.00
Whose gross annual income
is more than $5,500, on each
additional $5,000 or less, per
annum 10.00
Horse or mule traders, trans
ient, whose gn'oss daily in
come is $1,000 or less, per
day
Horse and mule traders, trans
ient, whose gross monthly in
come is $10,000 or less, per
month 15.00
Insurance companies, life, acci
dent and health, maintaining
agencies doing business with
in the City of Clinton, whose
gross annual income from
such agencies is $1,000 or
less, per annum 15.00
Ice dealers, whose gross annual
income is $500 or less, per
annum 15.00
Ice cream venders, selling from
carts, whose gross annual in- ,
come is $1,500 or less, per
annum 10.0^
Ice cream venders, selling from
wagons, whose gross annual
income is $2,500 or less, per
annum 25.00
Ice manufacturers, per annum 25.00
Jewelry, watch and clock re
pairers, whose gross annual
income is $1,000 or less, per
annum
Jewelers, itinerant, offering for
sale jewelry, watches, clocks,
etc., or repairing same, whose
gross daily income is $100
or less, per day
Laundries, run by hand, whose
gross annual income is $1,500
or less, per annum
Laundries, run by machinery,
whose gross annual income is
$2,500 or less, per annum ....
Lawyers, whose gross annual
income is $1,000 or less, per
annum 15.00
Lightning rod agents or deal
ers, whose gross annual in
come is $2,000 or less, per
annum 25.00
Whose gross monthly income
is $500 or less, per day ....
Long distance telephone com
panies operating in city or
agents of same, collecting
toll, per annum
Lumber yards, selling plank.s,
shingles, framing laths or
moulding, whose gross an
nual income is $5,000 or less,
per annum 40.00
Lumber yards or dealers selling
other kinds of building mate
rial other than the ones last
before enumerated, whose an-
. nual income is $2,500 or less,
per annum
Lunch counters, per annum ....
Machine shops and foundries,
whose gross annual income
is $2,000 or less, per annum
Merry-go-rounds, whose gross
weekly income is $250 or less,
per week
Merchants or all persons, firms
or corporations selling at re
tail articles of trade or mer
chandise for which a special
license is not required, whose
gross annual income is $10,-
000 or less from sales, per
annum ..t .-
Whose gross annual income
b nraxp than $10,000, on each
additional $1J)00 or less, per
•••• •••«» •••• •••• ••••
By Income b meant the
20.00
1.00
10.00
10.00
40.00
25.00
10.00
1.00
5!D0
2.00
15.00
20.00
25.00
10.00
10.00
5.00
15.00
10.00
10.00
5.00
15.00
2.00
10.00
S5.00
6.00
60.00
20.00
15.00
15.00
25.00
25.00
1.00
amount of goods sold by the
licensee axid sworn statement
must accompimy payment.
Machine sellers ai^ venders,
whose gross annual income b
$500 or less, per annum ....
Whose groM daily income is
$1,000 or less, per day
Marble yards or agencies,
whose gross annual income is
$1,000 or less, per annum ....
Mec^nics, working on automo
biles who do not maintain
a regular place of business,
per annum
Moving picture shows, whose
gross annual income is $2,500
or less, per annum
Newspaper, whose gross annual
income is $1,000 or less, per
annum
Opera house hall whose gross
annual income is $1,000 or
less, per annum
Orgsth grinders and itinerant
musicians, whose gross daily
income is $100 or less, per
day
Oil and gasoline companies or
agents, whose gross annual
income is $15,000 or leas,
per annum 40.00
Whose daily income is $100
' or less, per day ....
Occulists or opticians, itiner
ant, whose gross daily in
come is $50 or less, per day
Opticians or occulists on their
own account, or working for
others, whose gross annual
income is $1,000 or less, per
annum
Paint shops, per annum
Pawn shops or money lending
shops, whose gross annual
income is $1,000 or less, per
annum
Planing mills, whose gross an
nual income is $1,000 or less,
per annum
Photographers or artists, whose
gross annual income is $1,000
or less, per annum ....
Whose monthly income is
$1,000 or less, per month ....
Whose daily income is $50 or
less ,p€r day 2.00
Physicians whose gross annual
income is $1,000 or less, per
annum ....
Printing office, job, whose gross
annual incdme is $1,000 or
less, per annum
Plumbers, whose gross annual
income is $1,000 or less, per
annum
Plumbers, whose gross income
from one job is $20 or less,
per job 1.00
Public weighers other than cot
ton weighers, whose gross
annual income is $500 or less,
per annum
Restaurants or eating houses,
whose gross annual income is
$1,500 or less, per annum ....
Railroad agencies, whose gross
annual income from bu.smess
done exclusively within this
state is $100,000 or less, for
the firs^ track, per annum .... 100.00
For each additional track .... 100.00
For each additional $1,000 or
less, per annum
Renovators of feather beds,
whose gross annual income
is $2,500 or less, per annum
Whose gross monthly income
is $150 or less, per month....
Real estate agents, whose gross
income is $1,500 or less, per
annum
Scriveners, whose gross daily
income is $10 or less, per
day
Shows, performances, exhibi
tions of all kinds, except cir
cuses or similar exhibitions,
whose gross daily income is
$500 or less, per day 25.00
Soda fountains, without or with
store, whose gross annual in
come ia $1,500 or less, per an
num 10.00
Stables, sales, feed and livery,
whose gross annual income
is $4,000 or less, per annum
Salvage or bankrupt sale man
agers, or sale conductors,
whose gross annual income is
$5,000 or less, per annum ....
Whose gross daily income is
$50 or less, per day 5.00
Street trucks doing drayage,
whose gross annual income is
$500 or less, per annum
Street wagons or drays, one
horse, whose gross annual
income is $600 or less, per
annum
Whose gross daily income is
$5.00 or less, per day
Street wagons or drays, two
horse, whose gross annual in
come is $500 or less, per an
num
Whose gross daily income is
$7.60 or less, per day
Shooting galleries, whose gross
annual income is $2,500 or
less, per annum
'Whose gross weekly income
is $500 or less, per week
Whose gross daily income is
$10 or less, per day
Shoe shops, each bench, whose
gross annual income is $1,000
or less, per annum
Each additional bench
Storage battery charging-xta-
tions, per annum 10.00
Taxi cabs, per annum 25.00
No person, firm or corpora- '
tion shall let or hire any
hacks, automobiles or other
vehicle for hauling or trans
porting passengers, within
the corporate limits of the
10.00
10.00
35,00
1.00
10.00
15.00
10.00
5.00
35.00
1.00
50.00
.50
25.00
1.00
10.00
5.00
15.00
1.00
25.00
26.00
5.00
5.00
1.00
5.00
2.00
25.00
10.00
5.00
5.00
2.50
to^, without first obtaining
a license therefor from the
Town Clerk.
Tailor shops, ladies and gents,
whose gross annual income ia
$1,000 or less, per annum ....
Tin and tinker shops, whose
gross annual income is $750
or less, per annum
Telephone companies, local, per
annum 100.00
Telegraph companies, or agen<
cies, for business done within
this state, and not including -
that done without the state,
whose gross annual inp^e
from such business b
or less, per annum .... 80.00
liansient deabrs in fruits,
bread and cakes, meats or
merchandise of whatsoever
character and kind, selling
from car or common carrier,
except as, hereinafter proyj[d- * ^
ed, per an—
Apple wagons, per day 2.00
This -Kecnse applbs to. any
other fruits or vegetables
such as cabbage, oranges,
• grapes, etc.
Undertakers, whose gross an
nual income is $2,500 o/ less,
per annum ....;
Ecah additional $1,000 oi less,
per annum
Vulcanising shops, per annum
Wood shops and wagon manu
facturers, whose gross annual
income is $500 or less, per
annum
Wood dealers or brokers, who^e
gross lyinual income is $500
or Jess, per annum
Wheelwrights, whose gross an
nual income is $1,000 or less,
per annum
Warehouse kept for storing
cotton, grain, etc., whose
gross annual income is $2,500
or less, per annum
Each additional $1,000 or less,
per annum
Wholesale dealers in hay, grain,
provisions, goods, wares, or
merchandise, who carry a
stock of goods either in a
warehouse or store room,
whose gross annual income
from sales is $50,000 or less,
per annum
Each additional $1,000 or less,
per annum
Section 2. All licenses issued for
one day only shall be double the
amount above mentioned for Satur
days, show days, Christmas days and
other days of public gatherings.
Section 3. That all licenses issued
under and by virtue of this Ordinance
shall be non-transferable and ex-
cept a license for a day, a week or a
month, shall terminate and end on
the 31st day of December of the year
in which they were issued; but may
be-reV5ked at any time by the Town
Council of the Town of Clinton on
satisfactory cause being shotsm. Ex
cept license issued for a day, a week,
or a month, annual rates shall be
charged for all licenses issued prior
to June 30th of any year, three-
fourths the annual rate shall be
charged for all licenses issued after
June 30th of any year and prior to
September 30th of any year; and one-
half the annual rate for all licenses
issued after September 30th of any
year, and prior to December 31st of
any year.
Section 4. That every person, cor
poration or partnership, required by
this ordinance to obtain a license to
engage in any business, trade, profes
sion or occupation, for which a license
is required, shall at the time of ap
plying for such license, or at any
other time as may be required by the
Town Council, to furnish to the Town
Clerk, or auditor of the city, such
other and further information as may
be necessary for correctly ascertain
ing the license to be assessed and col
lected.
Section 5. Any person, firm, com
pany or corporation prosecuting or en
gaging in any business or occupation
or profession, or keeping or maintain
ing any establishment named in this
Ordinance without having first paid
the license tax imposed thereon, shall
upon conviction, be fined not exceed
ing one hundred dollars, or be impris
oned not exceeding thirty days with
or without hard labor at the discre
tion of the officer trying the case.
Section 6. Where a license is im
posed by this Ordinance upon any
business, profession or occupation,
and such business, profession or occu
pation is carried on or conducted by
an agent, clerk or employee, such
agent, clerk or employee shall be sub
ject to all the penalties herein impos
ed should be said business, profession
or occupation be carried on or prose
cuted without the license imposed hav
ing been paid in the same manner as
if such agent, clerk or employee were
the j)roprietor of such business, pro
fession or occupation.
Section 7. That every person, firm,
company or corporation, required by
this Ordinance to obtain a license to
engage in business, trade, profession,
or occupation for which a license is
required, shall at the time of apply
ing for such license, make a state
ment under oath, before an officer
qualified to administer oaths, and file
^said statement with the Town Clerk,
setting forth:
(1) His or her name, style of firm,
name of company, or corporation.
(2) The trade, business, profession,
or occupation for which a license is
required.
(3) The amount of business propos
ed to be done during the current year
(NM te those cases hi w^h
formation is required, the. a
business done the pravioas
the same occupation, trmie,
or profession if same was cafried tM:
or prosecuted the previous year.
The Town Clerk shall thereupea
seas and collect the proper licmiaa
as provided for In this Ordinance, tSA
a iT
iMPi
upon such tax being paid, ^
to the applicant the pnqier Ucenaa*
Section 8. For any business,
occupation, or profession net
ated in Section 1 of this Ordinance,
the license shall be fixed by the Kay*
or.
Section 9. The licenee taxes herda
imposed are levied for the purpoae of
raising funds to meet the or*
dinary expenses of the Town of Clin
ton for'the fiscal year cammendag
on the lit day of January of any year
hereafter and for the purpose of pay-
hag- in whole or ip jmrt any legal in-
of the said CHy incnmd
for ordinary expeuMs thereof falling
due during the said fitcxi year.
All enaual licenses aesit he paid ea
or bofore January 15th of oadi year,
on poaalty of an additional 1$ per
cent charge after January 15th. If B-
cenae ia not paid by Fehrnary 15th
the buaineas will be cloecd by the
Police Department and action breeght
in the Recorder’s Court, under Section
5 of this Ordinance for the miade-
meanmr of doing baainees without
licenae.
Section 10. This Ordinance ahall
go into effect on the 1st day of Jan
uary, A. D., 1930.
Done and >ratified by the Town
Council of the Town of Clinton and
the corporate seal of the said Town of
Clinton hereto affixed this the 18th
day of December, A. D., 1929, and in
the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth
year of Sovereignty and Independence
of the United States of America.
JACK H. YOUNG,
Attest: Mayor.
D. C. HEUSTESS,
City Clerk and Treasurer.
MEN ANSWER
CALL TO FLOOR
Presbyterian Vanity Basketball Gete
Underway. Seascm Opens With
Clemson December 18.
With the end of the gridiron sea
son, the ones who love to run around
on a hardwood floor, scantily dressed,
have gotten down to real work. Un
der the direction of Coach Johnson
and Capt. Bobby Caldwell, the squad
is fast rounding into form. A schedule
vf sixteen games (none of which an
at all easy) has been arranged.
Those who have answered the call
30 far are: Capt. Caldwell, Gosnell,
Hamilton, Cheatham, McNaull, Senter,
Bowen, M. Adair, Roberts, Snipes, E.
Wyatt, Mason, and others whose
names are not obtainable «t present.
The schedule arranged is as follows:
Dec. 18—Clemson at P. C.
Jan. 7—Carolina at Columbia.
Jan. 10—Wofford at Spartanburg.
Jan. 16—Erskine at Due West.
Jan. 17—Clemson at Clemson.
Jan. 18—Furman at P. C.
Jan. 26—Newberry at P. C.
Jan. 30—College of Charleston at
Charleston.
Jan. 31—The Citadel at Charleetoo.^
Feb. 1—The Citadel at Charleeton.
Feb. 4—Furman at Greenville.
Feb. 13—Erskine at P. C.
Feb. 16—Wake Forest at P. C.
Feb. 18—College of Charleston a$
P. C.
Feb. 22—Wofford at P. C.
Feb. 26—Newberry at Newberry.
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