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Page Two THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, December 28, 1950 An Ordinance Imposing a License Tax for the Fis cal Year Beginning January 1. 1951, and Ending December 31, 1951, On All Persons, Firms or Corporations Who Engage In, Car ry On, or Prosecute Any Business i or Profession in the Town of Clin- j ton. S. C. BE IT ORDAINED BY THEj TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN] OF CLINTON, S. C„ IN COUNCIL j .ASSEMBLED: - Section 1. That the following an-j nual and specific licenses on busi nesses occupations and professions to be aid by the .person, or persons, firms or corporations carrying on orj engaged irt" such businesses, occupa-1 tions or professions, whether res - - ! dents of the Town of Clinton or not, ! .•.hail be levied and collected for the 1 year beginning January 1, 1951, and j ending December 31, 1951, to wit: A ADVERTISING— Advertising by wagon or otherwise bn the streets, in cluding distribution of hand bills. circulars or other ad vertising matter or material, or bill posting, per year .. $50.00 Per day ... 2-.00 Provided, the provisions hereof shall not apply to any person, firm or corporation maintaining a regular place of business in the Town of Clinton when such advertis ing is restricted to the ad vertising of said business by the persons having a license to operate said business. AGENTS FOR LAUNDRIES. per year ... 15.00 ARCHITECTS— Whose gross annual income does not exceed $2,000.00, per year 10.00 and S.50 for each additional SI.000.00 of gross income. AUCTIONEERS— Auctioneers whose gross an nual income does not exceed $1,000.00, per year 5.00 and $.50 for each additional $100.00 of gross income. Whose gross daily income does not exceed $25, per day 2.00 and $ 50 for each $25.00 of daily gross income.addition al. AUTO FILING STATIONS— Auto Filling Stations, • first pump operated, per year .... 15.00 Each additional unxp op erated, per year 10.00 Where stock of accessories and supplies are kept for sale an additional charge re quired, per year 10.00 AUTO WASHING DEPOTS— Auto Washing Depots or Sheds not connected with other business, per year ... 10.00 AUTOMOBILE REPAIR SHOPS— Automobile Repair Shops •whose gross annual income does not exceed $3,500.00 per year 25.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of (gross income. AUTOMOBILE DEALERS OR AGENTS— Automobile Dealers or Agents having sales room or service department in the Town of Clinton on which additional Town license tax is paid and whose gross an nua! income does not ex ceed $5,000.00, per year 25.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross annual in come. Automobile Dealers or Agents having no sales room or service department in the Town of Clinton and where gross annual income does not exceed $5,000.00, per year 100.00 and $1.00 for each addition al $1,000.00 of gross annual income. ' B BANKRUPT, SALVAGE AND LIQUIDATING SALES, ETC — Merchants selling stocks of goods and merchandise at , bankrupt sales, sales of as signment for the benefit of creditors of salvage stock of goods and merchandise from Jire, water, or other damage, or any stock of goods or merchandise bought for lL* quidating sale, closing out sale, or stock reduction sale, cm sales not over $500.00 .... 40.00 On sales not over $1,000.00 75.00 On each $500.00 or sales over this - 25.00 Any person, firm or cor poration bringing into the Town of Clinton and offer ing for safe therein a stock of goods sold under bank ruptcy or under assignment for the benefit of creditors, or salvage stock of goods # damaged by fire, water or . other damage, or stocks con sisting partly of any such classes, on sales not exceed ing $500.00 60.00 Not exceeding $1,000.00 100.00 On each $500.00 over this .... 40.00 Provided, that such licens es shall be taken out before commencing the sale, and shall be issued by the Town Clerk upon a deposit being made or the payment of the license when the sale shall be completed; such de posit'to be in an amount suf ficient to protect the Town for the payment of the li cense in full, and if the ap plicant for the license shall be dissatisfied with the amount required as security by the Town Clerk, an ap- \ pratsal shall be made by not more than three person* to pbe selected by the Town Clerk, and the security shall not be more than the license would ge based upon total sales equivalent in amount to double the appraisal. Provided that upon com pletion of the sales the amount deposited as security stall be applied by the Town Clerk in the payment of the license and any bal ance then remaining shall be refunded to the license. Provided, that if such ap praisal shall not reduce the amount of deposit required, the xcise thereof shall be paid by the licensee in addi tion to the license: but if re duced. it shall be paid by the Town. Provided, further that if at any time during the sale, the gross amount of sales shall reach an amount that will require a license here under in excess of the amount deposited as security for the license, it shall be the duty of the licensee and all agents and employees thereof to report such fact forthwith to the Town Clerk and to make a new dep>osit, and a failure to do so shall constitute a violation of the ordinance, and the license previously issued shall be revoked automatically with out any action or notice from any officer or agent of the Town, and the offender or offenders shall suffer the penalties provided in this ordinance for violation thereof: and the Town Clerk or Chief of Police, or other officer or agent of the Town i shall have the right to all times to make an investiga tion of the business of the license to determine the facts with reference to the license and shall have the right to require sworn state ments from the licensee and to an matter relating to his * employees or agents as the provisions of this ordinance and any license or any agent or employee of such licensee who shall fail to furnish any such informa tion or to give any sworn 'Sateroent upon proper re quest or who shall make a false statement with refer ence thereto shall be a vio lation of this ordinance and the ^offender or offenders shall suffer the penalties provided for those who do business in the Town with out a license, or violate the terms of this ordinance. Provided, further, that it shall be unlawful and a vio lation of this ordinance for any person, firm or corpor ation to add to any stock bought at sales under bank ruptcy assignment for ben efit of creditors, salvage stock damaged by fire, water or otherwise, or any stock bought for the purpose of selling out or liquidating the same, and each addition to such stock shall constitute a separate violation of this or dinance, and in addition to the punishment herein pro vided the license shall be immediately revoked. BOARDING AND-OfR LODG ING HOUSES— Boarding and-or lodging houses taking transients, whose gross income does not exceed $2,000.00, pier year .... 10.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. BUS AND TRUCK LINES— Bus and truck lines operat ing passenger or freight lines, for business done within the Town of Clinton with points within the State and not including any busi ness done for the U.S. Gov- efnment, and where bus ter minal is established within the corporate limits of the Town and tickets sold or of fered for sale, for each bus or truck company, per year 50.00 Bus stations or terminals ^where tickets are sold or of fered for sale, per year 35.00 BUTCHERS AND OR MEAT MARKETS—(See Merchants). BROKERS DEALING IN MERCHANDISE OR STOCKS AND BONDS— Brokers dealing in Merchan dise or Stocks and Bonds— meaning a person, firm or corporation who acts as an intermediary between buy er and seller for the con sideration of a commission, with or without warehouse, per year — 25.00 BROKERS DEALING IN LUMBER— Brokers dealing in Lumber, not carrying a stock, per year 25.00 BLACKSMITH SHOPS— Blacksmith Shops whose (gross annual income does • not exceed $750.00 per year 10.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. BARBER SHOPS— / Barber Shops operating one chair, per year 10.00 and $.50 for each additional chair. T* BEAUTY SHOPS— Beauty Shop and Hairdress ers and-or Manicurists, for first operator, per year — 15.00 and for each additional op erator employed 6.00 BILL POSTERS • Bill' Posters whose gross an nual income does not exceed $3,000.00 per year 25.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. Whose gross daily income does not exceed $25.00 per day 5.00 BOOK AGENTS— Book Agents, per year 10.00 Book Agents, per week 5.00 Book Agents, per day 1.00 BAKERIES— Bakeries, or Agents of Bak eries, whose gross’ annual income does not exceed $3,000.00 per year 25.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. BICYCLE DEALERS— Bicycle Dealers whose gross annual income does not ex ceed $1,000.00 per year .... 10.00 and $.50 for each additional $100.00 of gross income. BOWLING ALLEYS— Bowlintg Alleys or Box Ball Proprietors- whose gross an- 1 nual income does not exceed $1,000.00, per year -25.00 and $.50 for each additional $100.00 of gross income. BOTTLING WORKS— Bottling Works whose gross annual income does not ex ceed $3,000.00 per year .... 25.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. BOOTBLACKS— Bootblack^, where-the fee charged fbr shining^ shoes is .05, per year 25.00 Where the fee charged for each shine is $.10 or more, Safes, Well Fixtures and Tomlbstones, not connected with stores in Town of Clin ton, whose gross annual in come does not exceed $1,000.00, per year 10.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. DEALERS IN SOAP, JEWEL RY, ETC., ON STREETS— Dealers in Soap, Jewelry Merchandise or other goods on the streets, and-or sell ing or canvassing from house to house whose gross daily income does not exceed $100.00, per day 2.00 and $.50 for each additional $100.00 of gross daily in- « come. Per year .v 50.00 DEALERS IN GREEN GRO CERIES, SELLING FROM WAGON— Dealers..in Green Groceries selling from wagon whose gross daily income is $50.00 or less, per day 2.00 : And each wagon operated shall be deemed a separate business. DEALERS IN GREEN GRO CERIES SELLING FROM CAR OR COMMON CARRIER— Dealers in Green Groceries selling from car or common carrier, whose gross daily income does not exceed $59(J.OO, per day 10.00 Ahd each car operated shall be deemed a separate business. I DENTISTS, per year I5.0Q .. .E... per year 5.00 EXPRESS COMPANIES OR 25.00 5.00 35.00 50.00 CANVASSERS OR PEDDLERS— Canvassers or Peddlers sell ing goods, wares or mer chandise of whatsoever character or kind not listed elsewhere, per year 50.00 per day ...* 5.00 COTTON BROKERS— Cotton Brokers, Factors or Merchants or Exporters, each place of business, per year CHIROPRACTIC—Same as Physicians. CARPENTER SHOP KEEPER— Carpenter Shop Keeper, per year - ... CONTRACTORS— Contractors, or firms of such employing, taking or offer ing to take contracts not ex ceeding $5,000.00, per year .. Over $5,000.00 per year .... Contractors shall be re sponsible for obtaining building permits from the Town of Clinton on any con struction work before same is started as required by Or dinance of the Town. CIRCUSES— Circuses having one ring on ly, per day 100.00 Circus parades where ex hibition is held out of the corporate limits of the Town of Clinton 250.00 COLLECTION OR CLAIM AGENTS— Collection or Claim Agents whose gross annual income does not exceed $2,000.00 per year «... 25.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. COTTON MILLS— Cotton Mills, per year 150.00 COTTON GINS— Cotton Gins, per year 25.00 CABINET AND GENERAL REPAIR SHOPS— Cabinet and General Repair Shops, whose gross annual income does not exceed $1,000.00 per year 10.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. CLEANING, DYEING AND CLOTHES PRESSING ESTABLISHMENTS— Cleaning, Dyeing and Press ing Clothes, whose gross in come does not exceed $5,000.00, per year and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. COLD DRINK STANDS— Cold Drink Stands, per year CONTRACTORS FOR MOV ING HOUSES— Contractors for moving houses, whose gross annual income does not exceed $1,000.00, per year 15.00 and $-50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. COAL COMPANIES OR AGENCIES— Coal Companies or Agencies dealing in coal, whose gross annual income does not ex ceed $5,000.00, per year 25.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. COTTON SEED OIL MILLS— Cotton Seed Oil Mills with $100,000.00 or less invested, per year 100.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. D DIRECTORIES— Directories—each and every person compiling city direc tories, per year — DEALERS IN JUNK— Dealers in Junk, per year .... Dealers in Junk, per day .... DEALERS IN FRUITS, ETC.— v Dealers in Fruits, Melons or Vegetables, selling from * car by itinerant dealers, each car or fraction thereorf 10.00 DEALERS IN STOCKS AND BONDS— Dealers in Stocks and Bonds per year DEALERS IN PIANOS, ORGANS, ETC.— Dealers in Pianos, Queans, Sewing Machines, Iron 50.00 10.00 50.00 25.00 10.00 10.00 15.00 5.00 15.00 AGENTS— Express Companies or Agents, each for business done exclusively in the Town of Clinton, S. C., but not including business done to or from points without the State of South Carolina, or for the Government of the United States, whose gross income does not ex ceed $3,500.00, per year and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. ELECTRICIANS, per year 10.00 F FRUIT TREE OR OTHER TREE AND PLANT AGENTS— Fruit Tree or other Tree and Plant Agents whose gross income does not exceed $500.00, per year 10.00 and $ 50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. FRESH FISH PEDDLERS— Fresh Fish Dealers without other business whose gross annual income does not ex ceed $1,500.00, per year and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. G GAS— Dealers in gas stoves, ap pliances. accessories and cyl inder gas, or gas in tanks or drums, whose total stove units sold and-or serviced do not exceed 50, per year and $.50 for e<ach additional stove unti sold and—or ser viced. H HAY, GRAIN, PROVISIONS, OR MERCHANDISE BROKERS— Hay, Grain, Provisions or Merchandise Brokers who carry no stock or goods in either warehouse or store room whose gross annual inoome does not exceed $1,000.00, per year 15.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. HAIR DRESSERS OR MANI CURISTS—See Beauty Shops. HAWKERS OR PEDDLERS— Hawkers or Peddlers, selling ” or ofifering for sale, goods, wares or merchandise, whose gross daily income does not exceed $50.00, per day 2.00 and $.50 for each additional $50.00 or gross daily income. Per year 50.00 HOTELS— Hotels, whose gross annual income does not exceed $1,000.00, per day 10.00 Horse and Mule Traders, transient, whose gross monthly income does not exceed $10,000.00, per month 15.00 I INSURANCE— Insurance Companies: Life, Fire, Sick Benefit, Casualty, ling accident, sick benefit, or other like insurance com panies represented by tran sient solicitor or agent of $500.00 gross income or less, per week il5.00 For each additional $500.00 gross inoome, per week 2.00 This section shall not ap ply to agents of companies paying animal license on amount of business done within the city limits. INSURANCE (CASUALTY)— Insurance Companies hand ling accident sick benefit fidelity, guaranty, plate glass, boiler, liability, live stock, casualty, or other like insurance, of $750.00 gross income or less, per year 15.00 FOr each additional $100.00 of gross income or fraction al part thereof 2.00 INSURANCE (FIRE)— Fire Insurance Companies, or other agents, shall pay a license tax of two (2%) per centum on, premiums col lected on risks within the city limits of the Town of Clinton per annum. This ap plies to each and every un derwriters association or agency, whether license is paid by parent company or not. INSURANCE (LIFE) — Each life insurance company having gross premiuih in come of not more than # $500.00, per year 15.00 Having gross premium in-» come of more than $500.00 and not more than $5,000.00, per year 40.00 Having gross premium in come of more than $5,000.00 and not more than $10,000.00 per year 60.00 Having gross premium in come of more than $10,000.- 00, per year 75.00 (This section shall apply only to premiums collected or renewed on the lives of persons residing within the town limits of the Town of Clinton). ICE DEALERS— Ice Dealers whose gross an nual income does not exceed $2,500.00, per year 15.00 and $.50 for each additional $7,000.00 of gross income. ICE CREAM VENDERS— Ice Cream Venders selling from wagons or truejes whose gross annual income does not exceed $2,500.00, per year < 25.00 ICE MANUFACTURERS— Ice Manufacturers, per year 50.00 J JEWELERS, ITINERANT— Jewelers, itinerant, offering for sale jewelry, watches, clocks, etc., or repairing same, whose gross daily income does not exceed $100.00, per day 2.00 ! Whose gross annual in come does not exceed $5,- 000.00, per year 50.00 L LUMBER YARDS— (Same as Merchants). LUNCH COUNTERS, per year 15.00 LAWYERS— Lawyers, whose gross an nual income does not exceed $2,500.00, per year 15.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. M MACHINES, COIN— That every person, firm or corporation owning or main taining any place of busi ness, or other place, where in or in connection with which is operated any ma chine for the playing of mu sic operated by a slot where in is deposited any coin or thing of value, shall pay the following license on each machine in operation. Where the coin is a nickel or larger denomination, per year 10.00 Where coins used are pen nies, per year 5.00 Upon application being made for a license to oper ate any machine under this ordinance, the Town of Clin ton is hereby authorized to presume the operation of such machine or apparatus is lawful, and when a license has been issued for the op eration thereof, the sum ' paid for such license shall not be refunded notwith standing that the operation of such machine or appara tus shall be prohibited. It shall be the duty of the persons in whose places of business the machines are operated or located, to see that the proper Town license is attached to the machine before its operation is com menced. Failure to do so will make such persons lia ble for the penalties imposed in this ordinance. No machine shall be li censed under this ordinance unless such machine shall bear a permanently attached identifying serial number, and in making application for license under this sub- - section, the applicant shall specify the manufacturer’s serial number of the ma chine for which license is desired. The license shall carry the serial number of the machine and no license shall be transferrable. MACHINE SHOPS AND FOUNDRIES— Machine Shops and Foun dries, whose gross annual income does not exceed $2,000.00, per year 15.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. MANUFACTURING PLANTS AND FACTOCtlifi— Manufacturing Plants and Factories not specifically classified elsewhere herein whose gross annual sales of manufactured products do not exceed $100^)00.00, per year 50.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross sales of manufactured products over $100,000.00. The basis for ascertaining the amount of License Tax due shall be die gross amount of all sales for the preceding year beginning January 1, 1049, and ending December 31, 1949. MERRY-GO-ROUNDS— Per week .— 25.00 MERCHANTS— Retail Merchants and all persons, firms, or corpor ations selling at retail at an established place of business articles of trade or merchan dise for which a special li cense is not required, whose gross annual sales do not exceed $25,000.00, per year 25.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. Wholesale Merchants and Wholesale Dealers in hay, grain, provisions, goods, ‘ wares, or merchandise, who ; carry a stock of goods with in a warehouse or storeroom whose gross annual sales do not exceed $25,000.00, per year 25.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross sales. The basis for ascertaining the amount due shall be the gross amount of all sales (cash or credit) for the pre ceding year, beginning Jan uary 1, 1950, and ending December 31, 1950. MACHINE SELLERS AND VENDERS— Machine Sellers and Vend ers whose gross annual income does not exceed $1,000.00, per year 20.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. Whose gross daily income does not exceed $100.00, per day 1.00 and $.50 for each additional $100.00 of gross income*. MARBLE YARDS OR AGENCIES— Marble Yards or Agencies, whose gross annual income does not exceed $1,000.00, per year - 10.00 MECHANICS— Mechanics working on auto mobiles, or doing other me chanical work for hire, who do not maintain a regular place of business, per year .. 15.00 MOTION PICTURE THEATRES— Motion Picture Theatres or houses whose gross annual income does not exceed $10,000.00, per year 75.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. N NEWSPAPERS— Newspapers whose gross annual income does not ex ceed $10,000.00, per year .... 25.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. O rOIL AND GASOLINE COMPANIES— ! Oil and Gasoline Companies or Agents, whose gross an nual income does not exceed $20,000.00, per year 40.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. Whose daily income does not exceed $100.00, per day 5.00 and $.50 for each additional $100.00 of gross income. OOCULBSTS, OPTOMETRISTS AND OPTICIANS— Occulists, Optometrists and Opticians, itinerant, whose gross djily income does not exceed $50.00, per day 2.00 and $.50 for each additional $100.00 of gross income. Ooculists, Optometrists or Opticians on their own ac count, or working for oth ers, whose gross annual in come does not Exceed $2,- 500.00, per year 25.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. PAINT SHOPS, per year 20.06 PAWN SHOPS AND FINANCE COMPANIES— Pawn Shops or money-lend ing shops whose gross an nual income does not exceed $1,000.06, per year 25.06 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. ’ PLANING MILLS— Planing Mills, whose gross annual income does not ex ceed $1,000.00, per year .... 10.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income.- PHOTOGRAPHERS OR ARTISTS— Photographers or Artists, whose gross annual income does not exceed $1,000.00, per year 10.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. per day 5.00 PHOTOGRAPHERS— Transient, itinerant or non- l resident, per year 100.00 PHYSICIANS, per year 15.00 PRINTING OFFICE— Printing Office, job, whose gross annual income does not exceed $3,000.00, per year 25.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00 of gross income. PLUMBERS— Plumbers handling and sell ing plumbing and plumbers supplies, whose gross in come does not exceed $5,- 000.00, per year 25.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000.00'of gross income. Phmnfoers not handling and selling plumbing and plumbers supplies whose gross income does not ex ceed $2,500, per year 10.00 and $.50 for each additional $1,000,00 of gross income. POOL TABLER- Fool Tables, per table, per year ....................... 10.00 (Note—Pool table to be in accordance with the re quirements of the Ordinanc es at the Town of Clinton and with the statutes of the State of S. C.) PUBLIC WEIGHERS— Pulic Weighers, other than cotton weighers, per year .... 5.00 (Continued on page three)