The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 12, 1935, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
AN OKIMNANCK
'I'u Require the of IdccnHe
on Business, Occupations and Professions
in lli?' City of ( anntcii,
S. for III*1 Year I'Tont May I,
1935 tn May 1, 1916.
lio it ordained by the Mayor and
Council nam of the City of Oamdcn, in
Council assembled urwl by Uhe authority
of the same.
Section 1. Kvory person, firm,
<*omj*aoy or corjroi ation, engaged on
May I, 1935, in any railing, business,
profession or occupation in whole or
in jart witbiff lfl?o City of (l&inden,
A.i may U? lioftHrkafter specified, ahall
obtain during the month of Muy,
J9.15, a license therefor in the manner
horinafbor proscribed. Flvery person,
firm, company or corporation
commencing business in .said city on
or before the first day of May, 1935,
hhall in like manner obtain a license
tlherefor liefore entering upon .such
calling, business, profession or occupation
as hereinafter specified.
Section 2.' Kvery person, firm,
cempuny or corporation engaged jn
or intending to engage in uny calling,
bue.tu-.ss, profession <?r occupation for
wbon a license is required, sball apply
to tiie <'Jerk and' Treasurer <>'
I he i ity of Camden for the -?amt
by \\ iiom ail such Ineiise.-. shaii i?c i-sui'd,
and -.'ball at the time of applying,
make and sign a written statement
undci oath, and lile it vs 11 ri t ne
said , ( Jork and Tivasurcr, setting
forth: first, his or hci or Us name
or sty le, the name of the persona con-|
atituling .sqch firm or company.
Second, the calling, business, profession
or occupation for which liceiive
i>, required. Third, tint place
w here such calling, business, profession
or occupation is to be carried
on; the amount of capital invested,
or the gioss annual income. Parties
in business on tiie f)r-.t of May, shall
make such application for new license
and lile such written statement before
May 21st.
Section 3. A penalty of fifteen
per cent shall be added to all licenses
which are not paid during the month
of May. 1935, except such as may
Income due after that time. Prowled,
however, that immediate pay*
men: may !>< inquired in each and
every i iim.' at the di-eivtioll of t lie j
.- n:d I Jet k and I I'easurer, and the I
J "icgi.ing provision shall in no wise
slay or hinder action > enforce im-|
n.payment; whnh tax and pen-j
ally .nab be iv overel in tiie manner
hei e.na! lei pie-. riln-d, and if any i
I1' on, n m, company or corporal.ion
t'oqu.M-d to do by the terms of
tn. oi.nr.an.c .-hail refuse or neglect j
( > oo,ne aii-l deit\??l' !< I lie ( ierk
anu I 1 ca -.u: i r <?t the ' ity ot ( aindcn,
on r :? !.>> ? -the lime herein required,
*r.e t at i nu nt piovided f,?r by Section
2 I ins ordinance, or- shall make a
fal.-e -ta emeu!, or -hall refuse U>
take and subscribe an oath or uftirmation
a - to llie truth of such
abatement, or any part thereof; or
f: out any caibe .shall tail to take out.
such iiceii.-e as may be required by
this ordinance, the said '(Mark and
Treasurer shall iv]x>rt the case to
the Mayor, who shall proceed to ascertain
as nearly aw possible, the business
of such pers-on, firm, company,
or corporation, for which -he, she or
it may be liable to a license tax
therefor, and in case of default for
t.he pulrposc of suth inwst ignition,
the said Clerk and Treasurer shall
notily the person, firms, coini*anies
or corporations in default to appear
before the Mayor at his office -at a
time stated in said notice; and al.-o
such witnesses as the Mayor may
.done to examine. The witness's
callel as atoresaid sliall be examined
by the Mayor, under oath or atTii m.it:
!i. l.-Uk.iiirg the nature of the bu-ifn
> : urn part y, and c v, ry;.:ig
^ n;' ' may evince the aaiount of lied.-e
tax for which ,-uch paitv 'hali
l.c liable.
from '.ne .nforiiial i<>n a.quticd
May . !.a. 1 lind a i.a a -i :;;c
aiuo .: ot .iccri-c : a \ : .e i \ u, '.
pa: 1 > w re ; her ... -die <e n a1 t. :. .. <:
> Ite "v c ' gat Ion not. alld .-Mid
add t'ar.to a j - i. a.: \ j.
c< ' '. t'.eieot. and u! i - u. > I cu-c
! ?i x -t!!'i perrai'y f>c ? . j,;i: ; ?,%-:*.
live <:ay - '. ucicnCci. t;i< .-aid ' .. r ian.:
I c.i-.ii er -had is -uc an . \? u
lion t hereof under h.- hand ami tin'
sea. ot l:.e i ,ty ?>t Camden. umvod
to 'he ihiel ot poise of the ( ity of
Camden, or Liic Sluu'ilf of Kershaw ,
('ounty.^iri said State ami the .-aid
Chief ot Police or Sheriff shall pro-I
ix*cd to ?oiii'crt t he -aid license tax
and penalty, by K-vy ami sale of real
or personal property, a- now piwidcd
by las\ tor tiie v'oibs't:-?n t>l t?ixe~s,
toge' hoi* with an additional five per
cent of tiu- wiioie amount, widen -hall
t>c '. r.c > hen If- or Chief of Poine's
comr-ea-at ion for making .sucli collcvtioii.
.r1. a.i.ittion to one dollar for
making ,-uc.h levy, which shall l>e paid |
by do, >.luc:?t without entry or mileage
!ee-; provided, however, that anv
1'cr-oii or corporation shall have tihe
right of appeal to tr.c ( ity ('ouncill
ot I ahidcn (i.otiee .. appeal j
tl.av ;ng beer: given to the ('lork ami
frea.-ure: wit.iiit live day- from tho
time of w.h.v-h such a-.c i.en; ,,f !,.
ceti.-e and jvnalty shali have iven
made) and upon hea: mg ,-vk !i appeal,
'.ne saai ( huiihu: xnail make .- ucli or-:
r ttierein as it shall deem ami
proper; and piwuioi further, t.h.ai ;n
I:ot: of the remedy above set forth to
tt.'.o ce jvaymont an action <vr actions
may be bimi| Id \\\ ,\ |) muil * comP-".cnf
ju r i v'.flcThmfor the rixx>very of
sin r. license '.jix and |HMin!ties. And
jn-ov id.sl furt'.her, that any person,
tint, company or corporation who
shall carry on, or attempt u> canV
on any calling, business, profession or
occupation witlu?ut a license as heroin
required, or who shall neglect or reive
the information required
or to arvHwar #ru<*h questions* an may I
be required or whx> Kliail fail to at- j
lend before the Mayor to be exam*]
ine<l by him when no required, ar* pro- I
vuled in Section# 2 and of thi# ordi* ]
nance may I*- dwmt-d guilty of a vio ;
latum thereof before the Municip^il ,
( ourt and may 1m; linod rx>t more]
jthan One Hundred Dollar#, or Ik? itu* 1
, prisoned not cxcec-iiuiig thirty tiaya.
Station 4. All 1 icerwt' granted under
this ordinance shall Ik? j>osted in
a conspicuous place, except in case of
vehicle# for biro, which vehicle# shall
have placed ujxm them metal Iko1k?h
with the number of badges and tlx*
license year mark<xl thereon, such
badges to lx* furnished by the Clerk
and Treasurer ujjoii payment of the
license tax. Failure to display such
laidgo# will subject the perron# ownirnr
or using tlx- same to a jx*milby
of not more than Five Dollars or imjinsonment
not exceeding ten days.
The license granted under this ordinance
shall ut all times bo subject
to inspection by any officers of
the City of (amdon and no calling,
: business, profession or occupation
] shall l?e carried on elsowboix* than the
j pi a, named in this license thorel'or,
unless authority bo granUvi by the
; 1 lock and Treusurer, which author-]
j-i'.s .-hall he endorsed on tlie license. i
[ Section f>. All licenses granted]
j under this ordinance shall continue in]
I I'mco until the lirst <lay of May A. D.
i Iexcept such as are written for1
a shorter period, as may hereinafter]
l?c provided,
j The (lily Council ixysorves the right'
to revoke any licenses for any cause|
which to them may seem to be just.
Section <>. Tlie following sum or!
i sums of money are required to be j
jwiid lo the said Clerk and Treasurerfor
a license to carry on the business, I
calling, profession or occupation in j
whole or in part within the limits of
the City of Camden, as in each case >
specifically appears.
Class No. 1
business or income basis, $1,000.
On each additional $1,000, ten cents
]>or $ 1,000.
Where the gross annual income
from the business, callings or pix>f
ess ions enumerated in the following
schedule, shall be One Tliou-sand
Dollars or less, the license shall l>e
ut the rate set forth in said schedule;
and where the gross annual income,
exceeds One Thousand Dollars, the
license shall be increased from the
amount set forth in said schedule at
t:he rate of ten cents for each Thousand
Dollars ol gross income in cx<vss
of One Thousand Dollars.
: Agents, advertising, not printing
office $ 1;..()()
Agents for merchant tailors .. Id.OO
Agents selling books, pea* year 20.00
I AgenLs selling books, j>er day 5.00
j Agents selling fruit trees or
| other trees or plants 25.00
Agents selling sewing machines,
paying merchandise
license 15.00
Agents selling and delivering
soil drinks other than those
paying license for bottling
plants ...... 100.00 I
Agents advertising land sales
where the land is valued at
more than $5,000.00, per
>'oar 100.00
Archti tools 10.00!
Agents, claim and collection . . 10.00 i
Auctioneers, fur a year or less 10.00
Automobile Agencies 50.00
Automobile dealers or agents i
not having an established
agency in Camden, soliciting
<>r selling automobiles, trucks
or trailers in Camden, per
75.00
A utomobib' livery or truck,
j either I'm passenger <>r bagi
gage, ea.h 15.no
I .\uienielti-'e b<>dy ami t.op eo;i;r
10.00
i ^ A.i i;'"i\ i !'s t?; ;tu11,tnobiii-s t>r u. ks
1 l'?i iore whether for pa--engerv or
i J, . ...... , .
- .,;i(? i-e per.-oils et good
' ' narai '.er, and no aconse si.all
! "u ' a;, \ .t ? wno does r.ol
1 "I...--a t t?i- t ;ty ( .e.t% .-ut ja.t.-'
v re, emnn iniation; and if such
.'.i.vi's anon to tac L;;y Conn- .
; ;i c ' >uit.d to I,,. .jM-r per:
- to run -aid autonioiu.es or
. liti-k.-, liceii.- e to tin owners same
, si.a.i be revoked unless said diners
aie iin ine,;ia11-.y taken oil .-aid automobiles
,?; trueks.
A., persons owning or controlling
.unks or other vehicles moving on
will,*.s and plying lor hire in the
' 'A d ( amden shall post in a conspicnous
place in said hack or vehicle
n jointed schedule of prices", to be'
1 ut nished by the Oily Clerk uj>on the
issuance of license, and keep the same
m> jxxsted during the continuance of!
said license; and shall have a tag,;
furnished by the City Clerk, carry-]
:ng a number corresponding with the1
j.unilxT ot sani hack or vehicle, i
fasu-nod on the outside of said hack
or vehicle in such a "position as to be
easily -eon; and all drivers of such
hacks or vehicles shall wear a metal
badge, of convenient size, on the left
side ot his outer garment, with the
I numlxu* of Ins license painted or engraved
thereon.
.Storage of automobiles, not in
connection with an\ other
business, jhm* year 10.00
i Barber shops, for ,\ach chair 5.00
Bakeries, maintaining a plant
' ^ in the city 25.00
1 Batteries, or agents delivering
btvad, eakos. cookies, niaca>oons.
etc.. other than crack
e.rs. not maintaining plant in
t v 1y 100.00
Battery service 5.00
Hea.ity parlors, for each chair 5,00
Id!! boards, each hoard not to
exceed 15 foot high nor 25
feet long, in business district. 25.00
In rosidtMiti&l district, each HHl.tH)
Business district to be located
on Broad Street, from I,a
fayette Avenue on Uhe North
to the City Limit on the
South, and DeKulb Stroot,
from the City Lirpit orv tho
Fast to the City Limit on
t'lui Wont.
Bicycle repair ?hop 5 00
Bicycle <k*ilerH 5.(Xj
Bill jMAatern, per year 25.00
Bill poeter*, per day tf.OO
Bingo, Ballyhoo, Poker, lAwky
Strike, Stop & Sock and all
other ?U0h games*, pur year 10.00
Miniature jx>ol tabloa, coin operated
or otherwise, up to
and including two feet by
four feet, each table, per
y?/??r 15.00
Billiarda, bagatelle or jxx>l tables,
over two feet by four
foot, ftrat table per year , , 40.00
Additional la blow, per year 1.00
Bi'lliard and pool rooms to be
a Flowed on ground floor only
of arxy building and not to be
ke]>t open after 11 o'clock at
/night. And ,?aeh table ehail
bo considerod a no pa rate
business. Miniature pool
'tables to be governed by
.same regulations and no
child under eighteen (18)
years of age shall be allowed
to play at any |hk>1
table, whether miniature or
otherwise.
Building and Development
(>ompanie s, I ncor jx>ra ted,
I?ii Lnerships or Individuals 25.00
Blacksmith or wheelwright . . 10.00
Bowling alley or box bull .... 25.00
Brokers, pawn 100.00
Brokers, merchandise 25.00
Brick masons, plasterers, taking
oontu-aots 10.00
Firms of brick masons, for one
member 10.00
Each additional member . . 10.00
Brick yards or dealers in brick 15.00
lioairding houses furnishing
board for three or more,
whei"o /the rates are from
$1.00 to $2.00, per year .... 5.00
Boarding houses furnishing
board for throe or more,
where the rates aire $2.00 up,
per year 10.00
Business or income bases, $1,000;
on each additional $1,000, ten cents
per $1,000.
VN here the gross annual income
I pom the business, callings or professions
enumerated in the following
schedule -hall be One Thousand Dollars
or less, the license shall be, at
the rate set forth in said schedule;
and where the gro.-s^ annual income
exceeds One Thousand Dollars, the
licence shall be increased at tho rate
of ten cents for each One Thousand
of gross income in excess of One
1 housand Dollars, from the amount
set forth in the said schedule.
Agents taking orders or delivering
pictures $25.00 each week.
All contractors shall obtain permit's
for each ami every job, building or
rejwiiring, before the work is cotnnvemssl,
]>ermits to be charged f?>r
us follows. This is to be paid in addition
to the separate license herein
required of painters, plumbers and
electricians, unless general contract
includes same. In the event that the
building is not done by contract hut
by day labor, the owner of the building
shall first obtain permit for each
and every job before the work is
done.
$11)0 and less than $800 $ 1.00
From $800 to $500 2.00
From $500 to $1,000 8.00
From $1,000 to $2,000 f*00
From $2,(H>() to $8,000 7.00
Mom $8,000 to $ J.OOO s.OO
F: om $ 1.000 to $5,000 10.00
From S5.000 to $7,000 12.00
Fr?.m $7,000 to $l().o00 15.00
From $10.ouo to $15,000 20.<l0
Froin SI5.OO0 to $20,000 80.00
From $2i>.ooo to $25.ooo 10.00
Fro.jn $25.ooi.) t,, $85,000 15.00
1' ! om $85,imm) jo $5o,()00 5t>.00
From uj,, $ioo.oo. . and for
eaei; additional $ 1 .out), $ 1.00.
Cabinet makers or fu i*:; it ure
repairers 5."0
< ii' dv manufacturers in connection
with other business 1U."0
Candy mil! ufa. turers not in
o'limrtioii with any other
business jo.oO
Candy manufacturers or diallers
on .-tii-els. per day .... 5.00
Candy dealers not in connection
with mercantile busin-ess,
per year 15.O0
Canning factories 10.00
Carriage, buggy ami wagon
dealers, not paying merchant's
license 15.00
Chiropractor . . . . : 15.00
Circuses, menageries, animal
shows, wild west shows ami
similar exhibitions under
whatever name carrying ten
or less number of cars or
trucks for transportation of
l>eople, animals, equipment,
]>araphernalia or fixtures
connected with or incident to
the show, j>er day or ;*art of
a day 100.00
Circuses, menageries anil
shows as atH>vc enumerated,
anil iallying more than ten
cars or trucks, not over 25,
per day or ;iart of a day . . 150.it)
C.; reuses. menageries and
shows as above orvunverated
ami carrying more than 25
cars or trucks, per day or
pairt of a day 200.00
thrcus parades, or parades of
nivnagerie-s. animal shows,
mi hi west shows, as above
named when the show locale
outside of city limits,
shall pay for each parade,
the same license as such cir
cus. menagerie or other show
would be required to pay for
exhibiting witihin oorporatcd
limits.
Corn ami flour mills, either op
< 111 tilik or delivering within
city 10.00
Cortton aced oil mills including
gins 100.00
Cotton g inner*, for each gin
stand 6.00
Cotton mills 75.00
Civil engineers ami surveyors
| or either 15.00
JJoaloiH in ooffin#i caskets, not
I jmymg mercantile license,
per year 10.00
Dealer# in second hand clothinK"
whether connected with
other business or not 25.00
Dealers in second hand shoes
not connected with other
business *56.00
Dealers in electric refrigerators
10.00
Dealers in fruit, j>eaniuUs or
cooked food on street, per
day 1.00
| liealers in fish or oysters or
either, at place of business 10.00
Dealers in hides, except those
jrnying mercantile license . . 25.00
Dealers in ice cream, lemon- adc,
or soda water on the
streets, per bay 5.00
Dealers in junk 50.00
Dealers in junk, |>er month . . 25.00
Dealers in medicine, other than
regular druggist of the City
either on the street or private
property, and whether
delivering the imxlicine themselves
or through orders to
drug stores, j>er week 100.00
per day 20.00
I>ealers in millinery goods, not
paying merchants' license . . 15.00
Dealers in radio# alone 10.00
Dealers in kerosene, oil, gasoline
or either, wholesale, other
than merchants ........ 100.00
Dealers in stocks and bond*,
as brokers, i>or yean' 25.00!
I>ealers in wood, coal or coke,
per year 25.00
Dealers in wood only 5.00
Dealers in second hand machinery,
per year 25.00
Dealers in cattle, hogs, etc. . . 25.00
Dry Cleaners, maintaining
plant in city 25.00
T>i y C-leanors, not maintaining
plant in city 100.00
' Dentists 15.00
Electricians, Diking contracts,
doing electrical work, or
selling electrical supplies . . 15.00
Exhibitions, traveling theatricals,
musical or other, for
gain, not in opera house,
$25.00 to $100, in the discre
t inn of Mayor and City
Clerk.
Florist.*, retail only 25.00
Wholesale ami retail 50.00
Sellers of flowers, bulbs or
shrubbery not maintaining a
place of business in the City
of Camden when such (lowers,
bulbs or shrubbery are
not raised by the seller withI,
in the State of South C^arooLma,
per week 10.00
Fortune teller*, i>alimxU, clairvoyants,
phrenologists .... 100.00
Flying jennies, or horae or
Hteam ruling galleries, per
week 60.00
Foundry, i>er year 15.00
Filling stations not in connection
with any oilier business
lH?r year, one pump 15.00
two pumps 25.00
more than two pumps .... 50.00
Filling station in connection
with storage of cars iper
year 60.00
Filling station in connection
with atorage of cars and
selling agencies or garages,
for selling gasoline 30.00
Fruit and produce (leaders, not
selling on lite street, per
year 10.00
Games, see page 7.
Garages and storage 50.00
Garages, not more than two
men employed, per annum .. 20.00
tmore than two men 36.00
Gunsmiths 5.00
Hairdressers 10.00
non-resident 25.00
Chiropodists - 6.00
non-residents 25.00
Hotels, from 10 to 25 rooms,
per year 20.00
Hotels, from 25 to 75 moms,
per year . . .' 40.00
Hotels, from 75 rooms upward,
per year 75.00
Dealers in fruits, vegetables,
eggs, chickens, melons, or
o titer farm produce (not
raised by the seller within
the State of South Carolina)
and not sold on the streets,
per year iO.OO
Hucksters or peddlers of fruit
vegetables, etc., including'
Ready Rolling Stoires, if
peddling goods, wares and
other merchandise, manufac
tared articles, fruits, vegetables,
imelons, eggs and
other farm products (not
raised by the owner within
the State of South Garolina)
per year 50.00
i (No license to be prorated) <
j Said hucksters or peddlers not to
take a stand, and not to sell on prohibited
streets hereinafter mentioned,
i Fach wagon or truck used by said
; hucksters or peddlers to constitute a
[separate business. Fach huckster
| peddler to be furnished with a badge
upon taking out license,
j Hucksters or peddlers selling
fre.sh meats of any kind on
' wagons, trucks, each per
year 4. 40.00
i (No license to be prorated)
No huckster or person selling fresh
meats, fowls, fruits, vegetables, merchandise,
manufactured articles, melons,
eggs or other farm produce may
sell same on DeKalb Street from
.. I
Church Street to Market Street o
Broad Street from Uf*wic J*
to Y<*jk Street, on RutlerUjj ?"*
Church St root to Lyttleton Str^011
Wholesale deliveries of meatT^'
fowls to 1*0tail meat market* n^y*?}
matte 011 said prohibitive arwi8 y *
sudh wagon? from which s?i<J ?^7
(meats may las sold during
month of Uk> year except l)(H*awk|?
January, February, to keep the
on said wagon? in ^fri^oraterT'S
tyufficient capacity to curry the
irfoek and all portion? of suid
not taken up 'by refrigerator* tJ?Jj
screened ami said refrigerator * j!
-times kept in a waitary oomhaj:'
subject at all times to i^peytton w!
t'ho health officer, or any one de*?
nated 'by him. No licence for
such meats in wagoiiti on streets
to be granted by the City wiuliout the
application first 'being submitted tori
appiwed by the (health officer of tk!
City of Camden. ^
Insurance, Fire. Every company
or association doing
business directly or through
an agent or broker, shall pay
on gross amount of premiums
collected in the city, >
per cent.
loo dealers, not delivering ... 5^
Ice dealers, delivering 10OH
Ice manufacturers, each fat- i
^rV
Itinerant street advertisers u.v- ;
ing the public streets of the
City to advertise merchandise,
-regardless of whether >
such warw tshall bo sold by i
such itinerant street advor- j
liners or by some other indi- I
vidua! or corporation with
whom such advertiser shall I
have entered into some trade I
agreement. Tor day 26.001
labor agents, per year 260.001
Per day 60.00 1
Land loan comipandes, or j
agents lending- money on j
real estate, by mortgage or I
otherwise 25$ I
laundries, steam, or agents
for laundries, trucks solicit- I
ing business for laundries, I
not maintaining 1 pi ant in city 100.00 1
Laundries maintaining a place I
of business within the city 15.001
Laundry service, engaged in I
supplying firms or individuals
with f-resh linen under
contract, per year 100.00 1
Lawyers, each 10.001
Firms of lawyers, each additional
member 5.001
Lenders of money, on personal I
property, whether in connection
with other business or I
not. except such as are I
otherwise specified in this I
ordinance 1,000.00 1
Livery, feed and sales stables 25.00 1
Livery and dray age business
(Continued on page nine)
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