The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, April 17, 1936, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6
AN ORDINANCE
To Require the Payment of License
on Business, Occupation* and Professions
in the City of Camden,
8. C., for the Year From May 1,
1936 to May 1, 1937.
)le it ordulned by the Mayor and
Counellroen of tho City of Cmiiden, in
Council assembled and by tho authority
of the name.
Boot ion 1. Kvery per a on, firm,
company or corporation, engaged on
-May I. 1936 lu any culling. Uu?in<-b?.
.. profession or omiPttMon lis. *?><>!? 9r
jn part within the City of Camden,
a? may be hereinafter h peel fled, shnll
obtain during tl?? month of May.
1936/ a license therefor in the manner
hereinafter prescribed. Kvory perwon,
firm, company or corporation
commencing buslneaH In aaid city on
or before tno llrat day of Muy, 1936,
rtliall in like manner obtuin a license
therefor before enterliiK upon sucli
calling, business, profession or occupation
an hereinafter specified.
Section 2. Kvery person, firm
company or corporation engaged in
or Intending to engage in any calling,
business, profession or occupation for
^ which a license is required, shall ap
ply to the Clerk and Treasurer ?>r
tiic City of Camden for the saiuo
by whom all such licenses shall he Issued,
and shall at the lime of applying,
make and sign a written statement
under oath, and ille It with the
said Clerk und Treasurer, setting
forth: First, Ills or her or its name
or style, the name of the persons constituting
such tlrm or company.
SecoDd, the calling, business, profession
or occupation for which license
Is required. Third, the place where
such calling, business, profession or
occupation is to he carried on; the
amount of cupltul invested, or the
gross annual income. Parties in business
on the first of May, shall muko
such application for new license and
hie such written statement before
May 21st.
Section 3. A ponalty of iifteen
per cent shall he added to all licenses
which are not paid during the. month
of Muy, 1936, except such as may
become due after that time. Provid.
ed. however, that Immediate payment
may be required in each an every
case at tho discretion of tho said
Clerk and Treasurer, and the foregoing
provision shall in no wise stay
or hinder action to enforce immediate
payment; which tax and penalty
shaW be recovered in the manner
hereinafter prescribed, and If any
person, (Inn, company or corporation
required ho to do by the terms ol
this ordinance shall refuse or neglect
to make out and deliver to the Clerk
and Treasurer of the City of Camden
en or before the lime herein required
the statement provided for by Section
"2 of thlrt ordinance, or shall make i
false statement, or shall refuse ft
take and subscribe an oath or affirm
at ion ;ls to the truth of such slate
meat, or any part thereof; or fron
any cause shall fail to take out sue!:
license as may he required by thi>
ordinance, the said Clerk and Treas
urer shall report the ease to the
Mayor, who shall proceed to assertaii
as nearly as posible. the business ol
such person, firm, company, or corp
oration, for which he. site or it maj
be liable, to a license tax therefor
and in case of defuult for the purpost
of such investigation, the said Clerk
and Treasurer shall notify the person
tinns. companies, or corporations it
default to appear before the Mayoi
at his office- at a time stated in said
notice; and also such witnesses a>
the Mayor may desire to examine
The witnesses tailed as aforesaid
shall be examined by the Mayor, tin
der oath or affirmation, touching tin
nature of the business of sin h part>
ami e\ot \t lung which may evince tin
V amount-of license tax for which su< I
parts shall ho liable
From the information thus acquire*
the Major shall tiinf and assess ilu
amount of license tax due b> sucl
party whether he. she or it attended
the investigation or not. and shut
add thereto a penalty of Iifteen pel
tent, thereof, and should such licenst
tax ami penalty tie not paid withlr
b\e days thereafter, the said Clerk
ami Tieasurer shall issue an oxecu
lion thereof under his hand and tlit
seal of the City of Camden, directed
to the chief of police of the Cily ol
Canulen. or the Sheriff of Kershaw
County. In said State and the salt
Chief of Police or Sheriff shall pro
ccotl to collect the said license ta>
and penalty. b> lev> and sale of tea
or personal property, as now provider
by law for the collection of taxes
together with an additional live pel
cent of the whole amount, which slia4
he the Sheriff's or Chief of Police's
compensation for making such colloo
lion. In addition to one dollar foi
maknm such levy, whb h shall tie pah!
b> delinquent without entry or mile
nte fi'os; provided, however, that au>
person or tnrpor.it ion shall have tin
tight of appeal to the City Coutioi
tit Camden t notice ol such appeal liav
ing been given to the Clerk ant
Treasurer within tiw days from tin
time or which sv.ch assessment of 11
t i.s< ana penalty shall have bee!
made i ami upon beating ,-m h appeal
the s.ini t' >iin il shall make silt li <>i
tier th> r> i:i a- I! shall deem j'.lst ..111
proper, and provided further, thai n
lieu of the remedy above set forth ft
enforce payun at an action or aetioiu
may be brought in any ? ourt of com
potent jurisdiction for the recovery o
such license tax and penalties. Ant
provided further, that any person
firm, company or corporation win
shall carry on. or attempt to carr;
on any calling, business, profession o
occupation without a license as hereii
required, or who shall neglect or refuse
to give the information required
or to uiiHwer such questions as may
be required or who shall fall to attend
before the Mayor to be examined
by blin when ho required, a* provided
in Section 2 and 'I of thin ordinance
may be deemed guilty of a violation
thereof before the Municipal
Court and may be lined not more
than One Hundred Dollars, or be*imprimmed
not exceeding tliirly days.
Section 4 All licence granted under
tliis ordinance shall be pouted In
y eon pi' iioiih place, exrejtf in ease of
vehicles for litre, which v^jicles Hhall
have placed upon them metal badges
with the number of budget* and the
license year marked thereon, such
badges lo be furnished by the Clerk
and Treasurer upon payment of the
license tux. Failure to displuy such
badges will subject (lie persons owning
or using the same to a penalty
of not more than Five Dollurs or imprisonment
not exceeding ten days.
The license granted under tiiiH ordinance
shall at all times be subject
to inspection by any officers of the
City of Camden and no calling, business,
profession or occupation shall
he eariied on elsewhere than the place
named in this lecense therefor, unless
authority be granted by the Clerk and
Treasurer, which authority shall he
j endorsed on the license.
Section 5. ' All licenses granted
under tills ordinunce shull continue iu
force until the iirst day of May A. I).
11?S7, except such as are written for
a shorter period, as may hereinafter
be provided.
The City Council reserves the right
to revoke uny licenses for uny cause
which' to them may seem to he Just.
Section 6. The following sum or
sums of money are required to ho
paid to the said Clerk and Treasurer
for u license to carry on the business,
calling, profession or occupation in
whole or In part within the limits of
the* City of Camden, us in each cuse
specifically appears.
Class No, 1
Husinoss or Income basis, $1,000.
On each additional $1,000, ten centB
por $1,000.
Where the grosH annual income
from the business, callings -^r professions
enumerated in the following
schedule, shall he One Thousand
Dollars or less, the license shall bo
at the rate set forth in said schedule;
and where the gross annual Income
exceeds One Thousand Dollars, tho
license shall be increased from the
' amount set forth In said schedule at
the rale of ten cents for each Thous>
and Dollars of gross income in excess
of One Thousand Dollars.
Agents, advertising, pot printing
office . . v .$ 15.00
. Agents for merchant" tailors .. 10.00
, Agents selling if&oks, por year 20.00
i "Agents selling books, per (luy 5.00
i Agents selling fruit trees or
' other trees or plants 25.00
Agents selling sewing machines.
paying merchandise
I lit ense 15.00
i Agents selling and delivering
soft drinks other than those
paying license for bottling
plants 100.00
i Agents advertising land sales
f where the land Is valued at
more than $5,000.00, per
year 100.00
, Architects 10.00
Agents, claim and collection .. 10.00
t Auctioneers, for a year or less 10.00
. Automobile Agencies uO.OO
i Automobile dealers or ngeirts
not having an established
1 agency In Camden, soliciting
i or selling automobiles, trucks
or trailers in Camden, per
I year 75.00
Automobile livery or truck.
' either tor passenger or haggage,
each 15.00
Automobile body and top re
i ' p.11 r . 10 oo
I A!! drivers of automobiles or trucks
I for hire whether for passengers or
' j hciceng'* shall he persons of good
i ; moral character, and no license shall
I ; he issued to anyone who does not
I | iirst turnish the City Clerk satis"Ifactorv
recommendation; and if such
j drivers upon report to the City Couni
mI are found not to he proper per
- sons to run said automobiles or
trucks, license to the owners of same
j shall be revoked unless said drivers
I ! are immediately taken off said autof
mobiles or trucks.
' I All persons owning or controlling
I hacks or other vehicles moving on
- wheels and plying for hire in tho
k City of Camden shall post in a con1
spic nous place in said hack or vehicle
I a printed schedule of prices, to be
.) furnished by the City Cierk upon the
" j issuance of license, and keep the same
I so posted during the continuance of
c said license; and shall have a tag.
- furnlshod by the City Clerk, carrying
r|a number corresponding with the
I ; number of said hack or vehicle, fast !
t iled on the outside of said hack
or vehicle in such a position as to be
j easily seen; and all drivers of such
1 hacks or vehicles shall wear a metal
badge, of convenient size, on the left
I i side of his outer garment. With the
' number of his license painted or on'craved
thereon,
i Storage of automobiles, not In
tonneetion with any. other
business, per year $ 10.00
1 Harbor shops, for each (hair 5.00
i Hakerjes, maintaining a plant
> in the city 25.00
i>; ible-rifs. or agents delivering v
bread, cakes, cookies, maoaf
; roons. etc.. other than crack1
j era, not maintaining plant in
f. I dry 100.Op
:> , Mattery service 5.00
> j lb>auty parlors, for each chair 5.00
r Hill hoards, each board not to
?! exceed 15 feet high nor 25
feet long, iii business district 25.00
In residential district, each 100.00
Business district to be located
on Hroad Htreet, from I,afayette
Avenue on the North
to the City Limit oil the
South, and DeKalb Htreet,
from the City Llinlt on the
Kant to the City Limit on <
the West.
Bicycle repair shop
Bicycle dealers g.qq i
Bill posters, per year 25.00
Hill posters, per day 3 pp *
Bingo, Ballyhoo, I'okor, Lucky
Mtrtko, stop & Sock, mustc 1
boxes and all other such 1
games. per year 10 00
Miniature pool tahlea, coin op- 1
erated or otherwise, up to
and including twq feet by
four feet, each table, per 1
, y?ar 16.00
Billiards, bagatelle or pool ta
hies, over two feet by four I
feet, first table per year . . 40.00
Additional tables, per yeur 1.00
Billiard and pool rooms to be I
allowed on ground floor only
of any building and not to be
kept open after 11 o'clock at
night. And each table shall
be considered a separate
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 pool
j table, whether miniature or
otherwise.
Building and Development
C o m panics, Incorporated,
partnerships or Individuals 25.00
Blacksmith or wheelwright ... 10.00
Bowling ulley or box ball .... 25.00
Brokers, pawn 100.00
Brokers, merchandise 25.00
Brick musons, plasterers, taking
contracts 10.00
P inns of brick masons, for one
member 10.00
Kach additional member ... 10.00
Bricks yards or dealers in brick 15.00
Boarding houses furnishing
board for three or more,
where the rates are from
$1.00 to $2.00, per year .... 5.00
Boarding houses furnishing
hoard for three or more,
where the rates are $2.00 up,
Per year 10 0Q
Business or income bases, $1,000;
on each additional $1,000, ten cents
per $1,000.
Where the gross annual income
from the business, callings or professions
enumerated in the followiug
schedule shall be One Thousand Dollars
or less, the license shall be at
the rate set forth in said schedule;
and where the gross annual Income
exceeds One Thousand Dollars, the
license shall bo Increased at the rate
of ten cents for each One Thousand
of gross income in excess of One
I hon.sand Dollars, from the amount
set forth in the said schedule.
Agents taking orders or delivering
pictures $25.00 each week.
All contractors shall obtain permits
for each and every job. building or
repairing, before the work is commenced.
permits to be charged for
as 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 but
bv day labor, the owner of the building
shall first obtain permit for each
and every job before the work is
done.
$10') and less than $300 $ 1.00
From $300 to $500 2.00
From $500 to $1,000 3.00
From $1,000 to $2,0QO fv00
From $2,000 to $3,000 7.00
From $3,000 to $4,000 S.00
From $4,000 to $5,000 10.00
From $5,000 t<> $7,000 12.00
From $7.u()n to $10,000 15.00
From $1*1,000 to $15,000 20.00
Front $15.0oo ?,? $20 000 30.00
From $20,000 to $25.00*1 40.00
From $25,000 to $35,000 45.00
From $35,000 to $50,000 50.00
From $50,000 11 p. $100.*?u. and for each
additional $1,000. $1.00.
,( ahinet makers or furniture
repairers $ 5 00
Candy manufacturers *in connection
with other buisness 1000
Candy manufacturers not in
connection with any other
business 10.00
Candy manufacturers or dealers
on streets, per day . yj)0
Candy dealers not in connection
with mercantile business.
per year 15.00
Canning factories 10.00
Carriage, buggy and wagon
dealers. not paying merchant's
license 15.00
Chiropractor 15.00
Chiropodists 5 00
Non-residents 25.00
Circuses, menageries, nnimal
shows, wild west shows and
similar ' exhibitions under
whatever name carrying ten
or less number of cars or
trucks for transportation of
people, animals, equipment.
paraphernalia or lixiures
connected with or incident to
the show, per day or part of
I ;i <la> 1 "0.00
j Circuses, menageries and
show- as aho\?- . numerated.
and carrying more than ten
j cars or trucks, not over 25,
P?*r day or part of a day . 15**00
| Circuses, menageries and
shows as above enumerated
and carrying more than 25
Vdrs or trucks, per day" or
part of a day 200.00
Circus parades, or parades of
menageries, animal shows,
wild west shows, as above
named whon the show lo*
oaten outside of city limits,
ahull pay for each purade,
the name license as auch olrcum.
menagerie or other show
would be required to pay for
exhibiting within corporated
limits.
Join and hour iuIIIh, either operating
or delivering within
city 10.00
Cotton need oil mills including
KIhh 100.00
Cotton glunera, for each gin
Htund 6.00
Cotton mill* 75*0D
Civil engineers and surveyors
or either 16.00
Dealers in coffins, caskets, not
paying mercantile license,
per year 10.00
Dealers in second hand clothing
whether connected with
other business or not 26.00
Dealers in Hocond hand Hhoeu
not connected with other
business 26.00
Dealers in electric refrigerator?
10.00
Dealers in fruit. peanuts or
cooked food on street, per
duy 1.00
Dealers in fruits, vegetables,
eggs, chickens, melons, or
other farm produce (not
raised by the seller within
the Stute of South Carolina)
und not sold -on the streets,
per year 10.00
Dealers in hah or oysters or
either, at place of business 10.00
Dealers in hides, except those
paying mercantile license .. 25.00
Dealers in Ice cream, lemonade,
or soda water on the
streets, per day 5.00
DealerH in junk 50.00
Dealers in Junk, per month . . 25.00
Dealers In medicine, other than
regular druggist of the City
either on the street or private
property, and whether
delivering the medicine themselves
or through orders to
drug stores, per week 100.00
per day 20.00
Dealers in millinery goods, not
paying merchants' license .. 15.00
Dealers in radios alone 10.00
Dealers in kerosene, oil, gasoline
or either, wholesale, other
than merchants 100.00
Dealers in stocks and bonds,
as brokers, per year 25.00
Dealers 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
Dry Cleaners, not maintaining
plant in city 100.00
Dentists 15.00
Electricians, taking contracts,
doing electrical work, or selling
electrical supplies 15.00 i
Exhibitions, traveling theatricals,
musical or other, for
gain, not in opera house,
$25.00 to $100, in the discretion
of Mayor and City Clerk.
Florists, retail only 25.00
Wholesale and retail 50.00
Sellers of flowers, bulbs or
shrubbery not maintaining a
place of business in the City
of Camden when such flowers,
bulbs or shrubbery are
not raised by the seller within
the State of South Carolina
per week 10.00
Fortune tellers, palmists, clairvoyants,
phrenologists 100.00
Flying jennies, or horse or
steam riding galleries, per
week 50.00
Foundry, per year 15.00
Filling stations not in connection
with any other business
per year, one pump 15.00
each additional pump 5.00
more than two pumps ..... 50.00
Filling station in connection
with storage of cars per
yea r 60.00
Filling station in connection
with storage of cars and
selling agencies or garages,
for selling gasoline 50.00
Fruit and produce dealers, not
selling on the street, per
year 10.00
Gaines, see page 7.
Onrages atul storage 50.00
Garages, not more than two
men employed, per annum .. 20.00
more than two men 35.00
Gunsmiths 5.00
Hairdressers 10.00
non-resident 25.00
Harness-, repairs 5.00
Hotels, from 10 to 25 rooms,
per year 20.00
Hotels, from 25 to 75 rooms.
por year 40.00
Hotels, from 75 rooms upward.
per year 75 00
House painters, paper hangers,
interior decorators taking
contracts, per year 15.00
Hucksters or peddlers of fruit
vegetables, etc., including
Heady Rolling Stores, if pedllng
goods, wares and other
merchandise. manufactured
articles, fruits, vegetables,
melons, eggs and othor farm
products i not raised by the
owner within the State of
South Carolina) per year ., 50.00
iNo license to be prorated)
Said bin ksters or peddlers not to
take a stand, and not to sell on prohibited
streets hereinafter mentioned.'
Each wagon or truck used by said
hucksters or peddlers to constitute a
separate business Each huckster or
peddler to be furnished with a badge
upon taking out llcensa.
Hucksters or peddlers selling
fresh meats of any kind on
wagons, trucks, each per
year % 40.00
(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:
Church Street to Market Street or on
Hro&d Street from Lafayette Street to
York Street, on Rutledge from Church
Street to Lyttleton Street.
Wholesale deliveries of meats and
fowls to retail meat markets may be
made on said prohibitive areas. All
such wagons from which said fresh
meats may be sold during every!
month of the year except December,
January, February, to keep the meats '
on said wagons in refrigerators of
sufficient capacity to carry the said
stock and all portions of said wagons
not taken up by refrigerators to be
screened and said refrigerator at all
! times kept in a sanitary condition
1 subject at all times to inspection by
the health officer, or any one designated
by him. No license for sale of
such meats in wagons on streets is
to be granted by the City without the
application first being submitted and
approved by the health officer of the
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, 2
per cent.
Ice dealers, not delivering ...$ 5.00
Ice dealers, delivering 10.00
Ice manufacturers, each factory
25.00
Itinerant street advertisers using
the public streets of the
City to advertise merchandise,
regradless of whether
such wares shall be sold by
such itinerant street advertisers
or by some other individual
or corporation with
whom such advertiser shall
have entered into some trade
agreement. Per day 25.00
Labor agents, per year 250.00
Per day 50.00
l.rfind loan companies or
agents lending money on
real estate, by mortgage or
otherwise 25.00
Laundries, steam, or agents
for laundries, trucks soliciting
business for laundries,
not maintaining plant in city 100.00
Laundries maintaining a place
of business within the city 15.00
Laundry service, engaged in
supplying firms or individuals
with fresh linen under con
tract, per year 100.00
Lawyers, each 10.00
Firms of lawyers, each additional
member 5.00
Lenders of money, on personal
property, whether in connection
with other business or
not, except such as are
otherwise specified in this
ordinance 1,000.00
Livery, feed and sales stables 25.00
Livery and drayage business
for each animal 5.00
Lumber dealers or brokers, re
tail whether resident or not,
other than lumber or shin- I
gles from timber on land !
owned by sellers within the j
State of South Carolina 20.00
Lunch stand .. 10 00 1
Machine shops and repairs or I
either 10.00
Marble yard 500
Monument and tombBtone i
erectors, transient, per year 50 00 I
Moving picture shews, for j'
each place of business .... 50.00
That there Is hereby created &
Board of Inspection for Moving Pic
ture operators; said Board to oonslst I
of the City Electrician and the Chief I
of the Fire Department.
That each moving picture machine
while In operation shall be In charge I
of an experienced operator holding a I
certificate of fitness from said board 1
and no person shall operate any such
moving picture machine in the City of I
Camden without first obtaining a cer- H
tiftcate of fitness from said board I
as herein provided, neither shall any fl
person, firm, corporation permit the I
operation of any such moving picture
machines owned by such person, firm
or corporation by any one other than
a person laolding a certificate of fitness
as herein provided.
Said Board shall have full power
and authority to prescribe rules and H
regulations governing the conduct of J
tho operators, and the operation of
all moving picture machines and said
Board, from a fire standpoint Is ~H
hereby authorized and empowered to J
make such rules and regulations for
the enforcement of the powers and
authority given it herein as la their .H
discretion they may deem necessary. 1
Manufacturers or bottlers of |
soda water. Coca Cola, gin- [
ger ale and such like soft
drinks 25.00 |
Musical instruments, not con- j
nected with other business . 16.00
Manufacturers of ice cream, j
uot iu connection with ice ,.fl;
cream parlors, per year .... 10.00 H
Meat markets, green groceries, .
per year 30.00
(No license to be prorated) j
All markets to be screened j
In accordance with the directions
of the Board- of Health, i
and subject at all times to J
inspection by the Board of j
Health and kept in sanitary i
condition.
Mutual fire insurance compan- .9
Newspapers, whether connect
ed with job work or not ... 15.00 1
Oculists or opticians 15*00 j
Paint shops for autos, furni- |
ture, etc 15-00 j
Peddlers or agents soliciting j
or delivering photographs, j
lithograph, pictures, mlnla- j
tures, statuettes, etc., for j
copying or enlarging, per aa fl
week ?-M I
Peddlers or venders selling |
merchandise of any descrip- J
tion, per week 10^
20.00
per day j
Physician and surgeon, or H
either
Physicians and surgeons, or j
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