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AN ORDINANCE To Require the Paymont of Clcsnas on Business, Occupations and Profession* In the City of Camden, 8. C? for the Yqar from May 1, 1940, to May 1, 1841. He It ordained by the Mayor and Councllmen of the City of Camden, in Council assembled and by the authority of the same. Section 1 Kvery person, firm, company or corporation, engaged on May 1, HMO, In any calling, business, profession or occupation In whole or In purt within the City of Camden, as may bo hereinafter specified, shall I obtain during the Month of May, 1940, a license therefor In the manner hereinafter prescribed. Bvery person. Arm, j company or corporation commencing business In said city on or before the first day of May, 1940, shall In like manner obtain a license thorfor bofore entering upon such calling, business. profession, or occupation as hereinafter; specified. '"Section 2. fcvery person, firm, company or corporation engaged In or Intending to engage In any calling, busl-; ness, profession or occupation for which a license is required, shall airply to the Clerk and Treasurer of the City of Camden for the same? by whom all such licenses shall be Issued. and shall at the time of applying, make and sign a written statement under oath, and tile It with the said Clerk and Treasurer, setting forth: First, his or her or Its name or style, the name of the persons constituting such firm or company. Second, the calling, business, profession or occupation for which license Is required. Third, the place where hucIi calling, business, profession or occupation Is to t>e carried on; the amount of capital Invested, or the gross annual Income. Parties iu business on the first of May. shall make such application for new license and tile 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. 1940, except such as may become due after that time. Provided, however, that Immediate payment may be required In each and every case at the discretion of the said Clerk and Treasurer, and the foregoing provision shall In no wise stay or hinder action to enforce Immediate payment; which lux and penalty shall bo recovered In the manner hereinafter prescribed. and if any person, flrtn. company or corporation required so to ilo by the terms of this ordinance shall refuse or neglect to make out and deliver to the Clerk and Treasurer or' the City of Camden, on or before the time herein required. the .-tatetiteti! provided for by Section 2 of This ordinance, or shntT make n talse statement*, or shall refuse to take and subscribe ail oath or affirmation as to the t rut It of such statement. or ati.v part thereof; or from any cause shall fail to take out such license as may he required by this ordinance, the said Clerk and Treasurer shall report the ease to tho Major, who shall proceed to ascertain as nearly as possible, the business of sm It pet son, firm, company or corporation for which he, she or it may bo liable to a license tax therefor, and In case of default for the purpose of sue it investigation, tho said Clerk and Treasurer shall notify the person, lirnts. companies, or corporation in default to appear before the Mayor at his office?at a tittle stated in said nuucn. and also such witnesses as tiio Major may desire to examine. Tho witnesses called as aforesaid stia.ll bo examined by the Mayor, under oath or affirmation, touching the nature of till business of .-Hell party. alld eV?;ytlilng which in.ij evince the amount of in iuse tux for whieh such party -h.,!! liable From tie* information thu* acquired th- Major shall titel and a>sess th<? amount of In ens,, t., v due by such pa tj \\helll'-;- lie. s!e- or i; alien,ieii the nn e-rlgat ion or not. and shall I add thereto a petiallj of tiftecti per a" thereof atnl should -itch license :.,\ ami penaltj be not paid within riv. <|a 5 s r :n*! eafter. the said Clerk ami Treasurer shall issue an e\e? u ion :her-mf under her hand, and ihe -e;,| of the City of Camden, directed i 'It- e.?jj.,f a police of tho City af ' r. l o; the Sheriff of Kershaw "iti.j i:t said State and th" said tie' of police or sheriff shall pro. e, ,i ; , eollect the said license tax i penaltj. by ievj and sale of real or personal property, as now provided by law f.i>- ihe collection of taxes, tone'h... with an additional five per lent of the whole amount, which shall * he sheriff's or chief of police's compensation for making such collection. in addition to one dollar for ::,.o\ tu -u< i b-\y. which shall be paid b> de'.i:.., . n: without entry or milem ided however, that any pefafoti shall have t !te ! ' i 'h Fity Council . e ,f - ;. ;i a ppe.,1 lia v ! mo*!,, i . k and T r?-a >- | io"- the time; I,.: ! . I . .. j ' ' "V- or ;,c j ; ^ : < :r. arty court of j , ontp'-', j ,r ..h *,. i> f ,? tile recov- ' ' J ot -ki, ? ., . | penalties And pro\ hie.; tur'her. t!iat any person. ftrm.company ,.r < ori>oration wlio shall carry on. or attempt ;o carry on any calling, business, profession or occupatl&n without a license as herein required, or who shall neglect or refuse to give the information required or to answer such questions as may be Vequlrud w who slutflyfaU to ?ueud before th* Mayor to ho examined by him when so required,a* provided In Sectlou 2 and 3 of thla ordinance may be doomed guilty of a violation thereof before the Municipal Court and may be lined uot more than One Hundred Hollaaa. or be Imprisoned uot exceeding thirty days. Suction 4 All licenses granted under this ordinance shall be posted iu u conspicuous place, except in case of vehicles for hire, which vehicles shall have placed upon them metal badges with the number of badges and the license year marked thereon, such badges to be furnished by the Clerk and Treasurer upon payment, of the license tax. Failure to display such badges will subject the persons owning or using the saino to a penalty of not more than Five Dollars or Imprisonment not exceeding ten days. The license granted under this ordinance shall at all timus be subject to inspection by any officers of the City of Camden and no calling, business, profession or occupation shall be carried on elsewhere than the place named in this license therefor, unless authority be granted by the Clerk and Treasurer, which uuEhorlty shall bo endorsed oil the license. Section 5- AH licenses granted under this ordinance shall continue In force until the ttrat duy of May A. D? 1941. except such as are written for a shorter period, us may hereinafter bo provided. The City Council reserves the right to revoke any licenses for any cause which to them may seem to be just. Section t>. The following sum or sums of money <are required to be paid to the said Clerk and Treasurer for a llcenso to carry on the business, calling, profession or occupation In whole or In part within the limits or the City of Camden, as In each caso spec Ideally appears: Class No. 1 Business or income basis, $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 following 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 be Increased from tho amount set forth in said schedule at the rate of ten cents for each Thousand Dollars or gross income in excess of One Thousand Dollars. Agents, advertising, not printing office J 15.00 Agent for merchant tailors . . 10.00 Agents selling books, per year 20.00 Agents selling books, per day . 5.00 Agents selling fruit trees or other trees or plant? l'MW Agents gelling sewing machines 1> "0 Agents selling und delivering soft drinks, maintaining an adequate warehouse In the City from which bona fide dedeliverles are made 25.00 All previous ordinances or resolution having to do with the warehousing of soft drinks are hereby revoked. Agents selling and delivering soft drinks other than those paying license for bottling plants 100 00 Agents advertising land sales where the land is valued at more than $5.not).no. per year 100.00 Architects ....,,... 10.00. Agents, claim and collection .. 10.00 Auctioneers, for a year or less 10.00 Automobile Agencies 20.00 Automobile dealers or agents not having an established agency in Camden, soliciting I or selling automobiles, trucks or trailers iu Camden, per year > 5.00 Automobile livery or truck either for passenger or baggage. tirst car 15.00 Kach additional car 5.00 Automobile body and top repair 10.00 Auto Finance Company or cor- .. . porn t ion 100 00 All drivers of automobiles or trucks for hire whether for passengers or baggage shall be persons of good moral character, and no license shall be issued to anyone who does not first furnish the City Clerk satisfactory recommendations; and if such drivers upon report to the City Council are found not to be proper persons to run said automobiles or trucks, license to the owners of same shall be revoked unless said drivers are immediately taken off said automobiles or trucks. Storage of automobiles, not In connection with any other business, per year 10.00 Barber shops, for each chair . 5.00 Bakeries maintaining a bakery In the city 25 00 Battery service 5 00 Beauty parlors 20.00 Bill hoards, each hoard not to v' t'f<] 1". high nor 25 f. ,-t I'Mig in business district 25 0') I". ?M'b : dS-tiict. each ... ?~"0 n0 F i?', i. - ; ct i , be located I", ..io -[[-? ;. from I-.i f inir on 'bo N?>r?h i ry limit on the - a i n ! I>>-K alb st feet. ' ;ii City limit on the i s- > : !i" City limit on t be West. B;< yclo repair shop 5 00 Bicycle dealers .>.0') Bill posters, per year 25.00 Bill posters, per day 3 00 Bingo. Ballyhoo. Poker. Ducky Strike, Stop & Sock, Music boxes and all other such games, per yeAr 10.00 Miniature pool tables, coin operated or otherwise, up to % aud Including two foot by four teeti ?*ch table, psf year 16.00 Billiards, bagatelle or bool tables, over two feet by four feet, flret table, per year .. 40.00 Additional tablee, per year 1.00 Billiard and pool rooms to be allowed on ground floor only of any building and not to be kept open after 11 o'clock at night. Aud each table shall be considered a separate business. Miniature pool tables to be governed by same regulation and no child under eighteen (18) years of age shall be allow'ed to play at any pool table, whether miniature or otherwise. Building and Development Companies, Incorporated partnerships or Individuals .... 25.00 Blacksmith or wheelwright .. 5.00 Bowling alley or box ball .... 25.00 Brokers, pawn 100.00 Brokers, merchandise 25.00 Brick masons, plasterers, taking, contracts 10.00 Firms or brlck 'masons, for one member 10.00 hJach additional member ,t,f 10.00 Brick yards or dealers In brick 15.00 Boarding - houses fprniahing board for three or more, where the rates are from |1.00 to $2.00, per year .... 5.00 Boarding houses furnishing board for three or more where the rates are $2.00 up, per year 10.00 Business or Income basis, $1,000; on each additional $1,000, ten cents per $1,000. Where the gross annual income fron^ the business, callings or professions enumerated in tho following 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 be Increased at tho rate of ten cents for each One Thousand of gross income In excess of One Thousand 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 Vnd 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 by day labor, the owner of the building shall first obtain permit for each, and every job before tho work #ls done: For each contract or Teas than $1.01)0.00 5.00 And $2.00 for each additional $1,000.00 in contract price. Non-resident contracts, $10.00 for each contract of less than $1,000, and $4.00 for each additional $1,000.00 In contract price. Cabinet makers or furniture repairers 5.00 Candy manufacturers not in connection with any other business 10.00 Candy manufacturers or dealers on street, per day .... 5.00 Candy dealers not in connection with mercantile business, per year 15.00 Chiropractor 15.00 Chiropodists _?? 5dl(L Non-resident chiropodists., . 25.00 Circuses, menageries, animal 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 fixtures connected with or incident to 1 the show, per day or part of a day 100.00 Circuses, menageries%nd shows as above enumerated, and carrying more than ten cars or trucks, not over 25. per day or part of a day 100.00 Circuses, menageries and shows as above enumerated, and' carrying moro than 25 cars or trucks, per day or part of a day 100.00 Circus itides or parades or menageries, animal shows,, wild west shows, as above named when the show locates outside of city limits, shall pay for each parade, the same license as such circus, menagerie or other show would be required to pay for exhibiting within corporated limits. Corn and flour mills, either operating or delivering within city 10.00 Cotton seed oil mills, including gins 100.00 Cotton glnners. for each gin stand 10.00 Cotton mills 75.00 Civil engineers and surveyors _ or either ?15.00 Dealers in coffins, caskets, not paying mercantile license . > ear 10 00 Dealers in second hand ctothing whether connected with other business or not . 25.00 Dealers in second hand shoes, not connected with other business 25.00 Dealers in electric rofrlgerators - 10.00 Dealers in fruit, peanuts or cooked food on street, per day ..... i... - 1.00 Dealers In fruits, vegetables, ? eggs, chickens, melons, or other fArm produce (not r SSZJUKSS ,,,<1 not .old on the etreete. T per year 10.00 Dealers iu Ash or oysters or either ftt place of business 40.00 Dealers in hides, except those paying mercantile license .. 86.00 Dealers in Ice cream, lemon* ade, or soda water on the streets, per day 6.00 Dealers In Junk * 86.00 Junk hot to be placed less than 200 feet from street and to be concealed! from street by * closed fence. Dealers In mediclue, 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 .. 10.00 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 26.00 Dealers In wopd, coal or coke, per year ' 26 00 Dealers in wood only 6.00 Dealers In second hand machinery, per year 26.00 Dealers In cattle, hogs, livestock. etc 26.00 Dry cleaners, maintaining plant In city 25.00 Dentists 16.00 Electricians, taking contracts, doing electrical work, or selling electrical supplies 15.00 Inhibitions, traveling theatricals, musical or other, for gain, not In opera house, $26.00 to $100.00 In the discretion of Mayor add City Clerk. Florists, retail only 25.0C1 Sellers of flowers, bulbs, or shrubbery not maintaining a place of business In the City of Cainden when suoh 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 lOQ.OQj Flying jennies, or horse or steam riding galleries, per woek 50.00 Foundry, per year 10.00 Filling stations not In connection with any other business . per year, one pump 15.00 Hash additional pump 5.00 Filling station In connection with storage of cars, per year 60.00 Filling station in connection with Storage of "cat's and selling agencies, or garages for selling gasoline 30.00 Fruit and produce dealers, not selling on the street, per year 10.00 Games, see page 8 Garage arfd 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 Hotels, Inns, Tourist Homes, three to ten rooms 10.00 Hotels, from 10 to 25 rooms, ? , per year 20.00 Hotels, from 25 to 75 rooms, per year 40.00 ..HoteLa, from 75 rooma upward,. J per year 75.001 House painters, paper hangers, interior decorators taking contracts, per year 10.00 Non-resident house painters, per year 25.00 j Hucksters or peddlers of fruit J vegetables, etc.. Including Ready Rolling Stores, if ped' dllng goods, wares and other merchandise, manufactured articles, fruits, vegetables melons, eggs, and other farm products (not raised by the owner within the State of South Carolina), per year .. 50.00 (No license to be prorated.) Said hucksters or peddlers not to take a stand, and not to sell on prohibited streets hereinafter mentioned. Each wagon or truck used by said huckster or peddlers to constitute a separate business. Each huckster or peddler to be furnished with a b^dge upon taking out license.*^ 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 Broad street from Lafayette street to York street, on Rutledge street from Church street to Lyttleton street. Wholesale deliveries of moats and fow 18 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 fhe said stock and all portions of said wagons not taken up by refrigerator to be screened and said refrigerator at all times kppt in a sanitary condition 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. I Insurance, Fire. Every com- & pimy or aaeoolattou doing business directly or througtr\ an agent or broker, abali pay on gross amount of premiums collected in tbe city, 3 per eent. ?*? ice dealers, not delivering ...: 6.00 toe dealers, delivering 10.00 Ice manufacturers, each factory 85.00 Itinerant street advertisbra using the pnhllo street* of the City to advertise merchandise, regardless of whether such wares shall be sold by such Itinerant street advertisers or by some other indl vidual or oorporation with whom snch advertiser shall have entered into some trade agreement, per day 15.00 Labor agents, per year 350.00 per day 50.00 I?nd loan oompantes or agents lending money on real estate, by mortgage or otherwise . 35.00 Lbundries, steam, pr agents for . laundries, trucks soliciting business for laundries, not maintaining plant in city... 100.00 Laundries malntailng & place of business within, the city., 16.00 laundry service, engaged in supplying firms or Individuals with fresh linen under contract. per year .. 100.00 \M0fera, each ^ 10.00 Finns of lawyers, each addl-r tlonal 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 Lupber dealers or brokers, retail whether resident or notother than lumber or shlri- ' * gles from timber on land owned by sellers within the State of South Carolina .... 20.00 Machine shops and repairs or either 10.00 Marble yard 6.00 Monument and tombstone erectors, transient, per year 50.00 Moving picture shows, fpr each place of business 50.00 That there Is hereby created a Board of Inspection for Moving Picture operators; said board to consist of the City Electrician and the Chief of the Fire Department. That each moving picture machine while In operation shall be In Charge of an experienced operator holding a certiflciate of fitness from said board and no person shall operate any such moving picture machine In the City of Camden without first obtaining a certificate of fitness from said board as herein provided, neither shall any person, firmr cSfporatldfi permit the opr oration of any such moving picture machines owned by such person, firm or corporation by any one other lhan a person holding a certificate of fitness as heroin provided. Said Board shall have full power and authority to prescribe rules and regulations governing the conduct of the operators, and the operation of all moving picture machines and said board from a fire standpoint Is hereby authorized and empowered, to, ffikfcd such rules and regulations for the enforcement of the powers and authority given it herein as in their discretion they may deem necessary. Manufacturers or -bottlers of ,soda water, Coca-Cola, ginger i , ale andv such like soft drinks 25.00 tpatrnmentA,. not?COH- r nected with other business . 15.00 Manufacturers of ice cream,* ^jiot in connection with ice cream parlors, per year 10.00 Meat markets, green groceries, per year 30.00 (No license to be prorated) All markets to be screened In accordance with the direc; t*oa? Of the Board of aud subject at all ttmHTzH inspection 'by th* uT?!H Health and kept |U ,9 condition, Mutual Are insurance Ules "** M Newspapers, whether coa^l ed with Joh work i,ol Oculists or opticians Paint shops tor auto*, ture, etc ' ^9 Peddlers or agents solicit^* or delivering photogrtjlfM lithographs, pictures mJJJB tures, atatuottoH, otc.'jJH copying or enlarging,' 31 wy o ,, s. v 11 >.. ?!9 Peddlers or venders aui?| merchandise or auy descrSl t ton, per week ^ H Per da/ Physicians ' and surgeoii'il either ' Physician and surgeoni, either, In flrihs, for ttr?| member For each 'additional Piano tuners, repairers of m3 teal instruments, per year Planing, moulding and I umbel mills, whether paying \^M ber dealer's license or not fl Popcorn and peanut parohe?B each not ty, connection ?at| other business | Per day *| Printers, job - in conuectiofl with newspapers Printers, not In connectloifl with newspapers, malnUh| lug plant in city I Printers, soliciting and dellwj lng business Phtographers Plumbers, gas fitters. heatlH contractors, tinners """Steam fitters, or other j9 palrmen or either, tAk?9 contracts, local, per year ,| Transient, per year . ,...;9 That no such license shall k| issued until the applieftfl . shall first stand a satish9 tory examination before tft9 inspector of sewerage, BoajH required in accordance wMn ordinance. - --? Rent agents or collectors, ptrfl year ,9 Real estate agents ...| Restaurants, cafes, tea rood| and lunoh stands, each ...^9 Salvage companies or persoi9 taking charge of mercantili| stock, or other stock, pec <U? Selling or erecting awnings or| teiits ...>| Shoe, harness and boot reptt| era ,?| Steeplejack painters, per yetM Per day . ?.?i9 Repairers of typewriters, adi| Ing machlnOs, etc.. not mufl [ TalnTng'shop, per year .~7o| Per- day ...| I Shooting galleries, per montlr| Sign painters ~.^9 Per day Skating rtyiks, per month .9 t Per year . -| Stove repairers,- itinerant, jfl day, $1.00; per year ...M Stallion or, Jack for service J Tailors or agents for tallOliH Undertakers ; | Vulcanizing Veterinary surgeon, each ,.M Veterinary surgeon firms. ?9 adult member . i.. .....fl WatoHmakers, whether c9 nected with other bustH^| or not ...9 Warehouse, charging storag?| Class No. 2 | Business or Income basis, (H each additional $1,000, ten <9 $1,000, Where the gross i9 come from the business, ct9 I profession enumerated in ImJ | ing schedules, shall be On#4| Dollars or less, the licenseS . (Continued on page s?f| ALL DOGSl MUST BE VACCINA! " " * > " I Every person in the City who owns 3 or dogs must have them vaccinated if .have not been vaccinated this year or sa the consequences. A complete list of all a in the City has been made by the Health <1 cer, therefore none may expect to escapfel The work will be done by Dr. T. B.BfM II, Veterinarian, at his office-on Lyti^l Street, Monday and Tuesday, May 6 andjB No dogs will be permitted to_remain M City unless they have been vaccinated. JjjB to bring your dog the first day, if possible-! fee will be 65 cents for each dog. ' -CsS This Notice is Final. DON'T FORGET THE DATE I DON MORRISON!