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f?'- ipsr r PAM TWO ITH OABOUNA, WtlDAY, APWIL ST, 1f46 AN ORDINANCE To Roquiro tho Raymont of Lkansa on Buainou^ Occupation* and Pro- foaalona in tha City of Camd*n, S. C.y for th# year from May 1, 1M6, to -May 1. 1M6. B« it ordained by the Mayor and Conncilmen of the City of Camden, in Connell assembled and by the author ity of the same. ' Section 1. Every person, firm, com pany or corporation, engaged on May 1, 1944, In any calling, business, pro- fOBSion or occupation in whole or in part within the City of Camden, as may be hereinafter specified, shall ob tain during the month of May, 1946, a license therefor In the manner here inafter prescribed. Every person, firm, company or corporation commencing business in said city on or before the first day pf May, 1946, shall in like manner obtain a license therefor be fore entering upon such calling, busi ness, profession, or occupation as hereinafter specified. Section 2. Elvery person, firm, com pany or corporation engaged in or in tending to engage in any calling, busi ness, profession or occupation for which a license is required, shall ap ply to the Clerk and Treasurer of the City of Camden for. the same—by whom all such licenses shall be is sued, and shall at the time of apply ing, make and sign a written state ment under oath, and file it with the said Clerk and Treasurer, setting forth: First, his or her or its name or style, the name of the persons con stituting such firm or company. Sec ond, the calling, business, profession or occupation for which license is required, l^lrd, the place where such calling, business, profession or occu pation la to be carried on: the amount of capital Invested or the gross an nual income. Parties in business on the first of May, shall make such ap plication for new license and file such written statement before May 21et. Section S. A penalty of fifteen per cent shall be added to all licenses which are not paid during the month oi Jiiiy,.lf 46. excipt Attch aa may be come 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 provis ion shall in no wise stay or hinder action to enforce immedfate payment; which tax and penalty shall be recov- «‘ed in the manner hereinafter pre scribed, and if any person, firm, com pany or corporation required So to do by the terms of this ordinance shall refuse or neglect to make out and deliver tor the Clerk and Treasur-* er of the City of Camden, on or be fore the time ^herein required, the statement provided for by Section 2 of this ordinance, or shall make a false statement or shall refuse to take and subscribe an oath or affirm ation as to the truth of such state ment, or any part thereof; or from any cause shall fail to take out such license as may be required by this ordinance, t^ said Clerk and tirer shall report the case to' the Mayor, who shall proceed to ascertain as nearly as possible, the business of such person, firm, company or corpor ation, for which he, she or it may be liable to a license tax therefor, and in case of default for the purpose of such investigaiion, the said Clerk and Treasurer shall notify the pe^Bon^ • firms, companies, or corporation in default to appear before the Mayor at his office—at a time stated.in said notice; and also such witnesses as the Mayor may desire to examine. The witnesses calle<l as aforesaid shall be , examined by the Mayor, under oath ‘or nfffrinatloii. touching the nature of the huslntss of such party, and every thing which may evince the amount of license tax for which such party shall be liable. From tho information thus acquir ed the Mayor shaH find and assess the amount of license tax dne by sUch party whether he. she or It attended tho investigation or not, and shall add thereto a penalty of fifteen per cent thereof, and should such license tax and penalty be not paid wllhln five days thereafter, the said Clerk and Treasurer shall tosne an execu tion therefor under her hand, and the seal of the City of Camden, directed i to the chief of police of the City of (Camden, or the Sheriff of Kershaw * County, in said State and the said chief of police or sheriff shall ..pro ceed to collect the said Ilcenae tax and li^Ry, by levy and sale of real or personal property, Aa now provided by law for the collection of taxes, to gether with an additional five per cent of the whole amount, which shall be the sheriffs or chief of police’s compenkktion for making' such collec tion, In addition to one dollar for making such levy, which shall be paid by delinquent without entry or mile age fees; provided, however, that any person or corporation shall have the right of appeal to the City Council of Camden (notice of such appeal hav ing been given to the Clerk and Treas urer within five days from the time of which such assessment of license and penalty shall have been made) and upon hearing such appeal, the said Council shall make such order therein as it shall deem Just and proper; and provided further, that in lieu of the remedy above set fo’rth to enforce payment an action or ac tions may be brought in any court of competent Jurisdiction for the recov ery of such Ileenss tax and penalties. And provided further, that any per son, firm, company or corporation who shall egyry on, or attempt to carry on any calling, business, profession or occupation without a license as herein required, or who shall neglect or refuse to give the information re quired or to answer such question as may be required or who shall fall to attend before the Mayor to be exam ined by him when so required, as'pro vided in Section 2 and 8 of this ordi nance may be deemed guilty of a vio lation there^ before the Municipal Court and mi^ be fined not more than One Hundred Dollars, or to be impris oned not exceeding thirty days. Section 4. All licenses granted un der this ordinance shall be i>osted in a eonspicioxia place,, except In case of vehicle* for hire, which vehicle* 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 dis play auch badges will subject the persons owning or using the same to a penalty of not more than Five Dol lars or imprisonment not exceeding ten days. The license granted under this ordinance shall at all times be subject to Inspection by any officers of tbe City of Camden and no calling, business, profession or occupstlon shall be carried on elsewhere than the place named In this license there for, unless authority be granted by Do Leaking Ceilings. Ruin Your Day? IF SC^aa expect re^sliikiv* liaf or reproof mf job U what j9m^ waat. Don’t put up with nuauad oeilhifa any lt*« chaapar in the long run to haTt the roof redone. A rapreaMitathre wUI call at your homa and ghre a fraa aatlmate. No obligation. JOHNS-MANVILLE AP PROVED ROOFER. NO DOWN PAYMENT NECESSARY. SEE — HE. FORTE I the Clerk and Treasurer, which gn- thorlty shall be endorsed on the Section 6. All licenses granted un der this ordinance shall continue in fpree uniil the first day of May, A. D., 1946, except such as are written for a shorter period, as may hereinafter be provided. TTie City Council reserves the right to revoke any license for any cause which to them may seem to be Just. Section 6 The following sum or sums of money are required to be paid to the said Clerk and Treasurer for a license to carry on the business, calling, pnifesslon or occupation in whole or in part within the limits of the City of Camden, as in each case specifically appears. Class No. 1 Iluslness or income basis, $1,000. On each additional $1,000. ten cents per $1,000. Where the gross annual Income 15 00 from the bnainess, callings or profes sions enumerated in the following schedule, shall be One Thousand Dol lars or less, the license shall be at the rate set forth in said schedple; and where the gross annual Income exceeds One Thousand Dollars, the license shall be Increased from the amount set forth in said s’chedule at the rate of [ten cents for each Thous and Dollars of gross Income in ex cess of One Thousand Dollars. Agents, adyertlslng, not print ing oRl^e $ Agent fbf ifthrchani talltjri .. Agents selling books, per year Agents selling booka, per day Agents selling fruit trees or other trees or plants Agents selling sewing ma chines 16.00 Agents selling and delivering soft drinks, maintaining an adequate warehouse in the City from which bonafide de liveries are made All previous ordinances or resolu tions .hjxvlng to do' with the ware housing of soft drinks are hereby re voked. Agents bottling and soiling soft drinks 26.00 Agents advertising land sales ■where the land it valued 20.00 6.00 10.00 50.00 100.00 26.00 25.00 26.00 10.00 6.00 26.00 6.00 26.00 600.00 at more than $6,000.00 per yeAr 100,99 Architects 19.09 Agents, claim and collection.. 10.09' Auctioneers, for a year or leas 19.99 Auditor, per year 10.09 Automobile Agencies 50.00 Automobile dealers or agenu not having an eatabliahed agency in Camden, soliciting or selling automobiles.tmcks , or trailers in Camden, per year ^ Automobile livery or truck either for passenger or bag gage, first car Elacb additional car Automobile body and top re pair Auto Finance Compapy or cor poration . 100.00 All drivers of automobiles or trucks for hire whether for passengers or baggage shall be persons of good mor al 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 samb shall be revoked unless said drivers are immediately taken off said automobile or trucks. Chauffeurs and Taxi drivers upon fillip application, to deposit $10.00; If application not approved $10.00 re funded. Storage of automobiles, not in connection with any other business, per year Barber shops, for each chair.. Bakeries maintaining a bakery in the city Battery service Beauty parlors 20.00 Bill boards, each board iK>t to .exceed 16 feet high nor 26 feet long, in business district In residential district; each.. Business district to be located on Broad street, fro§i La fayette avenue" on the north to the City limit on the south, and DeKalb street, from the City limit on the ea*t_tQ_the_ City, limit on the west Bicycle repair shop Bicycle dealers Bill posters, per year 26.00 Bill Poster, per day 3.00 Bingo, pin tables, music boxes and all other such iamea,. per year Miniature pool table#, coin op erated or otherwise, up to and includnig two feet by four feet, each table, per year . 16.00 Billiards, bagatelle or pool ta bles, over two feet by four feet first Uble. per year .. Additional tables, per year .. Blllard 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. And each table shall be considered a separate business. Miniature p^l tables to be governed oy same regulation and no child under eighteen (18) years of age shall be allowed to play at any pool table, whether miniature or other wise. Building and Development companies; Incorporated pftft- nerships or individuals .... Blacksmith or wheelwright .. Bowling alley or box ball .... Brokers, pawn 100.00 Brokers, merchandise 25.00 Brick masons, plasterers, tak ing contracts 10.00 Firms or brick masons, for one member 10.00 F.ach additional member .. 10.00 Brick yards or dealers In brick 16 00 Boarding houses furnishing board for three or more, where the rates are from $1.00 to $2.00, per year Boarding bouse furnishing board for three or more where the.rates are $2.0^ up, per year ■^Business or' Income, basis, $1,000; on each additional $1,000, ten cents per $1,000. Where the gross annual ‘income from the business, calling or profes sions enumerated in the following schedule shall be One Thousand Dol- 6.00 5.00 10.00 40.00 1.00 26.00 5.00 26.00 6.00 10.00 lO.Od Tara or Teas. llie~ttC60S6 Shalt he &X the rate set forth in said schedule; and where the gross annual income exceeds One 'Thousand Dollars, the license shall be increased at the 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 delivoring pictures $26.00 each week. All contractors shall obtain permits for each and every job, building or repairing before the work is com menced. permits to be charged for as follows: This is to be paid In ad dition to the separate license here in required of painters, plumber* and electricians, unless general contract includes same. In the event that tbe NOTICE Don’t ruin your tiras. Bring diom to us and let os repak and recap them. rr WILL BE A LONG TIME BEFORE YOV CAN GB£ NEW ONES. We Guarantee Our Work Clarlaoii Tire Service 6.00 6.00 5.00 building is not done by contract but by day labor, the owner of the bund ing shall first obtain permit for each and every Job before the work is done: For each contract of less than $1,000.00 • And $2.00 for each additional $1,009.00 in contract price. Non-revldent contract, $10.00 for each contract of less than $1,000 and $4.00 for each additional $LOOO.O in con tract friet. Cabinet makers or furliiture repairers Candy manafacturers not In c<HineeCion with any other business lO.QO Candy manafactnrers or deal ers on streets, per day .... Candy dealers not in connec- tion with mercantile bust- nets, per year Carnivals operating In con junction with fairs or other wise, per week Chiropractor 16.00 Chiropodists 0.0® Non-resident chiropodists 26.00 Circuses, menageries, animal shows, wild west shows and similar exhibitions under whatever name carrying ten or leas number of cars or trucks for transportation of peopla, animals, equipment, paraphernalia or fixtures connected with or Incidmit to the show, per day or part of a day 100.00 Clrcnses, menageeies and shows as above enumerated, and carrying more than tMi cars or trucks, not over 26, per 16.00 500.00 day or a part of a <tay enageriee aM shows 100.00 10.00 10.00 Circuses, menageries as above enumerated, and carrying more than 26 cars or trucks, per day or part of a day 100.00 Circus parades or parades of menageries, animal shows, wiki west shows, as above named when the show lo cates outside of city limits, shall pay for each parade tbe same license as such cir- ens menagerie# or other show would be required to pay tof exhibiting within corporated limits. Corn and flour mills, either operating or dellveTing with in city Cotton seed oO mills, Inclndlng gins 100.00 Cotton ginners, for each gin stand 10.00 Cotton mills 76.00 Civil engineers and surveyors or either .16.00 Dealers in coffins, caskets. W paying mlercantne li cense, per year Dealers in second hand cloth ing whether connected with other business or not 26.00 Dealers in second hand shoes, not connected with other - business 26.00 Dealers in fruit, peanuts or cooked food on street, per day Dealers in fruits, vegetables, eggs, chickens, melons, or other farm produce (not raised *by the seller within the State of South Carolina) and not sold on the streets, per year 10.00 Dealers in fish or oysters or either, at place of buslnees Dealers in hides, except those paying mercantile license .. Dealers in ice cream, lemon ade, or soda water on the streets, per day Dealers in Junk ^ ^ Junk not to be placed less than 200 feet from street and to be concealed from street by closed fence. Dealers in medicine, other than regular druggist of the (’Ity either on the street or private property, and whe thendelivering the medicine themBelve*.-«or through or der to drug stores, per week Per day Dealers in millinery goods, not paying merchant’s license .. Dealears in radide alone Dealers In kerosene, oil, gaso line or ejther, wholesale, oth- er"9iah mer^ants 1.00 10.00 25.00 5.00 100.00 20.00 10.00 10.00 W.00 Dealers in stocks and bonds, as brokers, per year 26.00 25.00 25.00 25.00 35.09 15.00 50.00 25.00 40.00 50.00 10.00 Dealers in wood, coal or coke per-year — Dealers in wood only Dealers in second hand ma chinery, per year Dealers in caUle, hogs, live stock. etc Dry cleaners, maintaining a plant in city DentlsU 16.®0 Electriciana, taking contracta, doing electrical work, or sell ing electrical snpplles .... Exhibitions, traveling theatri cals, musical or oth«r, for gaifa, not In opera house, $25.00 to $100.00 in the dis cretion of Mayor and City Clerk. Florists, retail and whole sale Sellera of bulbs, or shrubbery maintaining a place of busi ness in tbe city when sneh bulb# or shrubbery are not raised by the keller within the State of South Carolina Sellers of bulbs, or shrubbery not maintaining a place of business in the City of Cam den when such bulbs or shrubbery are not raised by the seller wltllfn the State of South Carolina, per week Fortune tellers, palmists, clair voyants, phrenologists, per day 190.00 Flying Jennies, or horse or steam riding gallerlea, per week Foundry, per year Filling stations not in connec tion with any other business per year, one pump 16.00 Elach additional pump 5.00 Filling station In connection with storage of cars, per year 90:00 Filling sutlon in connection with storage of cars and selling agencies, or garages, for selling gasoline 30.00 Fruit and produce dealers, not selling on the streets, per year 10-®® Games, eee ^age 8. Garage and storage 50.00 ^amges; more^ tima two men employed, per annum.. 25.00 More than two men ^50.00 Gunsmith 5.00 Hairdresaers 10.00 Non-resident 36.00 Hotels, Inns. Tourist homes, advertising for transients .. One to Ten rooms, for first room For each additional, per room Hotels, from 10 to 25 rooms. per year Hotels, from 25 to 75 rooms, per year Hotels, from 75 rooms upward, per year House painters, paper hangers, interior decorators taking contracta, per year Non-resident house painters, per year Hucksters or peddlers of fruit vegetables, etc., including Ready Rolling stores, if ped dling goods, wares and other merchandise, manufactured articles, fruits, vegetable*, melons, eggs and other farm products (not raised by the owner within the State of South Carolina), per year .. (No license to be prorated.) Said hucksters or peddlers not to take a stand, and not to sell on pro hibited streets hereinafter mentioned. Elach wagon or truck used by said hucksters or peddlers to constitute a separate business. Elach huckster or peddler to ba, furnished :qjth a badge 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 solllug fresh meats, fowls, fruits, vegetables, mer chandise, manufactured artlclea, mel ons, eggs or other farm produce 'may sell same on DeKalb street from: Church street to Market street or on Broad street from yiPayette street to York street on Rutledge street from Church %treet to Lyttleton street. Wholesale deliveries of meats and fowls to retail meat markets may be made on said prohibitive areas. Ail SUCH WAfbhs"ffdm which said fresh meats may be sold during every month of the year except December, January, February to keep the meata on said wailkons In refri«»a-. auffident opacity to carry^? * S.OOlstock and all portioiM of said ’not Ukwi op by refrigerator^^ screened and aald ratrigeratcr m * time# kept in a sanitary condltkT^ Ject at all timaa to InapectloirZ*?^ S.00 5.00 $.00 20.00 40.00 76.00 10.00 25.00 50.00 Inspection wT health office, or any one by him. No Ucenae for sate^^ meats in wagons on streets U a? granted by tha City without thT * plication first being submUt^it approved by the health officfr City of Camden. IR 14.II 2SII 384.11 84.11 144.44 1841 Insurance, Fire. ENery com. pany or associate doing business directly or through an agent or broker, shall pay on gross amount of prem iums collected in the City, j per cent,, Jee dealers, not deliveriug.. Ice dealers, delivering Ice manufacturers, each fac. tory Itinerant street advertisers ugl ing the puMic streets of the City to advertise merchan dise, regardless of whether such wares shall be sold by such itinerant street adver tisers or by some other indi vidual or corporation whh whom such advertiser shall have entered Into some trade agreement, per day Labor Agents, per year ! . Per day Laundriee, steam or agents for laundries, trucks soliciting business for laundries, not maintaining plant in city .. Laundries maintaining a place of business qrRhin the city.. Laundry servioe, engaged in supplying firms or Individu als with trash linen under contract, per year ||j| Lawyers, ecu:h im Firms of lawyers, each sddi. tlonal member |j| Lenders of mdney, on personal property, real eatste or wages, .whether In connec tion with other buslnees or not except sneh as are other wise specified t& this ordU PRfICft «-•- * r * V ■ T ( Lumber dealers or brokers, re tail, whether resident or not other than lumber or shin gles from timber on land owned by sellen within ths State of South Carolina Machinp shops and repairs or either liR Marble yard i.M Meat cases, electric or othe^ wise, 8 feet or over Monument and tombstone erec tors, transient, per ye4r .. Moving picture shows, for ' each place of business That there is hereby created • Board of Inspection for Moving Fit- tnre operators; said board to oonskt of the City Enectiiclan and th* Chkf of the Fire Department. That each moving picture mscUH while'in operation shall be In ^arfi of an experienced operator holdisfi ' (Please turn to page sevsa) 34.41 1444 8111 84JI State Theatre KERftlAW, SL G. FRIDAY, APRIL 27 ‘‘COIN’ TO TOWN” Lum and Abner SATURDAY, APRIL 28 ‘TIGHTING FRONTIEir Tim Holt and Cliff Edwards SAT., April 28, 10x30 p. m “THE PEARL OF DEATH" Basil Rathbone and Nigel Braes MON.-TUES., Apr. 30.Majl “BELLE OF THE YUKOr Randolph Scott ft Gypsy Rose Li* WEDNESDAY, MAY I “NEVADA” Bob Mitebum and Anne jeffrtji THURSDAY, MAY 3 “SOMETHING FOR Tig BOYS” Carmen Miranda ft Michael O’SMi