Ordinance Number 163.'_a1I
ORDINANCE NO. 163
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN JUAN
CAPISTRANO AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 24
RELATING TO LICENSING.
The City Council of the City of San Juan Capistrano does
ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 16 of Ordinance No. 24 is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"SECTION 16. Every person who engages in business, whether
or not at a fixed place of business within the City shall pay a
license tax based upon annual gross receipts or average number of
employees for the preceding fiscal year, July 1st to June 30th,
at the following rates and in the following classifications:
(a) Classification "A": Services
Advertising agencies
Barber shops
Beauty shops
Brokers & Agents
Burglar alarms
Business Management
Car Washes
Cleaning buildings
Collection agencies
Coin-operated music boxes and phonographs
Cosmetologists
Designers
Detectives
Dressmakers
Driving Schools
Employment agencies
Factoring
Finance companies
Funeral Directors
Gardeners
General offices
Laboratories (alltypes)
Lapidaries
Laundries & Cleaning
Locksmiths
Masseurs & Masseuses
Motion picture theaters
Newspapers
Optometrists
Parking lots --
Professional schools (all types)
Patrol services
Public stenographers
Public utilities
Repair services
Sign painters
Storage warehouses
Surveyors
Travel agencies
Tree trimmers
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Vending machines
Watch repairing
Window cleaning
These, and other businesses or persons not listed, which
are considered to be of a service nature shall be considered as
being in Classification "A", and all such persons in Classifica-
tion "A" shall pay an annual license tax of Twenty-five and no/100
($25.00) Dollars for the first person employed, plus Five and
no/100 ($5.00) Dollars for each employee in excess of one.
(b) Classification "B"" Retail, wholesale & manufacturing
Automobile dealers, new only
Auto parts
Auto rentals & leasing
Bakeries
Clothing stores
Clubs
Combination food stores (meat, food markets and
delicatessens)
Contractors (all types)
Department stores
Drug stores
Florists
Fruit & vegetable peddlers
Furniture & appliances
Garages-
Gift & novelty shops
Glass
Glass & China stores
Groceries
Hardware
Hotels & rooming houses
House movers
Jewelry stores
Lunch wagons
Manufacturing
Opticians (dispensing)
Paint
Printers
Restaurants
Retailing
Service stations
Secondhand dealers
Shoe stores
Tailors
Tobacco stores --
Variety stores
Wall paper
Wholesaling
All persons and businesses, whether listed in this sub-
section or not, considered to be of a retail, wholesale, or
mappfacturing nature and other businesses not otherwise classified
under the provisions of this article shall be in Classification
"B" and shall pay at the annual rate of Thirty and no/100's
($30.00) Dollars per license, plus Twenty five (25c�) cents per
one thousand and no/100's ($1,000.00) Dollars of gross receipts
per year in excess of Thirty thousand and no/100 ($30,000.00)
dollars.
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(c) Classification "C": Professions
Accountants, C.P.A. and P.A.
Architects (including landscape)
Attorneys
Chemists
Chiropodists
Chiropractors
Dentists
Engineers (all types)
Geologists
Optometrists (non -dispensing)
Osteopaths
Physicians
Physiologists
Physiotherapists
Veterinarians
These and other businesses or persons nA listed, which
are considered to be of a professional nature shall be considered
as being in Classification "C" and all such persons in Classifica-
tion "C".shall pay an annual license tax of Twenty-five and no/100
($25.00) Dollars for each professional person employed, plus
Six and no/100's ($6.00) Dollars for each non-professional
employee.
(d) Classification "D": Used Car Sales
The sale of used automobiles, other than those accepted
as a part of the purchase price (for a new automobile) for
subsequent resale, shall be taxed at the rate of Fifty cents (SOC)
per One thousand and no/100's ($1,000.00) Dollars of gross receipts
but in no event less than Thirty and no/100th ($30.00) Dollars per
year.
(e) Apartment Houses, Mobilehome Parks, Recreational
Vehicle Parks and Mobilehomes: The annual tax for all apartment
houses, mobilehome parks, recreational vehicle parks and mobile -
homes shall be Fifteen and no/100 Dollars ($15.00), plus Two
and no/100 Dollars ($2.00) for each unit or space, whichever
is greater, in excess of four (4).
SECTION 2. Effective Date.
This ordinance is an urgency ordinance for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety and shall
take effect immediately. The facts constituting the urgency are
as follows:
The foregoing ordinance in amending the business license
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provisions within the City should, to maintain the proper admin-
istration thereof and to assure an essential even flow of license
money into the City Treasury, become effective prior to the
beginning of the fiscal year 1970-71.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall, prior to the expiration
of fifteen (15) days after its passage, be published once in the
Coastline Dispatch, a newspaper of general circulation printed in
San Juan Capistrano, County of Orange, State of California, together
with the names of the members of the City Council voting thereon.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 22nd day of June, 1970,
by the City Council of the City of San Juan Capistrano.
Mayor of the City of San
Juan Capistrano
ATTEST:
City Clerk of the City of "a
Juan Capistrano
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss
CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO )
I, ERNEST A. THOMPSON, City Clerk of the City of San
Juan Capistrano, California, do hereby certify that the attached
and foregoing Ordinance No. 163was duly and regularly adopted
by the said City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on the
22nd day of June, 1970, and passed by the following vote, to wit:
AYEq: COUNCILMEN: THORPE, BATHGATE, CHERMAK
GAMMELL and FORSTER
NOES: COUNCILMEN: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: NONE
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City Clerk