ORDINANCE NO. 722
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 238, AS AMENDED, CONCERNING LICENSES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO:
Section 1. That Section 8 of Ordinance No. 238, as amended, shall be and it is hereby amended, so that as amended, it shall read as follows:
Section 8. CHARGES FOR CERTAIN LICENSES. No person, persons, association or corporation in this city shall conduct, carry on or engage in any business avocation or calling in this ordinance named without first obtaining a license therefor and shall pay for such license the sum or sums as hereinafter specified, viz.;
1. Street Hawkers, twenty dollars per day (the word hawker as herein referred to is defined as being a salesman who cries his goods and sells the same on a public street.)
2. Street peddlers carrying pack articles, one hundred dollars per annum or portion thereof.
Peddlers with one or two-horse wagon, automobile or any other kind of vehicle for the purpose of peddling or selling any article of merchandise other than foodstuffs and soft drinks, two hundred dollars per annum or portion thereof.
Peddlers with one or two-horse wagon, automobile or any other kind of vehicle for the purpose of peddling or selling foodstuffs and soft drinks, fifty dollars per annum or portion thereof.
3. For stands on private property for the sale of foodstuffs, soft drinks and novelties during special occasions where large crowds congregate in the city (not including street hawkers or peddlers'), two dollars fifty cents per day.
4. For stands on public streets and thoroughfares for the sale of magazines and papers, the sum of thirty-six-dollars per annum; for stands on public streets and thoroughfares for the sale of peanuts and popcorn, the sum of fifty dollars per annum; for stands on public streets and thoroughfares for the sale of any other foodstuffs, soft drinks or novelties, the sum of one hundred dollars per annum.
5. Striking machines, lifting machines, exhibitions on the street or other amusements not herein enumerated on or adjacent to streets, in all cases where charges are made by parties holding such amusements or managing such machines, fifty dollars per annum or portion thereof.
6. For conducting and maintaining any curb pump for retail sale of gasoline, located on any public street or alley within the City of Grand Junction, the sum of $10.00 per annum.
7. Shooting galleries, one hundred dollars per annum or portion thereof.
8. Merry-go-round, ferris wheel or similar amusement, $10.00 per day.
9. For halls, theatres, opera houses, moving picture theaters and other places of amusement for the exhibitions of theatrical performances, musical concerts, motion pictures, shows, or exhibitions by traveling performers, and for all other shows, exhibitions and performances, (circuses and menageries excepted) twenty-cents per seat per year, or fraction thereof, to be paid upon the total seating capacity of such hall, theatre, opera house, motion picture theatre or other place of amusement, whether any section, gallery or portion of such total seating capacity be in use or not; but the provisions hereof shall not apply to entertainments for the benefit of charitable, religious, fraternal or educational institutions, or to entertainments mentioned in subdivision 11 of said Section 8 of Ordinance No. 238, as amended.
10. Circus menageries or circuses and menageries, or trained animal shows under canvas shall pay license fees as follows:
a. One ring, fifty dollars per day; two rings, one hundred dollars per day, three rings or more, one hundred fifty dollars per day.
b. For each side show or traveling exhibition accompanying any of the above-mentioned shows for which an extra charge is made thereto (whether under the same management or not), the sum of fifteen dollars per day for each side show or exhibition.
11. For theatrical, vaudeville or other entertainments under canvas, $20.00 per day where one performance on said day is to be given and $5.00 for each additional performance given on that day. Street fairs or carnivals, $15.00 per day for each separate tent or booth.
Section 2. That Section 9 of Ordinance No. 238, as amended, shall be and it is hereby amended, so that as amended, it shall read as follows:
Section 9. EXPRESS LICENSES. For each express wagon, motor vehicle, transfer wagon, job wagon, omnibus, hack or other vehicle used and kept for hire for carrying articles of any description or for carrying passengers within this city, twenty-five dollars per annum, provided that the owner or proprietor of each such licensed express wagon, transfer wagon, job wagon, omnibus, hack or vehicle shall have fixed to each side of said express wagon, transfer wagon, job wagon, omnibus, hack or vehicle, the number of the same in plain and conspicuous figures not less than one and one-half inches in length, which number shall be assigned to such vehicle by the City Clerk at the time of issuing license therefor. No express wagon, transfer wagon, job wagon, omnibus, hack or vehicle shall be deemed licensed under this ordinance unless the same shall have attached thereto the number as herein provided. Nothing in this ordinance shall be held to require the procuring of a license for livery business on vehicles used for strictly livery business, nor to include omnibuses or hacks, used and run exclusively by hotel keepers conveying passengers, goods and baggage to and from hotels free of charge, nor merchants and retail dealers delivering their goods, wares and merchandise free of charge with their own vehicles, provided said dealers have vehicles used exclusively for that purpose. This section shall not apply to vehicles used for transporting building materials within the city.
Section 3. That Section 10 of Ordinance No. 238, as amended, shall be and it is hereby amended, so that as amended, it shall read as follows:
Section 10. Dealers in cigarettes, $15.00 per annum, or fraction thereof.
Section 4. That Section 11 of Ordinance No. 238, as amended, shall be and it is hereby amended, so that as amended, it shall read as follows:
Section 11. BOWLING OR PIN BALL ALLEY LICENSE. For each bowling alley or pin ball alley, twenty dollars per alley. This section shall not apply to fraternal and religious institutions operating such tables for their members only.
Section 5. The City Council hereby finds that a special emergency exists; that this ordinance is necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety and that it shall take effect upon passage.
Introduced, passed and adopted on this 27th day of December, 1946.
/s/ Porter Carson
President of the City Council
(SEAL)
ATTEST
/s/ Helen C. Tomlinson
City Clerk
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing emergency ordinance entitled, "AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 238, AS AMENDED, CONCERNING LICENSES," was introduced, read, passed, numbered 722 and ordered published by the unanimous vote of the members of the City Council of the City of Grand Junction, at a regular adjourned meeting of said Council held on the 27th day of December, A. D. 1946.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City, this 27th day of December, A. D. 1946.
/s/ Helen C. Tomlinson
City Clerk