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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 9, 1903)
Wednesday, September 9. 190$ THE SUMPTER MINER ORDINANCE NO. 201. An Ordinance to provide for the time and manner of tuning license upon any business, trade, calling, occu pation, or other thing within the City of Sumpter, and to provide for the time and manner of pay ment of any and all license fees Imposed by the City of Sumpter and enforcement of all ordinances imposing any license or licenses, and provide for the punishment of any person violating this or any ordinance of the City of Sumpter, fixing or imposing any license, and fixing a. penalty for any viola , tlon of any law or ordinance of the City of Sumpter relating to the im posing of any license and provid ing for the licensing and regula ting of peddlers, hawkera, retail commercial travellers, billiard, pool, and pigeon-hole tables, bowl ing alleys, shooting galleries, thea ters, skating rinks, swings, merry-go-rounds, circuses, vaudeville shows, entertainments, perform ances, and shows and exhibitions of every kind and nature, and re pealing Ordinance No. 108, New Series, of the City of Sumpter, and Ordinance No. 6, of the town of Sumpter, approved May 14th, 1808. The City of Sumpter Does Ordain as Follews: Sec. 1 That no person, firm, com pany or corporation shall be engaged in, prosecute or carry on any trade, business, occupation, pursuit or pro fession within the limits of the City of Sumpter for which a license may be required by this ordinance, or any ordinance of the City of Sumpter, until be or they shall have obtained such license as hereinafter provided. Sec. 2. That any person, firm, company or corporation required by this ordinance or by any ordinance of the city to obtain a license to en gage in any trade, business, occupa tion, pursuit or profession for which a license is required shall first pay to the City Treasurer the sum or sums required by ordinance to be paid therefor, tho treasurer Insuing dupli cate receipts for such payments and thereupon, with the receipts of the City Treasurer, the same setting forth the kind of business for which lioense is required, such person shall apply to the recorder, who shall issue a license to such applicant upon bis depositing one of said receipt h with said recorder and compliance with all the provisions of said ordinace relat ing to obtaining licenses for the bus iness, trade, or profession for which such license is desired. Sec 3. Every license taken out under the ordinances of the City of Sumpter, shall set forth the purpose, trade, business or profession for which such license is granted, and the namo of the person taking out the same, the time for which the license is to run, the date on which tho same expires, and the date on, which said license was issued, and any person exercising or carrying on suob trade, business or profession, or doing any aot for which a license Is required, shall, on demand of any city officer at bis place of business, produce such license, and unless he shall do so, he may be taken and deemed to have no license, and placed under arrest by the proper officer or violation of this ordinance, and brought before the reoorder to be dealt with according to law. Sec. 1. In every case where more than one of the pursuits, employ ments or occupations for which a li cense is required, shall be pursued or carried on iu the same place by the same person at the same time, li cense must be taken out for each, ac cording to the rates severally pre scribed. Sec. 5. All licenses Issued under thee provisions of the ordinances of the City of Sumpter shall be known as either annual, semi-annual, quar terly, weekly or dally. All annual licenses shall expire on the 31st day of December In each year; all semi annual licenses shall expire on the 30th day of June and the 31st day of December, and all quarterly licenses shall expire on the 31st day of March, the 30th day of June, the 30th day of September, and the 31st day of December of, each year, and all annual, semi-annual and quarter ly licenses issued after the beginning of the term shall begin to run from the date of the issue of such license, and may be issued on the payment of suob proportion of the whole amount charged for such term as the time for which said license shall run bears to the full term, and all daily, weekly and monthly licenses may he issued at any time, but no license shall be Issued for a less time than the short est term named and provldod in the ordnlanoe providing for said license, except as otherwise especially herein provided. That where the timo or manner of issuing any license shall be especially provided for by any or dinance of the city, such ordinance shall control and be in force, any thing to the contrary herein notwith standing.' Seo. 6. All licenses shall be paid in advance In gold and silver coin of the United States. Seo. 7. Any person or persons, firm, company or corporations who shall engage In or prosecute within the limits of the City of Sumpter, any trade, business or occupation, pursuit or profession for which a li cense is required by this ordinance or any ordinance of the City of Sumpter without first obtaining such lioense as provided by ordinance, or who shall violate the terms of any ordinance of the City of Sumpter, re lating to any such license shall on conviction thereof, before tho recor der, be punished by a fine not less than five dollars nor mora than fifty uuuun, or uy imprisoumom in ino city Jail not less tnan three, nor more than thirty days or by bots) such fine and Imprisonment. Sec. 8. Every person or associa tion of persons who shall peddle auy goods, wares or merchandise for sale within the limits of the City of Sumpter, except they be products of their own farms, gardens, or dairies, or article manufactured within the city limits, shall pay therofor the sum of Ten Dollars per quarter, but no llconse under this section shall be issued upon the payment of a less sum than Five Dollars, for a frac tional part of a quarter. Sec. 0. Hawkers shall pay a li cense of not less than Two nor more than One Hundred Dollars per day, the amount that any such hawker is required, to pay to be fixed by the City Recorder at the time the license is applied for, and said City Recorder shall thereupon report the issuance of said license and the amount there of to the next meeting of the City Counoil, and said City Council shall have the power thereupon to raise or lower the amount charged by the City Recorder and definitely fix the amount which such hawker shall pay while engaged in such business. Auy person, firm, company or cor poration who shall offer for sale or advertise by outcry on the street, any goods, wares, merchandise, article, or thing, or who shall couduct any such business from a stand on tho street, shall be deemed a hawker un der this ordinance. Sec. 10. Retail commercial trav elers who shall pursue their vocation within tho limits of the City of Sumpter, shall pay a llcenso of Five Dollars per day for each day that ho or they shall eugago tboroln, and the term "retail commercial travelers" shall be coustrued to include auy person or persons who shall oithor bargain, sell, solicit or agree to do liver, either by sample or from stock at retail to persons for their private uso. Sec. 1 1. Billiard, pool and pig eon-holo tables, and bowling alleys shall pay a llcenso according to tho number of alloys or tables belonging to or used in tho building or placo to be licensed. When not oxcoediug one alley or one table, tho keeper of such house shall pay a quarterly li cense of Three Dollars, and when ex ceeding one alloy or one table bu ad ditional sum of Two Dollars for each additional table or alloy. Every place or alloy whore trawls are thrown, or billiards, pool or pigeon hole games are played and open to tho public, with or without price, shall be regarded as a bowling alley or billiard room, respectively, uudor this ordinance Seo. 12. Shooting gallerlos shall pay a quartorly llcenso of Flvo Dol lars. Every place or building whero guns or pistols aro kept, either for hire or not, shall bo deemed a shoot ing gallery under this ordinanqe,- but no llcenso under this section shall be issued except upon the payment of Five Dollars. Seo. 13. Theaters, plays or per tormances and public entertalnmenta where an admittance foo Is charged shall pay a license of Three Dollars for the first performance and Two Dollars for each additional perform ance. Sec;. 14. Keepers or proprietors of evory skating rink shall pay a quarterly llcenso of Five Dollars un der this ordluauce. No llconse un der this section shall bo issued ex cept upon the payment of at least Fivo Dollars. Seo. in. The keepers, proprie tors, mauagors or operators of all public swings or merry-go-rounds shall pay a license of Fivo Dollars for the first day and Two Dollars for each and every succeeding day that tho swing or morry-go-ronud is open to the public. Seo. 10. Every person, Aim, oompany or corporation who shall conduct and carry on at auy placo witbiu the City of Sumpter, or on the public stroots thereof, any circus, vaudeville show, outnrtalument, or perforroanco of auy kind or uaturo, whether the same bo free or an admit tance fee charged, or whether tho samo be conducted merely for amuse ment, or for advertising, or other purposos, shall pay a license fee of not less than 15 nor moro than $100 per day for each and every day that such circus, vaudeville show, enter tainment or performance shall be car ried on withiu the limits of the City of Sumpter, the amount which auy person, firm, or corporation Is to pay for the prlvilego of carrying on the samo to bo fixed Iu the first in stance by the City Recorder when the license is appllod for, the City Recorder to report tho Issuance of such license to the first succeeding meeting of the City Council at which time the City Council shall havo the powor and right to raise or lower such license and definitely fix tho same, the amount so fixed by the City Council to bo the amount to be paid by such person, firm, company or corporation duriug the remaining time that it shall carry on such cir cus, vaudorillo show, ontertalnmeut or performance. Sec. 17. All publio exhibitions, shows, or eutertalumenta given by the residents of the City of Sumpter for charitable purposes or for a church shall uot require license un der this ordinance Sec. 18. It shall be the duty of tho Marshal to see that the provisions of this ordinance are enforced, and to niako complaint In tho Recorder's Court for all violations thereof. Seo. 10. Tho Recorder of the City of Sumpter, shall on the tonth day of each quarter, furnish tho mar shal with a list of tho licenses issued, auott shall be tho duty of the mar shal to arrest any person or persons llablo for auy llcenso and who have not paid the samo, and bring blm or them before the Recorder to bo dealt with according to law. Soc. 20. That Ordinance No. 108, new series of tho City of Sumpter, approved May 20th, 1001, entitled: "An ordiuauce to impose and regu late liceusos upon certain trades, callings and professions, and repeal ing Ordinance No. 0 of the town of Sumpter, approved May 14th, 1808. entitled: 'an ordlnanco to Imposo aud regulate licenses upon certain trados or callings, aud regulating the manner of Issuing licenses,' " be aud tho same is hereby reoaled. That Ordinance No. 0 of tho town of Sumpter, approved May 14th, 1808, entitled: "An ordinance to Impose and regulato licenses upon certain trades or callings, and regu lating the manner of Issuing II consos," be and the same la hereby repealed. Passed the Counoil thla 8th day of September, 1003. "! (Attest) S. S. START, ! Recorder of the City of Sumpter. Approved Sept. 8, 1003. C. H. McCOLLOCH. Mayor. GOOD THINGS TO ii II -AT- E. P. Bergman & Compa'y GROCERS Mill Street, New Building. 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