§ 5.04.010. Definitions.  


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  • Unless it is apparent from the context that another meaning is intended, the following words, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings:

    A.

    "Advertising vehicle" means the business of operating, upon the streets, any wheeled vehicle equipped with music or a musical device, loudspeaker or other device for attracting attention, or who operates, upon the streets, any wheeled vehicle for advertising purposes, to which wheeled vehicle there are attached signs, placards, billboards or other advertising matter.

    B.

    "Business" means professions, trades, lessors and occupations and all and every kind of calling carried on for profit or livelihood, where the gross income is one hundred and fifty dollars per quarter or more.

    C.

    "Business by vehicle" means the business of running, driving or operating any automobile, automobile truck, automobile tank wagon or any vehicle used for the transportation, selling, collection or delivery of goods, wares, merchandise or other personal property of any kind from a vehicle, either as his or its principal business or in connection with any other business, or of soliciting for work, labor or services to be performed upon the public streets in or from a vehicle, or to be performed on goods, wares or other personal property to be taken for such purpose to a plant or establishment inside or outside of the city limits. "Business by vehicle" does not apply to the delivery of goods, wares or merchandise purchased by retail merchants in the city at wholesale prices and delivered to the merchants in the city for resale by them for use or consumption by the public off the premises, nor to persons operating such vehicles together and in conjunction with a fixed place of business within the city for which business a license fee is paid under this chapter.

    The provisions of this chapter are not to be construed as imposing a tax upon vehicles, but as a method of classification of businesses and distribution between those maintaining a fixed place of business in the conduct of which vehicles are used, and those maintaining a business in which the vehicles are used but who do not have a fixed place of business in the city.

    D.

    "Employee" means all persons engaged in the operation or conduct of any business, whether as owner (husband and wife), any member of the owner's family, partner, agent, manager, solicitor and any and all other persons employed or working in the business.

    E.

    "Engaged in business" means the conducting, managing or carrying on of any profession, trade, calling, occupation or commercial enterprise in the city for which a license is required under the provisions of this chapter as owner, officer, agent, manager, employee, servant or lessee of any of them.

    F.

    "Fortuneteller" means a person who practices or professes to practice the business or art of astrology, palmistry, phrenology, card reading, fortunetelling, cartomancy, clairvoyance, crystal gazing, hypnotism, mediumship, prophecy, augury, divination, magic or necromancy, or who receives a gift or fee for such practice, or where admission is charged.

    G.

    "Licensee" means any person to whom a license has been issued under this chapter.

    H.

    "Medicine show" means the business of dealing in medicines other than as conducted by a regularly established drugstore, or peddling the same, or treating diseases of the human body, or calling attention to wares or methods of treatment or advertising the same by use of music, entertainment, speech or other device.

(Ord. 36-62 §1, 1962).