§ 5.04.120. License fee—Special requirements for persons without fixed place of business.

A.

Except as may be otherwise provided for in this code, persons not having a fixed place of business within the city and regularly doing business within the city shall pay a license tax in accordance with this chapter according to the person's occupation or business, as though such person actually had a fixed place of business within the city, except as otherwise set forth in subsection B of this section and Section 5.04.380.

B.

Every nonresident merchant and every other person who is conducting, managing or carrying on the business of running, driving or operating any automobile, automobile truck, automobile tank wagon or any other motor or other kind of vehicle for or in the transportation of any goods, wares or merchandise of any kind from outside the city into the corporate limits of the city shall pay a license fee of twenty-five dollars, plus three dollars for each additional vehicle regularly so operated into the city.

C.

For the purposes of this section, regular operation shall consist of six or more trips per year into the city. Any usage in excess of fifty-two trips per year into the city by any such vehicle shall result in the application of an additional three dollars fee.

Example:

Trips per week
1	basic rate $25.00	per year
2	basic rate $25.00 + $3.00=$28.00	per year
3	basic rate $25.00 + $3.00=$31.00	per year
4	basic rate $25.00 + $3.00=$34.00	per year
5	basic rate $25.00 + $3.00=$37.00	per year
6	basic rate $25.00 + $3.00=$40.00	per year.

 

(Ord. 36-62 §49, 1962).