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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCHAPTER #102AN ORDINANCE II~IPOSiNG CITY OCCUPATIONAL LICENSES UPON Ivi0TOR COURTS, TOURIST CAI~PS AI~D TRAILER PARIfS V;ITHIN THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA; PROVIDING FOR THE PA~q~ENT THEREOF; FIXING THE A~IOUNT TItEREOF; PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR TIiE VIOLATION 0F THIS 0~RD~INANCE. BE IT 0RDAINED BY THE ~YOR AND CITY COUNCIL 0F THE CiTY OF SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA: Section 1. No person, firm or corporation shall engage in, carry on, operate or manage within the corporate limits of the City of Sebastian, Florida, any motor court or tourist camp or trailer park unless a city license shall have been procured from the Tax Collector of said City attested in the name of the City Clerk of sai& City and as hereinafter provided. ~ Section 2. All licenses herein provided 'to be paid shall be due and payable on the 1st day of October of each year and no license shall be issued for any fractional portion of a year; provided, that any license may be issued for a new business of the type herein described and which new business shall begin its operation on or after the first day of April, for the period beginning on or after the 1st day of April and expiring the 30th day of the following September, upon payment of one-half of the annual license fee required to be paid by this Ordinance. All licenses provided to be issued hereby shall expire at 12:00 o'clock midnight of September 30 next following the date of issuance of such license. Section G. Any license issued hereunder may be transferred with ~he approval of the City Council of said City when there is a bona fide sale and transfer of the business for which a valid current license has been duly issued by said City. Upon the payieMt~L~o said City of a t~a~er fee of fifty cents, but such transferred license shall not be valid for any longer than or for any other location than that for which it was originally issued. Section 4. The license tax to be paid to said City for the operation of any business, as defined in Section I hereof, and for an annual period, shall be as follows: The annual license fee for the.operation of a motor court shall be $10.00. The annual license fee for the operation of a tourist camp shall be $10.00. The annual license fee for the operation of a trailer park shall be ~10.00. Where any single business combines in its operation the operation of a motor court, a tourist camp and a trailer park, or any two such types of business, only one annual license fee of $10.00 shall be required under the provisions of this Ordinance. Section $. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the types of business herein required to be licensed are defined as follows: A motor court is any business or establishment where two or more cottages or housing units (not including the unit occupied by the operator thereof as his personal residence) are offered for use to the public by the day, night or week in return for a fee or valuable consideration and not as a part of the operation of a hotel business for which a city license has been duly issued. A trailer park, under the provisions of this Ordinance, is any business or establishment where facilities are offered to the general public for a fee or valuable consideration for the parking of more than one trailer, house car or camp car a~ which trailer, house car or camp car is occupied by one or more persons for living quarters. A tourist camp, under the provisions of this Ordinance, is any place of business or establish- ~ent where for a fee or valuable consideration members of the general public are permitted to camp or park motor vehicles thereon or thereat and in connection therewith provide for themselves, or have provided by the owner or operator of such establishment, living quarters of any type; provided, that provision for such use by not to exceed a single person or single family shall not be deemed to be a tourist camp. Section 8. Any person, fi rm~ or corporation engaging in or carrying on or operating or managing any business for which license is required under the provisions of this 0rdin~nce without first obtaining such license and thereafter maintain- ing a valid current license for the operation of such business in the manner provided in this Ordinance shall, ~pon conviction thereof, be fined by a fine of not less than ~10.00 and not more than ~100.00 or by imprisonment not exceeding 60 days or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the Court trying such offender. Each day's violation of the provisions of this Ordinance shall constitute a separate offense. Section 7. All licenses to be issued hereunder shall be issued in form and manner, as provided generally by the Ordinances of said City for the issuance of city occupational licenses. Section 8. All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Section 9. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect i~ediately upon its passage and approval by the Mayor or Upon its becoming an Ordinance without such approval. I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was duly passed by the City Council of the City of Sebastian, Florida, on the ~lst day of January~ 1~7. Attest · City Clerk President, City CounCil To the ~ayor of the City of Sebastian, Florida: I hereby certify~that the foregoing Ordinance was duly and regularly passed by the City Council on the ~lst day of January, 1947. Approved by me this .~.~/ day of January, 1947.