HomeMy WebLinkAbout1990-10-03 - AGENDA REPORTS - STUDY SESSION (2)V,
CITY OF SANTA CLARITA
I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M
DATE: October 3, 1990
TO: City Manager and City Council
FROM: Andrea Daroca, Director of Finance AD
SUBJECT: Business Registration Program
The City of Santa Clarita is ready to take another step toward its goal of
taking over all services from the County of Los Angeles. Upon incorpora-
tion, the city adopted the Los Angeles County Business License Code which is
presently still in effect. With almost two years of preparation, the city
is ready to undertake its own Business Registration Program.
Currently, the .city contracts with the Los Angeles County Business License
Department to provide a business license service. Unfortunately, due to the
nature of the Los Angeles County Business License Code, only approximately
20% of all businesses in Santa Clarita are licensed. This leaves a large
portion of the city's businesses unlicensed or unregistered while those
businesses that are required to be licensed pay a substantial license fee.
This current system seems.hardly. fair or equitable. Because only a small
portion of the businesses are required to be licensed through the county,
the city receives numerous requests from businesses requesting to be issued
a license or certificate legitimizing them as an established business in the
City of Santa Clarita.
The county's business license rules and regulations do not meet the goals
and needs of this city. The licensing fees charged by the County of Los
Angeles are administered county -wide and, therefore, do not accurately
reflect the cost of providing the service to the City of Santa Clarita by
city staff nor the level of service the city would like to provide its
business community and citizens. The County Business. License office
servicing the City of Santa Clarita is open only two days a week and
virtually no enforcement of the County Business License Code exists in the
City of Santa Clarita.
Staff seeks to rectify some of the shortcomings of the current system with
the implementation of a city administered business registration program. A
city business registration program would fully replace current county
licensing and establish local control over the administration of the -program
and its fees.
Due to the small scope of the county licensing program, the city currently
does not have any information regarding .the businesses operating within the
city limits. A city administered program would seek to register all
businesses operating within the city limits including retailers,
wholesalers, etc.
Agenda Item:
~ City Manager and City Council
October 3, 1990
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The fees charged by the city to provide this service. would reflect gnly the
cost to provide the service of the registration program. These fees would
be reassessed by staff on an annual basis to insure that the fees accurately ,
reflect the .cost of providing the service. In comparison to the county
license fees, the proposed registration fees are far less. For example,
under the current county system, a bookstore with five employees pays a
first-year application fee of $1,468 and an annual renewal fee of $140. The
same bookstore under a city registration program would pay an annual
registration fee of $40. An auto repair first-year application fee is $375
and an annual renewal fee of $210; a plant nursery first-year application
fee is $211 and an annual renewal fee of $133; a restaurant first-year
application fee is $370 and an annual renewal fee of $208.
The proposed registration fees are also far less than what other cities
charge. Again, the same bookstore would pay $73.25 in the City of Burbank,
and $189.68 in the"City of Pasadena; the auto repair would pay $85. in the
City of Burbank and $186.62 in the City of Pasadena; the plant nursery, would
pay $73.25 in the City of Burbank and $186.62 in the City of Pasadena; and
the restaurant would pay $73.25 in the City of Burbank and $186.62,.in the
City of Pasadena. The proposed registration fees would encourage new
businesses to come to the City of Santa Clarita rather than discourage
them. Also, unlike most California cities, this would not be a tax on
businesses. While most cities levy a business tax based on gross receipts
or on the number of employees,: the proposed city registration fees are
merely a recoupment of the cost of the program.
What the new business registration program will provide to the city that it
currently does not have is a method for registering all lawful city .
businesses, professions, trades, callings, and occupations.. The
registration of all businesses will provide adequate information regarding
the ownership and operation of local businesses, aid in the collection of
statistical data for future city economic development andgrowth, and
facilitate contact between city emergency officials and business owners.
A city business registration program will provide a higher level of service
not only to the business community but also to the community at large. A
program administered by the city will be more responsive to the needs of the
local businesses and will be able to react more quickly to the continuously
changing business.environment.
RECOMMENDATION
That the City Council review .and discuss the proposed business registration
program.
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ORDINANCE NO. 90-28
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING TITLE 5 OF
THE MUNICIPAL CODE ESTABLISHING
A BUSINESS REGISTRATION PROGRAM
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Title 5.00 of the Santa Clarita Municipal Code is hereby added to
read as follows:
CHAPTER 5.01
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES
5.01.010 Purpose: The purpose of this ordinance is to provide a method
for registering various lawful City businesses, professions, trades, callings,
and occupations within the City limits.
This Title also provides for adequate information regarding the ownership and
operation of businesses within City limits, facilitates contact between the
City and those businesses, and provides for the collection of statistical data
regarding businesses within the City.
5.01.020 Conformance to Zoning No payment of fee under the provisions
of this Title shall be construed as permission to conduct a business at any
place within the City where the conducting of such business is prohibited by
the Zoning Code of the City.
5.01.030 Business Not Listed — Fee. Any person conducting, either as a
principle or agent, any business in the City but not herein specifically set
forth shall pay the fee amount as designated by Resolution of the City Council
provided for the business nearest corresponding to the nature of the business
as determined by the Finance Director.
5.01.040 Permits Required. Businesses enumerated in chapter 5:11 of
this title shall procure a permit to transact such business activity prior to
registering with the City of Santa Clarita and pay a permit fee as set forth
by Resolution of the City Council. No business shall`be registered with the
City of Santa Clarita nor shall any registration be renewed unless all permit
requirements have been met.
5.01.050 Branch Establishment Separate Fee. Each branch
establishment or location of business must separately register with -the City
of Santa Clarita.
a) Separate Fee. A separate registration and permit fee shall be
obtained for each branch establishment or location of the business
conducted and for each separate type of business at the same
location. Payment of a registration or permit fee shall authorize
the business owner to conduct only the business or function
registered thereby at the location or in the manner designated in
such registration certificate.
b) Exemptions. Warehouses and distributing centers used in connection
with and yet incidental to a registered business shall not be deemed
to be separate places of business or branch establishments (listing
of warehouse and distribution centers required by business when
application is filed).
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5.01.060 Computation of Fee for Two or More Businesses at Same
Location. In the event that any person is conducting more than one of the
' several businesses required to be registered in the same location, and under
the same management,a separate application shall be filed whereby a separate
registration fee shall be assessed for each business and a separate
registration certificate shall be issued.
5.01.070_ Duplicate Registration Certificates. Duplicate certificates
may be issued by the Finance Director to replace any certificate previously
issued which has .been lost or destroyed. The business owner must first file
an affidavit attesting to such fact, and at the time of filing, such affidavit
pay to the Finance Director the amount set forth by Resolution of the City
Council.
5.01.080 Transfer of Certificate. No certificate issued shall be
transferred.. except when the business transfers from one location in the City
to another. The certificate previously issued may be amended to -authorize the
conduct of the business at the new location. The transfer and amendments
authorized may be issued upon application to the Finance Director and a fee
payment as set forth by Resolution of the City Council.
5.01.090 Retention and Exhibition of Business Registration
Certificate. Every business shall keep the certificate posted in a
conspicuous place at the business location. Every person doing business
without a fixed location, shall carry the certificate on his or her person and
exhibit the certificate whenever required to do so by the Finance Director of
the City of Santa Clarita or by any public officer.
5.01.100 Duration of Certificate. No certificate shall be issued for a
period of more than twelve (12) months. No certificate shall be issued for
any time extending beyond December 31.
a) All certificates, unless otherwise specified, are based on one year
and shall be for a term commencing on January 1 and expiring on
December 31 of each calendar year.
b) All new businesses, unless otherwise specified, registering on any
date other than January 1, shall be assessed the total annual fee
designated for such businesses.
c) All fees shall be paid in advance to the Director of Finance in the
amounts specified by Resolution of the City Council.
5.01.110 Renewal Dates Grace Period. The registration fee required to
be paid by the provisions of this Chapter shall become due and payable on the
first day of January and shall become delinquent on the first day of February
of each year. Certificates may be. renewed by mail or at the City of Santa
Clarita Finance Department. Failure to receive notice of expiration and
request for renewal shall not excuse any business for timely payment of
renewal fee and any such penalties which may result.
5.01.120 Vehicles Used in Association With Business. No person shall
drive, operate, or use any.vehicles in the.conduct of business within the City
without obtaining a certificate .(decal) and attaching the certificate (decal)
to the vehicle. No person shall remove, deface or transfer such certificates
to another vehicle used for the business. Further, the business owner or any
of his/her agents cannot operate any vehicle after the expiration period for
which the certificate was issued without payment of a new yearly registration
fee. Those businesses operating under a franchise agreement with the City of
Santa Clarita shall be exempt.
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5.01.130 Evidence of Doing Business. When any person through signs,
circulars, cards, telephone book, newspapers, or trade publications advertises
or expresses.that one is in business in -the City, or when any person holds an
active license or permit issued by a governmental agency indicating that one
is in business, then these facts will be considered evidence that a business
is being conducted within the City of Santa Clarita.
5.01.140 Severability. If any Section, Subsection, sentence or clause
or phrase of this Title is for any reason held invalid or unconstitutional by
the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not
affect the validity of any remaining portions of this Title.
5.01.150 Delinquent Business Registration Fees and Other. No business
registration certificate shall be issued and no certificate for any
succeeding, current or unexpired period shall be valid if issued to any person
who at the time of application is indebted to the City for any unpaid fee or
tax. The total fee or tax due shall include the total tax or fee. due plus
penalties for failure to pay the tax or fee on schedule.
5.01.160 Business Registration Permit Lawful Activity Only. The
issuance of a registration certificate pursuant to the provisions of this
Title constitutes a receipt for the registration fee paid. A business
registration certificate is a requirement to transact business within the City
of Santa Clarita. Neither the payment of the fee nor the possession of the
business certificate authorizes or permits or allows the doing of any act
which the person paying or holding the same would not otherwise be lawfully
entitled to do.
5.01.170 Refund of Fees. There shall be no refund of any fees paid to
the City except in the case that a fee has been overpaid or paid more than
once. Without exception no refunds shall be made after one (1) year from date
of payment.
5.01.180 Telephone Number. No business shall be registered and no
business registration certificate issued shall be renewed unless the applicant
provides a written statement containing all current and operational business
telephone numbers of the registered business and current and operational
emergency telephone numbers which will allow a public safety agency immediate
contact with each owner and manager of the registered business.
5.01.190 Inspection of Business. The Finance Director, assistants,
officers or any peace officer shall have the power and authority to enter free
of charge and at any reasonable time any place of business within the City and
request exhibition of a business registration certificate.
CHAPTER 5.02.
DEFINITIONS
5.02.010 Definitions. For the purpose of this part, unless it is
plainly evident from the context -that a different meaning is intended, the
words and phrases shall have the following meanings.
5.02.020 Business — 'Business" shall mean professions, trades, and
occupations and all and every kind of calling conducted for profit or
livelihood.
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5.02.030 Certificate. The term "certificate" as used in this Title
shall not be construed to mean a permit. The certificate is a receipt for
payment of registration fees and serves as evidence of being legally
' registered with the City of Santa Clarita.
5.02.040 Contractor - "Contractor" shall mean any person who is
licensed as a contractor by the State of California and who undertakes to or
offers to undertake or purports to have the capacity to undertake to or submit
bids to or does by him/herself or by others construct, alter, .repair, add to,
subtract from, improve, move, wreck or demolish any building, highway, road,
railroad, excavation or other structure, project or development or improvement
or to do any part thereof including the erection of scaffolding or other
structures or works in connection therewith. This shall also include any
subcontractor, specialty contractor or builder.
5.02.050 Employee - "Employee" shall mean all persons engaged in the
operation or conduct of any business whether as a member of the owner's
family, partners, agent, manager, solicitor, or any other persons employed in
said business.
5.02.060 Entertainment - "Entertainment" shall mean any act, play,
revue, pantomime, burlesque show, scene, song, fashion show, nude show, dance
act, song and dance act or poetry recitation, conducted or participated in by
one or more persons.
5.02.070 Finance Director. "Finance Director", shall mean the Director
of Finance of the City of Santa Clarita or his/her designee or agents.
5.02.080 Fixed Place of Business - "Fixed place of Business" shall mean
premises occupied in the City of Santa Clarita for the particular purpose of
conducting business there, separate and distinct from any other place of
business, regularly maintained for the purpose of attending to such business.
5.02.090 Home Occupation - "Home Occupation" shall mean business
activity which is conducted within one's -home or dwelling.
5.02.100 Newly Established Business - "Newly established business"
shall mean a business in existence and operation for less than three (3)
months.
5.02.110 Peddler. "Peddler" shall mean any person who sells and makes
immediate delivery or offers for sale and immediate delivery any goods, wares,
merchandise, service, or thing in the possession of the seller, at any place
in the City of Santa Clarita.
5.02.120 Person - "Person" shall mean all domestic and foreign
corporations, associations, syndicates, joint stock corporations, partnerships
of every kind, clubs, business, or common law trust societies and individuals
transacting and conducting any business in the City of Santa Clarita.
5.02:130 Professional - "Professional" shall mean any person including
any professional corporation wherever located, engaged in, or conducted with
the City any profession requiring compliance with written and/or oral
examination standards adopted by a branch of the state of the federal
government and/or requiring a certain amount of tenure with such branch of
government.
5.02.140 Registration - "Registration" shall mean the documentation and
listing of all City businesses, their functions, their ownerships, and other
relevant information.
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5.02.150 Retail Sale (sale and retail) - "Retail Sale" shall mean every
sale of tangible personal property other than sale to one who (1) purchases
for the purpose of resale as tangible personal property in the regular course
of business or (2) purchases for the purpose of consuming the property in
producing for sale a new article of tangible .personal property or substance,
of which such property becomes an ingredient or component, or as a chemical
used in processing, when the primary purpose of such chemical is to create a
chemical reaction, directly through contract with an ingredient of new article
produced for sale.
5.02.160 Solicitor. "Solicitor" shall mean any person who engages in
the business of going from house to house, place to place, on or along the
streets, within the City of Santa Clarita and/or by telephone, selling or
taking orders for or offering to sell or. take orders for goods, wares, or
merchandise or other things of value for future delivery, or for services to
be performed in the future.
5.02.170 Vehicle - "Vehicle" shall mean every device in or upon or by
which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public
street or highway. This does not include devices moved by human power or used
exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
5.02.180 Vending Operation - "Vending Operation" shall mean any
business conducted by any person engaged in the business of operating a
money -operated machine or device on the premises of another or in the business
of owning, renting, leasing, lending or otherwise distributing money -operated
machines or devices while retaining ownership. Machines may include but are
not limited to vending, amusement, video, and service machines.
5.02.190 Wholesale Sale - "Wholesale sale" shall mean any sale of
tangible personal property which is sold in lots to retailers for sale at
retail. Sales originally classified at retail may be classified as wholesale
if the vendor can establish to the Director of Finance that the sale was made
to a governmental agency, public utility, manufacturer or processor or
contractor who consumed the articles in the course of operations and did not
offer the articles for resale to the general public.
CHAPTER 5.03
REGULATIONS
5.03.010_ Certificate Required. It shall be unlawful for any person
whether as a principal or agent, clerk or employee, either for him/herself or
for any other person, or for any corporation, or an officer of a corporation,
or otherwise to conduct any profession, trade, calling, occupation or business
or to cause or direct any person to commence, or conduct any profession,
trade, calling or business herein specified, in the City without first
registering with the City of Santa Clarita and obtaining a registration
certificate as evidence of registration.
5.03.020 Contents of Certificate. All certificates shall be prepared
by the Finance Director of the. City upon payment of the sura set forth by
Resolution of the City Council. Each certificate so issued shall state the
following:
(a) The name of the person to whom the certificate is issued.
(b) A description of the business registered.
(c) The location of such ,business.
(d) The date of expiration of such registration.
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5.03.030 Registration Fee - Payable. All registration fees shall be
due upon application for a registration certificate and be paid in advance in
lawful money of the United States to the Finance Director, Department of
Finance, City of Santa Clarita.
5.03.040 Statement of Fee No greater or lesser fee shall be charged or
received for any registration fee other than provided for by Resolution of the
City Council. In no case shall any mistake of the Finance Director in stating
the amount of the registration fee or penalties prevent or prejudice the
collection by the City of what should be due from any person carrying on a
business subject to a registration fee.
Where an error is made in the issuance of any certificate with regard to a
classification, then a new certificate shall be issued in the proper
classification under the date of the original certificate and the business
owner shall pay any additional amount required.
CHAPTER 5.04
APPLICATION PROCEDURES
5.04.010 Procedure for Issuance. Every person required to be
registered under the provisions of this part shall file an application with
the Finance Director of the City. The application shall be a written
statement upon a form provided by the Finance Director and shall be written by
the applicant under penalty of perjury. The application shall set forth such
information as may be necessary to properly determine the registration fee to
be paid by the applicant.
5.04.020 Application for Renewal of Certificate. In all cases, the
applicant for renewal of a certificate shall submit to the Finance Director
for guidance in determining the amount of the registration fee to be paid by
the applicant a written statement, upon a form provided by the Finance
Director, written under penalty of perjury.
5.04.030 Contents of Application. Each application shall include:
a) the exact nature or type of business, trade, occupation or
profession for which the registration is requested.
b) the place where such business, trade, occupation or profession, is
to be conducted. If the business is not to be conducted at a
permanent place of business, the owner's residence address.
c) the address where the applicant shall consent to receive mail
concerning the registration.
d) where any person contracts, sells, or delivers any goods, wares, or
merchandise in the City for which sales or, use tax is payable.
e) the appropriate California State Board of Equalization Permit Number.
f) where any person employs others in the course of business, the
Federal and/or State Employer Identification Number.
g) where any person conducting business is self-employed, the
applicant's Social Security Number.
h) when the application is made for the issuance of a certificate
operating under a fictitious name, the true names and residential
addresses of those owning the business.
i) in the event that the application is made for issuance to a state
licensed contractor, the applicant's State Contractor's License
Number and specialty classification.
J) any further information required by the Finance Director to enable a
certificate to be issued.
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k) a signed statement made under penalty of perjury that the statements
therein are true and correct.
1) telephone numbers of the owner and two othersto contact in the
event of an emergency.
m) description and number of vehicles and money -operated machines to be
used in the course of business within the city limits.
n) The number of employees and square footage of the business
establishment shall be provided to the Finance Director to assist
the city in future planning and economic development.
5.04.040 Information Confidential. No information shall be kept
confidential unless so requested by the applicant. If the City determines
that the information requested to be kept confidential does not qualify as
confidential information under the Public Records Act, the application will be
returned.
5.04.050 State or County License or Permit Required. In any
profession, trade, business or calling where a state or county license or
permit is required, such license shall first be exhibited to verification by
the Finance Director before a city business certificate is issued.
5.04.060 Misrepresentation. Any person knowingly or intentionally
misrepresenting to any officer or employee of the City any material fact in
applying for or paying for the business certificate or permit herein shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor. Any certificate or permit issued upon the knowing or
intentional misrepresentation shall be invalid and may be revoked.
CHAPTER 5.05
FEE E7DEMPTIONS
5.05.010 Exemptions from Payment. No registration fee or permit fee
shall be required from the following:
a) Those businesses exempt from municipal license and registration
permit fees by virtue of the Constitution of the United State and
State of California.
b) Those institutions or organizations which are conducted or managed
wholly for the benefit of charitable or benevolent purposes.
c) Those businesses operating under a franchise agreement with the City
of Santa Clarita.
5.05.020 Business Registration Required. Any person, institution or
organization claiming exemption from payment of a registration fee, shall
nevertheless apply to the Finance Director for a business certificate in order
to be included among -the City Registry of Businesses. All businesses deemed
exempt from payment shall be subject to the same procedures for enforcement
and penalties provided herein.
5.05.030 Fee Exempt Registration - Limitations.
a) Every certificate issued without payment of fees shall be stamped
"fee exempt" upon its face.
b) Any certificate issued as "fee exempt" shall be subject to
suspension and revocation by the Finance Director in the event that
it is determined that the applicant is not entitled to exemption.
c) Any fee exempt certificate issued shall be void if any material
statement contained in the application or any other document or
representation is false.
d) No exempt certificate may be transferred or loaned.
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CHAPTER 5.06
VIOLATIONS
5.06.010 Generally. Except as hereafter provided, any person violating
any of the provisions of this Title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
subject to the penalties set forth in this Code.
5.06.020 Penalties for _late payment of registration fees. The penalty
for the failure to register as required by this Title shall be as follows:
where the fee required by this Title is not paid on or before the date due or
within 30 days thereafter, a first delinquent notice shall be issued and a
penalty of ten (10) percent of the amount due shall be imposed. A second and
third delinquent notice shall be issued and an additional penalty of ten (10)
percent of the original fee shall be added at the close of the business (5:00
p.m.) of the last day of each calendar month. Each penalty shall become part
of the registration fee required by this Chapter. In no case shall the total
penalty exceed one hundred (100) percent of the original fee.
5.06.030 New Businesses. In the case of a newly established business,
no penalty shall be imposed if the applicable fee is paid within thirty (30)
days after commencement of operation. Following the 30 days, penalties shall
be imposed as in the case of any other business.
CHAPTER 5.07
REVOCATION OR SUSPENSION
5.07.010 Revocation or Suspension A certificate or permit -issued under
this Title may be revoked or suspended in any one of the following instances:
a) Where the City Council finds and determines that the preservation of
public health and safety warrants revocation.
b) Where the business has violated any material provision of this Title.
c) Where the certificate was granted based on fraudulent information on
the registration or permit application.
d) Where the business violated the terms and provisions of the
registration or permit.
5.07.020 Notice of Revocation and Suspension of Registration
Certificate.
a) The Finance Director must serve the business owner by serving a
written notice to the business owner not less than ten (10) days
before the impending revocation or suspension. The notice shall be
served in person or by certifiedmail, return receipt requested.
b) Contents of Notice — The notice shall state with specificity the
reasons for revocation or suspension. In the case where a
suspension is in order, it shall be stated that the certificate or
permit shall be revoked unless said violation is remedied or
appealed within ten (10) days.
c) It shall be the responsibility of the business owner to provide
evidence .to the satisfaction of the Director of Finance that the
apparent violation has been remedied, otherwise a suspension shall
be deemed revoked.
d) In the case of a certificate or permit which has been deemed
revoked, the business owner shall not be granted a certificate or
permit for the operation of the type of profession, trade, business
or calling questioned for a period of one (1) year from the date of
revocation.
5.07.030 Notice of Appeal Any person aggrieved by any decision of the
Finance Director or agent of the City of Santa Clarita with respect to the
issuance or refusal to issue a certificate or permit or the amount of the
registration or permit fee may appeal to the City Council by filing a notice
of appeal with the Finance Director within fifteen (15) working days of such
decision. The City Council shall then hear the appeal at the next available
scheduled City Council meeting. The Finance Director shall notify applicant
of the time and place of the Council meeting by personally serving or
depositing in the U.S, mail such notice within 10 days of such meeting. The
findings of the Council shall be final and conclusive. The amount of any
registration or permit fee finally determined as provided in this Section
shall be due and payable as of the date when the original registration or
permit fee was due and payable together with any other penalties that may
due.
CHAPTER 5.08
��f'!U •' N:�rIW�YY
5.08.010 Duties - It shall be the duty of the Finance Director of the
City to enforce each and all of the provisions of this Chapter. Other City
departments including but not limited to police, fire, and community
development shall render such assistance in enforcement as may be required
from time to time.
5.08.020 Inspections - The Finance Director and any assistants or
public officials in the exercise of the duties of this _Title may examine or
cause to be examined all places of business in the City to ascertain whether
provisions of this -Title are being complied with.
CHAPTER 5.09
FEES
5.09.010 Registration Fees The amount of registration fees paid to the
City of Santa Clarita by any person engaged in or conducting any profession,
trade, calling, occupation or business shall be set forth by Resolution of the
City Council. Such registration fee shall be paid by those businesses
enumerated in Chapter 5.10 and by every person engaged in or conducting any
profession, trade, occupation, calling or business in the City of Santa
Clarita.
5.09.020 Permit Fees. The amount of permit fees paid to the City of
Santa Clarita by any person engaged in or conducting any business requiring a
permit as enumerated in chapter 5.11 shall pay a one time permit fee as
designated by Resolution of the City Council.
CHAPTER 5.10
BUSINESS CATEGORIES ENUMERATED
5.10.010 Services and Professions For conducting or engaging in any
profession or service, an annual registration fee as designated by Resolution
of the City Council shall be assessed.
Services and professions shall include all but are not limited to:
Accountant Advertising Agency Appraiser
Architect Artist Assayer
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Attorney at Law
Auditor
Auto Rental
Auto Wash
Auto Repair
Auto Body/Paint
Beauty Parlor
Blue Printer
Broker/Commission Agent
CPA
Chiropodist
Chiropractor
Credit Reporting Bureau
Dance School
Dentist
Design Illustrator
Draftsman
Dressmaker/Tailor
Embalmers
Engineers
Gardeners
Geologist
Hospitals(for Profit)
Illustrator
Insurance Claims Adjuster
Laboratories
Masseuse
Midwife
Mortician
Moving Service
Newspapers
Oculist/Optician
Photographers
Physicians
Real Estate Broker
Repair Services
Rifle Ranges
Stables
Taxidermist
Temporary Agency
Termite Inspector
Upholsterer
Auto Parking Lot
Auto Towing
Barber Shop
Book Agent
Chemist
Collection Agency
Decorator
Detective Agency
Electrologist
Engraver
Health Clubs
Insurance Broker
Locksmith
Money Lender/Broker
Music Schools
Optometrist
Printers
Riding Academy
Surveyor
Veterinarian
5.10.020 Retail. Wholesale. and Manufacture Businesses. Businesses :not
Otherwise Specified For conducting the business of selling at retail or
wholesale or manufacturing any goods, wares and merchandise or commodities,
maintaining or conducting any trade, occupation, calling or business not
otherwise specifically registered by the other Sections of this Title, a
annual registration fee as designated by Resolution of the City. Council shall
apply.
5.10.030 Cafes and Restaurants Cafes, restaurants, drive-in cafes, ice
cream parlors, bars or any similar place of business preparing and serving
food, beverages, or refreshments for consumption on the premises shall be
assessed a annual registration fee as designated by Resolution of the City
Council.
5.10.040 Contractors Contractors possessing a Class A, Class B-1, or
other state license shall pay an annual registration fee as designated by
Resolution of the City Council. Any contractor conducting the business of
selling merchandise as a retailer or wholesaler at a fixed place of business
within the City, in addition to the contractors business certificate, shall
also procure a certificate for such resale or wholesale business. It shall be
the responsibility of every general building, engineer or prime contractor to:
a) Require all specialty subcontractors under direction or control to
register their business with the City of Santa .Clarita prior to
performing services for said general building, engineering, or prime
contractor. It shall be the responsibility of the general contractor
to insure that all subcontractors are registered with the City .and
shall be held responsible for any fees due from the registration of
such contractors.
b) Exceptions. An owner builder shall be exempt from .payment of any
registration fee if all work performed is done exclusively by such
owner upon one's own property.
5.10.050 Swap Meets Swap meet exhibitors and swap meet operators shall
pay a business registration fee according to the provisions of this Section.
For the purpose of this Section, the following definitions shall apply:
a) Swap Meet Exhibitor - Any person exhibiting, displaying, selling or
exchanging, offering for sale or exchange of any property at a swap
meet.
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b) Swap Meet Operator — Any person or organization conducting the
business of a swap meet on any premises in the City, whereby space is
rented or leased to a person desiring to engage or conduct business
as a seller.
c) Every swap meet shall pay a business registration fee as follows:
1) Each swap meet exhibitor participating in a swap meet shall pay a
registration fee per stall per weekend or per month to the swap
meet operator as designated by Resolution of City Council. If
the stall is leased or rented on a weekly basis, a per weekend
registration fee shall apply. If the stall is leased or rented
on a monthly basis, a monthly registration fee shall apply. Such
fee shall be deemed as a debt owed by, both the swap meet
exhibitor and swap. meet operator to the City. The swap meet
exhibitor shall pay the fee to the.swap meet operator at the time
of participating in the swap meet. Any unpaid fee shall be paid
upon the termination of the exhibitor's participation. Each
exhibitor shall be issued a receipt by the operator as evidence
of the fee payment. Each swap meet operator shall then remit
separately from all other monies due from the swap meet
exhibitors. The fees paid by the exhibitors are in addition to
all other fees required by the City.
2) On or before the tenth day following each calendar month, the
swap meet operator shall file a return with the Revenue Collector
showing the total amount of fees during the previous month
collected under this Section. At the time the return is filed,
the swap meet operator shall remit the full amount of fees
collected along with the following information:
a) Name of vendor
b) Name of business
c) Business owner retail sales number
3) Any swap meet operator who fails to remit the fees within the
specified.time shall pay a penalty of ten percent (10%) for each
month the payment is delinquent up to 100% of the total original
amount due.
4) Records — Each swap meet operator shall keep full and accurate
records of stall rentals to vendors. The City shall have the
right to examine such records at any reasonable time.
5.10.060 Itinerant Merchants. All merchants traveling by foot, vehicle,
or any other means of transportation not otherwise registered under the
provisions of this Title and not having a regularly established place of
business within the City shall pay an annual fee as designated by Resolution
of the City Council.
a) An itinerant merchant under this Section shall be deemed to mean and
include any person or persons, firm, or corporation, either principal
or agent, employer or employee who engages in a temporary business in
the City of Santa Clarita by selling or offering for sale goods,
wares, merchandise, on things or articles of value.
b) Any itinerant merchant who, as a seller of any article is required to
obtain a State Resale Permit, pursuant to the provisions of Revenue
and Taxation Code Section 6066 et seq., and shall, prior to the
issuance of a permit by the City of Santa Clarita, produce
satisfactory proof of possession of such a State Resale Permit.
c) Every sale in the normal course of business of such itinerant
merchant within the City of Santa Clarita shall be recorded
sequentially numbered receipts which shall contain, at a minimum, the
following information: (i) the name of the seller, (ii) the date of
the sale, (iii) the price paid, (iv) a description of the item(s)
sold. It shall be the duty of the itinerant merchant to retain such
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records for the period of three years from the date of sale or the
period prescribed by law for the retention of records for, federal
income tax purposes, whichever is longer.
d) No registration certificate shall be issued to any person unless such
person supplies the Finance Director with the State Board of
Equalization permit number and agrees to report separately on the
sales tax return to the state the receipt from sales in the City and
agrees to pay the required sales or use tax on such receipts. This
Section only applies to those businesses subject to payment of a
sales or use tax by the State of California.
e) Prior to registering with the City of Santa Clarita, all itinerant
merchants must procure an itinerant merchant permit from the City of
Santa Clarita and pay the appropriate permit fee as designated by
Resolution of the City Council.
5.10.070 Peddler. Every person, firm or corporation engaged as a
peddler in the City of Santa Clarita shall register first with the City of
Santa Clarita. Prior to registering with the City of Santa Clarita, all
businesses engaged in peddling must first procure an Itinerant Merchant Permit
from the City of Santa Clarita and pay to the Finance Director the.appropriate
permit and registration fee as designated by Resolution of the City Council.
5.10.080 Solicitor. Every person, firm, or corporation engaged as a
solicitor within the City shall register first with the City of Santa
Clarita. Prior to registering with the City of Santa Clarita, all businesses
engaged in soliciting must first procure an Itinerant Merchant Permit from the
City of Santa Clarita and pay to the Finance Director the appropriate permit
and registration fee as designated by Resolution of the City Council.
5.10.090 Restrictions for Peddlers. Solicitors. and Itinerant Merchants:
No peddler or solicitor shall engage in selling or distributing any goods,
wares or services to stop, stand or park on or along any public street. for a
time period of more than thirty (30) minutes without moving to a new location
one hundred (100) feet removed therefrom.
a) Congestions. It shall be unlawful for any peddler/solicitor or
vendor.to operate in a place where such operation will clearly cause
or create a traffic hazard. In no case shall a peddler/solicitor or
vendor operate within:
1. Three hundred (300) feet of any school grounds prior to 4 p.m. on
a day when school is in session.
2. Two hundred (200) feet from any intersection controlled by a
traffic light or stop sign.
5.10.100 Photographers - Transient. Each transient photographer shall
register with the City of Santa Clarita and pay an annual registration fee as
designated by Resolution of the City Council. Each transient photographer
prior to registering with the City of Santa Clarita must first procure an
Itinerant Merchant Permit from the City of Santa Clarita and pay a permit fee
as designated by Resolution of the City Council.
5.10.110 Home Occupations. No home occupation business may be conducted
unless the business complies with the following regulations:
a) Only one (1) home occupation may be conducted from a dwelling.
b) Only materials or equipment recognized as part of a normal household
or needed or convenient for domestic purposes shall be used in the
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occupation. No motor power other than electrically operated motors
acceptable for connection to a 110 and 220. volt circuit with a
maximum of one (1) horsepower per motor or two total horsepower shall
be used.
c) The occupation shall not create pedestrian or vehicular traffic in
excess of that which is consistent to a single family residential use
of the premises. This shall not include more than two (2) visitors
per hour or eight in one day and restricted to 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM.
d) No sign, name place or other form of advertising shall be displayed
on the premises in connection with the home occupation.
e) There shall be no alteration of the appearance of the structure.
f) Commercial vehicles shall not be used to deliver materials to or
remove materials from the premises.
g) The home occupation shall not create any radio or television
interference or create noise audible beyond the boundaries of the
premises.
h) A home occupation shall be conducted within the principle dwelling.
Storage of goods and materials connected with the home occupation
shall not be allowed in accessory buildings or garages either
attached or detached.
I) No toxic, explosive, flammable, combustible,. corrosive, radioactive
or other restricted material shall be used or stored on the site.
J) No process may be used which is hazardous to public health, safety or
welfare.
k) The home occupation shall not displace or impede use of parking
spaces.
1) Only the principal residents of the home may be employed in the home
occupation.
5.10.120 Permitted Home Occupations Permitted Home Occupation may
include but are
not limited to
Architectural Service
Art Restoration
Art Studio
Consulting Service
Data Processing
Drafting/Graphic Service
Engineering Service
Financial Planning
Home Crafts
House Cleaning
Insurance Sales/Broker
Interior Design
Jewelry Making
Mail Order(not retail sales)
Sales Representatives
Swimming Pool Cleaning
Tutoring
Typing Service
Watch Repair
Writing
5.10.130 Non -Permitted Home Occupations
Non -Permitted Home Occupations
may include but are not limited to:
Ambulance Service
Appliance Repair
Auto Repair
Auto Body/Paint
Auto Detailing/Washing
Beauty Salons/Barber Shops
Boarding House, Bed & Breakfast
Carpentry
Ceramics Contracting(Masonry, Plumbing)
Health Clubs, dance studios Limousine Service
5.10.140 Home Occupation -Application Procedures.
a) Requirements. Prior to being registered with the City, Home
Occupations must first obtain a Home Occupation Permit. A one time
Home Occupation permit application fee and an annual business
registration fee as set forth by Resolution of the City Council shall
apply.
b) All laws applicable. This Chapter relating to home occupations in no
way supersedes or abrogates any other provision of law applicable to
the use of the dwelling including planning and zoning or any building
standards.
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5.10.150 Vending and Other Money -Operated Machines For every person
whose business is limited exclusively to renting, leasing, or maintaining the
use of any coin operated machine or device, or otherwise engaging in vending
operations or in operating any coin-operated machine or device at any location
or fixed place of business owned or otherwise under the control of another,
shall pay an annual registration fee as designated by Resolution of the City
Council.
a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, each coin-operated
vending machine or device operated, rented, leased or maintained
within the City shall have conspicuously stamped upon it or affixed
thereon a certificate(decal) issued by the Finance Department as
evidence of being registered with the City and pay a registration fee
per machine as set forth by Resolution oftheCity Council.
b) Those businesses operating any coin/money operated machines as an
incidental part to a registered business shall register with the City
of Santa Clarita those machines and will affix a decal as evidence of
registration to each machine. Each owner of such machines shall pay
a registration fee per machine as designated by Resolution of the
City Council.
5.10.160 Advertising - Outdoor Signs. Every person engaged in the
businessof constructing, erecting, installing, maintaining or operating
outdoor advertisements, structures, billboards, painted signs on structures
shall register with the City of Santa Clarita and pay the appropriate
registration fee as designated by Resolution of the City Council.
5.10.170 Trucking, Hauling, and Transportation Vehicles., Any and all
vehicles used as an incidental part or wholly by a registered business for the
operation of such business shall register each vehicle with the City of Santa
Clarita and affix a decal as evidence of registration to the vehicle. A
registration fee per vehicle -shall be applied as designated by Resolution of
the City Council. Such businesses shall include but are not limited to:
a) Transportation of property. Every person whose business is that of
operator of any vehicle used for the transportation of property for
hire or compensation, and who in the course of business uses the
public streets and highways within the City to receive or discharge
property within the City.
b) Transportation of Persons Every person conducting the business of
operating any vehicle for the transportation of persons and who in
the course of business uses the public streets and highways of the
City for the purpose of such business.
c) Delivering and Carrying of Goods, Wares or Merchandise. Every person
who uses any vehicle over public streets of the City to receive or
discharge property including but not limited to beverages, dairy
products or food products to merchants for retail or restaurants for
consumption or for delivering or carrying other goods, wares or
merchandise or conducting any business within the City (yet does not
maintain a fixed place of business within the City) by means of a
motor vehicle.
d) Vehicles used for Registered Businesses. Vehicles operated as an
incidental part of a business registered under other provisions of
this Ordinance making deliveries to branches of one's own
establishment.
e) Display of Registration Certificate. No persons shall operate
vehicles for the aforementioned uses without first posting thereon in
a conspicuous place a decal for identification purposes provided by
the City of Santa Clarita as evidence of registration.
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5.10.180 Amusements. For conducting any business mentioned in this
section, a registration fee as designated by Resolution of the City Council
shall be assessed.
a) Public bowling, skee ball, handball or batball alley or handball
court, shuffleboard or similar device or means of entertainment.
b) Bingo.Parlors.
c) Skating Rinks.
d) Musical Entertainment.
e) Carnival or similar exposition.
f) Lecture or traveling performance such as comedy, spoken drama, or
opera.
g) Trained animal show to which an admission is charged.
h) Motion picture theater or drive in.
I) Except as provided in item E, any place to which the public is
admitted and an admission fee is charged and at which any boxing,
wrestling or exhibition is conducted.
5.10.190 Residential/Commercial Rental Business... Businesses engaged in
the renting and/or managing of residential or -commercial property shall pay an
annual registration fee as designated by Resolution of the City Council. Such
businesses shall include but are not limited to:
a) Apartments. Every person conducting or managing an apartment, as
defined in the Zoning Code.
b) Hotels and Motels. Every person conducting or managing a hotel or
motel, as defined in the Zoning Code.
c) Commercial Property Rentals. Every person conducting or managing a
business involving the rental or lease of commercial retail, office,
wholesaling or manufacturing property or space.
d) Trailer Camps. Every person conducting or managing a. business
involving the rental or lease of trailer space.
e) Antiaue Malls. Antique malls, wherein the owner and operator thereof
rents spaces within said mall to other persons for the exclusive
purpose of conducting independent antique sales.business therein.
5.10.200 Sales by Growers or Producers of Ranch Products. Sales by
growers or producers of ranch products who grow or produce products in the
City and sells said products on the property where grown or in such instances
where produce is sold off the property where grown, an annual business
registration fee as designated by Resolution of the City Council shall apply.
5.10.210 Auction Sale. Auctioneer, Auction House. Every person engaged
in the business of auctioneer shall pay a business registration fee per
auction event as designated by Resolution of the City Council.
a) Application for Registration. All applications for auctions shall
include the name of the person to conduct the auction, the place
where the auction is to be conducted, and a description of the goods
proposed for sale.
b) General Requirements.
1. No auctioneer shall knowingly or negligently misrepresent the
quality of any article offered for sale.
2. No auctioneer of personal property shall offer for sale at public
auction any • article substituted or in lieu of any article after
initial purchase.
3. No auctioneer of personal property shall, with the intention to
purchase same, make any false representation or statement as to
ownership, character, or quality of or apparent owner of such
property.
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5.10.230 Bankrupt Sales. Every person engaged in the business of
owning, opening, establishing, managing, operating, maintaining, or having
charge of any temporary location or place of any kind for the selling of
goods, wares, or merchandise who sells or offers for sale any insolvent,
bankrupt, fire damaged or. other goods, wares or merchandise shall register
with the City of Santa Clarita and pay an appropriate fee as designated by
Resolution of the City Council.
5.10.240 Massaee and Bath Establishments. Every person engaged in the
business of giving a steam, electric light, sponge, sun, mineral, Russian,
Swedish or Turkish bath or any other massage or bath in a public place which
maintains in connection therewith a steam room, plunge or shower or massage
shall pay an annual registration fee as designated by Resolution of the City
Council.
5.10.250 Dance Balls, Public Entertainment. Every person engaged in the
business of operating a dance hall, dance event, or dancing entertainment
shall pay an annual registration fee as designated by Resolution of the City
Council. Such businesses shall include but are not limited to:
a) Any person in the business of maintaining and operating a public
dance hall shall register for such business activity which shall be
in lieu of all other registration requirements imposed by this
Section. This subsection does not apply to any person engaged in the
business of conducting a restaurant, hotel, cafe, coffee house,
cabaret, club, barroom, beer hall, beer garden, burlesque show,
burlesque review or burlesque theater.
b) In addition to any other fee imposed by this Section, any person
engaged in the business of conducting a restaurant, hotel, cafe,
coffee house, cabaret, club,.barroom, beer hall, beer garden, and, in
addition, entertainment, not including burlesque and including
fashion shows, or conducting public dances, shall obtain an
additional registration certificate for conducting such activity.
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4. No auctioneer shall falsely represent or pretend that any goods,
wares or merchandise which are offered for sale at auction are in
whole and in part a part of bankrupt, insolvent, or damaged stock
of goods or goods saved from fire or any other character or
history other than the true nature and history of the goods.
c)
Any auctioneer who.shall sell or offer for sale at a public auction
any merchandise represented as being a whole or part of goods
belonging to the business of another shall first file with the
Finance Director ten (10) working days before the auction a verified
detailed inventory of the merchandise. Such verification shall also
state that the inventory filed is true and no goods not inventoried
will be sold. Inventory lists shall be retained by the Finance
Director and shall be open for public inspection.
d)
Every auctioneer must keep a record book which must indicate each
sale, the amount paid and date of each sale. Such book shall be open
at all times for inspection by the Finance Director of the City of
Santa Clarita.
e)
Exemptions. The provisions set forth shall not pertain to any
auction conducted by a person regularly employed by a business if the
following conditions are met:
1. The goods are of the same type and variety of goods sold in the
regular course of business.
2. The goods sold are the property of the auctioneer or the person
who is the employer or the auctioneer.
3. The auction is to be conducted on the business premises where
such goods are regularly sold.
5.10.230 Bankrupt Sales. Every person engaged in the business of
owning, opening, establishing, managing, operating, maintaining, or having
charge of any temporary location or place of any kind for the selling of
goods, wares, or merchandise who sells or offers for sale any insolvent,
bankrupt, fire damaged or. other goods, wares or merchandise shall register
with the City of Santa Clarita and pay an appropriate fee as designated by
Resolution of the City Council.
5.10.240 Massaee and Bath Establishments. Every person engaged in the
business of giving a steam, electric light, sponge, sun, mineral, Russian,
Swedish or Turkish bath or any other massage or bath in a public place which
maintains in connection therewith a steam room, plunge or shower or massage
shall pay an annual registration fee as designated by Resolution of the City
Council.
5.10.250 Dance Balls, Public Entertainment. Every person engaged in the
business of operating a dance hall, dance event, or dancing entertainment
shall pay an annual registration fee as designated by Resolution of the City
Council. Such businesses shall include but are not limited to:
a) Any person in the business of maintaining and operating a public
dance hall shall register for such business activity which shall be
in lieu of all other registration requirements imposed by this
Section. This subsection does not apply to any person engaged in the
business of conducting a restaurant, hotel, cafe, coffee house,
cabaret, club, barroom, beer hall, beer garden, burlesque show,
burlesque review or burlesque theater.
b) In addition to any other fee imposed by this Section, any person
engaged in the business of conducting a restaurant, hotel, cafe,
coffee house, cabaret, club,.barroom, beer hall, beer garden, and, in
addition, entertainment, not including burlesque and including
fashion shows, or conducting public dances, shall obtain an
additional registration certificate for conducting such activity.
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c) Notwithstanding subsection (1) and in lieu of all other fees imposed
by this Section, any- person conducting a burlesque show, burlesque
review or burlesque theater shall obtain a separate registration
certificate prior to engaging in such activity.
5.10.260 Laundries and Dry Cleaners. Linen and Towel and Diaper
Service. Every person without a regularly established place of business in
the City yet who conducts the business of operating a laundry or dry cleaning
route or linen towel or diaper service within the City of Santa Clarita shall
pay an annual registration -fee as designated by Resolution of the City Council.
5.10.270 Outdoor Festival. Any music, dance, or music activity or
performance at. which music is supplied by either amateurs or professionals
which is held at any place rather than a permanent installation building shall
pay a per event registration fee as designated by Resolution of the City
Council.
5.10.280 Refuse Collection. Every person conducting or engaging in the
business of garbage or refuse collection shall be assessed an annual
registration fee as designated by Resolution of the City Council
5.10.290 Sale of Christmas Trees or Greens and Pumpkins (holiday
sales). Those. businesses engaged in the sale of Christmas trees, holly,
berries, or other seasonal items. shall pay an annual fee as designated by
Resolution of the City Council except where such businesses are conducted in
connection with other regularly established places for which a certificate has
been issued or is conducted by and solely for the -benefit of charitable or
non-profit organizations.
5.10.300 Fortunetelling Business. Every person engaged in the business
of fortunetelling shall be required to register with the City of Santa Clarita
prior to engaging in such activity and pay an annual fee for each business
establishment as designated by Resolution of the City Council. As used in
this title, "fortunetelling business" includes every person, engaged in the
activity of, or advertising by sign, circular, handbill, newspaper,
periodical, magazine or other publication, or by any other means whatsoever,
the telling of fortunes, forecasting of futures or furnishing any information
not. otherwise obtainable by the ordinary processes of knowledge, for or
without pay, by means of. any occult or psychic power, faculty or force,
clairvoyance, clairaudience, cartomancy, psychology, psychometry, phrenology,
spirits, mediumship, seership, prophecy, auguary, astrology, palmistry,
necromancy, mind-reading, telepathy, or other craft, art, science, cards,
talisman, charm, potion, magnetism, magnetized article or substance, gypsy
cunning or foresight, crystal gazing, oriental mysteries or magic of any kind
or nature, or engaging in, practicing or carrying on any art, profession or
business, the advertisement and practice of which is regulated by this
Section. Excepted from the aforementioned definition are the following:
a) No person shall be required to pay any fee or take out any
registration for conducting or participating in any religious
ceremony or ' service when such person holds a certificate of
ordination as a minister, missionary, medium, healer, or clairvoyant
from any bona fide church or religious association maintaining a
church and holding regular services and having a creed or set of
religious principles that is recognized by all churches of like
faith; provided further, that the fees, gratuities, emoluments, and
profits thereof shall be regularly accounted for and paid solely to
or for the benefit of the church or religious association; provided
further, that the person holding a certificate of ordination from
such bona fide church or religious association, as set forth in this
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Section, shall, before practicing the profession specified in this
Section, file with the Finance Director a certified copy of his/her
certificate of ordination with his/her name, age, and street address
in this City where he/she intends to carry on the business. Such bona
fide church or religious association, as defined in this Section,
may, however, pay to its ministers, missionaries, mediums, or workers
a salary or compensation based upon a percentage basis; provided that
the agreement between the church and the minister, missionary, medium
or worker is embodied in a resolution and transcribed in the minutes
of such church or religious association.
b) No person shall be required to pay any fee or register for carrying
on the art of reading tea leaves in any bona fide, regularly
established restaurant, for the purpose of amusement to the patrons
of the restaurant, where no charge for such readings is made when
such a person is an employee of the establishment.
CHAPTER 5.11
PERMIT REQUIREMENTS
5.11.010 Businesses requiring a Special Event Permit—Enumerated. Those
businesses required to procure a Special Event permit with the City of Santa
Clarita prior to registering with the City and engaging in or conducting any
business in the City include the following businesses:
Circuses Carnivals Tent Shows
Animal Shows Outdoor Festivals Auctions
Bankrupt Sales Other Sales events Dances
5.11.020 Application for Special Event Permits. At the time of filing
an application for a Special Event permit, the applicant shall pay a one time
permit fee as designated by Resolution of the City Council and must provide to
the Finance Director with the following:
a) Name and Address of Business
b) Name and Address of Owner
c) Driver's License and Social Security Number of the applicant
d) Detailed description of the dates, locations, and hours of the event
e) Detailed description of the equipment owned by or under the operation
of the applicant to be used for the event
f) A list of the names of all agents, employees, or other persons
involved in the event and their driver's license number.
g) Copies of all policies and binders of liability insurance
h) Any further information to be required by the Finance Director to
enable a permit to be issued
5.11.030 Processing of Special Event Permit Applications. Upon receipt
of such application, the original shall be transmitted to the Sheriff
Department who shall cause such investigation of the applicant's and
employees' business background and. moral character to be made as he deems
necessary for the protection of the public welfare. If as the result of such
investigation, the applicant's or employees' background is found to be
unsatisfactory, the Sheriff Department shall endorse on such application
disapproval and the reasons for the same and return the application to the
Finance Director who shall notify the applicant that the application is
disapproved and that no permit will be issued. Only when an approval of the
Sheriff Department is received, will the Finance Director issue a Special
Event Permit.
5.11.040 Businesses Requiring an Itinerant Merchant Permit—Enumerated.
Those businesses required to procure an Itinerant Merchant Permit with the
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City of Santa Clarita prior to engaging or conducting in -any business and
prior to being registered with the City of Santa Clarita include the following
businesses:
Itinerant Merchants Solicitors Peddlers
Transient Photographers Transient Locksmiths
5.11.050 Application for Itinerant Merchant Permits. At the time- of
filing an application for an Itinerant Merchant Permit, the applicant shall
pay a one time permit fee as designated by Resolution of the City Council and
must provide to the FinanceDirectorwith the following:
a) Name and Address of Business
b) Name and Home Address of Owner
c) Driver's License and Social Security Number of the applicant
d) Detailed description of the proposed activities
e) Description of any and all vehicles to be used
f) Detailed description of the dates, locations, and hours of
solicitation
g) A list of the names of all agents, employees, or other persons
involved in the solicitation and their driver's license and social
security number, a physical description of those persons that will be
soliciting, and the date of birth of each solicitor.
h) Copies of any and all business license and or solicitation permits
from any other city
i) Proof of non-profit status if applicable
J) Written authorization from owners if any solicitation is to take place
on private property
k) Two written references with whom the applicant conducted business
within the past two year
1) Any further information to be required by the Finance Director to
enable a permit to be issued
5.11.060 Processing of Itinerant Merchant Permit Applications. Upon
receipt of such application, the original shall be transmitted to the Sheriff
Department who shall cause such investigation of the applicant's and
employees' business background and moral character to be made as he deems
necessary for the protection of the public welfare. If as the result of such
investigation, the applicant's or employees' background is found to be
unsatisfactory, the Sheriff Department shall endorse on such application
disapproval and the reasons for the same and return the application to the
Finance Director who shall notify -the applicant that the application .is
disapproved and that no permit will be issued. Only when an approval of the
Sheriff Department is received, will the Finance Director issue an Itinerant
Merchant Permit.
5.11.070 Businesses Requiring a Business Permit -Enumerated. Those
businesses required to procure a Business Permit with the City of Santa
Clarita prior to engaging or conducting any business and prior to being
registered with the City of Santa Clarita include the following businesses:
Massage Parlors Massage Technicians Fortune Telling
Bath Establishments Adult Book Stores Adult Movie Theaters
Escort Bureaus Gun Dealers
5.11.080 Application for Business Permits. At the time of filing an
application for a Business Permit, the applicant shall pay a one time permit
fee as designated by Resolution of the City Council and must provide to the
Finance Director with the following:
a) Name and Address of Business
b) Name and Home Address of Owner
c) Driver's License and Social Security Number of the applicant
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d) Detailed description of the proposed activities
e) A list of the names of all agents, employees, or other persons
involved in the business (including the owner) and their driver's
license and social security number, a physical description of those
persons that will be involved in the business, and the date of birth
of each person.
f) The two previous addresses, if any, immediately prior to the present
address of the applicant
g) Written statements of at least five persons that the applicant is of
good moral character
h) Two portrait photographs at least two inches by two inches of the
applicant
i) Business, occupation or employment of the applicant for the three
years immediately preceding the date of the application
J) The license history of the applicant, whether the applicant has had a
license for any business or similar activity issued by another county
or city or state
k) All convictions, except for minor traffic violations, and the reasons
therefor
1) Such other identification and information necessary to discover the
truth of the matters herinabove specified as required to be set forth
in the application, which may include fingerprints of the applicant as
deemed necessary by the Finance Director
m) Any other information deemed necessary by the Finance Director to
issue a Business Permit
5.11.090 Processing of Business Permit Applications. Upon receipt of
such application, the original shall be transmitted to the Sheriff Department
who shall cause such investigation of the applicant's and employees' business
background and moral character to be made as he deems necessary for the
protection of the public welfare. As part of the investigation, the Sheriff
Department shall have the power and authority to inspect such business
premises to insure all requirements and standards have been satisfied. If as
the result of such investigation, the Sheriff Department shall endorse on such
application disapproval and the reasons for the same and return the
application to the Finance Director who shall notify the applicant that the
application is disapproved and that no permit will be issued. Only when an
approval of the Sheriff Department is received, will the Finance Director
issue a Business Permit.
SECTION 2. FEES AND CHARGES SUPERSEDED. The provisions of Section 1 of this
ordinance supersedes Title 7 of the Los Angeles County Code previously
referenced as the Santa Clarita Municipal Code.
SECTION 3. PUBLISH OF SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE, The City Clerk shall cause a
summary of this Ordinance to be published and a certified copy of the full
text to be posted in the office of the City Clerk at least five days prior to
the City Council meeting at which the proposed Ordinance is to be adopted.
Within fifteen (15) days following the adoption of this Ordinance, the City
Clerk shall again publish a summary of the Ordinance with the names of those
City Councilmembers voting for and against the Ordinance and the City Clerk
shall post in the office of the City Clerk a certified copy of the full text
of the adopted Ordinance along with the names of those City Councilmembers
voting for and against the Ordinance.
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PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this day of , 1990.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
CITY OF SANTA CLARITA )
I, HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance No. 90-28 was regularly
introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the City
Council on the day of , 1990. That thereafter, said
Ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City Council
on the day of , 1990, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS:
City Clerk
I
RESOLUTION NO. 90-172
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANTA CLARITA ADOPTING THE BUSINESS REGISTRATION
FEE RESOLUTION.
WHEREAS, the City of Santa Clarita has conducted an" extensive and
exhaustive analysis of numerous California cities, various business
registration programs; and
WHEREAS, the City of Santa Clarita has conducted an extensive and
exhaustive analysis of the cost to the City of conducting its Business
Registration Service;.and
WHEREAS, the City of Santa Clarita desires to establish a schedule of
fees and charges to be paid by those businesses required to be registered
with the City as established in Ordinance 90-28; and
WHEREAS, a schedule of business registration fees and charges to be paid
by those businesses required to register with the City need be adopted so
that the City might carry into effect its policies; and
WHEREAS, heretofore, the City Council has adopted Ordinance No. 90-28 on
the day of , 1990, establishing its policy to provide
for the registration of all the various lawful city businesses, professions,
trades, callings, and occupations, the collection of adequate information
regarding the ownership and operation of such businesses and for the
collection of statistical data regarding businesses within the City; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Government Code Section 54994.1 the specific fees
to be charged for registration must be adopted by the City Council by
resolution, after providing notice and holding a public hearing; and
WHEREAS, notice of public hearing has been provided per California
Government Code Section 6062a, oral and written presentations made and
received, and the required public hearing held.
NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA DOES RESOLVE,
DETERMINE, AND ORDER AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Council does hereby find, determine and declare as
follows:
A. On. , 1990, at a regularly scheduled meeting of the
City Council of the city of Santa Clarita, which meeting was duly noticed and
conducted in accordance with the -provisions of all. applicable laws, the City
Council adopted Ordinance 90-28 relating to the Business registration Service
to be provided by the City.
B. Pursuant to Ordinance 90-28, the City shall conduct a comprehensive
service of registering lawful businesses within the City of Santa Clarita.
The City shall charge the reasonable costs borne by the City for such service.
C. On , 1990, at a regularly scheduled meeting of the
City Council of the City of Santa Clarita, which meeting was duly noticed and
conducted in accordance with the provisions of all applicable laws, the staff
submitted a report of the allocations of costs of a business registration
over the average life of a business (the "report"). The report sets forth
the calculations used to derive the schedule of fees and charges set forth in
this resolution pursuant to Ordinance 90-28.
D. On. , 1990, at a regularly scheduled meeting of
the City Council of the City of Santa Clarita, which meeting was duly noticed
and conducted. in accordance with the. provisions of all applicable laws, the
City Council conducted a public hearing on the adoption of a fee schedule to
be applied and collected by the City Finance Department for the registration
of businesses operating in the City of Santa Clarita. Opponents and
Proponents of the fee schedule were given an opportunity to speak at the
public hearing.
E. Following the public hearing, the City Council of the City of Santa
Clarita duly considered all evidence of the proponents and opponents of the
fee schedule, considered the report, and all other applicable evidence.
SECTION 2. - Fee Schedule Adoption. Pursuant to Ordinance 90-28 and
Santa Clarita Municipal Code Title 5, the following schedule of fees and
charges are hereby directed to be computed by, applied by, and collected by
the City Finance Department for the registration of businesses operating in
the City of Santa Clarita:
ANNUAL REGISTRATION FEES
Business Classifications
Manufacturing & Processing
Wholesalers & Distributors
Retailers
Services
Cafes, Restaurants, Bars
Eating Establishments
Professions
Contractors
Entertainments
(Bingo Parlors
Bowling Alleys
Skating Rinks
Skeeball/Handball/Racketball
Batball Courts
Musical entertainment(incidental
to any other business)
Motion Picture Theater
Boxing/Wrestling Shows)
Circuses, Carnivals, Tent Shows
Animal Shows
Dance Halls, Public Dancing
Burlesque Shows
Amount Time/Unit
40.00
year/business
location
40.00
year/business
location
40.00
year/business
location
40.00
year/business
location
40.00
year/business
location
40.00
year/business
location
40.00
year/business
location
40.00
year/business
location
40.00 event/location
40.00 year/business location
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Outdoor Festivals
Sales Events -Non routine
Swap Meets
Holiday Sales/Sales by
Growers
Auction Sale/Auction House
Bankrupt Sales
Vending Machine/Coin
Operated Machine Rental
Laundromat/Launderettes
Itinerant Merchants
Peddlers/Solicitors
Transient Photographers
Transient Locksmiths
Home Occupations -Registration
Renting Accomodations-Apartments
Hotel, Motels, Commercial
Property, Trailer Camps
Transportation Business -
Transportation of Property
Transportation of Goods, Wares
Transportation of Laundries
Transportation of Junk/Salvage
Transportation of Persons(Taxis)
Transportation of Rubbish/Garbage
Massage and Bath Establishments
Fortune Telling
Advertising -Billboards, Signs
Permit Type
Home Occupation Permit
Special Event Permit
Itinerant Merchant Permit
Business Permit
Duplicate Certificates
Transfer of Certificates
Copies of Public Reports
40.00
event/location
40.00
event/location
3.00
month/stall or space or
.75
weekend/stall or space
40.00
year/business location
40.00
event/location
40.00
event/location
40.00
year/business location
+ 1.00
year/machine
40.00
year/business location
+ 1.00
year/machine
40.00
year
40.00
year
40.00
year
40.00
year
33.00
year/location
40.00
year/location
40.00
year/business location
+ 1.00
year/vehicle used for
business within City limits
40.00
40.00
40.00
BUSINESS PERMIT FEES
Amount
110.00
90.00
60.00
125.00
ADMINISTRATIVE FEES
6.00
7.50
3.00
+ .10¢
.10¢
year/business location
year/business location
year/business
Time/Unit
one time fee per location
per event/location
per event/business
one time fee per location
per certificate
per certificate
generation of new report
per copy of each page
per copy of standard report
SECTION 3. Defining and Timing of Fee Schedule. This resolution shall
be referred to and be known as the "Business Registration Fee Resolution
Definitions regarding and the timing of the implementation of the Business
Registration fee schedule shall be as stipulated in Ordinance 90-28.
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SECTION 4. Severability. If any portion of this resolution is declared
invalid or unconstitutional, then it is the intention of the City Council to
have passed the entire resolution and all its ,component parts, and all other
sections of this resolution shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 5. Effective Date. This resolution shall not become effective
until the effective date of Ordinance No. 90-28.
SECTION 6. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this
Resolution.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this day of ,1990.
ATTEST:
City Clerk
Mayor
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was duly adopted by the
City Council of the City of Santa Clarita at a regular meeting thereof held
on the day of , 1990 by the following vote of
the Council:
AYES:
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS
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City Clerk
EXHIBIT A
ALLOCATION OF COSTS OVER THE AVERAGE -
LIFE OF A BUSINESS
Costs Spread Over:
Year 1 Costs
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Year it
Year 12
Year 13
Year 14
Year 15
Year 16
Year 17
Year 18
Year 19
Year 20
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Total Cost
Average Life of a business
Average Cost
Five to Ten Year Avg. Cost
5 Yrs
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10 Yrs
15 yrs
20 Yrs
126.20
126.20
126.20
126.20
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97:
30.97
30.97
30.97
30.97-
30.97
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250.08
404.93
559.79
714.64:
5
10
15
20
50.02
40.49
37.32
35.73
Year 5
50.02
Year 10
40.49
Year 15
37.32
Year 20
35.73
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Average Cost per Business $40.89
ee..................... naa vm:xa:. max........
1st Year Costs
Implementation Costs
New Bus. Application Review:
Finance
Building & Safety
Community Development
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TOTAL 1st Year Costs
Annual Renewal Costs
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Finance
------------------------------
Total Annual Renewal Costs
COST BREAKDOWN
136,242.77 Schedule A
266,559.64 Schedule B
87,465.03 Schedule C
115,488.12 Schedule D
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605,755.57
148,658.27.Schedule E
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148,658.27
COST ALLOCATIONS
*Costs allocated to 4800 businesses in the City of Santa Clarita
Total 1st Year Costs 605,755.57
------------------------------------------- - $126.20
4800 businesses 4,800.00 per business
Annual Renewal Costs 148,658.27
------------------------------------------- $30.97
4800 businesses 4,800.00 per business
Schedule A
ITEMIZATION OF BUSINESS
REGISTRATION
IMPLEMENTATION COSTS
----------------------------
Cost Area Fully Alloc.
No. of Mrs.
Total Cost
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Cost/Hr.
Revenue Collector
59.95
1,300.00
77,935.00
Attorney
138.63
25.00
3,465.75
Part -Time Intern
30.84
208.22
6,421.50
Executive Secretary
58.90
29.00
1,708.10
Asst. City Manager
99.30
8.00
794.40
Director of Finance
168.78
15.00
2,531.70
Computer Programmer
108.56
32.00
3,473.92
Account Clerk
47.30
10.00
473.00
Clerk Typist
41.86
10.00
418.60
Code Enforcer
37.68
10.00
376.80
Public Information Officer
43.30
40.00
1,732.00
NISSI Software
--
--
27,000.00
Advertising(newspaper,radio)
--
--
3,000.00
Mail -Outs: Postage
0.25
--
2,400.00
Application Form
0.15
720
Letterhead
0.14
672
Envelopes
0.2
1920
Ceritificate
0.25
1200
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TOTAL START UP COSTS
136,242.77
'
PERMIT FEES
Home Occupation Permit
Cost/Hr
Unit/Hr.
Total Cost
------------------------------
Code Enforcement
37.68
0.50
18.84
Planning Techn
29.28
0.50
14.64
Revenue Collector
59.95
1.00
59.95
Account Clerk
47.30
0.33
15.61
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Total Home Occ. Costs
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109.04
Fee -110.00
Special Event Permit
------------------------------
License Officer -Sheriff Dept
45.00
0.75
33.75
Revenue Collector
59.95
0.50
29.98
D.O.J. access file
---
---
27.00
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Total Special Event Costs
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90.73
Fee -90.00
Itinerant Merchant Permit
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License Officer -Sheriff Dept
45.00
0.67
29.97
Revenue Collector
59.95
0.50
29.98
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Total Itinerant Merchant Costs
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59.95
Fee=60.00
Business Permit
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License Officer -Sheriff Dept
45.00
1.50
67.50
Revenue Collector
59.95
0.50
29.98
D.O.J. access file
---
---
27.00
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Total Business Permit Costs
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124.48
Fee -125.00
NEW APPLICATION REVIEW
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Full Alloc.
FINANCE Schedule B Cost/Hr Hrs/Unit
------------------------------
Revenue Collector
Account Clerk
Clerk Typist
Part -Time Intern
Computer Programmer
Total Finance Costs
BUILDING & SAFETY Schedule C
Building Official -Indirect
Supry Building Insp.-Indirect
Supry Permit Specialist
Permit Specialist
Clerk typist -Indirect
Secretary -Indirect
Total Building & Safety Costs
# of Bus.
Dollars
59.95
0.33
4,800.00
95,910.41
47.30
0.25
4,800.00
56,760.00:
41.86
0.17
4,800.00
33,474.60
30.84
0.25
4,800.00
37,008.00
108.56
0.08
4,800.00
43,406.63
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Total Comm. Development Costs
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266,559.64
Full Alloc.
% of time
Cost/Hr
Allocated
No. of Hrs.
Dollars
38.68
0.07
118.61
4,587.66
17.16
0.07
118.61
2,034.80
63.56
0.54
937.57
59,592..19
48.96
0.18
312.47
15,298.37
39.30
0.05
79.24
3,114.28
35.81
0.05'
79.24
2,837.72
87,465.03
Full Alloc.
COMM. DEVELOPMENT Schedule D
Cost/Hr
Hrs/Unit
# of Bus.
Dollars
------------------------------
Planning Technician
29.28
0.50
4,800.00
70,272.00
Code Enforcement Officer
37.68
0.25
4,800.00
45,216.12
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Total Comm. Development Costs
-------------
115,488.12
TOTAL APPLICATION REVIEW COSTS
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469,512.79.
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ANNUAL RENEWAL
COSTS
FINANCE Schedule E
Full Alloc.
------------------------------
Cost/Hr
Hrs/Unit
# of Bus.
Dollars
Revenue Collector
59.95
0.13
4,800.00
38,358.41
Account Clerk
47.30
0.08
4,800.00
18,912.43
Account Clerk
47.30
0.08
4,800.00
18,912.43.
Clerk Typist
41.86
0:08
4,800.00
16,737.30
Part-Time.Intern
30.84
0.08
4,800.00
12,331.07
Computer Programmer
108.56
0.08
4,800.00
43,406.63
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Total Renewal Costs
148,658.27
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S@ SS@S G @i C S @4
Revenue Collector
Account Clerk
Clerk Typist
Part -Time Intern
Computer Programmer
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New Application Review Cost
Implementation Cost
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Total First Year Cost
First year cost/business
Renewal Cost
Costs Spread Over
------------------------------
Year 1
Year 2-5
Year 6-10
Year 11-15
Year 16-20
HOME OCCUPATION APPLICATION COSTS
Cost/Hr
Unit/Hr.
Total Cost
59.95
0.08
23,970.41
47.30
0.17
37,824.86
41.86
0.08
16,737.30
30.84
0.17
24,662.13
108.56
0.08
43,406.63
5yr 10yr
57.90 57.90
123.88
278.73
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Total Cost 181.78 336.63
Avg. Cost 36.36 33.66
5-20 yr average 36.36
33.66
32.77
32.32
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33.78 Fee -33.00
146,601.34
131,330.77
277,932.11
57.90
30.97
15yr
57.90
433,58
491.48
32.77
20yr
57.90
588.43
646.33
32.32
COST PER VEHICLE OR MACHINE
Cost/Hr Unit/Hr. Total Cost
Revenue Collector 59.95 0.02 1.00
Cost of Sticker 0.15
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Cost of Issuance 1.15
COST OF SWAP MEETS
Annual Fee/Business 40.00
Monthly Basis(annual fee/12) 3.33 Fee -3.00
Weekly Basis(annual fee/52) 0.77 Fee- .75
COST OF DUPLICATE CERTIFICATES
------------------------------
Cost/Hr.
Clerk Typist 41.86
Account Clerk 47.30
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Average Cost/Hr. 44.58
Avg. Cost allocated to 8 Min. 5.94
New Certificat cost 0.25
Total Cost 6.19 Feee6.00
COST OF TRANSFER OF CERTIFICATES
------------------------------
Cost/Hr.
Clerk Typist 41.86
Account Clerk 47.30
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Average Cost/Hr. 44.58
Avg: Cost allocated to 10 Min. 7.43
New Certificat cost 0.25
Total Cost 7.68 Fee -7.50
ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS
Fee=1.00
Cost of Public Report 3.00 for new lookup and generation
(per MSI study)
Cost of copies of Public Report 1OC each copy (per MSI Study)
Cost of Copy of Standard Public .104 each copy (per MSI Study)
Report