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ORDINANCE TO SET ADDITIONAL PRIVILEGE LICENSE FEES AND PENALTIES
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In addition to the licenses now required by the Ordinances of the City of Jonesboro, none of which are repealing excepting insofar as the same may conflict with this Ordinance, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to engage in or pursue any of the avocations or occupations hereinafter set forth or to operate any of the places or give or show any exhibition hereinafter mentioned, without first procuring a license therefor from the City Clerk or City Collector, and paying the price therefor herein set forth to-wit:
For each opera house, theatre, variety theatre, dancing hall, skating rink, moving picture show, magic lantern or panoramic scenes, and each hall or place of amusement that is run for profit, the sum of Fifty Dollars per annum.
Each and every itinerant doctor, corn doctor, surgeon, optician or the like shall pay Fifty Dollars per annum, or Fifteen Dollars per week.
Each fortune teller, clairvoyant, phrenologist, mesmerist, palmist or hypnotist, pursuing such occupation in any other place than an amusement hall or place already paying license, shall pay the sum of Ten Dollar per week or Twenty-five Dollars per month.
Each stand, tent, wagon, cart or other place on the streets or alleys where cold drinks, nuts, fruits, candies or food are sold, shall pay the sum of Two and 50-100 Dollars per month, or Twenty-five Dollars per annum.
Each peddler of hot tamales, weinerwursts, peanuts, popcorn, ice cream, oysters, or any other article of prepared food, shall pay Twenty-five ($25.00) per annum.
Each street vendor of books, goods, wares, merchandise, chattels or personal effects, of any kind whatsoever, shall pay the sum of Fifty ($50.00) Dollars per annum.
Each feather renovator shall pay the sum of Seventy-five Dollars per month.
Each traveling patent-right dealer shall pay Fifteen ($15.00) Dollars per week.
Each itinerant photographer shall pay Fifteen ($15.00) Dollars per week.
Each telegraph, telephone, electric light or power company and street railway company shall annually pay a sum equal to twenty-five cents for each pole used by such company, whether the same is rented, leased or owned by said company; and the secretary of every such company is hereby required to file with the Clerk of the City a sworn statement of the number of poles used by such company within the City Limits, which statement shall be furnished before the 15th day of January of each year.
All annual licenses issued shall expire on the 31st day of December, and shall be payable in advance.
On or before the 15th day of January of each year, it shall be the duty of the City Treasurer to furnish to the Chief of Police, who shall be ex-officio Collector of License Fees, a list of licenses issued the preceding year. Whereupon the Chief of Police shall canvass the City and ascertain the names of other persons carrying on occupations on which license is required, which names and occupations he shall add to the list furnished by the Treasurer, striking out such names on the list as shall have ceased to carry on such business. The completed list shall be delivered by the Collector to the City Clerk, who shall therefrom make out licenses accordingly, and shall deliver the same for collection to the Chief of Police as ex-officio Collector thereof, charging the same to him. The Chief of Police shall thereupon demand payment of the parties liable for such license fees, and when paid, shall deliver the license to the proper licensee, keeping a record thereof. If payment be not made, the collector shall report the facts to the City Attorney, who shall proceed according to law for the collection thereof, and the said Collector shall redeliver the license to the Clerk, who shall credit him therewith. All payments shall be paid over by the Collector to the Treasurer, whose receipt therefor shall be a voucher to said Collector; and the said Collector shall exhibit such vouchers to the City Clerk, who shall endorse on record, duplicate or stub of the license a notation that the same has been paid for. This section shall apply to the collection of licenses of every kind under any ordinance.
Whoever shall engage in any occupation, operate any business, amusement, or place, for which license is required by any Ordinance, without first having procured such license, or shall fail to conform to any of the requirement or regulations of this Ordinance, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than Five Dollars nor more than double the amount of the license fee in regard to which the dereliction occurred; and it shall be no defense that the Collector or Chief of Police has not demanded payment of such license fee.
Passed and approved this 16th day of September, 1907