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A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE TO BE ENTITLED: AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT OF A LICENSE FEE BY ITINERANT MERCHANTS, VENDORS, DOOR TO DOOR CANVASSERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, AND SALESMEN, FIXING THE AMOUNT OF SAID LICENSE FEE AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR FAILURE TO PAY SAID LICENSE FEE: AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
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BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas:
SECTION 1. That is shall be unlawful for any Itinerant person, firm or corporation to engage in or carry on business of any kind or character without complying with the provisions of this ordinance.
SECTION 2. Each Itinerant person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of merchant, vendor, solicitor, door to door canvasser, photographer or salesmen in the City of Jonesboro shall pay to the City collector as a license fee the sum of One Hundred and Fifty dollars for each for month period or part thereof that said person, firm or corporation shall engage in any of said occupations or endeavors; and as a means of determining who shall pay said license, any person, firm or corporation beginning said occupations in the City of Jonesboro shall pay to the City Collector as a deposit said license fee of One Hundred and Fifty dollars and the same shall be returned if the person, firm or corporation making the deposit shall remain in continuous operation within the City for six consecutive months, and such party shall pay only the amount of tax prescribed for parties regularly engaged in business within the City as prescribed by Ordinance 757 of the ordinances of the City of Jonesboro; if the party making said deposit does not remain continuously engaged in business for said six months period then said One Hundred and Fifty Dollars deposit shall be applied on the Itinerant license hereinbefore prescribed.
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(A.) Any person desiring a license as an itinerant merchant, vendor, solicitor, door to door canvasser, photographer or salesman shall file with the Chief of Police a...
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