55500
ORDINANCE NO. 5550,
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR AN ANNUAL PRIVILEUR
TAX FOR LUMBER DEALERS; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That the following schedule be and the
,s is hereby declared to be the schedule of the annual
privilege license for engaging in or carrying on the kind of
business as hereinafter designated and defined in the City of
Little Rock, Arkansas during the year 1838 and subsequent years.
Each and every person, firm, corporation, association, or
company engaged in the following business within the corporate
limits of the City of Little hock, Arkansas shall pay for and
take out such license in such sums for the businesses set out
and defined as follows: Lumber and building material dealers
and manufacturers, each dealer in lumber,. - either wholesale or
retail, or both, regularly engaged in the delivery of lumber
and building material. to retail or wholesale customers and-
possessing unloading, storage, delivery, sales and service
facilities adequate to the needs of the retail trade area served
and equipped with and using an approved wagon or truck, and
maintaining an office accessible to and open to the public
during reasonable business hours of each day, except Sunday,
with a competent person on duty therein, shall pay an annual
license fee in the minimum amount of Fifty Dollars ( #50.00),
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where inventory is in. excess. of Five Thousand Dollars ( #5,000.001
and up to Fifty Thousand Dollars ( #50,000..00) one -half of One
�er Cent, and for all over Fifty Thousand Dollars
one - fourth of One Per Cent.
SECTION 2. For the purpose of this ordinance, each-4i,
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separate yard shall be classed as a dealer, even though owned
by same person, firm or corporation.
SECTION 3. Itinerant Lumber Dealer: Each itinerant
person, firm, or corporation dealing in, selling, or delivering
lumber and building materials, either wholesale or retail, or
and
both, and not maintaining unloading, storage, /sales facilities
as hereinabove last set forth and defined for a lumber and build-
ing material dealer or manufacturer, and any agent, salesman, or
deliveryman for any such itinerant dealer shall pay an annual
license fee of One Hundred Dollars ($100..00) .
SECTION 4. That the above schedule of license shall
be for the calendar year 1938 and for each calendar year there-
after, except in case the license be taken out on or after the
first day of July, when only one half of the license shall be
charged and collected.
SECTION 5. That each holder of a license issued undez
this Ordinance shall keep on display said license in his place
of business or delivery vehicle, that the same may be inspected
by the officers and officials of the Oity of Little Hock, &rkan
at all times.
SECTION 6. That the license required under this
Ordinance shall be taken out and paid for before any business
I for which they are required is engaged.
SECTION 7. That any person who engages in any of
the businesses, occupations or professions, or who shall keep
any establishment or other thing, or do any business act for
which a license is required, without having.paid such license
charge and obtained a license from the City Collector, as pro-
vided by this ordinance, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
on conviction shall be fined not less than ten, nor more than
one hundred dollars, and may be imprisoned in the city prison
or put to hard labor for the city for not more than sixty days
Iand each day that a business, occupation or profession is
in without a license as provided for in this ordinance shall
constitute a separate offense.
SECTION 8. That [here any person, firm or corporat
is subject to the payment of a city license tax due the City of
Little Hock, Arkansas, and has failed or refused to pay the same
then any officer, agent, servant, or employee of such person,
firm or corporation who undertakes to carry on such business
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for said person, firm or corporation, for which a license is
required, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined
not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and
may be imprisoned in the "ity prison for not more than sixty
days and each day that any offiAer, agent, servant or employee
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=undertakes to carry on such business for such person, firm, or
corporation shall constitute a separate offense.
SECTION 9. That all ordinances, or parts of
-ordinances in conflict with the foregoing are hereby repealed.
SECTION 10. WHEREAS, this ordinance is for the pro-
tection of the citizens of Little Rock, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist and this ordinance is found to be necessary
for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety,
and the same shall be in full force and effect from and after
its passage and approval.
"Passed FebrtaTy 21, i9k%38
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Ci y Clerk.
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Mayor.