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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCE NO. 32 & 34Ordinance # 32 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR LEVYING AN OCCUPATION TAC ON BUSINESS, PROFESSIONS, CALLING AND OCCUPATIONS AND UPON PERSONS FIRMS, ASSOCIATIONS AND CORPORATIONS ENGAGED IN TRADE OR BUSINESS WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF OWASSO, OKLAHOMA; PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT OF SAID TAX; THE ISSUANCE OF A LICENSE; PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION HEREOF AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF OWASSO, OKLAHOMA: SECTION 1. It shall be and is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, either as principal, officer, agent, servant or employee to engage in any of the callings , trades, professions or occupations hereinafter specified without first paying to the Town of Owasso, Oklahoma, the tax hereinafter set out and procuring from said Town a license as herein provided. SECTION 2. There is hereby assessed and levied a tax or license fee upon each person engaging in any vocation, occupation, trade or business named herein, for the purpose of meeting the expense of supervising, re- gulating and policing said trades or business, wich tax or licenses shall be paid each year, payable semi-annually, in advance, on the first days of January and July of each year. except where a different tiem for paying the same is specifically provided, or the period of operation is for a shorter time. Any person who shall engage in more than one ibusiness, trade or occupation on which any license fee is required, shall pay the license fee required for each of such busniess, trades or occupation, the same as if each were maintained, operated or exercised independently and exclusively of all others. The license fee shall be as follows: Astrologers, each year not prorated $250.00 Book Agent, each per month or any part hereof 5.00 Bakeries, wholsale 5.00 barber shops. each, per year 5.00 agent, house to house, any kind, each day 2.50 cafes or restaurants, each, per year 5.00 clairvoyants, each, per year 250.00 entertainments or concerts, other than religious or charitable, per day 2.50 Horoscope Readers, each per year 250.00 Medicine Shows, or other shows or public exhbitions, where merchandise is sold or advertised, per day 5.00 Medicine vendor, itineratant, eahc, per day, 5.00 mediums, spiritual or others of similar occupation who practise for profit, each for year 250.00 peddlers, in general, any person peddling any goods wares or merchandise, each, per day 2.50 phrenologists, each, per year 250.00 Drug Stores, each, per year 5.00 garage, each, per year 5.00 Grocery Stores, each, per year 5.00 General Merchandies stores, each per year, 5.00 Hardware Stores, including farming implements, each, per year 5.00 Filling Stations, each, per year 5.00 Lumber yards, each, per year 5.00 Ice Cream Manufacturing Plants, where delivery is made and goods sold at wholesale, each, pr year, 5.00 Hotels, each, per year 5.00 Auctioneers, each Per Year 5.00 Bottling Plants, where delivery is made and good sold at wholesale, each, per year 5.00 SECTION 3. The Town Clerk shall issue and attest any and all licenses required by this Ordinance. Any license issued by the Town shall be subject to revocation or suspension. Provided, that in each case, the holder of the license shall be entitled to at least three days notice citing him to appear before the Board of Trustees at a time and place named in and notice and show cuase why such license shall nto be suspended or revoked. SECTION 4. No license shall be sold or otherwise transferred. When- ever any original license shall have been lost or destroyed, it shall be the duty of the Town Clerk, on application of the owner thereof, to issue a duplicate of the same. A service charge of Fifty Cents shall be made and collected for each duplicate. SECTION 5. The provisions of this ordinance shall not apply nor be construed as to prevent any farmer or gardner or person engaged in a similar occupation from selling products which he himself produces. SECTION 6. Any person, firm, or corporation which shall conduct, pursue, carry on or operate within the corporate limits of the town of Owasso, Oklahoma, without having first paid the occupation tax or fee herein levied, in accordanace with the provisions of this ordinance, any calling, trade, or occupation, upon which the payment of an occupation tax is by the terms of this ordinance required, or shall assist, directly or indirectly in so doing, in any manner or to any extent whatever, either as owner, proprietor, superintendent, agent, or as an officer of any corporation, or as manager, servant or employee of any person, form, or corporation, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof be fined in any sum not less than One dollar nor more than Twenty-five dollars. And each and every day on which any such place of business shall be kept open in violation hereof and each and every sale or transaction by any transient merchant, dealor or peddler, agent or other person, shall consitute a seperate offense. SECTION 7. That an emergency is delcared to exist for the immedate preservatin of the plublic peace, health and safety, by reason whereof this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage, approval and publication. Passed, approved and the emergency clause ruled upon seperately this 16 day of June, 1933 Mayor ATTEST: CH Rogers Town Clerk Revised Ordinanice 34 SEWER THIRTY EIGHT THOUSEAND $38,000.00 DOLLARS TOWN OWASSO 20TH NOVEMBER, 1951 TOWN OWASSO 12,000 per value maturing $2,000 in each of the years 1955 to 1960, both in- clusive on the 1st day of February in said years, ebaring interest at three and one-half per centum pr annum. $26,000 per value maturing $2,000 in each of the years 1961 to 1973, both in- clusive on the 1st day of february in said years, bearing interest at three and three-eight per centum per annum. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA STATE OF OKLAHOMA THE TOWN OF OWASSO SEWER BOND OF 1952 NO. $1,000.00 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That the Town of Owasso in the State of Oklahoma, hereby acknowledges itself indebted to tand for value received promises to pay the bearer the sum of ONE THOUSAND ($1,000.00) DOLLARS on the 1st day of February, 19, together with interest thereon from the data hereof until paid at the reat of per centum per annum, payable on the 1st day of February and august of each year, except the first interest coupon which shall mature on February 1, 1953; said interest evidenced by and to be paid upon the surrender of the coupons hereto attached as they severally become due, both principal and interest payable in lawful money of the United States of America at The Frist National Bank and Trust Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma, or at the option of the holder, at the Oklahoma Fiscal Agency in the City of New Yor, State of New Yor, or in the event of the discoutinuance of such agency, then at the Manufacturers Trust Company in said city and state of New York. THE FULL FAITH, CREDIT AND RESOURCES of said town are hereby irrevocable pledged to the payment of this bond. THIS BOND is one of an issue numbered from ONE to THIRTY EIGHT both inclusive, of like date and tenor except as to date of maturity and rate of interest, aggregating the principal sum of THIRTY EIGHT THOUSAND ($38,000.00) DOLLARS and is issued for the purpose of constructing and equipping a sanitary sewer system and sewage disposal plant., to be owned exclusively by said town as a public utility, under Section 27, Article 10 of the Constitution and statutes of the State of Oklahoma complementary, supplementary and enacted pursuant thereto. IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED AND RECITED that all acts, conditions and things required to be done precedent to and in the issuance of this bond have been properly done, happened and been performed in regular and due form and time as requied by law, and that the total indebtedness of said town, including this bond and the series of which it forms a part, does noto exceed any constitutional or statutory limitations; and that due provision has ben made for the collection of an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on this bond as ti falls due and also to constitute a singing fund for the payment of the principal hereof at maturity. IN WITNESS WHEREOF said town has caused this bond to be signed by its President, Board of Trustees and attested by its clerk and sealed with the sale thereof this 1st day of February 1952. ATTEST: Town Clerk President, Board of Trustees (seal) (form of coupon) Coupon No on the day of 19 the town of owasso in the state of okalhoma, promises to pay the bearer the sum of dollars in lawful money of the united states of america at the frist national bank and trust compney, tulsa, okahoma, or at the option of the holder, at the oklahoma fiscal agency in the city of new york, state of new york or in the event of the discontinuance of such agency, thenthe manufactures trust compnay in said city and state of new york, for interest, due that day on its sewer bond of 1952 of $1,000.00 dated February 1, 1952 Attest Town Clerk President Board of Trustees SECTION 3. that each of said bonds shall be signed by the president, board of truestees and the corporate seal of said town affixed thereon and be by the town clerk of said town and each of said coupons shall be executed by the signature of said president, board of trustees and town clerk that said officers or hereby and said and interest to the