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Home My WebLink AboutO-150i ORDTalu"Cil NO. !Z .:2.2 Ly. IT ORDAI. MD BY Tlw, T UM,, C OT C IL OF Th:; TMTi1 OF FAIRHOi'E , ALA - Section 1. Every person, firm, company, corporation or association, receiver or trustee, but not governmental subdivision, engaged in any business, vocation, occupation, calling or profession herein enumerated, or who shall exercise any privilege herein describ- ed, for which a license or privilege tax shall be required, shall first procure a town license and shall pay for the same, or shall pay for the exercise of such privilege the amounts herein provided, and comply with all provisions of this ordinance. SChMDULE : No. 1. TELEPHONE COT.M1U-,f EXCHrU,GES: Each person, firs_, corporation or association operating or conducting a telephone ex- change or exchanges, per year 040.00. PJo. 2. TELEPHONE C00?AFIES, LONG DISTr1KCE: Each person, firm, corporation or association operating a long distance telephone or telephones shall pay for the privilege of doing intra-state busi- ness, per year w10.00. T?o. 3. TELEGRAPH C0-_vT_ ,=S: Each person, firm, corporation or association commercially engaged in business in this Town and send- ing z_iessages from the Town to any part of the State or from any part of the State to the Town (it is not the purpose hereof to tax inter- state or foreign messages or any United States business), per year )25.00. No. 4. II SURA CE C O.10ANIES , OTHE�, THAN FIl2 AND 1JARI_,Iy : Each insurance company other than fire, marine and fraternal, shall pay an annual license of ;'10 plus P1 on each 0100 and major fraction thereof, of gross premiums, less returndd premiums on policies issued during the preceding year to citizens of the Town of Fairhope, pro- vided that in case such company shall not have conducted business for the full period of said preceding year, it shall pay �10 plus one per cent of that amount which bears,the same relationship to the gross amount of premiums, less return premiums, on _policies_ issued during said preceding year as 365 bears to the numbeer of days durinL; which business was conducted in such preceding year. Companies commencing business after the first- of the current license tax year shall pay 410 plus ^1 on each "'100 and major fraction thereof of gross premiums, less return premiums, on policies issued during the said current year to citizens of the said Town of Fairhope. Such new companies shall pay a flat minimum of p10 at the time of commencement of business upon which there shall be an adjustment at the end of the year upon the bssis herein provided for new companies, provided that in no event shall the license of any such new company be less than w10.. License under this schedule and the next s cce sc edule shall be deemed delinquent the first day of March in Jere shall be no pro -ration of the '10 deposit required of neV companies entering into business in the city during the yeat. No. 5. it SuPWCE COI;IPA IES, FIRE iUM T.IAME : Each fire in- surance company 42.50 on each .1100 of gross premiums, less return pre- miums, received on policies issued during the preceding year on prop-, erty located in the Town of Fairhope, provided that in case such com- pany shall not have conducted business in the Town of Fairhope during; the entire period of the preceding year, it shall pay 22 per cent. of that amount which bears the same relationship to the gross amount ^of premiums, less return premiums, received on policies issued during the said preceding year on propertylocated in said Town as 365 bears to the number of days during which such company conducted business in said Town. Companies commencing business after the first of the cur- rent license tax year shall pay )2.50 on each "100 of gross premiums, -2- less return premiums, received on policies issued during the said current year on property located in the Town of Fairhope. Such new, companies shall pay a flat minimum license of w15 at the time of the coinmencement of business upon which there shall be an adjustment at the end of the year upon the basis herein provided for such new com- panies, provided that in no event shall the license of any such new company be less than w15. There is to be no pro -ration of the 015 deposit required of new companies entering into business in the Town during the year. Section 2. Every person, firm, company, corporation or association, receiver or trustee, but not a governmental subdivi- sion, operating, without the corporate limits of the Town of Fairhope, but within the police jurisdiction thereof, engaged in any business, vocation, occupation, calling or profession enumerated in Section 1 hereof, or who shall exercise any privilege therein described, and for which a license or privilege tax1is therein reauired, shall first procure a town license from the town of Fairhope and shall pay for the A same or shall pay for the exercise of such privilege, one-half of the �. amount required for the operation of such business within &he corpor- ate limits. Section 3. Every person, firm, company, corporation or association, receiver or trustee, but not a governmental subdivi- sion, engaged in any business, vocation, occupation, calling or profession within the corporate limits of the town of Fairhope, or within the police jurisdiction of the town of Fairhope, shall pay the license required in this—or-UIRTH—c-61on January 1st, 194#, and annual y thereafter, and if any person shall commence to engage in ariy su h business, vocation, occupation, calling or profession after January lst, before engaging therein he shall pay the license 'tax re- quired by this ordinance. The license when sued iiereund-er s"hall be for the calendar year in which the same is issued and shall ex- pire on December 31st of each year. Provided, however, that if any person shall corrinence to engage in any such business on or after July lst of each year, only one-half the license herein provided shall be required. Section 4. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in any business for vh ich the license is required under Sections J. and 2 hereof without having first applied for and obtained the said license and paid the said license tax, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than `1.00 nor more than "'100.00 for each day in �;hich such business was engaged in without such license. Section 5. The Mayor, Clerk and Town of Fairhope, Alabama, shall. have power and authority to issue all licenses required in Sec- tions 1 and 2 of this ordinance, and the said I„ayor and Town Clerl: shall have the power and authority to rec.uire sworn statement as to the -mount of capital or stock or the amount of sales or stock in- vested, or valm.e of goods, receipts, where the amount of license is made to depend thereon, and any person, fir4n, co.,ipany, corporation or association, trustee or receiver, but not 3overmaental agency, failin;; or refusing to make such statem„nts. or making false state- ments in reference thereto when required to furnish proper officers with such statement, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon convic- tion shall be fined not less than )1.00 nor more than 3100.00 for each offense. Section 6. This ordinance shall not repeal any ordinance heretofore adopted licensing any business other than those licensed herein, and the provisions and schedules of this ordinance are sever- able and if any of the same shall be invalid for any reason, such invalidity shall riot invalidate any other provisions or schedule of this ordinance. Section 7. This ordinance shall Co into effect upon its adoption and publication.. ' Al dopt and rove this 940. Attest C,yLerk. iiayor. of Town of Fai.rhore, Alab .m�.