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manufactories, bakeries, brewers, bill posters, pawnbroker, men- agerie or caravan, sparring exhibitions, milliner, photographic or art galleries, billiard and bagatelle tables, auctioneers, livery stables, skating rink, merchant tailors, plumbers, tinsmiths and gas- fitters, gunsmiths and locksmiths, bowling alleys, paint shops, keepers of stallion, jack, bull or ram for the purpose of propagation, saddlers, junk shop, or any other business, occupation, trade or employment mentioned in the schedule of licenses in section nine of this ordinance, within the corporate limits of the City of Oakland. And any person who should violate any of the provisions of this or- dinance, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con- viction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hun- dred dollars and not less than twenty, and in default of payment thereof, shall be imprisoned in the City Prison one day for every two dollars of such fine : provided, however, that it shall be discre- tionary with the Court before whom such conviction is had, or upon a plea entered of " guilty," to remit the penalty, if the person con- victed, or who has entered such a plea of " guilty," shall take and pay for the required license for the then current term. (Amend- ment August 14th, 1871.)
SEC. 2. No license granted or issued under any of the provisions of this ordinance, shall be in any manner assignable or transferable, or authorize any person other than there is therein mentioned or named to do business, or authorize any business other than is therein mentioned or named to be done or transacted, or the busi- ness therein named to be done or transacted at any place other than is therein mentioned or named, without permission from the License Collector. The License Collector shall, at the time of granting such permission, immediately record such change or trans- fer upon the proper registry.
SEC. 3. Upon the trial of any criminal action brought under or arising from any provision or provisions of this ordinance, the defendant shall be deemed not to have procured the municipal license required for the then current term, unless he or she either produces or proves having paid for the same to the proper officer.
SEC. 4. In any action brought under or arising out of any of the provisions of this ordinance, the fact that a party thereto represent- ed himself or herself as engaged in any business or calling for the transaction of which a license is by this ordinance required, or that such party exhibited a sign indicating such business or calling, shall be conclusive evidence of the liability of such party to pay for a license.
SEC. 5. Licenses for drivers of hackney carriages and licenses for all vehicles shall be paid annually in advance ; and all other licenses shall be paid quarterly in advance : provided, however, that whenever any business, hereinafter specified, shall be com- menced after the expiration of the first half of any quarter, the li- cense therefor (if not a vehicle license) may be issued for the re-
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maining portion of such quarter, upon the payment therefor of one half the sum required for a license to conduct such business during the whole quarter.
SEC. 6. All licenses, except for owners and drivers of vehicles, shall date from the first day of January, April, July and October of each year. All licenses for owners and drivers of hackney car- riages shall date from the first day of January or July of each year. All licenses for vehicles other than hackney carriages shall date from the first day of January or July of each year.
SEC. 7. All licenses shall be paid in gold and silver coin of the United States.
SEC. 8. Every person having a license under the provisions of this ordinance, shall exhibit the same at all times, while in force, in some conspicuous part of his or her place of business, and shall pro- duce the same when applying for a renewal, or when requested to do so by any of the License or Police Department.
SEC. 9. The rates of license shall be according to the following schedule, and when paid in accordance therewith to the proper offi- cer, a license is hereby authorized to issue in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance :
1st. For bankers, brokers, expressmen, express agents and real estate agents, whose commissions or gross profits are not less than $10,000 per quarter, twenty-five dollars per quarter ; for those whose commissions or gross profits are less than $10,000 and not less than $6,000 per quarter, fifteen dollars ; for those whose com- missions or gross profits are less than $6,000 and not less than $3,- 000 per quarter, seven and one-half dollars ; for those whose com- missions or gross profits are less than $3,000 and not less than $1,500 per quarter, four dollars ; and for those whose commissions or gross profits are less than $1,500 per quarter, two and one-half dollars.
2d. For life or accident insurers, and life or accident insurance agents, fire insurers and fire insurance agents, ten dollars per quar- ter. Each office or branch office, and each agent or sub-agent of each company, office or branch office, shall be construed to mean insurer and insurance agent under this section.
3d. For keepers of hotels, boarding-houses, lodging-houses, res- taurants, eating saloons and places of refreshment, whose average gross receipts amount to $5,000 and upwards, per quarter, shall pay for a license seven dollars per quarter ; those whose gross re- ceipts are under $5,000 and over $1,000 per quarter, shall pay for a license five dollars per quarter ; those whose quarterly receipts are less than $1,000 shall pay for a license three dollars per quar- ter.
4th. For keepers of public dance houses, common ball rooms and places of entertainment, where females are employed to wait or attend in any manner, or furnish refreshments or liquors to the audience, spectators or customers, fifty dollars per quarter, or five
JONES, PULLMAN & CO., 116 Sansom St., S. F., Straw Hats.
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dollars per night in addition to the liquor license required by law or ordinance to be paid.
5th. For venders of gunpowder or pyrotechnics, five dollars per quarter.
6th. For keepers of shooting galleries, five dollars per quarter, exclusive of powder license.
7th. For peddlers and merchandise, except patent medicines, illuminating oils, soaps, charcoal and blacking, ten dollars per quarter. For peddlers of said excepted articles, from vehicles drawn by animal power, ten dollars per quarter, and from hand vehicles or baskets, six dollars per quarter.
8th. For peddlers of meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, game, poultry, eggs, cheese, butter and produce, from vehicles drawn by one or more than one animal, seven dollars per quarter, and for peddlers of said articles from hand vehicles or baskets, six dollars per quar- ter.
9th. For venders of provisions and produce in public markets where stalls or stands are rented, where provisions and produce are exposed for sale, six dollars per quarter for each stand rented or used ; provided, however, that the keeper of any public market, having not less than five stalls, may take out a license for the whole market at the rate of four dollars for each stall.
10th. For Bakers and venders of provisions and general mer- chandise, produce, confectionery and pastry, whose gross receipts or sales are not less than $7,000 per quarter, ten dollars per quar- ter; for those whose gross sales or receipts are less than $7,000 and not less than $4,000 per quarter, eight dollars per quarter ; for those whose gross sales or receipts are less than $4,000 per quarter and not less than $1,500 per quarter, six dollars per quarter. For those whose gross sales or receipts are less than $1,500 per quarter, four dollars per quarter ; provided, that the sales of liquors and wines by persons under this section shall not be in less quantities than one quart measure.
11th. For all tavern keepers, inn keepers, and all persons who may sell and dispose of any spirituous, malt or fermented liquors or wines, in less quantities than one quart, for all those whose gross sales or receipts are more than $10,000 per quarter, thirty dollars per quarter; all those whose sales or gross receipts are less than $10,000 per quarter, fifteen dollars per quarter.
12th. For lecturers, concert singers, common showmen, theat- rical, dramatic, legerdemain or sleight of hand performances, three dollars per day, if for a less term than one month ; for one month or more, fifty dollars per month, or one hundred dollars per quarter; for each exhibition of caravan, menagerie or circus, or exhibition of any animal or collection of animals for profit or gain, the sum of fifteen dollars; and for any other show or exhibition not herein enumerated, five dollars for each show or exhibition.
13th. For all order agents or solicitors who shall carry on the
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business of soliciting orders for the sale of anything, the sum of ten dollars per month or twenty dollars per quarter, and all persons who solicit sales of anything through and by the means of samples of the thing to be sold, shall be deemed an order agent or solicitor as well as those who solicit without samples.
14th. For keepers of skating rinks, ten dollars per quarter ; for photographers and art galleries, two dollars per quarter.
15th. For auctioneers, billiard and bagatelle tables, and bowling alleys : auctioneers, seven dollars per quarter ; for bowling alleys, two dollars per quarter for each alley or bed; for billiard and bagatelle tables, two dollars per quarter for each table.
16th. For the owners of hackney carriages, for each vehicle drawn by more than one horse, and having seats for more than four passengers, ten dollars per annum ; for each vehicle drawn by one animal or more than one animal, and not having seats for more than four persons, eight dollars per annum ; for the owners of trucks, drays, express and milk wagons, or other vehicles so used, eight dollars per annum for each vehicle ; for the owners of four-wheeled vehicles drawn by six or more animals, twelve dollars per annum for each vehicle ; for the owners of four-wheeled vehicles drawn by four or five animals, ten dollars per annum for each vehicle ; for owners of four-wheeled vehicles drawn by two or three animals, eight dollars per annum for each vehicle ; and for each owner of two-wheeled vehicles drawn by one or two animals, three dollars per annum for each vehicle ; provided, that the owners of private carriages shall not be subject to pay a license therefor under this ordinance.
17th. For drivers of hackney carriages and other vehicles, one dollar per annum.
18th. For owners and drivers of vehicles used for sprinkling streets, for each vehicle drawn by four or more than four animals, twelve dollars per annum for each vehicle ; for each vehicle drawn by two or three animals, eight dollars per annum for each vehicle ; for each vehicle drawn by one animal, four dollars per annum for each vehicle.
19th. For owners and drivers of night carts or wagons, for each vehicle, three dollars per annum ; and for owners of hand carts, one dollar per annum.
20th. For pawn brokers, twenty-five dollars per quarter.
21st. For laundries and wash houses, seven dollars per quarter.
22d. For runners for any hotel, boarding house, restaurant or lodging house, or any other business, the sum of ten dollars per quarter : provided, that no license shall be required of runners for duly licensed hotels, boarding houses, lodging houses or res- taurants within the City of Oakland. (Amendment, August 11, 1871.)
23d. For livery stables whose gross receipts amount to $1,500 per quarter and upwards, seven dollars per quarter ; and those
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whose gross receipts amount to less than $1,500 per quarter, six dollars per quarter.
24th. For bill posters, three dollars per quarter.
25th. For merchant tailors, three dollars per quarter.
26th. Plumbers, tinsmiths, gunsmiths, locksmiths and gasfitters, seven dollars per quarter for all those whose gross receipts are over one thousand dollars per quarter ; and all those whose gross receipts are under one thousand dollars per quarter, five dollars per quarter.
27th. For saddlers, five dollars per quarter.
28th. For keepers of junk shops, three dollars per quarter.
29th. For keepers of paint shops, five dollars per quarter.
30th. For barbers, bath houses or rooms, and hair dressers, two dollars per quarter.
31st. Butchers who cut up and vend meat, either as employers or employés, the sum of six dollars per quarter.
32d. For the keeper of any jack, stallion, bull or ram, who shall permit the same to be used for the purpose of propagation, for hire or profit, as per the following classes :
All animals whose services above specified are charged at a sum of one hundred dollars or over, a license of one hundred dollars for one year ; of eighty dollars and less than one hundred dollars, eighty dollars for one year ; of sixty dollars and less than eighty dollars, sixty dollars for one year ; of forty dollars and less than sixty dol- lars, forty dollars for one year ; of twenty dollars and less than forty dollars, twenty dollars for one year; of twenty dollars or under, fifteen dollars for one year.
33d. For dealers in marble and marble manufactories three dol- lars a quarter.
34th. For breweries, ten dollars per quarter.
35th. For street musicians, five dollars per quarter for each in- strument used, or three dollars per day for each instrument used.
36th. For every person or firm engaged in the business of man- ufacturing by steam or horse power, of wood, iron or other material, or in carrying on or maintaining a laundry, foundry, flour mill, or other establishments, for the aforesaid business, six dollars per quar- ter.
SEC. 10. License Collector is hereby authorized to issue and col- lect license for any time specified in this ordinance -for one year, six months, three months, one month, one day, or for each show or exhibition, as the case may be.
SEC. 11. If any person shall furnish such evidence as shall satisfy the Mayor and the Collector of Licenses that he or she, by reason of misfortune or physical infirmities, merits exemption from any of the provisions of this ordinance, a gratuitous or free license may be issued to such party, and if any person or persons shall furnish such evidence as shall satisfy the Mayor and the Collector of Licenses that the receipts arising from any exhibition, concert, lecture, or other entertainment are to be, and will be, appropriated to any
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charitable, religious, school, or benevolent purposes within the City of Oakland, a free or gratuitous license may be granted to such per- son at the discretion of the Mayor and Collector of Licenses.
SEC. 12. All licenses granted and issued under this Ordinance shall be signed by the Mayor and License Collector of the City of Oakland, and the City Marshal is hereby declared to be the License Collector of the City of Oakland until otherwise ordered by the Coun- cil of the City of Oakland.
SEC. 13. The term " bankers and brokers " shall include all per- sons, and firms, and corporations engaged in buying or selling bills of exchange, drafts, gold dust, gold or silver bars, bullion, evidences of indebtedness, or stocks, and all brokers of bills, bullion, exchange, real estate, houses or rents, stocks, script, or merchandise, and all persons, firms, and corporations, except pawnbrokers, engaged either as principals or agents in discounting negotiable paper, or for pay or reward procuring such paper to be discounted, or lending money on securities, or for pay or reward procure for others the loan of money on securities.
SEC. 14. The term " expressman " and " express agent " shall include all persons, firms and corporations engaged as common car- riers in expressing, transmitting or conveying gold dust, gold or silver bars, bullion, coin, currency or general merchandise, from or to any place without the City of Oakland.
SEC. 15. The term " peddlers " shall include all persons who shall carry from place to place and sell or offer to sell any goods, wares, or merchandise, except religious tracts and publications : provided, that persons furnishing to licensed retail dealers, articles manufactured within the City of Oakland, from hand or licensed vehicles belonging to the manufacturer of such articles, shall not be. deemed peddlers within the meaning of this section.
SEC. 16. The terms "runners " and " soliciting agents " shall include all persons engaged in soliciting or endeavoring to influence or secure passengers or freight for any boat, vessel or steamboat, or endeavoring to influence or secure boarders, lodgers or custom for any hotel, tavern, boardinghouse, lodginghouse or restaurant, ex- cepting duly licensed drivers of duly licensed hackney carriages, which are owned by the owner or manager of duly licensed taverns, hotels, boardinghouses, lodginghouses or restaurants, within and by the authorities of the City of Oakland. And every runner and soliciting agent for a hotel, tavern, lodginghouse, boardinghouse or restaurant, and every driver of a hackney carriage mentioned in this section as not included by the term " runner " and " solicit- ing agent," shall; while engaged in his calling, wear, conspicuously exposed upon his hat or the lapel of his coat, a badge showing by the proper designation, in plain Roman letters of such size and color as to be readily seen and read, the particular establishment for which he shall be employed.
SEC. 17. Any person may procure a license to use a vehicle for
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three months or less, upon payment of one half the annual rate.
SEC. 18. All licenses shall be considered due and collectable as soon as any person engages in, or enters upon, or commences any of the trades, business or employments mentioned in Section nine of this ordinance, and at the commencement of the several terms for which licenses are to be issued by the provisions of this ordinance. (Amendment, August 14, 1871.)
SEc. 19. A license as owner of a hackney carriage shall not entitle the holder thereof to act as driver; but such holder may take out in his own name a license to act as driver, which shall be unassignable.
SEC. 20. Every license for a vehicle shall state the number of the vehicle for which it shall be issued, and the kind thereof, which number and vehicle shall be registered by the License Collector in a book prepared for that purpose.
SEC. 21. In all cases where the rate of license depends upon the receipts or profits upon the amount of business done, or upon any other matter peculiarly within the knowledge of the applicant for license, such applicant may be examined in regard to such mat- ters, and may be required to subscribe to a sworn statement or affidavit that he has to the best of his knowledge and belief truly answered all questions touching the amount for which he applies or is liable. And if any person applying for a license shall make any false statement in regard to his business, with intent thereby to procure a license at less rates than those provided in this ordinance, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as provided by this ordinance.
SEC. 22. The conviction and punishment of any person for transacting any business without a license, shall not excuse or exempt such person from the payment of any license under the provisions of this Ordinance due and unpaid at the time of such conviction.
SEC. 23. The Collector of Licenses shall keep a public office in the City Hall, with suitable books, stationery and blanks, which shall be furnished by authority of the City Council.
SEC. 24. It shall be the especial duty of the License Collector to attend to all collections of licenses, and to examine all places of business, and persons liable to pay licenses, and to see that such licenses are taken out, and that no other business than that de- seribed in the license is carried on or transacted. He shall number, sign and keep a record of all municipal licenses. He shall also keep a record of the names, occupations and places of business of all persons to whom he shall issue licenses, and the amount of license paid, and the date of issuing and expiration thereof, in which record the names shall be arranged in alphabetical order, and he shall at the end of each quarter render to the City Council a report of all the licenses issued and collected by him, the amount of money received, which report shall be under oath of the License
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Collector that the same is true and correct, and at the end of each quarter pay over to the City Treasurer the gross amount of the licenses collected for the quarter then last past ; and said License Collector is hereby authorized to procure the necessary books, blanks and stationery at the expense of the city, which are re- quired in complying with the provisions of this ordinance. And the Mayor shall provide a book at the expense of the city, in which he shall keep an account of the license countersigned by him, containing the number, date, business, name and amount of license, and when said licenses are countersigned by him and de- livered to the License Collector, he shall take his receipt therefor, and the License Collector shall be chargeable therefor. The Mayor shall be entitled to the sum of fifty cents for each and every license countersigned by him, and the License Collector shall be entitled to the sum of fifty cents for each and every license signed, issued and collected by him.
SEC. 25. If any person, firm or corporation, who is required to pay for and take a license by the provisions of this ordinance, shall fail, neglect or refuse to do so, it shall be the duty of the City Attorney to prosecute the person or persons so offending and vio- lating the provisions of the same, by instituting a criminal action against the persons so offending, and, if in his judgment the same is necessary to enforce the collection of the license, to institute a civil suit against all persons neglecting or refusing to pay said licenses, in the name of the City of Oakland as plaintiff, to recover the license money which may be due by the provisions of this ordinance ; and in such a case the License Collector may make the necessary affidavits, and an attachment may issue as in other cases ; and in case of recovery by the plaintiff, the plaintiff shall recover costs. (Amendment, August 14, 1871.)
PUBLIC HEALTH.
AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING PUBLIC HEALTH, APPROVED JULY 31, 1868, AND THE AMENDMENTS THERETO, APPROVED DECEMBER 24, 1868, AND MAY 16 AND 30, 1870.
The Council of the City of Oakland do ordain as follows :
SECTION 1. There shall be elected by the Council of the City of Oakland, at their first meeting in the month of June, 1870, and regularly at their first meeting in the month of June in every sec- ond year thereafter, a Board of Health consisting of three members and a Health Officer, all of whom shall be practicing physicians of this city and regular graduates of some respectable medical college ; but the Council hereby retain the power to declare vacant the of-
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fice of any elected member of the Board on good and sufficient cause being shown. (Amendment, May 24, 1870.)
- A special election shall be held by the Council to fill any vacancy or vacancies that may occur in the interval between the regular elections. ( Ordinance May 24, 1870, Sec. 2.)
The Mayor and Health Officer shall be ex-officio mem- bers of the Board of Health. ( Ordinance May 24, 1870, Sec. 3.) The Mayor shall act as chairman of said Board, and in case the Mayor, from any cause, shall be unable to attend to the discharge of his duties as chairman of the Board, the Board may choose any other member of said Board as chairman thereof, and the member so chosen shall possess the powers and perform the duties of the Mayor in that respect. ( Ordinance May 24, 1870, Sec. 4.)
The regular meetings of the Board shall be held once in three months upon the call of the Health Officer, who shall also be empowered to call the members of the Board together when in his opinion, an emergency requires it. ( Ordinance May 24, 1870, Sec. 5.)
SEC. 2. The Board of Health shall have power, whenever in their judgment public health shall require it :
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