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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 172-1918 - Regulating The Sale Of Goods, Wares, And Merchandise. - 03/12/1918r t, ORDINANCE NO. 172 An ordinance regulating the sale of goods, wares and merchandise sold for, or intended to be used as private wearing apparel, by transient persons and transient dealers therein; levying a license tax on such persons or dealers, and providing a penalty for violation of terms of this ordinance. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK: Hereafter there shall be levied a license tax on all transient persons or dealers who shall engage in the sale of goods, wares and merchandise sold for or intended to be used for private wearing apparel, such sales being made within the City limits of Lubbock, Texas, the sum of Sixty Dollars per month for the first month or part thereof and Ten Dollars per month for the next five months and Five dollars per month for the next six months, such person or dealer shall so engage in said business. Any transient person or dealer who shall desire to engage in such business as provided herein shall before so engaging in said business make proper application for license to the person in charge on the license department of the city government for a license to engage in such business, stating in his said application the line or lines of business which he proposes to engage in, with the place where such sale or sales will be made from, together with such other in— formation as may be required of him from time to time by the pro— visions of ordinance or by—law adopted by the said City of Lubbock, and shall pay for not less than one months license in advance before engaging in said business. Each fractional part of a month shall be counted as a full.month, and in case any such transient person or dealer as herein provided shall fail to continue said business for a full month after the issuance of such license, then no part of such license tax so paid shall be refunded to him. The provisions of this Ordinance shall apply to all transient persons or dealers who shall engage in the sale of goods, wares and merchandise intended or sold to be used for private wearing apparel, other than to regularly engaged retail merchants within said city who are engaged in the sale of goods, wares and merchandise sold for or intended to be used for private wearing apparel and who are so engaged in such retail trade and sale of such articles from regular store buildings within said City, which are occupied by them as a place for conducting such regular re— tail business. By the term "transient person" or "transient dealer" is meant a person or dealer, who travels from place to place and is engaged in the sale of articles enumerated in the provisions of this or— dinance other than to retail merchants who are regularly engaged in the retail trade from store buildings occupied by them and used by them exclusively for the purpose of conducting such regular retail business. Any person or dealer who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be fined in any sum not less than Fifty Dollars nor more than One Hundred Dollars; and each and every day that such ordinance may be violated shall be considered as a separate offense and punishable as such. The fact that many transient persons are engaged in the sale of goods, wares and merchandise sold for or intended to be used for private wearing apparel without the payment of a license tax for such privilege, and the further fact that there is no adequate ordin- ance within said city providing for the levying of such license tax upon transient persons or dealers for the privilege of pursuing such business within said city, creates an imperative public necessity that this ordinance be passed as an emergency measure, and said ordinance is therefore passed in open council as an emergency measure by unanimous consent of all members of the City Commission, and it is ordered that same shall take effect from and after its passage and publication as required by law. Passed and approved this the 12th day of March, A. D. 1918. C. E. Parks Mayor rNWQ&OMA E. C. Priest City Secretary.