HomeMy Public PortalAbout76-372 ORDINANCE NO. 76-372
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CARSON REVISING
BUSINESS LICENSE FEES FOR CERTAIN REAL ESTATE
BROKERS AND SALESMEN AND AMENDING THE CAR-
SON MUNICIPAL CODE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARSON DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 6365,20 of the Carson Municipal Code is amended to
read as follows:
6365.20. Brokers and Salesmen.
a. Pawn Brokers $400
b. Bail Bond Brokers $250
C. Real Estate Brokers $150,
plus $25 for each salesman in the real
estate broker's employ subject to the
following:
(i) Each real estate broker doing business as such in the City, concurrently
with payment of such broker's business license fee hereunder, shall pay the additional sum of
$25.00 for each salesman in the employ of such broker at the time the broker's business license
fee is required to be paid. Each real estate broker doing business as such in the City of Carson
shall, on or before January 1st, April 1st, July 1st and October 1st of each year file a written
report with the Tax Collector on a form provided by such Tax Collector, setting forth the name
and state real estate licensee number of each salesman employed by such broker. Such real
estate broker licensee shall also pay to the Collector concurrently with the filing of such quart-
erly reports, a license fee of $25.00 for each salesman set forth in any such report for whom a
license fee has not previously been paid during the calendar year in which such report is filed.
No portion of such license fee shall be refundable if the salesman should leave the broker's
employ before the end of the calendar year. The Collector shall issue to said broker as many
duplicates of such broker's business license as there are salesmen in such broker's employ,
showing each such salesman's name on a duplicate license of the broker. Each such duplicate
license shall show on its face its date of issuance and its expiration on December 31st of the
year in which it is issued. The salesman shall have such duplicate license on his person or in
his possession at all times while engaged in real estate activities in the City.
(ii) Any broker who fails to so report a salesman in his employ and to pay a
license fee for such salesman shall incur a penalty of $125.00 payable to the City in addition
to the required $25.00 license fee, with respect to each such salesman. Such penalty shall be
in addition to any other penalties provided for by this chapter.
d. Real-Estate Salesman $150
If the real estate broker by whom the salesman is employed has paid the salesman's
business fee under subsection c. hereof, no payment is required by the salesman under this sub-
section d. If the broker employer has not obtained a broker's business license from the City, or
has obtained a broker's business license but has not listed the salesman on a required quarterly
report and paid the license fee of$25.00 for such salesman, the business license fee for such
salesman shall be the sum of $150 and shall constitute a liability of the salesman to the City of
Carson. The liability to the City of the broker under the provisions of subsection c(i) and of
the salesman under the provisions of this subsection d, shall be joint and several."
Section 2. Each real estate salesman for whom a business license fee of $150.00
has been paid for the calendar year 1976 prior to the operative date of this ordinance, shall be
refunded one-half thereof, or the sum of $75.00 and such salesman's business license feel shall
be deemed paid for the remainder of the 1976 calendar year.
Section 3. This ordinance provides for current revenues of the City and shall
be effective upon adoption, but shall not be operative until July 1st, 1976.
Ord. No.
76-372/Page 2
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 7th day of June 1976.
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\ / MAYOR
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK---
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF CARSON )
I, Helen S. Kawagoe, City Clerk of the City of Carson, California, do
hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of said City is five;
that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 76-372, passed first reading on
May 17, 1976 , was duly and regularly adopted by the City Council of said
City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the 7th day of
June 1976, and that the some was so passed and adopted by the
following roll call vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Colas, Yamamoto, and Marbut
NOES: COUNCILMEN: Bridgers and Smith
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None
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