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INTRODUCED BY COUNCILMAN
ORDINANCE NO. CF
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, MISSOURI, AMENDING THE CODE
OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, 1978, BY REPEALING SECTION 22-4,
RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND OCCUPATIONS AS TO MEANINGS, AND ENACTING
A NEW SECTION 22-4 .
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON,
MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 22-4 is hereby repealed and a new Section
22-4 is enacted to read as follows:
Sec. 22-4. Same -- Businesses and occupations.
When used in this Ordinance, the following terms, words
and phrases shall have the following meanings:
Abstract agency. Any office or place in the City where
abstracts of title to real estate are prepared, extended or
certified to by an abstracter for a charge.
Amusement. Any coin operated machine in the City,
including but not limited to pinball machines, shuffleboard
court or table machines and hobby horse machines, the operation
of which is designed to amuse or entertain the user of the
machine for a consideration.
Architect. Any person who plans or designs buildings
or premises for others in the City, or who supervises or
oversees the alteration, construction, repair or remodeling
of same for a consideration.
Artist. Any person skilled in any of the arts of
music, painting or sculpture, who engages in or practices
such art in the City for a consideration.
Auctioneer. Any person who sells or offers to sell any
goods, wares or merchandise, real or personal property, or
any interest therein, at public outcry to the highest bidder
for a fee or commission in the City; provided, that any
sheriff, deputy sheriff or the administrator, executor or
guardian of any estate making a public sale pursuant to an
order of any court, or the trustee of any deed of trust or
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the holder of any chattel mortgage shall not be deemed to be
an auctioneer for the purpose of making or attempting to
make a sale of property in their capacity as an officer of
the court or as administrator, executor, guardian, trustee
or mortgagee.
Auction store. Any place, stand or store in the City
where goods, wares, merchandise or personal property of any
kind is regularly sold at public outcry to the highest
bidder.
Auto and truck rental agency. Any person in the City
who rents or leases, or offers for rent or lease in the
® City, any automobile, truck or motor vehicle of any kind for
a consideration.
Automobile agency. Any person who sells or trades, or
offers to sell or trade in the City, automobiles, trucks,
trailers or busses which are not the property of such person,
for a consideration, as the employee, agent or representative
of a nonresident manufacturer, owner or dealer.
Automobile dealer. Any person who shall buy, for the
purpose of sale or trade, or who shall sell, trade or offer
to sell or trade, any new or used automobiles or motor
vehicles in the City for a consideration.
Auto wash. Any place or structure in the City where
motor vehicles are washed for a charge, whether by the owner
or operator of the vehicle or otherwise.
Auto wrecking shop. Any shop or establishment in the
City where motor vehicles are repaired, rebuilt or remodelled
for a consideration, or where motor vehicles are wrecked or
dismantled and their parts sold. Such term shall include a
garage.
Auto yard. Any yard, lot, space or enclosure in the
City, except governmentally owned facilities, where motor
vehicles are parked or permitted to be parked on private
premises for a consideration.
Bakery. Any shop, stand, store or place in the City
where bread, cakes, cookies, doughnuts, pies, pastries or
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similar products are manufactured, prepared, sold or offered
for sale for a charge, except in connection with a business
for which a merchant' s license has been issued in instances
where the business does not manufacture such products.
Bank. Any establishment or place of business in the
City where money or valuables are kept, deposited, issued or
exchanged for others for a consideration.
Barbershop. Any shop, room or place in the City where
any person cuts, trims, washes the hair or performs any
service for persons or any materials or substances are sold
which are designed to maintain or enhance the appearance of
such persons for a consideration.
® Beauty ap rlor. Any shop, room or place in the City
where for a consideration any person cuts, trims, washes the
hair or performs any service for persons or any materials or
substances are sold which are designed to maintain or enhance
the appearance of such persons.
Beauty school. Any place in the City where for a
consideration or tuition instruction, schooling or teaching
is given to others in the art of maintain, enhancing and
improving the physical appearance or beauty of other persons.
Bicycle shop. Any place in this City where, for a
consideration, bicycles are sold or repaired.
Billiard table. Any table, platform or device in the
City designed and used for the playing of the game of billiards,
for the use of which a charge is made.
Bill poster. Any person who in the City erects billboards,
or attaches to billboards, buildings or other structures any
bills, notices, posters or other advertising material for a
consideration, except legal notices issued by or under the
direction of any court.
Boarding house. Any house or place in the City where
regular meals are served and sold by the day, week, month or
on an individual meal basis, except hotels, taverns, restaura is
or lunch counters.
Bookbinder. Any person who makes, binds or repairs
books or pamphlets of others for a consideration, at any
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shop or place in the City.
Howling alley. Any building or place in the City
equipped with lanes and used for purposes of bowling or
playing the game of tenpins where an admission or charge is
made to engage in such activity.
Boxing or wrestling exhibitions. Any place in the City
where members of the public are permitted to witness boxing
or wrestling matches for a consideration or charge.
Broker. Any person in the City who acts, or offers to
act, as the agent or representative of others in the purchase
or sale of stocks, bonds or other securities and receives or
charges a fee or commission for such service.
Business school, private. Any place in the City where
instruction is given or knowledge imparted to others for a
consideration or tuition in the field of business, secretarial
practice or other commercial work.
Butcher. Any person who shall kill, cut, prepare or
sell, or offer to sell, in the City any fresh meat in quantiti s
less than one quarter of a carcass for a consideration,
except a person licensed as a grocer or a merchant.
Cabinet maker shop. Any place in this City where
cabinets or furniture are made or repaired by others, for a
consideration or charge, or any person who installs cabinets
in this City, when such cabinets have been made or repaired
outside of the City, for a consideration or charge.
Carnival. Any collection or group of stands, shows or
entertainment devices in the City commonly included within
the term "fair" or "carnival, " which are attended by the
public upon payment of a charge.
Cigar and tobacco stand. Any shop, store, stand or
place in the City where cigars, cigarettes or r tobaccos are
sold, offered for sale, vended or distributed.
Circus. Any dog, pony, wild animal or variety show
exhibited in the City in a tent or group of tents, upon
collection of a charge.
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Cleaning and pressing establishment. Any shop, stand
or place of business in the City where clothing is washed,
pressed, cleaned or otherwise renovated for a charge or
consideration.
Coal dealer. Any person who sells, delivers or offers
to sell or deliver in the City, at any office or yard, any
coal or coke to others for a charge or consideration.
Collection agency. Any person in the City, except a
licensed attorney at law, who for a fee or commission,
attempts to collect or collects notes, accounts or obligations
due to others.
Concert. Any musical program in the City to which ail
admission is charged, excepting programs of any public or
parochial school.
Confectioner. Any person who sells or offers for sale
I any candies, nuts, popcorn, chewing gum, fruits, ice cream,
sweet meats, cold drinks, light lunches or other confections
in the City, except a person duly licensed as a druggist or
merchant.
Contractor or subcontractor. Any person who agrees or
contracts with another, for a fee or consideration, to
build, construct, remodel, plaster, or aid in building,
constructing, remodeling or pleastering any building, or any
structure, sewer, sidewalk, or street in this City, or any
person who builds any structure of any kind, for sale in
this City, except one who, for himself, builds a home or
structure to be occupied by himself.
Dairy. Any person who shall buy or sell or offer for
sale any milk, cream or other milk products within the City
at any store, stand or place, except hotels, restaurants,
lunch counters or any other place operating under a merchant'
license.
Dance hall. Any place in the City where public dances
or balls are held and conducted or instruction is given in
the acct of dancing for a charge or consideration.
Dancing school or studio. Any place in the City where
instruction is given or knowledge imparted to others for a
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consideration in the art of the dance or ballet.
Druggist. Any person who compounds and sells or offers
for sale any drugs or medicines or any of the articles or
things commonly found in drug stores at any place, stand or
store in the City for a consideration.
Dye works. Any shop, store, stand or place in the
City, where for a consideration, clothing or other articles
are dyed, colored or bleached.
Employment agency or office. Any person or establishment
in the City, excluding governmental agencies, who or which
for a consideration seeks, finds or offers to find employment
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Express company agency. Any office, depot or establishment
in the City where property or other articles are accepted or
received for shipment by express or from which articles
shipped by express are held for delivery for a charge or
consideration.
Exterminators. Any person who exterminates or kills
off termites, rodents and/or other insects.
Florist. Any person who sells or offers to sell any
flowers, shrubbery or decorative plants for a consideration
at any stand, store, shop or place in the City.
Flour mill. Any mill or factory in the City where
wheat, corn or other cereal grains are handled, ground or
processed into flour, meals or feeds and offered for sale to
others for a charge.
Foreign coffee or tea agent or dealer. Any person who
sells, or offers for sale, within the City any coffee, tea,
spices, extracts or similar products, which products are at
the time owned or held by a nonresident person.
Fortune teller. Any person who shall predict or purport
to foretell, read or prophesy any future events or occurrence
• in the City by any means or manner for others for a charge
or consideration.
Grocers. Any person who stocks, sells or offers to
sell food or food products in the City to others for a
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consideration, other than a person who is engaged in business
as a butcher only.
Gymnastics. Any place of business where exercises are
taught or performed, with or without the aid of mechanical
devices.
Hotel and motel. Any building, group of buildings or
establishment containing six or more separate sleeping units
in the City which are regularly offered to the public for
lodging purposes for a consideration or charge.
Ice cream vendor. Any person selling or vending, or
offering to sell or vend, ice cream .or other similar products
from any wagon, vehicle or other conveyance in the City to
others for a consideration.
Ice 1p ant. Any plant, factory, building or stand where
ice is manufactured or sold, or vended and distributed to
others for a consideration within the City.
Intelligence agency. Any person, excluding full time
law enforcement officials, attorneys and physicians, who
offers or undertakes to investigate any matter and assemble
information in the City of a confidential or personal nature
for others for a consideration.
Job printing 1p ant. Any plant, shop or establishment
in the City which does or offers to do printing for others
for a consideration, except when operated in conjunction.
with a newspaper office.
Junk dealer. Any person who buys or sells or trades in
old metals, bottles, paper or paper products, rubber and
other similar substances or articles on a salvage basis at
any shop, stand or place within the City.
Karate. Any person who teaches the art of self-defense
without the use of weapons.
Key and locksmith shop. Any place in this City where,
for a consideration, keys and locks are made, sold and/or
repaired.
Laundry. Any building, stand or place in the City
where the clothing, fabrics or materials of others are
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washed or ironed for a consideration, except where such
service is performed in the home of the person rendering
such service or owning such materials.
Laundry agency. Any person who collects, receives or
delivers clothes or other fabrics in the City from or to
customers and collects the charge for washing same as the
employee, agent or representative of a nonresident laundry.
Loan agent. Any person who solicits, accepts or receives
applications from parties seeking loans, or assists in the
closing of such loans or receives payment on such loans in
the City for a commission or fee, as the agent, employee or
representative of a lender or institution that is not located
within the City.
Loan company. Any person, company or organization in
the City engaged in the business of lending money or offering
to lend money to others for a consideration, either in the
form of interest or commission.
Long distance telephone company. Any company engaged
in business in this City as a long distance telephone company.
Lumber dealer. Any person who buys or sells, or offers
for sale, any lumber or finished wood, or wood products, in
the City for a consideration.
Machine shop. Any shop, stand or establishment in the
City maintaining or operating machines to make, repair or
fashion articles of metal or wood, or tools or equipment for
others, for a consideration.
Manufacturing agent. Any person who solicits or accepts
orders, delivers articles or collects or receives money in
the City for a fee or commission as the employee, agent or
representative of a nonresident manufacturer.
Manufacturing corporation. Every person or establishment
in the City engaged in the conversion of raw materials into
articles or substances, goods, wares or merchandise for sale
• to the public.
Mercantile agent. Any person in the City who collects
or assembles information relating to the credit, financial
responsibility or reputation of others, for a consideration,
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for the purpos e o f furnishing f nishi such information to merchants
or commercial establishments.
Merchant delivery company. Any person engaged in the
business of picking up or delivering goods, wares, merchandise
or packages in the City for others for a consideration,
excluding carriers licensed by the State Public Service
Commission, any other state regulatory agency or the Interstat
Commerce Commission.
Merry-go-round. Any merry-go-round, ferris wheel,
tilt-a-whirl or other similar amusement ride, when operated
independently of a circus or carnival, for the enjoyment of
® which a charge is made.
Miniature golf course. Any ground, premises, stand or
place in the City equipped and used for the purpose of
playing miniature golf or, golf tee and driving range used
by others for a charge.
Minnow and fishbait dealers. Any person who prepares
or sells, or offers for sale, any fish bait, including
minnows, in the City for a consideration or charge.
Monument dealer. Any person who buys, sells or offers
for sale, fashions or manufactures monuments or markers for
a charge for consideration within the City.
Motion picture show. Any place or theater in the City
where motion pictures are exhibited to the public upon the
charge of an admission fee.
Moving and storage companies. Any person who collects,
transports, stores or delivers the household goods of others
in the City for a charge or consideration.
Newspaper office. Any shop, plant or establishment in
the City where newspapers are prepared, printed and disseminated
for sale to the public for a charge.
Nursery stock agent. Any person who sells or distributes
or solicits or accepts orders for the sale of plants, trees,
shrubs or other nursery products at any place, stand, store
or stall in the City.
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Oil station. Any station, stand or place in the City
where gasoline, oil, antifreeze, wash and grease jobs and
other products are sold and supplied for motor vehicles,
except where such products are sold and distributed incidentally
to the business of a licensed merchant.
Organ dealer. Any person who buys, sells, trades or
offers to buy, sell or trade any musical instrument known as
an "organ" at any place, stand or store in the City.
Painting and wallpaper contractors. Any person who
contracts for painting or wall papering for any other person,
for a consideration or fee.
® Palmist. Any person who represents that he has the
ability to read or does read or interpret the lines and
markings on a person' s palm, or the contours of a person's
head or body, for a consideration or charge, in the City.
Pawnbroker. Any person who lends or offers to lend
money upon the security of personal property deposited with
the lender in the City for interest or other form of consider do
who deals in the purchase of property on condition that the
seller may repurchase the same at a stipulated price, or who
displays the insignia or sign of a pawnbroker in the City.
Photographer. Any person in the City who takes pictures
of others and developes same for a charge or consideration
but who does not sell cameras, film and other photographic
supplies at retail.
Piano dealer. Any person who buys, sells, trades or
offers to buy, sell or trade any musical instrument known as
a "piano" at any place, stand or, store in the City.
Pool table. Any table, platform or device in the City
designed and used for playing the game of pocket billiards
or snooker, for the use of which a charge is made.
Poultry dealer. Any person who buys, sells or deals in
domestic fowl at any place, stand or store in the City,
except a person licensed as a merchant, grocer, restaurant,
hotel or lunch counter.
Produce dealer. Any person who buys, sells or deals in
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any edible agricultural or farm products at any store, stand
or shop within the City.
Ready-to-wear clothing agency. Any person who solicits
or accepts orders for present or future delivery, collects
or receives money for ready-to-wear clothing as the agent,
employee or representative of a nonresident maker or owner,
within the City.
Real estate broker. Any person who advertises, claims
to be or holds himself out to the public as a real estate
broker or dealer and who for a compensation or valuable
consideration, as a whole or partial vocation, sells or
offers for sale, buys or offers to buy, exchanges or offers
to exchange the real estate of others; or who leases or
offers to lease, rents or offers for rent the real estate of
others; or who loans money for others or offers to negotiate
a loan secured or to be secured by a deed of trust or mortgage
on real property.
Real estate salesman. Any person who for a compensation,
or valuable consideration, becomes associated, either directly
or indirectly, with a real estate broker to do any of the
things done by a real estate broker, as a whole or partial
vocation.
Restaurant. Any place or establishment in the City
engaged in the business of serving and selling prepared
meals, lunches or foods for consumption on the premises
through the use of tables, chairs, stools, trays, waitresses
and other similar facilities provided for the public.
Sand plant. Any establishment where sand or gravel is
mined, pumped, dug or otherwise acquired for sale, or sold
or offered for sale, at any location within the City.
Shoe cobbler shop. Any shop, stand or place in the
City where boots, shoes or other footwear is repaired,
mended, rebuilt or refurbished for others for a charge.
Shoe shining parlor. Any shop, stand or place in the
City where shoes, boots or other footwear is shined, polished
or dyed for others for a charge.
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Shooting gallery. Any place in the City where for a
charge or consideration members of the public are permitted
to shoot guns at targets for prizes or otherwise.
Skating rink. Any place in the City, excluding govern-
mentally operated places, where persons are invited to skate
upon the payment of an admission fee or charge.
Soft drink stand. Any store, stand, shop or place in
the City where soft drinks or nonalcoholic beverages are
sold or served.
Storage warehouse. Any building, structure or place in
the City where personal property of others is kept or stored
for a consideration.
Street exhibition. Any show, entertainment or exhibition
held or conducted upon a public street, alley or highway, or
any other public place in the City, to which an admission is
charged.
Tailor. Any person who cuts, fashions, makes, repairs
or sews clothing for others for a consideration at any
place, stand or store within the City.
Tailor made clothing agency. Any person who as the
employee, agent or representative of a nonresident tailor or
manufacturer, forwards, solicits or accepts orders, takes
measurements, makes delivery or collects money in the City
for clothing made to fit the measurements of the purchaser.
Tinner Any person who works with tin or other sheet
metal, or who builds, makes, repairs, installs or removes
objects composed solely or chiefly of tin or other sheet
metal for a charge in the City.
Towel, linen, uniform and apron supply company. Any
person engaged in the business of furnishing and delivering
clean towels, linen, uniforms, aprons or similar products to
members of the public for a charge or consideration on a
regular basis.
Trailer court. Any place in the City where five or
more house trailers or mobile homes are permitted to be
parked for a consideration or rental on private property.
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Travel agency. Any person who arranges the transporta-
40 tion for others and assists others in obtaining information
about vacations, pleasure tours or journeys in the United
States or foreign countries for a consideration or charge.
Truck terminal. Any place in the City where motor
common carriers maintain their truck terminal or business
office for distribution, collection or temporary storage of
freight or property of shippers.
Undertaker. Any person who cares for the bodies of
deceased persons and undertakes to conduct funerals in the
City for a consideration.
Wholesale house. Any house, store or establishment in
the City where goods, wares or merchandise of any kind are
kept and sold, or offered for sale, to retailers or others
for resale by such purchasers.
Wholesale merchant. Any person who sells or offers to
sell any goods, wares or merchandise in the City, to retailers
or to other persons for purposes of resale by such purchasers.
Wood dealers. Any person who buys, sells or deals in
wood or kindling for heating purposes at any place, stand or
shop within the City.
Section 2. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect
from and after its passage and approval.
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