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<br />quarterly license becomes due and payable under the provisions of t~is ordinance.
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<br /> The daily and weekly licenses in this ordinance provided shall be due and payable to
<br />City in advance.
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<br /> The semi-annual licenses in this ordinance provided shall ce due and payable to the City
<br />at the times specified herein respectively or when not so specified, on the first day of Jan-
<br />usry and July of each year~ but the first semi-annual license issued to any person as herein
<br />provided shall be issued for the unexpired period of such half year except as herein otherwise
<br />in this ordinance, specifically provided.
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<br /> · The annua} licenses in this ordinance provided shall Oe due, and payable tO the City at
<br />the times specified herein respecti~ly, or when not so specified, on the first day of January
<br />of each year, but the first annual license issued to any person ss herein prodded shall be
<br />issued for the unexpired period of such year, except as herein otherwise in this Ordinance
<br />specifically provided.
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<br /> No greater or less amount of money shall be charged or received for any license than
<br />is provided in this ordinance and no license shall be sold or issued for any period of time
<br />other than is provided in this ordinance.
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<br /> The licenses in this ordinance provided, whether monthly, quarterly, semi-annually
<br />or annually, shall be due and payable to the City in advance on the dates heretofore specified,
<br />at the office of the City Clerk and a penalty of ten per cent of the amount due shall ce
<br />added to each license remaining unpaid fifteen days after it becomes due.
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<br /> Section 6. Every person, firm or corporation having a license under the provisions of
<br />this ordinance, and carrying on a business, show, exhibition or game, at a fixed place of
<br />business shall keep such license posted and exhibited while in force, in some cons~icioua
<br />part of said place of business. Every person having such a license, and not having a fixed
<br />place of business, ~shall carry such license with him at all times while carrying on the busi-
<br />ness, show, exhioition or g~ne for which the same was granted. Every person, firm or corpor-
<br />ation having a license under the provisions of this Drdinance shall produce, and exhiDit the
<br />same, when applying for a renewal thereof, and whenever requested to do so Oy any po]ice
<br />officer, or by any officer authorized to issue, inspect or collect licenses.
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<br /> Section ?. Ali police officers are hereby appointed inspectors of licenses, and in
<br />additio~ to their several duties as police officers, are hereby required to examine all places
<br />of~business and persons in their respective beats liable to pay a license, and to see that such
<br />licenses are taken out, and shall have and exercise the power:
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<br />First, to make arrests for the violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance.
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<br /> Second, to enter free of charge, at any time any place of business, for which a license
<br />is required Dy this ordinance aud to demand the exhibition~f such license for the current term
<br />by any person engaged or employed in the transaction of such business and if such person shall
<br />then and there fail to exhibit such license, such person shall be liable to the pmnalty provided
<br />for a violation of this ordinance.
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<br /> It is vhereby~'made the duty 'of the police officers to cause complaints to be fi]ed
<br />against all persons violating any of the provisions of this ordinance.
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<br /> Such police officers as such inspectors of licenses shall make out once a month a list
<br />Of persons, firms or corporations carrying on business within their respective beats, and
<br />having no license with their addresses, and deliver such list carefully and legibly written
<br />to the City Cl~rk, and also report to theCity Clerk th~ names of ell such doing business with-
<br />out a license immediately upon the fact coming to their knowledge.
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<br /> Any police offioar failing or neglecting for more than thie~y (30) days to report any
<br />person, firm or corporation who or which is engaged in carrying on business without having paid
<br />the r.equired license, shall be guilty of neglect of duty, and be either suspended from duey or
<br />be dismissed from the police force, in the discretion of the Board of Trustees.
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<br /> The Chief of Pc. lice is hereby directed to carry into effect the ~rovisions of this
<br />section.
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<br /> ~qtion g. The conviction and punishment of any person for transacting any business,
<br />show, exhibition or gmne without a license shall not excuse or exempt such person from the
<br />payment of .any license due or unpaid at the time of such conviction, and nothing herein shall
<br /> prevent a criminal prosecution for any violation of the provisions of this ordinance.
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<br /> Section 9. In all cases where the amount of license to be paid by any person, firm or
<br />corporation is based upon the amount of receipts or sales or of business transacted, or upon
<br />the number of men employed, or upon the number of wagons or other vehicles used, or upon the
<br />amount of the maximum admission fee charged, or upon the number of tables used for any game,
<br />or upon the number of rooms in any Duilding, such person, firm ~ corporation, shall before
<br />obtaining a license for his, their, or its business and within ten days after the beginning
<br />of each license period, if such business is estaDlished or in operation during any part of such
<br />ten days, render to the City Clerk for his guidance in ascertaining the amount of license to
<br />be paid by such person, firm or corporation, a written statement sworn to before some office
<br />~uthorized to administer oaths, showing the total ~mount of receipts of sales of bu~inee? trans-
<br />acted during calendar year next preceding the date of such statement or theaverage daily numb-
<br />er of men employed by s~ch person, firm, or corporation during the license period next pre-
<br />ceding the date of such statement, or the number of wagons or other vehicles used, or the
<br />amount of the maximum admission fee charged, or the number of tables used for any game, by
<br />such person, firm or corporation or the number of rooms contained in such building, at thedate
<br />of such statement.
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<br /> Provided, however, that where the quarterly license to be paid under any section
<br />of this ordinance is based upon the gross annual receipts or of Ousineas transacted, or the
<br />gross annual commissions or fees received or collected, only one such statement need be filed
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