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ORDINANCE NO. 3?
An Ordinance of the Town of Los Altos Hills providing
for the licensing for Revenue of all business, as defined
therein, within the City and establishing procedures for the
collection thereof and authorizing legal action for collection
when necessary.
The City Council of the Town of Los Alto: Hi.17.a
foes ordain as follows:
Term
SECTION 13-1: This Ordinance may be cited as the
Business License Ordinance of the Town of Los Altos Hills.
Definitions
SECTION 13-2: The following terms, phrases and
words shall be deemed to have the meaning given herein.
N"City" is the Town of Los Altos Hills.
"Council" is the City Council of the Town of
Los Altos Hills.
(c) "City License Officer". There has been here-
tofore established in the Town of Los Altos Hills theposition
of City Inspector of Buildings and Public Works. The Building
Inspector of the Town of Los Altos Hills shall be responsible
for the enforcement of this ordinance and shall issue all
permits as provided.
(d) "Insignia" is any emblem, sticker or other
kind of identifying device required by this Ordinance.
(e) "License" means the fee to use or carry on a
business as defined herein for a period of time as specified.
,(f) "Business" is meant to include indicated
vocations, occupations, professions, enterprises, establish-
ments and all other kinds of activities and matters, together
with all devices, materials, vehicles and appurtenances used
therein, any of which are conducted for commercial or monetary
gain or benefit, directly or indirectly, upon any premises
or elsewhere within the Town of Los Altos Hills.
(g) "Person" include any individual or partnership
„r association together of individuals or any corporate
entity or any officer, agent, or employee thereof.
(h) "Contractor" shall include any "Sub -contractor".
SECTION 13-3: Compliance Required.
Every person engaged in conducting, transacting, or
carrying on any business within the Town of Los Altos Hills,
shall pay a fee for revenue only as provided in this ordinance,
to said City and receive a receipt and license for such
ousiness. Any such license must be kept in effect in
conformity with this Ordinance and such license shall not
be connected with regulation but the fee thereof imposed
for revenue only and subject to collection processed by
court proceedings in event of non-payment.
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SECTION 13-4: Agents Responsibility.
Agents or representatives of non-resident persons who are
doing business within City shall be personally responsible for
the compliance by their principals with this Ordinance as well
as the direct responsibility of the principals.
SECTION 13-5: City License Officer
City License Officer shall:
(a) Collect all license fees and shall issue all licenses to
qualified persons.
(b) Promulgate and enforce necessary rules and regulations.
(c) Adopt all forms and prescribe information deemed desirable
to be stated therein.
(d) Require applicant to state such facts in writing and upon
penalty of perjury as deemed necessary.
SECTION 13-6: Procedure
Application shall be filed in person or by mail and shall
be accompanied by the payment of the fee as provided herein. A
w-^itten receipt shall be given for any payment made and a license,
i€ as a license, or insignia thereof delivered.
SECTION 13-7: Term - The period for which a license is
issued shall be for the fiscal year of City dating from July let
la any year to June 30th of the succeeding year, or any fraction
of such year.
SECTION 13-5: Renewal - Renewal of License may be had by
payment of the fee therefor.
SECTION 13-9: Fees: The Annual License fee shall be set
forth in the following schedule:
Classification of Contractor
Brick
S 25.00
Cement
25.00
Electrical
25.00
Flooring
25.00
Jobbing
5.00
General
50.00
Glazing
25.00
Grading
25.00
Heating
25.00
House Moving or 'Wrecking
25.00
Masonry
25.00
Painting
25.00
Paving
25.00
Plastering
25.00
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Plumbing
$ 1,5.00
Roofing
25.00
Sewer
25.00
Sheet Metal
25.00
Sheet Rock Contractor
25.00
Spraying or Tree Surgeon
25.00
Electrical Fixtures
10.00
Tile
25.00
Chimney Sweep
5.00
Landscape Contractor
25.00
Supervising Architect
25.00
All other Contractors not
specifically
classified
25.00
Except that for any license issued after January let of any year
the fee shall be one-half that stipulated in the above table.
SECTION 13-10: Contents of License
Each License shall contain:
(a Name of Licensee or business under which conducted.
(b Kind and address of business.
c License fee
d Date of issuance and expiration.
(e Such other information as License officer deems pertinent.
SECTION 13-11: Display - Any License issued hereunder, or
any insignia in connection therewith, shall be kept for public
display in connection with the conduct of this business and as to
any motor vehicles by affixing to a proper location to be seen on
such vehicle.
SECTION 13-12: Exclusion of Utilities - No License fee shall
Se required of any person operating under any franchise or con-
tract of the City from which a fee payment is made to the City.
SECTION 13-13: Non -validating effect.
The acceptance of a fee or issuance of a License under this
Ordinance shall not be regarded as approval of any business or
the conduct thereof contrary to the laws of the State or Ordinance
of the City nor in violation of any health or safety measures or
provisions or an operation which is deemed a nuisance or contrary
to the interests of the health, welfare and safety of any indiv-
idual or entity.
SECTION 13-14: Enforcement.
The License Officer shall be responsible for the enforcement
of this Ordinance and shall make all investigations deemed
necessary therefor.
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SECTION 13-15 Liability
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The amount of an unpaid license fee shall constitute a debt
due the City and legal action may be instituted for the collec-
tion thereof if not paid as specified herein.
SECTION 13-16: Severability. The City Council of the Town
of Los Altos Hills hereby declares that it would have adopted any
word, sentence, phrase or section of this Ordinance irrespective
of any other word, sentence, phrase or section. If any Court of
competent jurisdiction shall declare any portion of this
Ordinance void or unconstitutional, it shall not effect any other
portion and except as so declared void or unconstitutional, this
Ordinance shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 13-17: Effective Date. This Ordinance is hereby
declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, safety and general wel-
fare of the people of the Town of Los Altos Hills, and shall take
effect immediately upon its adoption. The following is a statement
of the facts found and determined by the City Council of the Town
of Los Altos Hills showing the urgency of this Ordinance.
Revenues of the Town of Los Altos Hills are insufficient to
cLequately provide for the services which should be available to
residents of the Town of Los Altos Hills as well as for the
protection and security of those doing business for such residents
of a contractural nature or as are employed in any enterprise
within the City. The City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills
finds that a Licensing Ordinance as contained herein is a fair
end usual and essential enactment; that immediate revenues there-
from are essential and unnecessary loss thereof will result from
any delay in the enactment of an Ordinance of Licensing as con-
tained herein.
SECTION 13-18: This Ordinance shall be posted by the City
Clerk in three public places heretofore designated by the City
Council by Resolution and take effect immediately upon its
adoption.
This Ordinance was duly introduced and read in its entirety
..t a regular meeting of the Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills
on Monday the 15th day of July, 1957, duly and regularly passed by
the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Bledsoe, Hoefler, Rothwell,
Mayor Treat
NO3S: Councilman Fowls
ABSENT: None
SIDNEY W. TREAT H. G. PAULMAN
Mayor City Clerk
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