Business License Fees
Upon approval of an application for a license required by this article by the city council, the city clerk shall issue licenses upon payment of the following fees:
(1) Parking lots.
a. To conduct an open-air commercial parking lot having a capacity of twenty (20) cars or less, the license fee per year shall be fifteen dollars ($15.00).
b. For each open-air parking lot having a capacity of twenty-one (21) cars and not more than fifty (50) cars, the license fee per year shall be thirty dollars ($30.00).
c. For each open-air parking lot having a capacity of fifty-one (51) cars or more, the license fee per year shall be forty-five dollars ($45.00).
(2) Shooting galleries. To operate any shooting gallery or set up any room wherein rifle or pistol shooting is practiced upon a commercial basis, the license fee per year shall be one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125.00).
(3) Pawnbrokers. To engage in the business of a pawnbroker, the license fee per year shall be two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00).
(4) Junk dealers. To buy or sell scrap metals, including the purchase of secondhand motor vehicles and the wrecking thereof, and of rubber, the license fee per year shall be two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00).
(5) Fortunetellers, palmists, etc. To act as a clairvoyant, palmist, fortuneteller, phrenologist or similar business, and make a charge for the business, or to sell books pertaining to any of such things and demonstrate the application thereof, the license fee per week shall be one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00).
(6) Sound trucks. To operate any sound truck, the license fee per hour shall be one dollar ($1.00).
(7) Hotels. To operate any hotel which is unlicensed under the provisions of state law pertaining to intoxicating beverages, the license fee per room per year shall be five dollars ($5.00). A hotel shall be construed, for the purpose of this subsection, to be any place offering accommodation to transients and containing five (5) or more guest rooms.
(8) Used car lot. To operate any used car lot, the license fee per year shall be seventy-five dollars ($75.00).
(Code 1966, § 9-14(a)—(h), (j); Ord. No. 2917, § 1, 4-12-83; Ord. No. 3363, § 1, 5-8-01; Ord. No. 3440, § 1, 6-2-03)
State law reference—Municipal authority to set license fees, Ann. Code of Md. art. 23A, § 2(b)(33).
All annual licenses provided for in this article, except those for pinball machines, shall begin as of May 1 and expire as of April 30 next following. Where such licenses are applied for after November 1, the city clerk shall charge one-half of the annual license fee, and where applied for after February 1, the city clerk shall charge one-fourth of the annual license fee.
Any person who is required to pay a license fee or occupational tax to the city and who has received from the city a metal plate or tag as evidence of such payment shall display such metal tag at all times in a prominent place upon the vehicle for which the tag or plate was issued.
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