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Ordinance No.� �. �a�� ` ` 3���
AN ORDINANCE OF T'HE CITY OF RENTON, WASHINGTON,
AMENDING A PORTION OF TITLE V (BUSINESS REGULATIONS)
OF ORDINANCE NO. 162�8 ENTITLED "CODE OF GENERAL
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF RENTON" RELATING TO
LICENSE FEES AND PENALTIES FOR LATE PAYMENT THEREOF.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE. CITY OF RENT'ON, WASHINGTON DO
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SECTION I: The following existing. sections of Title V (Business Regulations)
of Ordinance No. 1628 entitled "Code of Genera.l:Ordinances of; the City of�Renton"
are hereby amended as fallows: • - , , �
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5t�etion 5-103 (A) 2., as amended: In the case .of a new business, or any
business ir: vvhich the number of employees in the preceding year is not substantially .
cornparable to the number in the taxable year, the license fee shall be corrzputed
on the numbt�r of employees at time of application for license, but shail be
s��5ject to rev�sion each quarterly period.
(a.) Foc every person employing one to five employees, forty
dollars �$40.00) per annum or part thereof. ' .
(b). For every person employing more than five but not more
than ten employees, sixty dollars ($60.00) per annum or part thereof.
(c). For every person employing more than ten but not more than twenty
employees, one hundred twenty dollars ($120.00) per annum or part thereof.
(d). For every person employing more than twenty empioyees but not
more than one hundred employees, Two Hundred Forty Doilars ($240.OQ)
plus the sum �f Five Dollars {$5.00) fo.r each employee over twenty-one
in number.
, (e). For every person employing more than one hundred employees but
not more than two huncired employees, Six Hundred Forty Dollars
($640.00) plus the sum of Three and 50/I00 Dollars ($3.50) for each
employee over one hundred in number.
(f). For every person employing more than two hundred emplo ees, �
Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) plus the sum of Three Dollars (�$3.00) for
each employee over two h�ndred one in number.
Section 5-103 (B), as amended: (I). Professional or semi-professionai
persons who are primarily engaged in the business of rendering any type of service
shall include but not be limited to the following:� Doctor of rriedicine; other
healing art or science; den#ist or dental technician; attorney at law; licensed II�
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or registered engineers; surveyor; accountant, whether certified or public accountant;
bookkeeper; tax or business consulting service; real estate broker or agency thereof;
insurance broker, agent or representative and other brokerage businesses; funeral
director or mortuary; optometrists; architects and designers; opticians; opthalmologists;
pharmacists; operators of rest homes, nursing homes or places of refuge; operators,
mangers or any other person conducting any bank, whether national or state,
trust company, mutual savings bank, building and loan association, and any other
financial institution rendering a special or multiple type of professional or semi-
professional service to the general public; specialized private training schools
in aviation, salesmanship and music when conducted in a separate place of business
and having an average of twenty (20) or more students per week; or other specialized
training schools teaching or instructing in special skills or trades; or any o#her
similar activity conducted by, supervised or operated by a '!person" as herein
defined which offers to members of the public the business of eendering any
type of service.
2. The annual license fee or tax for the privilege of engaging in such
prafessional or semi-professional activities or services shall be as follows: �
(a). The sum of Sixty Dollars ($60.00) for each pro#essional or
semi-professional person hereinabove enumerated who is engaged
whether full or part time, in serving the public in the practice
of such professional or semi-professional services and who '',
maintains or is employed in such office, clinic, business or
other establishment in such capacity and for such purpose; in
addition thereto
(b). The sum of Sixteen Dollars ($16.00) #or each. non-professional
person who is regularly employed in such professional or semi- � ..
professional activity or service as herein specified.
Section 5-105A, as amended: AMBULANCE SERVICES TAX: 1. There
is hereby established and levied upon any person, firm, co-partnership, corporation,
joint venture or association, licensed by the State of Washington to provide and
engage in emergency medical care and transportation services, pursuant to Chapter
208, Session Laws of 1973, lst Ex. Session, and as same may be amended from
time to time, a tax =in the sum of Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00) per year which
shall apply to all of said State licensees doing business in, from or about �the
City of Renton.
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2. Su�h tax shall be paid on or before the first day of January of each I'
year, and made payable to the Director of Finance, City of Renton.
3. Said tax is imposed pursuant to RCW 35.21.768 and the laws and
Statutes of the �State of Washington relating to non-charter code cities operating �
under the Optional Municipal Code.
Section 5-202, as amended: ADMISSION TAX ON HORSE RACiNG: l. On
or after the effective date of this Chapter, there is hereby levied upon and' �'
� shall be collected from every person engaging in #t�e business of horse racing I,
, and making admission charges therefor to the general public,_ a basic admission I
fee or tax for such activit in the sum of Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) er
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year; which fee or tax shall include the operations of concessions, not to exceed
six (6) in number, conducted during the racing season at and within the confines `
of such race track, and which concessions are related to and incidental to the
operation of such horse racing business. �
, 2. In addition thereto there is hereby imposed and levied upon every person
wfi�o pays such an admission charge within the City limits of the City of Renton
a tax equal to 11� on each such admission charge. Every person receiving an
admissian charge upon which an admission tax is levied under this Chapter shall
collect the amount of the tax imposed upon the person paying an admission' '
charge. Such admission tax shall be deemed to be held in trust by the person
required to collect the same until remitted to the Director o# Finance as hereinafter
provided. The admission tax imposed under this Chapter shall be collected at
the time the admission charge is paid. Said admission tax is in addition'to ,
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all other taxes or license fees imposed by law, except that the operations of
concessions as hereinabove specified shail be exempt from the provisions of Chapter
l, Title V (Business Regulations) of the City's Code entitled "Code of General
Ordinances of the City of Renton.
Section 5-304, as amended: LICENSE FEE: LICENSE PERIOD: The license
period of each Master License and of each Sub-License hereunder shall be one
(1) calendar year, or the portion thereof remaining at date of issuance, and all
of such ,licenses shall expire on the 31st day of December in tfie year for ,which� .
issued. The license fees to be charged and paid�hereunderj for each Master � � �
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�License sfiall be the sum of Two Hundred dollars ($200.00) and there shall be
no reduction of the Master License fee for fractional parts of a calendar year.
The license fee to be charged and paid hereunder for each Sub-ticense shall �
be Forty Dollars ($40.00); provided, however, that the fee for each Sub-License
issued to a fraternal organization or service organization club (excluding private
� clubs) exempted from the requirement of a Master License hereunder shall be
only the sum of Two Dollars ($2.00).
Section 5-501, as amended: MAS?ER LOCKSMITH LICENSE REQUIRED:
FEE: It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of manufacturing,
fitting, cutting, altering, or repairing locks or keys, within the City, without
. #irst having obtained and being the owner� and holder of a valid and subsisting ' -
license therefor, to be known as a "Master Locksmith License", the fee for which
is hereby fixed in the sum�of $10.00 per annum. Said license shall be posted
and conspicuously displayed in the office or regular place of business of the
holder thereof, or if no regular place of business be maintained, shall be carried
on the person of the holder thereof during business hours or while such business
is being carried on, and shall be displayed at the request of any interested person.
Section 5-502, as amended: •LOCKSMITH LICENSE REQUIRED: FEE
No person whether licensed as a master locksmith or not, shall as an artisan,
workman or employee, manufacture, cut, fit, alter or repair keys or locks, or
perform work as a locksmith or key maker, within the City, without first obtaining
and being the holder of a valid and subsisting license so to do, to be knovan
as a "locksmith Iicense", the fee for which is hereby fixed in the sum of $4.00
per annum; provided, that one locksmith license shall, without the payment of
any_ fee therefor, be issued to one qualified locksmith or key maker possessed
of a master locksmith license, or employed by the holder of a master locksmith
license, and on such license shall designate the number of the master locksmith
license in respect of which the locksmith license is issued, and such license shall � . '
be in force arid effect only so long as such person is possessed of, or is employed
by the holder of, a master locksmith license.
Section 5-503, as amended: REDUCTION OF FEE UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS
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`� "� +Ea::h�master locksmith license and each locksmith license issued hereunder shall
� be �alid, and the annuai term thereaf shali be fram �anuary 1 ta December 3l
each calendar year� Any s�ch licenses �vhich are applied for and issued during th�
first nine months o# any calendar year shall require the fees hereinbefare fixed far
the annum; but if s3me be applied for and issued during the last. three manths of� any
calendar year9 the above stated fees required for same shaIl be reduced one half far
the remainder of svch calendar year. Any such Iicense may, when the application for
same so stigulates, be timited to autharize only the manufacture, fitting, cutting,
altering or repair of autornotive vehicte locks and keys, in which case the fee far any
such ll9aster Locksmith License or Locksmith License sa limited shall be Two Dollars
($2.00} per annurn or portion of annurn.
Sec#ian 5-603, as amended: FEE: Upon the #iling of every such app2icatian,
the app�icant shall pay to the City a filing and inspection fee of Ten Daliars {$lfl.{}0}.
5ecfiion 5-605, as amended: RENEWAL: The permits may be renewed at any .
4ime within thirty days after th� termination thereof by the fiting �f an application
for such ren�wa2 and the payment af a fee of Ten DolIars (�10.00} therefor; providec�
the applicant for s�uch rertewat perrrtit has complied with the provisions of this
Chapter, and with the laws of the City.
Sectian 5-702 (C), as amendedo The applicant for either such agency license sFtail
pay unto the City of Renton, at the time such applicant is filed, the sum of Fifty i
Dollars {$SG.00}.
Sect'son 5-703, as amended. MERCHANT PATRC>L, PRIVATE L.IETECTIVE
�.ICENSE: It shall be unlawful for ��y pet'sofl� whether licensed as a Merchant Patral
Agency or Detective Agencyp or rtot, to engage in the private detective or merchan�
patroI business or to act ar engage in business as a private detective or merchant
patcol without #irst ob#ain�ng and being the owner and holder of a vaiid and subsisting
license so to dQ, ta be known as a "Merchant Patrol License" or "Private Detective
License", the fee for which shall be and the same is hereby #ixed a�d established
in the sum of Ten Dollars ($10.00) per annum, based on the calendar year, payable in
advance unto the City af Renton.
Section 5-BQI, as amended: PERMIT REQUIRED; FEES: It shaii be uniawful
for any gerson ta engage in any moving, transgortation o#, remflving ar hauling af
housing structures of any type or description over, across or upon any public street,
alley, raadway or public pIac� without first having obtained and being the owner and
holder caf a valid and subsistit�g pectrt�t Ihece#oc� same to be known as a "house maving
permit"; the fee for such is hereby fixed as follaws. ;
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> �' : $20.00 per unit if under 1,000 square feet;
$30.00 per single story unit over 1,000 square feet
$50.00 per unit over 30 feet wide or more than one story in height;
SaiJ permit shall be posted and conspicuousty displayed on the structure movecl
or carried on the persor� of the p4rty in charg� of such moving and said permit
shalt be dis��;�}'ed at ttie r�q�_i;:st of ��r�;� duly aut�ori�ed offical oi til� Cit}�. �
5ection 5-100'�, as amended: (A) The license fee to be paid here�ancEer,
for each licensed "entertainment device" as herein defined shall be the sum
of Ten Dollars ($l0.04) per month, per machine, or an annual license fee for
each such "entertainment device" of Or.e Hundred T�venty Dollars ($I20.00).
Licenses shail be issued on a calendar year basis. Each license issed hereun�er
shall be kept in prominent display on or in close proximity to the unit licensed
hereunder and at the location for �vhich same has been issued. No ticense fee
is transferable, or refundable, and there shall be no transfer of licenses from
one unit to another and such transfer is expressly prohibited hereby.
(8). Arcade Master Licenseo In addition to the license fees imposed in
subsection (A) hereinabove, there is hereby established a master Iicense, to be
known as the "Arcade Master License" which shali be in the sum of Two Hundred
Dollars ($200.00) per year applicable to any person, partnership or corporation
owning, displaying or using such entertainment device and.having five (5) or
more said "entertainment devices" on its premises. Application for such master I
license shall be made in the same manner as set forth in Section 6-1006 hereinbelow.
Section 5-1008, as amended: FEES AND DISPLAY OF LICENSE. The
license fee to be paid hereunder for each ping pong table shall be the sum of
Thirty Dollars ($30.00) for the first such ping pong table and the sum of Fifteen
Dollars ($I5.00) for each additional table licensed within said premises. Said
fee shall be paid annually, based on the calendar year.
Section 5-1202, as amended: LICENSE FEE; APPLICATIOn: l. It shaIl
be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of pawnbro4<er or to conduct
a pawnshop, without first having obtained a lice�se so to do; to be known and
designated as a "Pawnbroker's License". The license fee for a Pawnbroker's
License shall be, and the same is hereby fixed in the sum of Eighty Dollars
($50.00) per annum. IVo pawnbroker's license shall be issued hereafter which
would increase the number of holders of such licenses to more than one for
every fifteen thousand (15,000) of population, according to the last preceding
Federal or State cens�s. ,
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2. Application for a pawnbroker's license shall be in writing, filed with fihe Clerk
an a form furnished by the City and shall be accampanied by the required Iicense fee.
The application shall then be referred to the Police Department far investigatian and
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cecammendation. Any conviction by the applicant or owner of the business, during
the previous ten (IO) years for the crimes af burglary, larceny, receiving stolen goods
� and other such or similar crimes, as may be determined by the Chief of Police, shall
be graunds #ar denial af such Iicense. In case af approvai of the application by the
City Gouncil, after written recommendation has been made #o said body by the Police
Department, such license, may then be issued.
Section 5-1502, as amended: LICENSE FEE: It shall be unlawful for any person �
to engage in tfie business of secandhand dealer, as above defined, withou# first pracuring I
a license so to do, to be known as a secondhand dealer's license. The fee #or such II
secondhand dealer's license shall be, and the sarne is hereby fixed and established in
the sum of Fifty Dollars ($50.00).
Any persan having mare than one piace af business where secondhand gaads are
bo�ght, sold, traded, bartered or exchanged, shall be required to procure a .separate I
license far Lach and every such place of business. �
Section 5-1602, as amendedi I�,.� 1'' ' " � • •k•� . ,.. .T• +.. . o. 1� �... a� . " . .. , � . .
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calendar year, far each dog or cat over four (4} months of age shall be as follaws:
Each male dog $5.00 per annum
Each femal� dog , 5.00 per annum
Each female dog (spayed) 3.00 per annum
Each male dog (neutered} 3.00 per annum •
Each cat 1.00 per annum II
2. City of Renton residents sixty twa (62) years af age ar older, if income qualified
as set forth in Section 8-715(D) and (E) and 5ection 3-231([3) and (C) of this Cade,
shal] be entitled to purchase a special perrnanent Iicense for the life#ime of cats or
dags not exceeding three (3} in nurnber far each household, for which they are the II
registered owners when said animals are maintained at said owners' registered addresses.
� Eligible residents may purchase the special permanent animal licenses at a cost according
I to fee schedule as above listed, and such qualified senior citizens shail not be required
ta annually purchase a new license for the lifetime of such licensed animals provided.
that no persan so qualified shall be granted more than three (3) permanent licenses
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,� for any combination of three (3) cats and dogs for which they are the registered
owners. ',
� 3. Residents of the City of Renton who are the owners or custodians of "seeing I
• eye dogs" shall be exempt from the payment of annual license fees for said dogs. For I
� the purpose of this Chapter the term "blind person" shall mean a person who has no
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� vision or whose vision, wi#h correcting glasses, is so defective as to preven# the
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� performance of ordinary activities for which eyesight is essential, and who is the owner
or custodian of a "seeing eye dog" to assist such person. Such qualified person shall
be eligible to receive from the Finance Director a license for such dog without any
charge �therefor. The Finar�ce Director shall require proper evidence of such eligibility
as further set forth. in RCW 74.i6.030 et seq. Such license shall not be transferable
, �and shall be s ecificall inarked for such "seein ��
P Y g eye dog .
4. All applications for such licenses shall be made to the Finance Director and the
annual license fees paid on or before March 31 of each year. In the event the owner
or custodian of any such dog or cat fails to procure and fails to pay for such license
fee before this date, or within thirty {30) days of acquiring the ownership or custody
of any such dog or cat, a late charge of Ten Dollars ($l0.00) shall be added to the
regular license fee. The City may require reasonable evidence to determine the date
of acquisition or custody of any such dog or cat to ascertain whether a late charge.
shal! be imposec[. � ,
5. The �Finance Director is hereby authorized to permit the City's Poundmaster or
any other custodian of animals impounded pursuant to the provisions of this Ordiance,
and any duly licensed veterinarian practicing his. profession within the City to sell and
issue licenses; the Finance Director may impose such additional regulations as may be �
reasonable to carry out the provisions of this Chapter. The Finance Director is hereby
authorized to provide, by appropriate designation, the special permanent licenses for
qualified senior citizens as hereinabove set for.th. �
Sec#ion 5-i603. as amended: APPLICATION; TAG: Said license shall
be obtained by making application to the Finance Director, or as other provided
for herein, upon forms approved and provided by the Finance Director and upon ,
payment of the required fee; thereupon the license tag, in such form as may
be approved by the Finance Director, will be issued to the applicant and said
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tag shall be.attached �firmly and securely zto the collar warn at all times by
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In the event such fiag has 'been lost or 'stolen, then the owner ar custodian
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of such.dog. shall�make prompt� application` unto the Finance Directar for a duplicate I
tag and such duplicate tag shall be issued by the Finance Director upon payment
� of the surn of One Dailar {$1,00).
Section 5-1802, as amended: BILLIARD FEE: There shail be charged
I and collected an annual license #ee of Thirty Dollars {$30.00) for the first biliiard
or pool table ogerated in any business establishc�t�ent and Ten Dollars ($40.00�
per annum far each additional pool or pigeon-hole #able. �
Section 5-1804, as amended: B�WLiNG ALLEY: There shall be charged
and collected an annual license fee of Fifteen Dollars ($l5•f}0) for each bowling
alley lane located within any bowling alley establishment. All license fees shal!
be payable in advance on or before the first day of January of each and every
calendar year, or ,semi-annually in advance on or before the first day of 7anuary
and the first day af 3uly af each and every calendar year.
Sectior� 5-1933, as amended: LICENSING FEE,S: It shall be unlawful
�, to engage in the business of aperating a taxicab or for-hire vehicle as defined
in this Chapter without first having obtained a valid and subsisting license so
ta da. T'h�s license shall be known as and the annual fee shal] be as follt�ws:
VEHICLE LICENSE, (For each such vehicle) . , . $1QO.Q0 per year
I Such license fee shall be one-half (1/2) the annual fee when applied far on or
after 7uly lst af each year.
� Section 5-1942, as amended: �RIVERS'S LICENSE FEES: "The fees for a
For-Hire Driver's License shall be as #ollows:
(A}. For each original license the sum of Thirty Dollars ($3Q.00} • `
which shall be paid at the time of making application.
{g) For each annual renewa! thereof, the sum of Ten Dallars
($l4.Q0) which shall be paid at the time of making� apglication.
Section 5-2103, as amended: FEES: The applicant shall pay ta the Finance
� Director a tee or fees according ta the following schedule: I
I� Rodea and wild west show, per day $20a•00 �
Menageries, pec. day . i00.40
Parade for circuses or menageries 2��•�fl �
All other buildings, where entertainments,
amusements or exhibitians of any kind
or nature not enumerated above,
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per week . ,. ' � - ' -9- 30.Q0 ,
ger six manths - . , `' '� • iQ0.Q0 — — -
� Any festival (carnivals having 15 or less , � . , �
� :concessions are classified as festivals), � •
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J A�ny motor carnivals, per week 300.00
I Any circus, per day 100.00
� Street exhibitions of any animal or animals,
trick or other street performarices,
per day 30.00
Any other street amusement or exhibition,
not above mentioned, per day 30.00
Tent shows, per day 30.00
� per week. 50.00
� For neighborhood amusement park, operating �
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seasonally, including Merry-go-rounds,
� Ferris Wheels, Air-swings and similar '
amusement devices, not exceeding
12 in number, per device 40.00
But, total not to exceed $300.00 per year
Any amusement .or entertainment�or show of
any kind on any lot or land in the City '
not included in above , �
per•daY � " . 50.00 •
per week 100.00
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For the operating of a shooting gallery in �' '
said City, per month 40.00
per year 300.00 �
and the foregoing license fees shall exempt the applicant from the� provisions
of the City of Renton's Business and Occupation Tax�Chapter.
Section 5-2203 1 (A), as amended: For operation of a golf course and
activities incidental thereto, the sum of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) annually;
if semi-annual license, the fee shall be Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for such semi-annual
period.
Section 5-2203 1 (B), as amended: For operation of a skating rink (roller
skating or ice skating) the sum of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) annually, if
semi-annual license, the fee shall be Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for such semi-annuai
period.
Section 5-2203 (C), as amended: For operation of a commercial theater
, regularly showing motion pictures, or a motion picture show, the sum of One
Hundred Dollars ($100.00) annually; if semi-annual license, the fee shall be Fifty
Dollars ($50.00) for each such semi-annual period. The theater license fee shall
include the right to operate one concession within the theater-movie premises.
(2). In addition thereto there is hereby imposed and" leviec( upon every
person who pays such an admission charge a tax of three Qercent (3%) on each
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admission charge, effective 7anuary 1, 1979. Every person receiving an admission
charge upon which an admission tax is levied under this Chapter shall collect
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the amount of the tax imposed upon the person paying an admission charge.
Such admission tax shall be deemed to be held in trust by the person required
to collect the same until remitted #o the Director of Finance as hereinafter
provided. The admission tax imposed in this Chapter shall be collected at the
time the admission charge is paid. Said admission tax is in addition to all other
tax or license fees imposed by law.
Section 5-2503, as amended: LICENSE FEES: The fees for an auctioneer's
license shall be as follows:
Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) for a period of one (1) year
Twenty Dollars ($20.00) per day for any period of less than one (1) year.
Section 5-2505 (A), as amended: Application for a special permit to conduct
an auction sale of personal property within a residential area of the City shall
be made to the City Clerk on a #orm to be provided by him upon which shall �
be stated the nature and quantity of the goods to be sold and the number of
days during which it is desired to conduct such auction sale. The City Clerk
may issue such special permit upon the payment of the fee of Twenty Dollars
($20.00) which shall be in addition to and not in lieu of the fees and bond provided
for in Section 5-2503 and 5-2504, respectively, of this Chapter, upon his determination
that there is good and sufficient reason for the issuance of such special permit.
' � Section 5-2606, as amended: LICENSE FEE: Prior to the issuance of
w any such license by the City Clerk the applicant shall pay a license fee of Ten
Dollars ($10.00) per day of Sixty Dollars ($60.00) per month, or if�issued for .
a period of five (5) months or more, but not to exceed twelve (12) months, or
on an annual basis, such license fee shall be in the sum of Three Hundred Dollars
($300.00) per year.
Fo`r the purpose of this Chapter, any'periocf of more than seven (7) calendar
days, but not more than thirty (30) calendar days, shall be considered one (1)
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be assessed on a calendar year basis and on and after July 1 the amount of
the fee for such annual licenses shall be one-half (1/2) the amount stipulated
for the remainder of the year.
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' Such license, when issued by the City.Clerk, shall contain the signature
and seal of the issuing officer and shall show the name, address and photograph
of said licensee, the nature of the license issued and the kind�of goods to be
sold thereunder, the amount of fee paid, the date of issuance and the length
of time the same shall be operative, as well as .the license number and other
identifying description of any vehicle used in such peddling or soliciting.. I�!
Section 5-2703 (A), as amended: No person shall operate or cause to I�
be operated any sound truck in the City for commercial aclvertising purposes
with sound amplifying equipment in operation unless a license �has been obtained
from the Clerk. The fee for said license shall be Ten Dollars ($10.00) per day.
� Section 5-2804, as amended: INVESTIGATION OF APPLICANT; LICENSE
FEES; PENALTIES: 1. Upon filing of the application the Clerk shall determine
whether the applicant is a fit and proper person to engage in the used car business
and is prepared to carry on such business under the provisions and requirements
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of this Chapter. The Clerk shall �refer�the applicarit, to the Chief of�Police '
for investigation and report. If the Clerk is. satisfied that the applicant is such
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of this Chapter, he may issue a license to the applicant.° t The annual license
; fee for used automobile dealer's license shall be Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00)
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of December of each year. Such license shall be conspicuously displayed at
the place of business of the dealer.
2. Each license fee provided for herein shall become due and payable
I on the first day of each year that the person is engaged in the used car business
as herein defined. As to any such business comriienced during any year such
annual license fees shall be due and payable on the first day that such business
is transacted or carried on. Failure to pay the license fee within 30 days after
the date on which it is due and payable shall render the tax payer subject to
a penalty of five percent (5%) of the amount of the license fee for the first
month of delinquency and an additional penalty of five percent (5%) for each
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succeeding month of delinquency, but the total penalty shall in no event exceed
twenty five percent (25°h) of the total amount of license fees due. .
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SECTION 5-2901, as amerided: LICENSE REQUIRED: 1. It shall be unlawful
for any person to� advertise or conduct any sale of goods, wares or merchandise, .
at retail, which is represented or held out as a bankrupt, insolvent, assignee, �
adjusters, trustees, executors, administrator, receivers, wholesalers, jobbers, manufacturers,
closing out, liquidation, closing stock, fire or water damage sale, or any other
sale which is by representation or advertisement intended to lead the public
to believe that the person conducting such sale is selling out or closing out
the goods, wares or merchandise of any business located within the City for
less than current or going retail price, without first filing with the Clerk the
inventory hereinafter provided for and obtaining from the Clerk a license to
be known as a "Going Out of Business Sale" license.
2. The fee for such license shall be, and the same is hereby fixed as
follows: For a period not exceeding thirty (30) days, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00);
for a period not exceeding sixty (60) days, Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00); for
a period not exceeding ninety (90) days, Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00); provided,
that only one (!) such license shall be issued for such saie within a twelve (12)
months period and no such license shall be issued for less than thirty (30) days,
nore more than ninety (90) days.
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Section 5-3102, as amended: LICENSE REQUIRED: FEE:
(a). It shall be unlawful to conduct, open up, manage or operate or maintain
any "cabaret" as hereinabove defined within the City of Renton without a valid
and subsisting license to do so�to be known as the "cabaret license"; the fees
for said license shall be as follows:
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1. Annual license fee ' $ 600.00
2. The license fee for 'three (3) months or less 150.00
3. The license fee for one day � 50.00 �
. Each such license shall be non-assignable and non-transferable and no fee shall
be refundable.
(b). The license fee for the oper.ation �of a piano oniy or similar instrument � �
�y any person in any establishment as defined in Section 5-3101 (a) shall be
the sum of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per year; the license fee for a period
of less than a year shall be at the rate of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for each quarterly
period; each such license shall be non-assignable, non-transferable and the fee
paid shall be non-refundable.
Section 5-3203, as amended: LICENSE REQUIRED: It shall be unlawful
to conduct, operate or inaintain a "massage business", "health salon" or "public
bathhouse" or to work as an operator or attendant thereat, unless such establishment,
operator, attendant, `or�premises`i�e licensed as .hereinafter provided. The fee
for such license shall be and .is hereby fixed. in the sum of One Hundred Doliars
($100.00) for thew operation of a "massage business", "health salon" or "public
bathhouse", and the sum of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per annum for an operator
and the sum of Twenty Dollars ($20.00) #or a massage business attendant.
No such license shall be,issued by the City of Renton unless the applicant
has a valid, existing license issued by the State of Washington, Director of Department
of Motor Vehicles, pursuant to Chapter 280, Laws of 1975, First Ex Session,
or as same may be hereafter amended from time to time. . I
Section 5-3211, as amended: LICENSE REQUIRED FOR FACILITY OPERATOR
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OR ATTENDANT: l. It shail be unlawful for any person #o give a massage
: or other treatment to the body of another by rubbing, kneading, hitting or any
other manipulation in any massage business, health salon or public bathhouse
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wi#hout an operator's license. "fhe fee for such an operator's license shall be
and is hereby #ixed in the sum of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per annum.
2. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate, to assist in the operation
of, to start or to stop any mechanical device used by another for health, physical
well-being, or weight reducing purposes, or to position another using such a device
in any such facility, without a massage business attendant's license or a massage
operator's license. The fee for a massage business attendant's license shall be �,
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and is hereby fixed in the sum of Twenty Dollars ($20.00) per annum. I
3. The, operator's fees provided in this Section 5-3211 shall not be applicable
to a sole proprietor-operator of such facility, or establishment, who employs
no help or assist�nce in the conduct of his�business, in which case only the
license fee specified in Section 5-3203 shall apply to such sole proprietor-operator.
� 4. It shall be unlawful for any female attendant or operator other than
a chiropractor, osteopath, chiropodist, drugless healer, doctor of inedicine, licensed
practical or registered nurse, masseuse graduated or certified from a duly State
licensed training school or, in lieu thereof, having practical working experience
of not less than two (2) years as such masseuse, when otherwise duly licensed �
by the State of Washington, of any massage parlor, health salon or public bathhouse
as hereinabove defined, to attend a male patron while such male patron is undergoing
a massage, treatment or taking a bath; it shail be unlawful for the owner, manager
or person in charge of a massage parlor or public bathhouse to permit or suffer
such female attendant other than hereinabove excepted to attend a male patron
while such male patron is undergoing a massage or treatment or taking a bath. � I,
The above educational requirements relating to graduated masseuse or certificated I
from a duly State licensed training school, or in lieu thereof,.having practical
� working experience of not less than two (2) years as such masseuse, shall become
effective as of �anuary 1, 1971. Each such attendant or operator shall at all
times, while giving such massage, or otherwise attending such patron, be appropriately
dressed, including undergarments, smock, or customary nurse's uniform.
SECTION II: Existing Section 5-3001 of Title V (Business Regulations)
of Ordinance No. 162$ entitled "Code of General Ordinances of the City of Renton" '
is hereby amended by adding the following: �
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Section 5-34Q1 (H): MISCELLANEOUS CHARGES FOR POLICE SERVICE5c ' �'
Record Check (Person with No Record
) Per Name $ 2.q0
Record Check {Persan with No Record)
plus Clearance Letter for Visa, Passport Per Name $ 5.00
� t2ecard Check {Person with Record} with
Written Vecification Per Name $ S.OQ
Fingerprint Cards (Not Classified) First Card $ 3.00
Each Add'1 Card $ 1.Q0
Verification of Lost or Stolen Property Per Report $ 3.00 j
Case Report Per Report $ 3.00
Traffic Accident Report Per Report $ 3.04
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Traffic Accident Report (with Witness �
Statements Limited by RCW i0.97.30 Per Report $ 4.00 I
Service of Civil Papers (Small Claims, Natice.
to Vacate, etc.) $ r�,�a
Photographs and Prints '
A. Prints - each - First Capy
� Black & White $ 6.pp
j Colar . $ 7.�}p
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Color �' $ 3.50
SECTION III: ,This (Jrdinance sha11 be effective upon its passage, approval
I and five days after its pubiicatian.
� PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL this lgth day of L?ecember, 1978. i
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I�1axa�e, E._Mo�or�_ _De�.u�ya-�City Clerl� �
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APPROVED BY T"HE MAYC}R this 18thday of December, 1978. � I
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Charles J.;Jr�elaurenti, Mayor � � j
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Approved as to form:
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L rence J.�Warr�i, City Attorney
Date of Publication: ����mber 22 , 19"78
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