City of Monticello Business License Fee Schedule

Abstract Companies, agents, firms or persons engaged in the business of making abstracts of title from public records	$25.00
Adding Machines, business machines and other office equipment, dealers in or agents for	$10.00
Advertising (See Also Billposters):
Each person advertising on streets with banners, floats, cartoons, exhibitions, megaphones or other means when no vehicle is used	$25.00
Same as above when vehicle is used	$50.00
Card Directory	$10.00
Advertising schemes and devices not otherwise provided for, each device	$25.00
Any person engaged in the business of outdoor advertising, such as painted walls, bulletins, spectacular electric displays, etc. (Provided, however, that this license tax is not intended to include signs advertising any business when painted by a licensed sign painter.)	$100.00
Agents, firms associations or corporations distributing circulars, pamphlets or other advertising matter except those paying city license advertising their won goods and merchandise not including billposting	$25.00
Agents, firms or associations or other persons engaged in the business of billposting	$25.00
Persons acting as advertising agents or writing advertisements for profit	$10.00
Aerial Devices. Constructing or advertising aerial devices, kites, balloons or other similar exhibitions for which a charge is made, each exhibit	$10.00
Agencies. Agency or any other business not specifically mentioned except such licenses as may hereafter be authorized for the city	$15.00
Alterations	$15.00
Amusements, not otherwise covered by ordinance which shall include indoor baseball and any other lawful indoor sport	$10.00
Antiques and Collectibles	$25.00
Appliance, Radio, and TV Repair	$25.00
Architects, each	$10.00
Artificial Stone Manufacturers, and dealers in tiling, terra cotta, marble, granite, etc., or agent for	$15.00
Artists or Photographers	$ 5.00
Astrologers	$30.00
Auctioneers
Resident, each	$25.00
Transient, each per day	$50.00
Transient, selling real estate only, per day	$25.00
Livestock, per year	$25.00
Auction House	$50.00
Auditing Company	$25.00
Auditors or Accountants, each	$10.00
Automatic Teller Machine	$25.00
Automobiles
Automobile storage garage	$10.00
Automobile accessories (same as merchant)	$25.00
Auto Detailing	$25.00
Automobile Repair Shop	$10.00
Automobile and/or truck dealers; provided that the operation or establishment of only one automobile and/or truck display lot shall be permitted under this license. Additional lots will require a separate license	$15.00
Bakery, wholesale or retail	$15.00
Bank or Banker	$25.00
Barber Shops
One Chair	$ 5.00
Each additional chair	$ 2.00
Beauty Parlor	$10.00
Bed and Breakfast	$25.00
Bicycles. Dealers in bicycles and supplies, including repair shop (If the stock of bicycle supplies does not exceed twenty percent of the common stock carried then the same may be sold under the merchant’s license)	$ 5.00
Billposters, agents, firms or persons engaged in the business of billposting other than by painting signs (See also Advertising)	$25.00
Boats. Keeping for hire or operating for profit, launches or other boats whether propelled by steam, electricity or other power as follows:
For each launch or boat not being a rowboat having a passenger capacity not exceeding ten (10) persons	$ 5.00
For each launch having passenger capacity in excess of ten (10) passengers	$10.00
Bonds or Investments (See also Brokers). Agents for selling or offering for sale stock or bonds which are to mature by the payment of installments or otherwise.	$10.00
Boot, Black, each chair or stand	$ 1.00
Bottling works, bottling soda, mineral or spring water, or other soft drinks	$25.00
Bowling Alley
First Two (2) Alleys	$15.00
Each Additional Alley	$ 7.50
Boxing Contests (See Exhibitions)	$10.00
Brokers (See also Bonds or Investments):
Merchandise	$25.00
Stocks and Bonds	$25.00
Brokers, dealers in grain, cotton or stock on margin	$25.00
Real Estate	Contact City Hall
Lumber	$25.00
Builders and Construction Companies (See Contractors)	$25.00
Builders’ Supplies. Dealers in, including doors, sash and blinds, oils, mantels, lime, cement, etc. (but this shall not include factories manufacturing sash, doors, blinds or novelty works).	$20.00
Building and Loan Association or Loan Company	$10.00
Bus Line Office	$25.00
Business Machines (See Office Equipment)
Cabinet Maker or Carpenter Shop	$25.00
Cable Television	$50.00
Canning Factory	$10.00
Car Wash (Vending)	25.00
Carpet and Rug Cleaning Establishment	$10.00
Carts, push or fruit, etc. (See Fruit Stands)
Catering Service	$25.00
Cellular, Pager, and Radio Communications Company	$25.00
Chiropodist	$10.00
Circus (See Shows)
Civil Engineer. (See Engineer, Civil)	$10.00
Clairvoyant	$500.00
Clothier, transient agent for nonresident tailor	$10.00
Coffee Service	$25.00
Coin-operated Devices	Contact City Hall
Cold Storage, other than ice factory	$25.00
Collection Agency for the collection of rents or accounts other than real estate agency paying no other license tax to the city	$10.00
Commission Merchant or factor	$25.00
Computer Service	$25.00
Convalescent Facility
Up to 5 units	$25.00
Over 5 units (additional $3.00 per unit)	$ 3.00 +
Contractors. Persons holding themselves out as regular contractors as a business, shall pay license as follows:
Paper hanging, house and sign painting, including inside painting	$10.00
Paving and sidewalk	$10.00
Plumbing	$10.00
Electrical	$10.00
House-moving	$10.00
General Contractors	$25.00
Contractors or builders erecting or constructing on percentage basis shall pay the same license as provided for all contractors All other not otherwise specified in this section shall pay a license of	$25.00
Crate Mill or container manufacturer	$25.00
Credit Unions	$25.00
Dance Halls, each	$10.00
Day Care Centers	$25.00
Dentists, each	$25.00
Directories, city county or state; each person making or offering for sale	$10.00
Divine Healers	$500.00
Doors, Sash, Blinds, Etc., manufacturer	$25.00
Dry Cleaners and dyers	$10.00
Electricity	$50.00
Employment Agency	$10.00
Engineer, Civil	$10.00
Exhibitions, freak or other curiosity of profit
Per day	$ 5.00
Per week	$20.00
Wrestling or boxing and other similar exhibitions or matches, for each exhibition or match not having a regular license under amusements	$10.00
Express Companies, doing business in the city, not to include business done by the companies between the city and other points outside of the state, having place of business within corporate limits	$37.00
Feed, Seed, Hay and Grain, retail or wholesale	$15.00
Ferris Wheel and other such amusement devices, per week	$25.00
Fertilizer
Dealer in	$10.00
Manufacturer of	$25.00
Film or Photo Developing	$25.00
Finance Company	$25.00
Fish or Meat Market	$15.00
Fitness Center	$25.00
Flea Market	$25.00
Florist	$5.00
Flying Jenny, per week	$25.00
Fortune-Teller or Palmist	$500.00
Fruit Dealer, Wholesale, including packing houses	$15.00
Funeral Director, Embalmer or Undertaker	$25.00
Furniture Dealers. (Same as Merchant)	$25.00
Furniture Moving	$25.00
Game Room/Amusement Center	$15.00
Garages, Storage, each location	$10.00
Gas Liquefied Petroleum or other gases used for fuel, dealers in and/or installers of fittings and appliances for the use of: (No license shall be issued to an applicant in this category until the city clerk has been provided with verification that the applicant has complied with the laws of the state in reference to the bond or public liability requirements for persons licensed by the state to carry on the business of selling liquefied petroleum gas or making installations.)	$15.00
Gas Fitter, when operated as independent contractor	$10.00
Gasoline Filling Station, each pump Gasoline filling stations that pay for three (3) pumps or fifteen dollars ($15.00) shall be permitted to sell and keep a merchandise stock up to one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) without a merchant’s license.	$ 5.00
Grocery (Same as merchant)	$25.00
Guaranty or Surety Company and agent therefore	$ 5.00
Gunsmiths, including sporting goods	$25.00
Repair Shop	$ 5.00
Hardware (Same as merchant)	$25.00
Hotels, Taverns or Boarding Houses:
Three (3) to Five (5) rooms	$ 3.00
Six (6) to ten (10) rooms	$ 5.00
Eleven (11) to Fifteen (15) rooms	$ 7.50
Sixteen (16) to thirty (30) rooms	$12.50
Thirty-one (31) to Fifty (50) rooms	$20.00
Over Fifty (50) rooms	$25.00
Ice, selling or delivering, per vehicle	$25.00
Ice Cream
Manufacturing for sale for consumption on other than premises	$10.00
Peddler, each person or vehicle	$10.00
Ice Cream and/or Soda Fountain, when not connected with other business	$10.00
Insurance
Each insurance company writing life, fire, accident, health, public liability, indemnity, motor vehicle, industrial or other type or form of insurance within the corporate limits of the city, and either represented by local, traveling or itinerant agent or representative, per year	$25.00
Insurance agents or firms doing an insurance business as agent or representative of insurance companies for each place of business, per year	410.00
Each traveling or itinerant insurance agent soliciting business within the corporate limits of the city, per year	$10.00
Insurance solicitors employed by insurance agents who have paid an annual license as provided by this section, per year	$ 5.00
Investigators, Private, each	$10.00
Investments Agents. (See Bonds or Investments)	$10.00
Itinerants. (See also Peddlers and Solicitors)
Any person operating in the city, telescopes or other devices for the purpose of gazing at the stars or other heavenly bodies, who shall make a charge for each instrument per month	$10.00
Merchants and vendors, any person, either principal or agent temporarily engaged in the sale of goods, wares and merchandise and occupying any building structure for the same, per month	$75.00
Janitorial Service	$25.00
Jewelry Repair Sops and Watchmakers	$ 5.00
Junk Dealer, including dealers in scrap or old iron, brass, copper or any other metal, waste cotton, or any articles of any kind unless for the original purpose	$25.00
Knife and Scissors Sharpener	$ 5.00
Land and Development Company	$25.00
Laundry
Located outside the city and doing business in the city	$100.00
Located and doing business in the city	$15.00
Hand Laundry in the city	$10.00
Linen Service	$25.00
Lawn Maintenance/Landscaping	$25.00
Lawyers, each	$10.00
Linen Service	$25.00
Livestock Dealers	$25.00
Locksmiths, each	$ 5.00
Lumber
Broker (See Brokers)	$25.00
Dealers who buy and sell lumber, dealers in sawed lumber and dealers in staves, shingles, etc. for each place. (See Building Material)	$20.00
Sawmill yard, or novelty works. (See Sawmills)	$25.00
Lunch Stands, portable or moveable	$35.00
Machine Shop	$10.00
Machinery, dealer in, or agent for	$15.00
Manicurist	$10.00
Manufacturers not otherwise provided for	$25.00
Marriage/Family Therapist, Physical Therapist	$25.00
Masseurs	$10.00
Mattress Factory	$10.00
Meat Market	$15.00
Medicines, proprietary or medical ointment, manufacturer of, other than drugstores	$15.00
Merchandise machines, coin-operated	Contact City Hall
Merchant Tailor	$10.00
Merchants, store keepers or druggists, wholesale or retail, having a permanent place of business	$25.00
Messenger Service	$25.00
Midwives	$ 5.00
Milk
Retail, each vehicle	$10.00
Depot, milk alone	$10.00
Millinery, not in connection with other business	$10.00
Money Lenders, other than banks or loan companies	$25.00
Monuments, Dealer	$15.00
Moss Factory	$25.00
Motorboats. (See Boats)
Motorcycles, dealer in or agent for	$ 5.00
Motor Vehicles for Hire
Passenger vehicles for hire, each vehicle	$10.00
Trucks or vehicles other than passenger vehicles for hire:
Resident	$10.00
Nonresident	$25.00
(Owners of each car of truck must carry “For Hire” sign in such place that it can be seen from the outside. Failure to display such sign shall forfeit license and shall be punished as provided n section 1-4 of this Code.)
Music Machines, coin-operated	Contact City Hall
Nail Salon	$10.00
News Depot, meaning dealer in current periodicals, newspapers, etc.	$ 5.00
Newspaper Publisher	$20.00
Notary Public, taking other than acknowledgements	$10.00
Novelty Works, Sawmills, etc.	$25.00
Nursery Stock, agent for or dealer in	$ 5.00
Nursing Home Facility
Up to 5 units	$25.00
Over 5 units – additional $3.00 per unit	$ 3.00 +
Office Equipment, dealers in	$10.00
Oils, Fuel, illuminating or lubricating gasoline, wholesale dealer in, or agent for	$50.00
Oils, Peddlers, each vehicle (See Peddlers)	$10.00
Optician or Oculist, not including regular physicians and surgeons	$10.00
Osteopaths	$ 5.00
Packing House, for fruits and vegetables	$15.00
Painter, Sign	$10.00
Painters and Decorators	$10.00
Palmist	$500.00
Paperhangers (See Contractors)	$10.00
Parcel Delivery Service	$25.00
Pawnbrokers	$25.00
Peddlers, including transient merchants (See also Itinerants.)
Fruits and vegetables, etc.	$100.00
Lunches, sandwiches, peanuts, etc., having no vehicle	$10.00
Same as above from pushcart	$35.00
Ice Cream, each person or vehicle (See Ice Cream)	$10.00
Wares, Merchandise, goods, etc.	$100.00
Oils, fuels, etc. each vehicle	$10.00
Pest Exterminators	$25.00
Photographers	$ 5.00
Phrenologist	$500.00
Physicians	$25.00
Piano Tuner
Resident	$ 5.00
Itinerant, or one who, either in person or trough others, solicits work from house to house	$25.00
Plasterers. (See Contractors)	$25.00
Pool/Billiard Rooms and Tables
For each place of business where pool, billiards or bagatelle tables are kept for use by the public for a consideration, per year	$15.0
In addition the fee prescribed above, for each table maintained in excess of these (The number of tables shall be based on the combination of the varying types of tables and not on each type separately.)	$15.00
Pool Installation	$25.00
Printer, when not operating newspaper office	$15.00
Radio Station	$50.00
Railroad Companies. (Same as Express Companies)	$37.00
Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons	Contact City Hall
Rental or Leased Units
Dwelling/Mobile Home Lots up to 5 units	$25.00
Over 5 units (additional $3.00 per unit)	$ 3.00 +
Repair Shops, not enumerated herein	$ 5.00
Restaurants
Seating not more than ten (10) person	$ 5.00
Seating from eleven (11) to twenty (20) persons	$ 7.50
Seating from twenty-one (21) to thirty (30) persons	$10.00
Seating from thirty-one (31) to forty (40) persons	$15.00
Seating more than forty (40) persons Restaurants seating more than forty (40) persons and paying a license fee as required above shall be permitted to sell and keep a merchandise stock up to one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) without a merchant’s license.)	$25.00
Rooming House, Lodging or Boarding Houses (See Hotels)
Salesman, real estate	Contact City Hall
Sand and Shell, dealer in	$25.00
Savings and Loans	$25.00
Sawmills	$25.00
Seed Store (See Feed, Seed, Hay and Grain)	$15.00
Sewing Machine
Dealer in	$10.00
Repairer, itinerant	$25.00
Sheet Metal Shop	$10.00
Shoemakers or Menders, with or without machinery	$ 5.00
Shooting Gallery	$25.00
Shows, Shows of all kinds (except circuses) giving performances of exhibitions under tents or other temporary structures or within temporary enclosures shall pay a license tax for each day as follows and except as otherwise provided:
When the charge for admission including the charge for reserved seats shall be less than fifty cents ($.50) for each person	$50.00
When the charge for admission, including reserved seats shall be more than fifty cents ($.50) for each person each day	$100.00
Dog and pony or other animal show, per day	$25.00
Dog and pony or other animal show, per week	$100.00
Circuses, per day	$100.00
Circus parade through the streets when the performance is outside the city	$250.00
Circus parade through the streets when the performance is in the city	$20.00
Traveling moving picture shows showing in buildings or tents where admission is charged, per day	$15.00
Shuffleboards and all devices such as throwing at wooden figures or other objects with rings, or any other device of a like nature, or striking an object to test the lungs, etc. where charge is made to participate, per year.	$50.00
Skating rinks
Operating a permanent structure, per year	$10.00
Operating in a temporary structure, such as under a tent, or an open rink, or any structure deemed by the tax collector to be of a temporary nature, per year	$25.00
Slot Machines	Contact City Hall
Soda Fountain (See Ice Cream and/or Soda Fountain)	$10.00
Stenographers, public	$ 5.00
Storage Houses (See Warehouses)	$15.00
Street Vendors, of confetti, balls, balloons or other specialties, per day	$10.00
Surveyors	$10.00
Surgeons	$10.00
Tailor, Merchant (See Merchant Tailor)	$10.00
Tanning Facility	$10.00
Tattooing or Body Piercing	$25.00
Tax Preparation Services	$10.00
Taxicabs (See motor vehicles for hire)
Taxidermist	$25.00
Telegraph Company doing business within the state, exclusive of business to and from points outside of the state, and exclusive of business done for the United States government, having a place of business within the city	$25.00
Telephone Answering Service	$25.00
Telephone Companies	$50.00
Thrift Shop	$25.00
Timber Broker	$25.00
Tin Shops (See also Sheet Metal Shop)	$10.00
Tire Retreading and Vulcanizing Shop	$ 5.00
Theaters, Moving Pictures, where admission is charged:
Five hundred (500) seats or less	$25.00
More than five hundred (500) seats	$50.00
Therapist, Marriage/Family/Physical	$25.00
Transient Merchants (See Peddlers)
Travel Agency	$25.00
Tree Trimming	$25.00
Typewriters or dealers in (See Office Equipment)	$10.00
Umbrella Menders	$ 5.00
Unclassified. All persons doing business in the city of having agents or representatives established here and not specifically enumerated in this list	$20.00
Undertaker (See Funeral Director)	$25.00
Upholsterers or Furniture Menders having an established place of business	$ 5.00
Vending Machines	Contact City Hall
Veterinary	$ 5.00
Video Rental	$25.00
Warehouse and Storage Rooms for hire	$15.00
Watchmakers (See Jewelry Repair)	$ 5.00
Water, dealer in mineral or spring water	$25.00
Welder	$25.00
Window Cleaner	$25.00
Wood Dealer, or other material, delivery within the city limits	$ 5.00
Wrecker/Towing Service	$25.00
Wrestling Matches (See Exhibitions)	$10.00