Item 09 - Agreement for Business License Tax and Fee Software Services

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(Ord. No. NS-1922, § 1, 7-20-87) Sec. 21-5. License required. There are imposed upon the businesses, trades, professions, callings and occupations specified in this Chapter license taxes in the amounts hereinafter prescribed. It shall be unlawful for any person, whether as principal or agent, clerk or employee, either for himself or for any other person, or for body corporate, or as an officer of any corporation to transact and carry on any business, trade, profession, calling or occupation in the city without first having procured a license from the city to do so or without complying with all applicable provisions of this Code. This section shall not be construed to require any person to obtain a license prior to doing business within the city if such requirement conflicts with applicable statutes of the United States or of the state. Persons not required to obtain a license prior to doing business within the city because of conflict with applicable statutes of the United States or of the state shall be liable for payment of the tax imposed by this Chapter but shall not be subject to any penal provisions of this Code for such nonpayment. Said tax shall be collected in a civil action. (Ord. No. NS-1922, § 1, 7-20-87) Sec. 21-6. Violation defined. The engaging in, transacting and carrying on of any business without first having procured a license from the city to do so, or without complying with any and all provisions of this Chapter, constitutes a distinct and separate violation of this Chapter for each and every day that such business is so carried on. (Ord. No. NS-1922, § 1, 7-20-87) Sec. 21-7. Branch establishments; multiple places of business; more than one type of business. A separate business license fee must be paid and a separate business license obtained for each branch establishment or separate property location of the business transacted and carried on, and for each separate type of business at the same location, and each license shall authorize the licensee to transact and carry on only the business licensed thereby at the location and in the manner designated in such license. Provided, however, that warehouse or distribution facilities located upon the same premises or upon contiguous premises and used in connection with or incidental to a business licensed thereat under the provisions of this Chapter shall not be deemed to be separate types of business or separate branch establishments. Further provided that no separate business transactions or administrative or management related activities shall be carried on in such incidental or supplemental warehouses or distribution facilities. (Ord. No. NS-1922, § 1, 7-20-87; Ord. No. NS-2000, § 2, 3-6-89) Sec. 21-8. Two or more allied businesses. (a) Whenever any person is engaged in two (2) or more correlated businesses, or is carrying on two (2) or more allied activities at the same location and under the same ownership and management and the said businesses are on a gross receipts basis, then in that event the gross receipts shall be reported together, and the appropriate applicable rate or rates prescribed will be used for the compilation of the combined annual City of Santa Ana RFP No. 23-165 Page 76 of 196