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Applicant shall mean any person who applies for a license or a license renewal under the provisions of this
<br />Chapter.
<br />Automobile dismantler shall mean any person who has an established place of business and is engaged in the
<br />business of buying, selling, or dealing in vehicles of a type required to be registered pursuant to Section 220 of the
<br />California Vehicle Code, as the same now exists or as hereafter amended, for the purpose of dismantling the same,
<br />who buys or sells the integral parts and component materials thereof, in whole or in part, or deals in used motor
<br />vehicle parts. This section does not apply to the occasional and incidental dismantling of vehicles by dealers who
<br />have secured dealers' plates from the California Department of Motor Vehicles and whose principle business is
<br />buying and selling new and used vehicles, or by owners who desire to dismantle not more than three (3) personal
<br />vehicles within any twelve (12) month period.
<br />Builder -owner shall mean any person employing subcontractors, specialty contractors, general engineering
<br />contractors, or workers under his or her supervision and direction by the hour or day, for the purpose of
<br />constructing improvements on real property owned by him or her within the city; such person shall be taxed
<br />herein the same as a contractor unless his or her only building activity is constructing on his or her property a
<br />single family dwelling unit or addition thereto which will be used in whole or in part for the purpose of his or her
<br />own occupancy for a period of not less than one year. Proof of the sale or offering for sale of any such structure by
<br />the builder -owner within one year after completion of same is presumptive evidence that such structure was
<br />undertaken for purpose of sale. Provided, however, that any person holding a state contractor's license pursuant
<br />to Sections 7056, 7057, and 7058 et seq. of the California Business and Professions Code, as the same now exists or
<br />as hereafter amended, shall be considered a contractor.
<br />Building and loan shall mean any person who for a fee engages in the loan of money upon personal security,
<br />automobile, or any personal property, evidences of debt, or purchases automobile contracts, commercial paper,
<br />assignments of salary, salary warranty, salary demands, time checks, or other evidences of salary due or to become
<br />due, or automobile paper. The term building and loan as used in this Chapter includes savings and loans, but does
<br />not include pawnbrokers or the holder of a bond brokers license, or any person conducting a banking business
<br />under the laws of the state or any person subject to the state corporate income tax as a financial corporation.
<br />Building -tradesman shall mean any person engaged within the city as an independent contractor in any
<br />trade, art, calling, avocation or occupation of the building trades and not licensed as a contractor by the state.
<br />Business shall include all activities engaged in or caused to be engaged in within the city, including any
<br />commercial or industrial enterprise, trade, profession, occupation, vocation, calling, or livelihood, including rental
<br />of residential or commercial real estate, and every other kind of activity whether or not carried on for gain or
<br />profit, and whether or not engaged in as a principal or as an independent contractor, but shall not include the
<br />services rendered by an employee to his employer.
<br />Business license receipt shall mean the receipt required to be posted or displayed as evidence of a business'
<br />payment of the tax required by the provisions of this Chapter and shall herein be referred "license receipt" or
<br />"license" except as otherwise specified.
<br />Business license tax shall mean the privilege tax paid as required by the provisions of this Chapter and shall
<br />herein be referred to as "business or license tax" or "fee" except as otherwise specified.
<br />Charge shall mean any fee fixed herein which is intended solely to cover the reasonable administrative cost
<br />incurred in performing any specified act on behalf of any person or at any person's request for which said person
<br />shall be liable except as otherwise specified hereinafter.
<br />Coin -operated machine or device shall mean any machine or device that dispenses a product, or provides a
<br />service, or utility or amusement; resulting from insertion or use of a coin, slug, token, plate, disc, plug, key, check
<br />or other device, or money, or thing of value.
<br />Collector shall mean the finance director or other city officer charged with the administration of this Chapter.
<br />City of Santa Ana RFP No. 23-165 Page 65 of 196
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