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business. Alternatively, at the election of an applicant or licensee, the business tax may be based on an amount
<br />equivalent to the cost of maintaining said business without reference to the total gross receipts of the business. As
<br />used herein the phrase "cost of maintaining said business" shall have the same meaning as "cost of doing
<br />business".
<br />Independent contractor shall mean any natural person other than a state licensed contractor, who is engaged
<br />to aid in the business of any other person, whether as a professional as defined hereinbelow or whether pursuant
<br />to any license, certificate or registration authorized by the California Business and Professions Code, as the same
<br />now exists or as hereafter amended, or whether with regard to any other trade, skill or occupation, and who
<br />receives remuneration either through commission or pursuant to any contract of employment which excludes
<br />regular wages or salary, or in any other manner other than through regular wages, salary or a direct participation
<br />in the profits of the business.
<br />Insurance agent shall mean any person, including bailbond agents, directly authorized by and on behalf of an
<br />insurer to transact insurance and to bind the insurer in the execution of insurance policies.
<br />Insurance broker shall mean any person, including bailbond brokers, who, for compensation and on behalf of
<br />another person, transacts insurance other than life with, but not on behalf of, an insurer.
<br />Insurance solicitor shall mean a natural person employed to aid an insurance agent or insurance broker in
<br />transacting insurance other than life.
<br />Itinerant merchant shall mean any person who engages in a temporary or transient business in the city,
<br />selling or offering for sale goods, wares, merchandise or things or articles of value, with the intention of conducting
<br />such business in the city for a period of not more than ninety (90) days in any calendar year and who, for the
<br />purpose of carrying on such business, hires, leases or occupies any room, doorway, vacant lot, building or structure
<br />for the exhibition or sale of goods, wares or merchandise, or who associates temporarily with any local dealer,
<br />trader, merchant or auctioneer, or who conducts such temporary or transient business in connection with or as a
<br />part of or in the name of any local dealer, trader, merchant or auctioneer.
<br />Junk collection shall refer to the use of any vehicle by any person for the purpose of traveling from place to
<br />place or from street to street to purchase and collect any rags, bottles, papers, cans, metals or other junk.
<br />Junk dealer shall mean any person having a fixed place of business in the city engaged in the business of
<br />buying or selling, either at wholesale or retail, any rags, bottles, papers, cans, metals or other junk.
<br />Junk salvager, junk collector or junk recycler shall mean any person at a fixed place of business in the city
<br />engaged in the business of carrying on or collecting, buying or selling at either retail or wholesale or otherwise
<br />dealing in junk and/or rubbish, waste material, refuse and/or any rags, sacks, bottles, papers, cans, metals, rubber,
<br />cordage, tires and other like articles, whether the same can be sold or otherwise disposed of for the purpose of
<br />being treated, repaired or prepared so as to be used again in some other form.
<br />Junk yards, automobile wrecking yards, and salvage yards shall include any space of two hundred (200)
<br />square feet or more of area of any lot used for the storage, sale, keeping or abandonment of inoperable vehicles,
<br />junk or waste material, including scrap metal or other scrap materials, or for the dismantling, demolition or
<br />abandonment of automobiles, other vehicles, machinery or parts thereof, other than an impound yard.
<br />Leaseholder or leasehold interest as applied to any real property shall mean any person who possesses or
<br />shares an estate in realty held under lease. As applied to any dwelling, building, structure, premises or portion
<br />thereof located on such real property, the term "leaseholder" and/or "leasehold interest" shall mean any person
<br />who possesses or shares in a contract for exclusive possession or control of any such dwelling, building, structure,
<br />premises or portion thereof for a limited time.
<br />Leaseholder -lessor as applied to commercial or residential real estate shall mean any person who, while in
<br />possession of a leasehold or leasehold interest in any commercial or residential real estate, acts as a lessor by
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