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limited partnerships, professional partnerships, and publically traded partnerships), private trusts, Massachusetts
<br />business or common law trusts, real estate investment trusts, royalty trusts, estates, associations, syndicates,
<br />clubs, joint ventures, unincorporated business organizations, limited liability companies of every kind including but
<br />not limited to (sole member limited liability companies, multi member limited liability companies, non-profit
<br />limited liability companies, and series limited liability companies), cooperatives, all other types of business entities
<br />defined or authorized under federal and state laws, receivers, trustees, guardians or other representatives
<br />appointed by order of any court, and any natural individuals transacting and carrying on any business in the city
<br />other than as an employee.
<br />Premises shall include all lands, buildings, accessory buildings or structures erected or modified, equipment
<br />and appurtenances connected or used therewith, and any personal property affixed to or otherwise used for the
<br />purpose of transacting and carrying on any business on such premises.
<br />Processor shall mean any person engaging in the business of converting an article, substance or commodity
<br />into marketable form for the purpose of resale by changing its physical form or chemical composition.
<br />Professional shall mean any person, including any professional corporation, wherever located, engaged in or
<br />carrying on within the city any profession requiring satisfactory compliancy with written and/or oral examination
<br />standards adopted by a branch of the state or federal government and/or requiring a certain amount of tenure
<br />with such branch of government; such professions to include but not be limited to: architect (all types), attorney,
<br />accountant (all types), audiologist, chiropractor, clinical social worker, dentist, drugless practitioner, electrologist,
<br />engineer (all types), geologist, herbalist, marriage, family and child counselor, mortician, naturopath, optician,
<br />optometrist, osteopath, physician (all types), podiatrist, psychologist, registered nurse (as shareholder in a
<br />professional corporation), speech pathologist, surveyor, veterinarian.
<br />Professional corporation shall mean any corporation organized under the California General Corporation Law
<br />which is engaged in rendering professional services in a single profession, or as otherwise authorized pursuant to
<br />Section 13400 et seq. of the California Business and Professions Code, as the same now exists or as hereafter
<br />amended, and which in its practice or business designates itself as a professional or other corporation as may be
<br />required by statute.
<br />Property or real property as applied to commercial or residential real estate shall mean recorded assessor's
<br />property parcel, as identified by county assessor's parcel number.
<br />Real estate agent shall mean any person licensed as such by the state and engaged wholly or in part in
<br />transacting and carrying on the sale of real estate.
<br />Real estate broker shall mean any person licensed as such by the state and engaged wholly or in part in
<br />transacting and carrying on the sale of real estate including soliciting or offering to buy, sell or lease real property
<br />for others; negotiating and collecting loans for borrowers or lenders; dealing in real property sales contracts and
<br />promissory notes; receiving advance fees for real estate listings; and dealing in real estate syndicate securities.
<br />Real estate developer shall mean any person conducting, managing or transacting and carrying on the
<br />business of acquiring, subdividing, improving, selling, renting and otherwise dealing in and disposing of or
<br />developing real property for commercial, industrial, residential or nonresidential purposes including, but not
<br />limited to, one who constructs improvements upon real property for commercial, industrial, residential or
<br />nonresidential purposes with the object of selling, renting or developing it for his or her own use.
<br />Recreational services shall mean any person engaged in the business of providing facilities for recreational
<br />use; such services to include, but not be limited to: amusement machine arcades, bowling alleys, driving ranges,
<br />golf courses (including miniature), motion picture theaters (including drive-in), pool halls (including billiards and
<br />snooker), riding stables, skating rinks, social clubs, sports clubs (including spas, health clubs and conditioning
<br />gyms), swimming pools and tennis and racket clubs.
<br />Rental of commercial real estate shall include every person, whether as an owner -lessor or leaseholder -
<br />lessor, engaged in the business of leasing, renting, subleasing, subletting, providing, exchanging or trading without
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