HomeMy WebLinkAbout1969-1194 ORDINANCE NO. /179,
AN ORDINANCE relating to licenses and business regulations; levying an
annual business license fee or tax and specifying the
rate thereof; amending Section 5.52.030 of the City of
Yakima Municipal Code; and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. Section 5.52.030 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
"5.52.030 Persons Subject to License -- Fees. There is here-
by levied upon and shall be collected from every person engag-
ing in business in the City of Yakima an annual license fee or
tax for the privilege of engaging in business activities. Such
license fee shall be measured by the number of employees of each
business employed during the twelve -month period immediately pre-
ceding the year for which the license fee is payable as follows:
(a) For every person employing one or two employees,
Twenty -five Dollars ($25.00) per annum or any part thereof.
(b) For every person employing three to and including
five employees, Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per annum or any
part thereof.
(c) For every person employing six to and including
nine employees, Seventy -five Dollars ($75.00) per annum or
any part thereof,
(d) For every person employing ten to and including
fourteen employees, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per annum
or any part thereof.
(e) For every person employing fifteen to and includ-
ing twenty employees, One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00)
per annum or any part thereof.
(f) For every person employing twenty -one to and
including thirty employees, Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00)
per annum or any part thereof.
(g) For every person employing thirty -one to and
including forty -five employees, Three Hundred Dollars
($300.00) per annum or any part thereof.
(h) For every person employing forty -six to and includ-
ing sixty employees, Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00) per
annum or any part thereof.
(i) For every person employing sixty -one to and includ-
ing eighty employees, Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) per
annum or any part thereof.
(j) For every person employing over eighty employees,
Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) per annum or any part thereof.
Employees working more than sixteen hundred hours,
including legal holidays and vacation time, during the
twelve month period immediately preceding the year for which
the license fee is payable shall be considered permanent
employees; employees working sixteen hundred hours or less,
including legal holidays and vacation time, shall be con-
sidered temporary employees.
In determining the license fee to be paid hereunder by
• each business the total number of employees shall be com-
puted by adding together the number of permanent employees
and the number of temporary employees, the latter figure to
be computed by dividing total man hours, including legal
holidays and vacation time, worked by all temporary
employees, by sixteen hundred."
Section 2. This ordinance is one to provide for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, property, health, safety and welfare
of the people of the City of Yakima and an emergency is hereby declared
to exist and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect immediate-
ly upon its passage, approval and publication as provided by law and by
the City Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: signed and approved this 22nd day of
December, 1969.
f / Mayor
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