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Home My WebLink About97009 - MINUTES - City Commission MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DANIA FLORIDA, HELD THURSDAY DECEviBER 29th A.D.1927 at 7:30 P.M. A meeting of the City Council of the City of Dania, Florida was held Thursday December 29th at 7:30 P.M.in the City Hall pursuant to adjournment of the meeting held December 12th, 1927. The following were present: Arthur C. O 'Hea, Mayor. J.M.Holding, Councilman F.L.Neville, Councilmen O.S.Peck, Councilman Councilmen John B. Gregory and,M.C.Frost were absent from the meeting. The following also were present: i. Raymond T. Skinner, City Clerk. h Mayor O'Hea called the meeting to order. The City engineer presented an amended plat of Hollywood Heights for approval of the council. Councilman Neville made a motion that the City engineer be authorized to endorse the approval of council to the plat. The motion was seconded by Councilman Peck and upon being put to a vote of the council the motion was carried unanimously. The city Clerk then read the following proposed ordinance: AN ORDINANCE No. 20 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR LICENSE TAXES AND PROVIDING TEWS UNDER WHICH LICENSES MAY BE OBTAINED FOR ANY BUSINESS PROFESSION OR OCCUPATION IN THE CITY OF DANIA FLORIDA AND PROVIDING A PUNISHMENT FOR THE VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE. BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Dania,Florida: Section 1. No person, form, association, or corporation shall engage in or manage any business, profession, or occupation within the City of Dania, 1'lorida, without first obtaining from the City Clerk a license therefor, and without first having paid the amount of license tax required therefor herein for the use of the City. Section 2. No license shall issue, or be granted to any applicant therefor to engage in any business, profession or occupaition coming within the category mentioned in Section 4 of this ordinance unless the applicant shall first file with the City Clerk an application stating: 1. The applicant's name. 2. The nature of the business, profession or occupation. 3. The particular location in the City of Dania, where he proposes to engage in the business for which the license is sought. Said application must be -sworn to before some officer of the State of Florida, authorized to administer oaths. Section 3. Any license shall be transferable with the approval of the City Clerk, with the business for which it is taken out, when there is a bona fide sale, and transfer of the business for which the license has been taken out, together with a transfer and sale of the property used and employed in said business, and not otherwise;provided such transfer shall be made within thirty ( 30) days after such sale of said business, otherwise said license shall become null and void and of no effect. Section 4. The assessments of such license taxes upon businesses, occupations and professions within the City of Dania, Florida,to be collected by the City Clerk upon the issuance of a license therefor, are fixed hereby as follows: 2t Nursery stock of out flowers 010.00 Automobile fillingks stations, per pump 5.00 3:8.00 Heal Estate Brokers 10.00 Automobile garages and repair shops 10.00 Second Hand Stores 10.00 Fruit stands and vegetbble stands 10.00 Groceries 10.00 Insurance Agents 10.00 Attorneys 10.00 Haberdashery 10.00 Hardware 710.00 with fire arms 15.00 Paint or glass 10.00 Laundries resident 10.00 Non-resident 25.00 r Restaurants 10.00 Barber Shops 10.00 Cleaning & Pressing Resident V10.00 Non-resident 25.00 Theatres 10.00 rPhysicians, dentiets,osteopathe and chriopractors 10.00 Plumbing Contractors 10.00 General Gontractors 10.00 Electrical Contractors 10.00 Hoofing Contractors 10.00 Cement Contractors 10.00 Butcher Shops 10.00 Shoe Repair Shope 10.00 Shoe Stores 10.00 Pool Rooms,per table 10.00 ' minimum fee 25.00 Telegraph Offices 10.00 Drugs & Sundries 10.00 Jewelers 10.00 Camp Ground Operators 10.00 Bakeries resident 10.00 Non-resident 25.00 Electrical Goods 10.00 Musical Instruments 10.00 Banks & Trust Companies 10,00 Lumber Yards 10.00 Ice Manufacturers 10.00 Ice delivery resident 10:00 per truck Npn-resident 25.00 -•- Manufacturers 10.00 Hotels 10.00 Rooming Houses, more than three rooms 10,00 Boarding Houses 10.00 Packingg Houses 10.00 Rock Pits 25.00 Cement Products 10.00 Sheet Metal Works 10.00 Millwork Shops 10.00 Soft Dring parlors and stands resident 10.00, Non-resident 25,00 Non-resident Soft drink distributors or manufacturers 25.00 Boat rentals 10.00 Fertilizer firms or agents 10.00 Canning Factories 10.00 Department Stores 20.00 Ladies ready to wear stores 10.00 Variety Stores 10.00 House movers 10.00 Beauty Parlors 10.00 Palmists 500.00 Phrenologists 500.00 Carnivals 5OOXO Circuses 25.00 Tent Shows, per day 25.00 Cigar Stands 10.00 Sign Boards, per sign 1.00 Auctioneers 100.00 Arms 10.00 Express Companies 10.00 Ice cream stands or manufacturers, resident 10.00 non-resident 25.00 Open air street sales 25.00 Peddlers 25.00 Boxing exhibitions or prize fights per night 50.00 ? r Bankrupt sales 1Q0.00 Furniture stores 10.00 Eys Section Be Every business, occupation, profession or exhibition fixed or temporarily engaged in by any person, firm, assoeiationj or corporation within the City and not herein specifically designated in Section 4 hereofrshall pay a license tax of ten ( .V10.00) Dollars. Section 6. All licenses shall expire the 31st day of December of the year in which they are issued. No license shall be issued for more than one year; and for each license obtained between January let and July let, full tax for one year shall be paid, and for each license obtained from July 1st to December 31st, one half (-�) the full tax for one year shall be charged. Section 7. Any person or persons, or the members of any firm or association, or the officers of any corporation violating the provisions of any section of this ordinance shall, upon conviction before the Mayor be punished by a fine not exceeding -One Hundred Dollz.r8 ( �100.00) or by imprisonment for a period not exceeding sixty (60) days, or both such fine and imprisonment In the discretion of the Mayor. Section 8. Every day's selling or disposing of merchandise or engaging in business without first obtaining a license therefor, as provided herein, shall constitute a separate and distinct violation of this ordinance. Section 9. Should any part, paragraph, or section of this ordinance be declared invalid in any Judicial proceeding, such partial invalidity shall not affect the remainder of this ordinance. Section 10. All ordinances or parts of ordinances and resolutions or parts of resolutions in conflict herewith are repealed hereby. E f aection 11. This ordinance shall take effect from and after its E passage and adoptkon and its approval by the mayor. gassed and adopted this 29th day of December A.D.1927. Approved: City Clerk Mayor Councilman Holding made a motion that the second and third readings of Ordinance No. 10 be waived and that it be p&aced on its final passage. The motion was seconded by Councilman reek and upon roll call the Council voted as follows: Councilman Holding, Aye Councilman Neville, Aye Councilman Peek, Bye Those voting Nay, None Councilman Neville made a motion that the ordinance be passed as read. The motion was seconded by Councilman Holding and upon roll call the council voted as follows: Councilman Holding, Bye Councilman Neville, Aye Councilman 2eok, Aye Those voting Nay, None Whereupon Mayor O'Hea ettached his signature to the ordinance and it became Ordinance No. 20 of the Ordinances of the City of Dania, Florida. The City Clerk then read the following Resolution: A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DANIA FLORIDA_ TO RENEW WO NOTES IN THE SUM OF FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($5,000.00) B&CH DATED SEPTELIBER 26th A.D.1927AND HELD BY THE DANIS BANK & TRUST COMPANY. BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Dania, r'lorida: ■ Section 1. In order to provide for necessary expenses for the operation of the City and proper expendiatures for municipal purposes the City Council of the City of Dania, Florida, did, on the 26th day of September A.D.1927, authorize the Mayor and City Clerk to borrow from' the Dania Bank & Trust Company of Dania, Florida, the sum of kkxax Ten Thousand Dollard ($10,000.00) issuing therefor two notes in the sum of Five Thousand Dollard ( 05,000.00) each payable ninety days from date with interest at the rate of eight (8 } per cent per annum, which notes are now due and payable. Section 2. That the Mayor and the City Clerk be and they are authorized hereby to execute two notes of the City of Dania, Florida, for said sums now due and payable to the Dania Bank & Trust Company, said notes to be payable Ninety (90) days from date with interest at a rate hot to exceed eight ( 8%) per cent per annum. Section 3. This resolution shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval by the mayor. Passed this 29th day of December A.D.1927. Approved: City Clerk Mayor Councilman Holding made a motion that the resolution be adopted. The motion was seconded by Councilman Peck and upon being put to a vote of the council the resolution was adopted unanimously. Mayor O'Hea then presented the following enrollment of volumteer firemen. ENROLLMENT DANI6. VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT We, the undersigned, hereby enroll as members of the Dania Volunteer Fire Department and agree to answer all fire alarms when within in hearing of the alarm and also to attend all fire drills when summoned by the Chief. L.O.Hansen, D.M. Jordan, O.D. Stiles, B.L.Huff, Sam Blackwelder, T.C. Williams, H.G.LaBree, L.L.Merritt, William S. Paisley, C.E.Stone, George A. Schmitt, L. Brown, H. Hirsch, J.C.Westbrook, W.R.Howat, Lt.H.Earting, F.E. Sullivan, E.T.Frost, P. T. Thompson and C. Adams. Councilman Peck made a motion that these men be enrolled as members of the Dania Volunteer Fire Department. The motion was seconded by Councilman Neville and upon being put to a vote was carried unanimously. The City Clerk presented a bill for �8.00 for repairing water mains submitted by w.E.Crotty. Councilman Neville made a motion that the bill be paid. The motion was seconded by councilman Peak and upon being put to a vote of the council the motion carried unanimously. Councilman Holding made a motion that the meeting adjourn. The motion was seconded by councilman Neville and upon being put to a vote of the council was carried unanimously. f1„ I