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Business License Tax on Gross Receipts:

(a) Every person doing business as an adult oriented business, retail grocers, grocery stores, bakeries for retail, merchants, drugstores, confectioners, cigar and tobacco stores, tailoring shops, tailors, shoe repair shops, shoe cobblers, wood dealers, coal dealers, fluor mills, grain mills, lumber dealers, retail florists, restaurants, lunchrooms, soft drink shops, soft drink stands, ice cream parlors, ice cream stands and drive-in eating establishments shall pay a license tax based on gross annual receipts from such business as set forth in subsection (b).

(b) There is hereby levied and shall be collected upon and against every person defined and designated in subsection (a) for the privilege of doing business at any store, stand or place occupied for that purpose within the city an annual license tax as of and on the first day of July of each year, in amount and form as follows:

On every one thousand dollars ($1,000) of gross revenue or major portion thereof, the sum of fifty cents ($0.50) per one thousand collars ($1,000).

Provided, that the minimum amount hereunder shall be a license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and not any maximum.


Schedule of Annual Business License Fees "Other":

Any person who is engaged in any of the following businesses, trades, occupations, professions or avocations in the city shall pay to the city an annual license tax in the amounts specified below. 

Abstract Agencies  25.00
Abstractors  25.00
Adult Oriented Business  100.00
Advertising Companies  50.00
Amusement Parks  100.00
Architects  50.00
Artists  25.00
Auction Houses  50.00
Auto Accessory Dealers  50.00
Automatic Cleaning Shops  50.00
Automobile: New Sales Companies  100.00
Automobile: Used Sales Companies  100.00
Auto Wrecking Shops  50.00
Banks  200.00

 

Barbers, Barbershops, Hairdressers, Beauty Shops, Cosmetology Schools

1st Chair = 10.00

Add'l Chair = 5.00

Baseball Parks: Commercial  50.00
Bathhouses  25.00
Billposters  25.00
Blacksmith Shops  25.00
Boarding Houses  25.00
Book Binders  25.00
Bottling Works  50.00
Bowling Alleys  10.00/alley
Brick Contractors  50.00
Bridge Contractors  50.00
Brokers  100.00
Building Contractors  50.00
Bulk Oil and Gasoline Companies  50.00
Bus Companies  50.00
Butchers: Wholesale  100.00
Car Washes  50.00
Carpenter Contractors  50.00
Cement Contractors  50.00
Chiropodists  25.00
Cleaning or Pressing Establishments  50.00
Coffee and Tea: Foreign Dealers  25.00
Coin-Operated Gaming Devices, Per Machine  5.00
Collection Agents  25.00
Corn Doctros  25.00
 Discount Houses  200.00
 Dye Works  50.00
 Electrical Contractors  50.00
 Employment Agents  50.00
 Employment Offices  50.00
 Excavators or Dirt Movers (or both)  25.00
 Express Salvage Stores  100.00
 Feather Renovators  50.00
 Fish Ponds  25.00
 Foundries  100.00
 Gasoline and Oil Stations  50.00
 Golf Courses  100.00
 Health Schools  50.00
 Horse and Cattle Dealers  25.00
 Hotels  50.00
 Ice Plants  25.00
 Inspectors  25.00
 Installment Houses  200.00
 Insulating Contractors  50.00
 Insurance Agents, Agencies, and Sales Office  50.00
 Insurance Brokers, Licensed by the State  50.00
 Intelligence Offices  50.00
 Job Printing Shops  50.00
 Junk Dealers  100.00
 Laundries or Cleaners (or both)  50.00
 Laundromats  50.00
 Laundry Agents  50.00
 Loan Agents  100.00
 Loan Brokers  200.00
 Loan Companies (not Building and Loan)  200.00
 Machine Shops  25.00
 Mail Order Retail Stores  100.00
 Manufacturer Agents  100.00
 Manufacturers  100.00
 Meatpackers: Wholesale  100.00
 Menageries  150.00
 Mercantile Agents  25.00
 Miniature Golf Courses  50.00
 Mobile Home Parks  25.00
 Money Brokers  200.00
 Money Changers  200.00
 Monument Dealers  25.00
 Motels  50.00
 Motion Picture Shows  50.00
 Muscle Developers  50.00
 Museums  100.00
 Newspaper Offices and Job Printing Offices  100.00
 Nursery Stock Agents  25.00
 Office Buildings  50.00
 Opera Houses  50.00
 Opticians  25.00
 Painting Contractors  50.00
 Paper Hanger Contractors  50.00
 Pawnbrokers  25.00
 Photographs: On the Street and Itinerant  100.00
 Photographers with Permanent Stands or Office  50.00
 Piano and Organ Dealer Agents  25.00
 Pistol Galleries  50.00
 Plastering Contractors  50.00
 Plumbing Contractors  50.00
 Pool and Billiard Rooms: Per Table  10.00
 Private Parks  50.00
 Produce and Poultry Dealers  25.00
 Public Grounds  50.00
 Railroad Salvage Stores  100.00
 Rating Companies  200.00
 Ready-to-Wear Clothing Agents  10.00
 Real Estate Agents  50.00
 Roller Skating Rinks  50.00
 Rooming Houses  25.00
 Sand Plants  50.00
 Scale Houses  25.00
 Scrap Dealers (Junk Dealers)  100.00
 Secondary Raw Material Dealer  100.00
 Sewer Contractors  50.00
 Sewing Machine Agents  25.00
 Shoe Shine Parlors  25.00
 Shooting Galleries  50.00
 Shooting Ranges: Outdoor  100.00
 Sidewalk Contractors  50.00
 Steam Fitters  25.00
 Stockyards  25.00
 Stone Contractors  50.00
 Storage Warehouses for Hire  100.00
 Street Contractors  50.00
 Swimming Pools  50.00
 Tailor Made Clothing Agents  25.00
 Taxicabs  50.00
 Television: Sales and Service  25.00
 Ten Pin Alleys: Per Alley  10.00
 Tinners  25.00
 Tree Trimmers and Tree Surgeons  25.00
 Undertakers  50.00
 Wholesale Houses  100.00

Schedule of Daily Business License Fees:

Any person engaged in any of the following businesses, trades, occupations, professions or avocations in the city shall pay to the city a per diem license tax in the amounts indicated below:

Athletic Exhibitions: Commercial 50.00
Auctioneers 25.00
Balls or Dances: Commercial 100.00
Reserved  
Circuses: Commercial 100.00
Concerts: Commercial 50.00
Drummers 5.00
Equestrian Exhibitions: Commercial 100.00
Lung Testers 100.00
Parades: Commercial 50.00
Side Shows: Commercial 100.00
Street Exhibitions 100.00
Street Fairs: Commercial 100.00
Theatrical Exhibitions: Commercial 50.00

Alcoholic Beverages:

License taxes for alcoholic beverages from July 1 through June 30 are as follows:

Nonintoxicating Beer by the Drink, Annually 75.00
Malt Liquor and Light Wine by the Drink on Premises, Annually

37.50

Intoxicating Liquor, Original Package Consumed Off Premise, Annually 150.00
Intoxicating Liquor, by the Drink on Premise and Sale of Original Package Annually 450.00
Sunday Sales, in Addition to Other Fees, Annually 300.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Business License Penalty Ordinance No. 3914

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Festus Police Station:  636-937-3646
Festus Fire Dept.:       636-937-3646
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